strawberries
esiegel | June 24, 2012"The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you've got it made." -Groucho Marx
Now that the solstice is behind us and summer is officially here (for most of us), it's time to start enjoying the greatest fruits of the season. With the technical difficulties of the great scienceblogs migration (hopefully) behind us, I think I've discovered how to successfully bring a weekly song back to my weekend posts, too! Have a listen to Aimee Mann as she sings one of my favorites of hers,
Little Bombs.
Out where I live, in Oregon, now is the season that one of my favorite fruits…
sastyk | March 28, 2010Half of all food waste in the developed world happens at the consumer end - that is, we throw the food that we've purchased or grown away for some reason or another. It spoiled from mishandling, it gets wasted, or for some other reason goes uneaten. We're rarely conscious of this - just as we are rarely conscious of the enormous impact of personal actions at every level. Divide American food waste among 300 million people, and dumping that apple or tossing those fries just doesn't seem like a big deal.
A very small minority of American food waste happens at the farm and field end - this is…