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The Empowerment Institute
The Low Carbon Diet Partner program Wondering what you can do to help in the fight against global warming?
Go on a Low Carbon Diet! This "30 Day Program to Lose 5000 lbs" is a fun, accessible, easy to
use guide that will show you, step-by-step, how to dramatically reduce your CO2 output in just a month's time.
Grounded in over two decades of environmental behavior change research, this illustrated workbook offers
much more than a list of eco-friendly actions. It walks you through every step of the process, from
calculating your current C02 "footprint" to tracking your progress.
By making simple changes to actions you take every day, you'll learn how to reduce your annual household CO2
output by at least 15%. And, for those who are more ambitious, you'll discover how you can become
"carbon neutral" and help your workplace, local schools, and community do the same.
To buy a copy of this book, click on this image!
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Granny's Garden School
Granny's Garden School
in Loveland Ohio uses the school grounds to help kids discover the nature in
their own back yards, experience the satisfaction of growing and preparing their own food and the
simple pleasure of picking a flower.
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The Edible Schoolyard
The Edible Schoolyard , in collaboration with Martin Luther King Junior Middle School, provides
urban public school students with a one-acre organic garden and a kitchen classroom. Using food
systems as a unifying concept, students learn how to grow, harvest, and prepare nutritious seasonal
produce. Experiences in the kitchen and garden foster a better understanding of how the natural
world sustains us, and promote the environmental and social well being of our school community.
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Kids Gardening
Kids Gardening
is part of the National Gardening Association. Check this one out YOU WILL LOVE IT!
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School Garden Wizard
School Garden Wizard
has been created for America's K-12 school community through a partnership between the United
States Botanic Garden and Chicago Botanic Garden.
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Green Teacher
Green Teacher
is a magazine that helps youth educators enhance environmental and global education
inside and outside of schools.
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Square Foot Gardeing
Square Foot Gardening
It's a super easy way to garden. There are other paths of agricultural interest and of general
computer subjects that I hope you will find interesting. I hope you enjoy them and please let me
know of paths I need to add for others to visit and enjoy.
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The California School Garden Network
The California School Garden
Network
A garden in every school....What a great idea. This is the ambitious goal of the California School Garden
Network . It has received widespread support from agriculturists, environmentalists, nutritionists,
and educators. This goal represents an encouraging step toward a better understanding of how closely linked we are
to our food supply and to nature. A garden in every school also offers us the best opportunity to expose the
invisible crisis in our country (and world), chronic malnutrition. Whether in the form of hunger or obesity,
both of these symptoms of malnutrition are taking their toll on the lives of so many in our world through an
insidious ignorance that plagues urban society. The lessons to be learned from a garden come at a very critical time.
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The Appalachian Sustainable Agriculture Project
Growing Minds, Farm To School
Jeremy, a fifth grade student at Hazelwood Elementary returned to the table of garden food
to serve himself seconds on the salad he helped grow, harvest and prepare. "Knock me over with
a feather." Jeremy's mom muttered, "I have never seen that boy eat salad in his life."
Students will eat what they grow. The school garden component of Growing Minds is the link
between healthy eating and reconnecting students with their agricultural heritage.
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HOME GROWN AND LOCAL ORGANIC FOOD
Animal Vegetable Miracle
Animal Vegetable Miracle
Author Barbara Kingsolver and her family documented one year of procuring as much food
as possible from neighboring farms and their own backyard.
This website continues to document the project and may help you find more resources and other
local-food devotees in a rapidly growing movement.
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What is a Kitchen Gardener?
What is a Kitchen Gardener?
"Find the shortest, simplest way between the earth, the hands, and the mouth."
The Kitchen Gardeners International newsletter is full of healthful and hopeful news about
edible gardening, cooking, and sustainable living.
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Local Harvest
Local Harvest
The best organic food is what's grown closest to you. Use this website to find farmers' markets,
family farms, and other sources of sustainably grown food in your area, where you can buy produce,
grass-fed meats, and many other goodies.
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Slow Food
Slow Food
is a non-profit, eco-gastronomic member-supported organization that was founded in 1989 to
counteract fast food and fast life, the disappearance of local food traditions and people's
dwindling interest in the food they eat, where it comes from, how it tastes and how our food
choices affect the rest of the world.
Slow Food USA
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GREEN LIVING
The Center for Ecoliteracy
The Center for Ecoliteracy
is dedicated to education for sustainable living.
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Sustainable Hudson Valley
Sustainable Hudson Valley
In New York's Hudson River Valley, Sustainable Hudson Valley is the only organization vigorously
promoting an economic strategy that is based on environmental and community revitalization as
industries in their own right, and as conditions for healthy development.
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Robert Redford's The Green
Robert Redford's The Green.
Multimedia content focusing on the earth's ecology and concepts of 'green' living
that balance human needs with responsible care for the planet.
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The Ecology Age
A.G. Kawamura is secretary of the California Department of Food and Agriculture.Which state or region
will be the first to prepare its students for the coming "ecology age" by mandating that every primary
or intermediate school in its area have an organic kitchen garden and age-appropriate garden curriculum?
Surely, there is no better way to teach health and healthy eating than to engage young people in the process
of healthy food production.
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"It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect."
-Robert Louis Stevenson
A garden teaches a child about the delicate balance between living and surviving, through a hands-on relationship
with another living organism. It teaches the child about the consequences of negligence. It provides a living
laboratory where life's lessons are experienced and learned. It is a step toward understanding an educational
process that most of the agrarian world practices on a daily basis. The forgotten lessons that a garden provides
can set the stage for new paradigms in teaching, school lunch programs, community food security outreach,
agricultural literacy, and community service learning.
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