America’s ‘first fully sustainable block’ coming to…What, where?!

By Lindsey Block on Jun 8, 2009

Dallas, Texas?! Huh!  When thinking about Dallas, Texas, nothing comes to mind that rings the environmentally friendly bell.  But San Francisco's Urban Re:vision has great intention in 'forwarding Dallas.'  With architectural samples coming from…

184 views | Comments

Michael Pollan on Swine Flu. [Amy Goodman Democracy Now! video]

By Waylon Lewis, elephantjournal.com on May 16, 2009

"Don't buy industrial pork." It's an important question, and one largely ignored by mainstream media, panicked consumers and agribusiness. What are the conditions that create something like swine flu and other pandemics? …

189 views | Comments

Michael Pollan does and is done by Stephen Colbert. {Video}

By elephantjournal.com on May 14, 2009

My idol vs. my idol. Pretty funny, pretty informative, pretty rude (amazing the deference with which genius interrupt-happy Colbert is treated)...it's Michael Pollan on the Colbert Report. Video: The Colbert Report Mon - Thurs…

155 views | Comments

elephant journal columnist Peggy Markel: Slow Food in Marrakech.

By elephantjournal.com on Apr 14, 2009

It’s the first week in April, and the surroundings of Marrakech are covered in an unusual carpet of green. Wild flowers, wheat fields and stretches of land that have rarely known grass are bringing a…

99 views | Comments

Peggy Markel: an Indian Culinary Adventure at The Kitchen, in Boulder Colorado—celebrating her 14-page spread in current Food & Wine magazine. [Slow Food, Kate Lacroix, Hugo Matheson, Graham Markel]

By elephantjournal.com on Feb 16, 2009

The seeds of social revolution are sown at gatherings of minds, conversation, conviviality, wine and great slum dog millionaire food. Congratulations to all for hosting a most delicious, stimulating and sensuous Grand Salon.  ~…

267 views | Comments

Book review: The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Mindfulness (Anne Ihnen and Carolyn Flynn)

By Todd Mayville on Nov 18, 2008

You know mindfulness has gone mainstream when there's an Idiot's Guide to it.  I admit that I approached this book with a good bit of trepidation.  Would this simplify mindfulness in an attempt to…

588 views | Comments

Compassionate Eating: Life as a Locavore ~via Todd Mayville.

By Todd Mayville on Oct 29, 2008

Above, a meal entirely sourced from my local Farmers' Market. As I mentioned in my review of The Compassionate Carnivore, I enjoy a good steak. Now that's not to say that every meal I…

699 views | Comments

Are Microwave Ovens Harmful to Health? Finding Better Research in an Age of Snopes.

By Lindsey Wolf on Sep 16, 2008

My new apartment has a microwave. When I moved in, my first thought was about unplugging it, storing it, and using that precious space that it took up in my mini-kitchen.  Then I got…

2,393 views | Comments

Slow Food vs. Vegetarianism…an Inquiry via China Tresemer

By elephantjournal dotcom on Sep 3, 2008

"Life and Death on the Table," from our Autumn 2005 issue. Everyday, we make choices about what we eat. These choices are tinged with emotion—pleasure, guilt, convenience, comfort, righteousness. Often these choices are made conceptually,…

543 views | Comments

Slow Food, with Peggy Markel: A Tuscan Dinner Party.

By elephantjournal dotcom on Sep 3, 2008

"A Tuscan Dinner Party" via Peggy Markel, from elephant journal's Spring 2006 issue.  A tall good-looking Sicilian, elegantly dressed in a hand-knit sweater and tie, steps softly in his Ferragamos out of the forest and down the stone…

572 views | Comments

Slow Food, with Peggy Markel: a cup of tea; a recipe for Roasted Winter Squash Puree.

By elephantjournal dotcom on Aug 25, 2008

ele:SLOW FOOD, from elephant journal's Autumn 2005 issue. Nothing is ever as it seems. Everything is always in a state of breaking down: impermanence. Quantum physics, Buddhism, relationships...they all tell us that nothing is…

498 views | Comments

Top 5 Ways to slow down Summer: Carl Honore, Slow Food Dinner Party, Shambhala Training, Eco Hammock, Take off your Shoes.

By Heather Mueller on Aug 18, 2008

Top 5 Ways to...Slow the @"#$%Y&^'!*? Down This Summer. There’s nothing like the heat of summer to make you want to slooooow waaaaaay down and park it on the beach, a creaky rocking chair…

526 views | Comments

Slow Food not “just one big wine tasting with really hard to find cheeses that you weren’t invited to.”

By Heather Mueller on Jul 24, 2008

When I was little, I lived in an apartment with no back yard. But one summer, my mom made friends with the older woman who lived in a house next to our building. Since…

899 views | Comments

Boulder’s Guerilla Garden Man makes National News…and $2k fine

By Alex King on Jul 11, 2008

Via the ever popular BoingBoing.net: Scott Hoffenberg and his next door neighbor, who live in my hometown of Boulder, Colorado, is growing a vegetable garden in the space between the sidewalk and the street…

572 views | Comments

My idol, Michael Pollan.

By Waylon Lewis, elephantjournal.com on Jun 30, 2008

One of the best thinkers and writers in America today just sat down with the good folks at Yale for this interview on "What's wrong with Environmentalism."…

345 views | Comments

Slow Food + Baseball? Well, sorta.

By Waylon Lewis, elephantjournal.com on Jun 29, 2008

"Buy Me Some Microbrew & Local Organic French Fries...I don't care if I never get back 'cause it's root, root root for some good...food..." This. Is. A Brilliantly. Practical. Guide to Eating Well. At…

350 views | Comments

Best article I’ve read this month: Michael Pollan, Sunday NY Times.

By Heather Mueller on May 23, 2008

Michael Pollan quoting >Wendell Berry in a recent NY Times article: “Once our personal connection to what is wrong becomes clear, then we have to choose: we can go on as before, recognizing our dishonesty…

316 views | Comments