AltWeeklies Wire
Diet for Climate Change: Eating in the Spirit of Copenhagennew
You may not be able to get to Denmark for the climate talks, but you do have a chance to change a few food habits: It starts with avoiding red meat, processed cereals and tin cans and shopping local.
NOW Magazine |
Wayne Roberts |
12-11-2009 |
Food+Drink
Awesome Green Roof Designs Invade Cities, but On-High Agriculture Isn't Ready for its Closeupnew
It turns out that not all building walls can bear the extra load of soil on roofs, especially the box stores thrown up for the lowest price to move discounted goods. There are also security and safety issues with having so many people on roofs, issues that planners are still wrestling with.
NOW Magazine |
Wayne Roberts |
11-02-2009 |
Food+Drink
Sure, Food Prices Are Rising, but Trust Me, They're Sell-Offsnew
Only time will tell if we're at the point in the food debate to pop the taboo question: how come, despite widespread grousing about rising prices, our food is so bizarrely cheap?
NOW Magazine |
Wayne Roberts |
09-14-2009 |
Food+Drink
Where's the Beef Tax?new
Eating meat is like driving a Hummer, but no pol has the guts to push a carbon tax on it.
NOW Magazine |
Wayne Roberts |
09-15-2008 |
Food+Drink
Skyrocketing Food Prices and Biofuels Aren't What's Feeding Global Hunger Crisisnew
It sounds counterintuitive, I know, but the real food crisis gripping the world these days is not what everyone thinks it is. It's really more about the 80 per cent drop in real-time food prices since 1947 than the modest, dare I say, "market correction" of recent years.
NOW Magazine |
Wayne Roberts |
08-04-2008 |
Food+Drink
A Quiet Canadian City & the First Local Food Foray on the Continentnew
Markham -- an affluent and multicultural city of 300,000, but still close to farmland -- is going back to the future, and is well on its way to becoming Canada's first post-exurban eco-city. In June, the city becomes the first in North America to steer its food services toward local, sustainable and fair trade purchases.
NOW Magazine |
Wayne Roberts |
06-16-2008 |
Food+Drink
Do You Know Where Your Chicken Came From?new
We're finally digesting the deadly realities of Big Food's hidden power brokers.
NOW Magazine |
Wayne Roberts |
03-21-2008 |
Food+Drink
Slaves to the Sheafnew
Blame our addiction to wheat for rising prices — not hungry Third Worlders.
NOW Magazine |
Wayne Roberts |
03-17-2008 |
Food+Drink
Shelves Stocked With Fakersnew
Thanks to a flood of cheap Chinese ingredients, "local" food is like local cars assembled from foreign parts.
NOW Magazine |
Wayne Roberts |
01-11-2008 |
Food+Drink
Why a Hike in Food Prices is a Good Thingnew
Cheap food has been one of the leading causes of global poverty, hunger, disease and pollution -- that's why one of the biggest stories of 2007 is also one of the best: food prices are shooting up.
NOW Magazine |
Wayne Roberts |
01-04-2008 |
Food+Drink
Big Food's Local Distastenew
If supermarket giants get their way, local foods will never get out of special interest section.
NOW Magazine |
Wayne Roberts |
11-26-2007 |
Food+Drink
Fattening the Coloniesnew
No point preaching nutrition to poor countries when U.S. dumps cheap pop on them.
NOW Magazine |
Wayne Roberts |
10-05-2007 |
Food+Drink
Tadesse Meskela is No Ordinary Joe ... Nor is His Coffeenew
The Ethiopian coffee co-op founder aims for hearts and mugs of those who like a little justice with their java.
NOW Magazine |
Wayne Roberts |
09-21-2007 |
Food+Drink
CARE Goes Against the (U.S.) Grainnew
The major aid agency launches boycott of U.S. crop dumping masquerading as charity.
NOW Magazine |
Wayne Roberts |
09-14-2007 |
Food+Drink
Fate of the Globe's Poor Rests with Organicsnew
Organic food, which has seemed to cater to an exclusive and affluent group in the industrialized world since 1990, is now ranked by two just-released studies as critical to feeding the world's hungry.
NOW Magazine |
Wayne Roberts |
07-27-2007 |
Food+Drink
