“This is incredible,” I said to Lindsay Record. Record has long been a driving force in the Illinois Stewardship Alliance (ISA), a primary proponent of local, sustainable farming. I’d called Record after scanning the schedule of local events celebrating National Farmers Market Week, which runs from August 2–8. “Isn’t it great?” Record replied. “More and […]
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Food, hotel giants peddle plastic authenticity
Near my home in Austin, Texas, there is a great, old refurbished motel that I recommend to people when they come to visit our fair city. It not only is right on the famed Congress Avenue but also has a keep-it-real attitude that is expressed right on its iconic marquee: “No additives, no preservatives, corporate-free […]
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Trans-Pacific Partnership: Aka corporate coup
What if our national leaders told us that communities across America had to eliminate such local programs as Buy Local, Buy American, Buy Green, etc. to allow foreign corporations to have the right to make the sale on any products purchased with our tax dollars? This nullification of our people’s right to direct expenditures is […]
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“Local” goes loco
In Through the Looking Glass, Humpty Dumpty declared, “When I use a word, it means what I choose it to mean, neither more nor less.” Mr. Dumpty would have loved living in our era of corporate-speak, when even a plain word of obvious meaning can be dumped down the semantical rabbit hole to be swirled […]
