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Seeing Green is moving to a new home
York’s Seeing Green is packing up its bags and heading over to www.yorkblog.com/smart, the online face of Smart magazine. We’ll be housed under the “Home and garden” tab — when that menu drops down, click on “Green living.” We’ll continue … Continue reading
A food revolution in ‘Fresh’ — and in York
“Americans fear only one thing: Inconvenience.” And so begins “Fresh,” a food documentary shown last night at York College coordinated by the sustainability and environmental studies minor. The quote is from a farmer’s foreign friend, who had summarized our lifestyle … Continue reading
Posted in Consumer choice, Food, Local events
Tagged buy fresh buy local, central market, convenience, documentary, farming, film, food, fresh, healthy world cafe, horn farmer center, john j. jeffries, local, michael pollan, monoculture, perrydell farm, the future of farming, york, york college
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PennEnvironment releases new air quality reponse
Listen up, Pennsylvanians: Your air quality is suffering. PennEnvironment, a statewide environmental group with offices in Philly and Pittsburgh, released a study Wednesday that says air quality may be worse than previously thought. According to the report, “Among mid-sized metropolitan … Continue reading
Posted in Air
Tagged air quality, allentown, bethlehem, lancaster, pennenvironment, philadelphia, reading, report, smog, study
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Vocal Trash to perform at Saturday in the Park
Just a few minutes ago, I slurped the last of my ice tea from a Panera cup. I turned around in my desk chair and chucked it into the trash. And then I went back to work. Of course, if … Continue reading
Posted in Just for fun, Local events
Tagged event, music, performance, recycling, saturday in the park, springettsbury township, variety show, vocal trash
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‘No Impact Experiment’ begins today
We’ve written a bit before about the No Impact Project on York’s Seeing Green (here and here). In summary, Colin Beavan decided in 2007 to take inventory of his impact on the environment, with an end goal of a zero … Continue reading
Posted in Do-It-Yourself, Just for fun
Tagged colin beavan, energy use, environment, food, green living, no impact experiment, no impact man, packaging, recycling, transportation, trash, waste, water
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Films cover natural gas, fresh foods
For a budget-conscious yet eager-to-learn person like myself, local colleges are just about the greatest places I’ve ever found. I wrote a few weeks ago about York College’s screening of “Out to Pasture: The Future of Farming,” which focused on … Continue reading
Posted in Food, Local events, Marcellus Shale
Tagged CAFOS, documentary, energy, farming, film, food, fracking, fresh, gasland, harrisburg area community college, healthy world cafe, josh fox, marcellus shale, natural gas, york city, york college
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9/11 air quality, health issues still linger
I caught an episode of “The Daily Show” last week in which Jon Stewart interviewed Dr. Sanjay Gupta. Dr. Gupta was speaking on a CNN documentary he’d worked on called “Terror in the Dust,” which debuted Sept. 7 and replayed … Continue reading
Posted in Air
Tagged abestos, air quality, chemicals, cnn, dr. sanjay gupta, environment, fluorescent, health, light bulbs, sept. 11, terror in the dust, world trade center
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The future of farming
Last night I joined a mixed group of students and community members to watch “Out to Pasture: The Future of Farming?” at York College. Actually, I first got lost finding the college, then struggled to find the stairs in the … Continue reading
Posted in Food, Local events
Tagged CAFOS, david dietz, environment, farming, food, out to pasture, sustainability, york college
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An alternative to plastic wrap
Education reporter Angie Mason linked to a New York Times article today on the Cram Session blog, reflecting on a push for eco-friendly lunches. I read her post and the article, and it reignited the battle in my mind over … Continue reading
Posted in Consumer choice, Do-It-Yourself
Tagged aluminum foil, environment, food, grocery, lunches, plastic wrap, reusable containers
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York College to host screening of ‘Out to Pasture’
I am an avid lover of documentaries. When people ask me what kind of TV I watch or books I read, I tell them I like to learn — secrets of the CIA, the rise and fall of the Third … Continue reading
Posted in Local events
Tagged CAFOS, consumers, farming, food, green living, york city
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