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Pooja Mottl is the founder of a new blog called Breaking Green, which provides breaking news on food sustainability from mainstream media sources from around the world as well as weekly commentary and analysis.

If you had an inkling that fish farming may be picking up the pace, you are on to something. As global seafood [...]

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This post was written by Pooja Mottl.
Food is getting some tech-savvy street cred as Wired magazine puts “The Future of Food” front and center in its November 2008 issue.
The magazine dishes about why the chemical age of agriculture is “running out of juice” at a time when demand for food continues to soar and output [...]

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This guest post is from Alison Arias, a South Anchorage Farmers’ Market reporter and co-owner of Rise & Shine Bakery, who also keeps a great food blog calls Alison’s Lunch. She sent this last week and tells us that there is 5 inches of snow in Anchorage, but the farmers still have brussels sprouts [...]

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Here’s another one from Pooja Mottl, our newest guest blogger, who was lucky enough to get over to Europe a few weeks ago. Enjoy!
During a recent visit to Europe, my taste buds couldn’t help but take note of some fantastic organic produce and meats while my eyes couldn’t believe how many listings of “free-range” [...]

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Joining the Green Fork to serve up Healthy Monday tips and more, Pooja Mottl comes to Eat Well after spending several years living (and eating) as a committed greenmarket supporter in London, England. With degrees in Economics and International Relations, Pooja is interested in helping pave the way for Americans to learn how to eat [...]

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Here’s another post from Devra Gartenstein of Seattle, who takes time out from a busy schedule writing cookbooks like her upcoming Local Bounty (she also wrote The Accidental Vegan), blogging at the Quirky Gourmet and running her Patty Pan Grill (phew!) to volunteer for Eat Well. Here, she touches on some of the challenges [...]

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This post is by Megan Hubel, an Eat Well Guide intern, who is a social policy major from Northwestern and loves spending time with kids in the kitchen. She is looking forward to finding out what Danes are packing into their lunchboxes, while studying human migration in Copenhagen this fall.
Reheated pizza. Soggy French fries. Gelatinous [...]

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Today’s Healthy Monday tip: Pick up a good book!We are in the throes of summertime and what better to do with your free time than dive into a good book. Now is the time to indulge in your own foodie reading fest- a great way to further educate yourself on food and farming issues. Whether [...]

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Bees are the new peak oil In what Rep. Dennis Cardoza, chair of the House horticulture and organic agriculture subcommittee, is calling a “full-fledged crisis,” a whopping 36 per cent of commercial hives have vanished already this year. Considering that 1/3 of our food supply depends on the little buggers for pollination, we’d call [...]

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Riffing off Severine’s post on farm camps for kids, one of our recent interns shares a few resources he’s found in his own quest for a summertime eco-agri-experience. Chrisso Babcock, 20, would be a junior at Skidmore College, but he is currently taking a semester off to work, live and play in NYC. [...]

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