You KNOW the food tastes better than at those generic chains! While eating local has become a mantra of sorts for the eco-friendly, that normally pertains to buying your take home food from Farmers Markets and the like. But when you eat out, you can also make a difference by eating at local, family-owned [...]
Last week, my wife came home with a carton of eggs. No biggie, right? Well, she didn’t get them from the grocery store, but rather a co-worker of hers that has 12 chickens at home. She sells the eggs to everyone at work for $3 a dozen, and her chickens produce an egg [...]
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Dear EarthTalk: What makes those so-called “new urbanism” housing developments popping up around the U.S. more environmentally friendly than regular old suburban neighborhoods?
The husband-and-wife team of town planners Andrés Duany and Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk are typically credited as the founders of new urbanism, a style of [...]
