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Sustainable Consumption
Articles

The Life of Chocolate
By Nancy Welch

Winterizing Your Garden for Our Wildlife Friends
By Jim Gallion, President of Wildlife Gardening Adventures

Antibiotic Resistance: One Component Of The True Cost Of Food
by Margaret Mellon, Ph.D., J.D., Director, Food and Environment Program and Susan Prolman, J.D., Washington Representative, Food and Environment Program at the Union of Concerned Scientists

The Life of Chocolate
by Nancy Welch

Plastic Bags, Part 1: Smothered By Plastic
Plastic Bags, Part 2: What About Recycling Them?
Plastic Bags, Part 3: Switching to Reusable Cloth Bags
By Kay Bushnell

Moving Away From the Meat Habit
By Kay Bushnell

Celebrating an Eco-Friendly Thanksgiving
It's the holiday season once again. In these over-stressed times in which we live, can try harder to put thanks and love back into our holiday celebrations?
by Diana Artemis

Take Back Your Time (and give back to the earth)
Simple-living advocates declare October 24 a day of awareness around time and work
by Johanna Zetterberg

Have Your Plates and Eat Them Too
by David Kupfer

Dust and save!
by Frank R. Leslie

Sustainable Food Choices
by Bonnie Lane Webber

"Cheap" Food? No Way can we afford it!
by the Sustainable Consumption Committee

Why Sustainable Consumption?
by the Sustainable Consumption Committee

Bringing Social Justice to the Table
by Lee Hall

17 tips for buying organic food on the cheap
by Lucy Lazarony

Globalisation of Industrial Animal Agriculture: Implications for South Asia
Presented at the Sustainable Development Policy Institute's Fifth Annual Conference on Sustainable Development in South Asia 02 November, 2002, Islamabad, Pakistan
by Pattrice Le-muire Jones, Global Hunger Alliance

Eat These Foods. Prevent the Flu?
by Matt Pitcher, CFT

Food For Thought: Have Your Fish and Eat It, Too
Preserving the ocean's bounty by eating wisely
by Paul Rauber

Grass-Fed Beef: Solution or Diversion?
Grass may be easier on the planet, but there's no skirting the resource-intensive nature of raising cattle
by Joan Zacharias

How much water do we need?
by the American Physiological Society

Why Consumption Matters
by Dave Tilford

Realities 1989: World Hunger
from Diet for a New America

Production and Consumption of Meat: Implications for the Global Environment and Human Health
Harvard School of Public Health

How to Plan a Sustainable Event


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