michael pollan Archive

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    Michael Pollan on Food, Energy and Health - by frog



    Hat tip to O’Reilly Radar for leading me to this video of Michael Pollan speaking at the Web 2.0 Summit last month. Pollan tells it like it is – that agriculture is the key to tackling climate change and many other modern ills. Food is the shadow problem if they [the politicians] hope to deal [...] read more
    December 16, 2008 4:39 pm - 11 Comments
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    Does John Key read Michael Pollan? - by frog



    With new MPs in our caucus and a general parliamentary reshuffle underway we Greens are on the move out of our offices.  While it’s still not certain where we are off to, this time it looks like we’re big enough to warrant two rather than one floor of Bowen House. Gerry Brownlee was wandering about [...] read more
    November 12, 2008 2:12 pm - 25 Comments
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    Eat the view - by frog



    It seems Michael Pollan was not alone in calling for the next US president to lead the way on self sufficient food production by growing his own food on the White House lawn. There is a whole movement at Eat the View focused on the fact that today American food travels an average of 1500 [...] read more
    October 28, 2008 12:19 pm - 12 Comments
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    A diet of contemporary sunshine - by frog



    Food guru Michael Pollan has another must read article –this time an open letter to the next American president explaining why food is the political issue he will be spending most of this time in the White House on – including its integral relationship to climate change, peak oil, foreign and trade policies, health care [...] read more
    October 17, 2008 6:40 am - 11 Comments
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    Monsanto and Michael Pollan discuss food production - by frog



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    October 13, 2008 8:39 am - 1 Comment
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    Michael Pollan - by frog



    Sue Kedgley has just put up this video of a conversation she had with one of my favourite food writers, Michael Pollan, author of In Defense of Food: An Eater’s Manifesto. read more
    August 12, 2008 9:37 am - 4 Comments
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    Turning oil into cows and back into oil again - by frog



    Normally TreeHugger has some interesting commentary on Green issues, so I was surprised to see a bizarre product endorsement this morning on its blog: Evidently every cow that is slaughtered generates 200 pound of tallow, which were used for frying and making food products until the transfat panic hit. Now Green Earth Technologies is turning [...] read more
    March 5, 2008 1:32 pm - 13 Comments