The state of the US economy has been on my mind a lot lately – let’s face it, it has been on everyone’s mind lately – and this has led to scary conversations with just about everyone I know. It is incredible to step back and really get the full scope of how bad things [...]
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Costco and Wal-Mart (in their Sam’s Club locations) have started selling new square jugs of milk. Made of recyclable plastic, this new design allows for tight stacking translating into more milk in less space in trucks and in stores (at Sam’s Club 224 gallons of milk can now fit in coolers that used to [...]
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Andrew wrote an entry a few months ago about the distances produce may travel before arriving on our plates for consumption. I was just reading an article about reducing our carbon footprints and the picture that was painted for me just blew me away – so I thought I’d share…
In the article, Maribeth Crandell describes [...]
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