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Terra Madre Day
13 hours ago ago from Lava Lake
Tomorrow is Terra Madre Day , a celebration of the Slow Food movement . This will be the first Terra Madre Day, and the movement hopes to organize an event for every minute of the day. Slow Food was founded twenty years ago to fight back against fast food and fast life, the loss of local food traditions and people’s dwindling interest in understanding their food where it came from, how it tastes and how their choices affect the rest of the ...
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1 day ago ago from prAna blog
Slow Food was founded in 1989 to promote the pleasures of the table and regional food cultures and to protect them from the homogenization of industrial food production. With gastronomy bound inextricably to agriculture, the environment and the health of communities, Slow Food has naturally broadened its focus over the years to actively support producers who demonstrate a small-scale, sustainable and local food production model. In 1999, ...
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37 minutes ago ago from traveling greener
Happy Terra Madre Day ! Today is the first worldwide day to promote sustainable food and eating locally. On the occasion of Slow Food International's 20th birthday , Terra Madre Day is being marked by 100,000+ farmers, producers, cooks, students and consumers around the world. Terra Madre Day celebrates locally produced food that is good, clean and fair: food that tastes good and is produced without harming the environment and ...
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4 hours ago ago from Conducive Chronicle
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16 hours ago ago from Cluster
Above is the trailer for the forthcoming documentary from East Bay Pictures : Edible City which unfolds the story of the people who, in response to the global food crisis, have initiated a grassroots movement of growing a local and sustainable food system in the Bay Area of San Francisco. Edible City is currently in production and scheduled for release in early 2010 if they are able to raise $3,000 US by February 2 2010. If you like the ...
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