EAT TO SAVE THE EARTH!
The Center for Ecosystem Survival introduces Eating to Save the Earth: Food Choices for a Healthy Planet a new book by Linda Riebel and Ken Jacobsen.
This short and encouraging guide helps you make earth-friendly food choices through dozens of suggested actions, ranging from what to buy in the supermarket, to how to join a farm, efficiency in the kitchen, what to do with leftovers and many more. Eating to Save the Earth was co-authored by one of the board members of the Center for Ecosystem Survival, Linda Riebel. One third of the authors' royalties go to CES to purchase and protect rainforest in our neighbor to the south, Costa Rica. Order your copy of Eating to Save the Earth today! Here's how: You can find it in your local bookstore. You can ask your bookstore to order it from Ten Speed Press or its distributor. or you can purchase it on the web at Amazon.com. Below you will find further resources on how to make your food choices as earth-friendly as possible and some good news about people taking action to save the earth! In addition, Linda Riebel is available for speaking engagements - to book Linda for engagements, email her at lriebel@saybrook.edu.
Resources for Eating to Save the Earth Here are links to a few of the many valuable organizations you could consult for more information on eating to save the earth: Coffee Equal Exchange Sustainable Agriculture Network, a branch of Rainforest Alliance Thanksgiving Coffee Community Supported Agriculture and Farmers' Markets CSA of North America Community Alliance with Family Farmers The Food Alliance OpenAir Robyn Van En Center for CSA Resources Biodiversity Association for Biodiversity Information Biodiversity Resource Center Institute for Food Policy Research World Conservation Union Consumer Groups and Think Tanks Coop America Institute for Food and Development Policy/Food First Responsible Shopper Supermarket Coop Union of Concerned Scientists Endangered Species (especially fish) American Oceans Campaign Audubon Society Chef's Collaborative Industrial Shrimp Action Network Marine Stewardship Council Monterey Bay Aquarium National Resources Defense Council Environmental Groups Environmental Defense The Nature Conservancy The Natural Step Natural Resources Defense Council Pesticide Action Network Sustainable USA Union of Concerned Scientists Youth for Environmental Sanity Government Department of Energy Environmental Protection Agency Energystar Ethical Shopper US Department of Agriculture Nutrition (A USDA site) Green Business and Investing Natural Capitalism Sustainable Business Green Business Growing Food Natural Gardening Seeds of Change Small Scale Fruit Territorial Seed Health American Dietetic Association Physicians' Committee for Responsible Medicine Organic Food Organic Consumers Association Organic Trade Association Recycling, Cleansers, and Household Products Grass Roots Recycling Network Real Goods Seventh Generation Sustainable Agriculture Ecological Agriculture Projects Ecological Farming Association Organic Farming Research Foundation Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education Vegetarianism Center for Informed Food Choices Earthsave Vegsource
Good News For the Earth Creative things are being done for the earth all over the country and around the world! We couldn't fit all of them into the book, so we include more of them here. Airplane meal leftovers come to earth Food left by air travelers will no longer be wasted in Los Angeles. LAX airport, which used to dump 8,000 tons of food a year, teamed up with the LA Public Works Department to collect the remains and convert them to fuel. Leftovers and discards are pulverized, mixed with water, and heated. Bacteria decompose them and release methane, which is piped to a power generating plant. (Discover, October, p. 17). A Healthy Economy 14 million jobs have been created worldwide in the sustainable sector, in industries such as wind power, photovoltaics (energy fuel cells), recycling, and remanufacturing (taking back and restoring used equipment). (Green at Work, January/February 2001, p. 32). School Children Inspire the Government In Sweden, children raised $17,000 one year to save rainforest in Costa Rica. The government was so impressed that it offered to match the children's gift the following year. Then the kids really got down to work. In one year, they collected $700,000! The government may have gulped a bit when it found out what had happened, but it kept its word and a total of $1,400,000 was sent that year to help establish the Children's Eternal Rainforest near Monteverde in Costa Rica. This preserve is now 54,000 acres. Car-Sharing Clubs In Boston and several of its suburbs, a new organization lets urban dwellers have the best of both worlds - convenient use of cars without the costs and hassles of ownership. Subscribers to Zipcar can reserve a car through a website, picking it up at one of the company's parking lots and using a special card to unlock it and log their mileage. Sharing cars helps members' budgets and reduces congestion, parking woes, greenhouse gas emissions, and the energy embedded in cars. Such short-term car rental is well established in Europe, and is expected to grow here. In San Francisco, you can rent from Carshare. Do you have a good news story you'd like to share? Send it to lriebel@saybrook.edu.