Over the weekend I listened to an episode of This American Life on NPR in which they broke down the current financial crisis in the space of 59 minutes. The show approached the banking meltdown from the angle of balance sheets, highlighting in simple terms the reason we are in such a pickle, namely that [...]
It should come as no surprise to anyone residing in Southern California that this state is working on its third consecutive year of drought conditions. For a region that is essentially a semi-arid desert, any decrease in our yearly rainfall can be detrimental to our water stores – our county reservoirs are currently holding about [...]
Posted by Renée Woodring on February 5th, 2009 under
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My food musing this week has taken a turn toward the financial. With all of the talk about the ailing economy, I have begun pondering the positive and negative effects of locavorism and sustainable agriculture on the national and global economies.
Phil and I belong to that finicky group of former vegetarians who are willing to consume chicken and fish, but generally shudder at the thought of eating a mammal. This has proven to be quite a predicament since we began our journey into locavorism. San Diego has good local sources of mammal meat, but until [...]
Posted by Renée Woodring on December 4th, 2008 under
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