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Sustainability Blog Blog Blog (Free subscription) | 08/18/2008
I'm doing a project for a typography class based on the NY Times article " Why Bother? " by Michael Pollan. I have to augment the article with my own views of sustainability, so I chose to investigate urban planning in the U.S. In my research, I found New Urbanism . Why is our culture is a car culture. Why do our towns sprawl miles and miles? Why must we drive everywhere? New Urbanism...
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Thinking About... (Free subscription) | 08/18/2008
In Defense of Food: An Eater’s Manifesto is Michael Pollan’s follow up to The Omnivore’s Dilemma. His goal this time out is to answer the question of how to eat in an increasingly hostile landscape, one in which food is becoming more and more processed, and thus less and less healthy, all while [...]
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The Girl Who Ate Everything (Free subscription) | 08/18/2008
Polyface After leaving the Louisa County Agricultural Fair, Tristan, Lihan, Lee Anne and I drove to Swoope to visit Polyface Farm. Ever since Tristan and I read Michael Pollan's The Omnivore's Dilemma we've talked about visiting the farm, which is...
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Richard Sprague (Free subscription) | 08/17/2008
I liked this book, which gives a nice behind-the-scenes overview of the conditions under which we get much of our food. It's not nearly as important a read as anything by Michael Pollan , but if you know how to read past the obvious errors in his anti-market biases, you'll learn something. I'm much more skeptical now of the food I eat after reading what really happens in those feedlots...
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Free subscription) | 08/13/2008
Edibles gardening expert Chris Smith supports the basic premises of Michael Pollan's latest book, "In Defense of Food."
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Crunchy Con (Free subscription) | 08/13/2008
Meanwhile, antibiotic use in agricultural industries has grown rapidly. "Seventy per cent of the antibiotics administered in America end up in agriculture," Michael Pollan, a professor of journalism at Berkeley and the author of "In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto," told me. "The drugs are not used to cure sick animals but to prevent them from getting sick, because we crowd them...
