Category Archives: The widening gyre

By the numbers: 63

Posted on June 4, 2010 by Ali

63: The number of times you could circle the earth, if you lined up, end-to-end, the number of plastic bags used each year. Which is somewhere in the neighborhood of 500 billion bags, which the equivalent of about a million … Continue reading →

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Food, Inc.: worthwhile even for the weary

Posted on August 5, 2009 by Ali

You’ve probably seen it already. Or if you haven’t, by now there’s probably some reason why. Perhaps you’re weary, weary of talking about industrialized food, weary of all that talk. I actually wasn’t planning to post about Food Inc., the … Continue reading →

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The last several weeks, in twenty-six sentences, or thereabouts.

Posted on May 27, 2009 by Ali

Oh, hi there. Been a while. Was I at my carpentry class, you wonder? Nah. That’s not for some time yet. Here’s some of what’s been going on around here: Planted herbs, chard, heirloom tomatoes, broccoli, flowers. Started learning to … Continue reading →

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High School Musical Fruit?

Posted on May 4, 2009 by Ali

Oh my stars. After years of slapping images of their characters on everything from Happy Meals to Froot Snacks, Disney’s gone all healthy on us.  The Washington Post reports that they’ve expanded licensing images of their characters for packaging on … Continue reading →

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Why I will not cover swine flu today

Posted on April 29, 2009 by Ali

WHEREAS you are getting all-swine-flu all-the-time coverage elsewhere, and WHEREAS there is far, far too much noise on Twitter, even as one can still tease out some decent coverage, including @veratect), and WHEREAS the trouble here appears to be a … Continue reading →

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