This post is inspired by the ten year study Belo Horizonte has released on cell towers and cancer. Belo Horizonte is a city that is very actively concerned with their citizen’s health and is a place I would love to visit and maybe even move to. I first heard of Belo Horizonte’s zero-hunger food policy in 2006 when I read Frances Moore Lappe’s book Hope’s Edge. Ever since then I have been dreaming of going to Belo Horizonte. What an inspiring forward-thinking, people-first place it seems to be! I still have the book, it is rather war torn with the cover eaten by a dog and the pages all ear-marked. But let me pull it out and quote to you some of my favorite passages:
To search for solutions to hunger means to act within the principle that the status of a citizen surpasses that of a mere consumer. -City of Belo Horizonte.
Please join us May 19th at noon for the fourth annual Cedar Cottage Garden Spring Fling in Vancouver, BC! Last year I set up a stall and sold some homemade unguents, date truffles and had a blast. This year I am setting up my therapy table in amongst the garden plots under the sky-train and will ...
In case you hadn't heard about this latest Monsanto trick: Patent on Broccoli will not be revoked European Patent Office (EPO) canceled a public hearing on the controversial patent on a broccoli in October. The broccoli protected by the patent EP1069819 was derived by conventional breeding m ...
Every so often I really miss Burma and the delicious variety of foods constantly available there. I spent 6 months or so in Shan State working for a beautiful hotel on the banks of Inle Lake in 1999 and got to know some of the foodways of the surrounding area as well. Kalaw isn't so far from Inl ...
This is a very exciting movement, people coming together in Greece creating ways to network, exchange goods and services and support each other. The movement for alternative currencies is growing in North America and other western countries as well. There is a group here in Vancouver BC called Vanco ...
I haven't done a post on Ubuntu in ages, which leaves me feeling a bit guilty! My current computer is hobbling along on it's last legs...supposedly I have a new computer on the way, I'm pretty excited to get it as it is made with Ubuntu in mind, and is my first new computer since I got my first comp ...
I think I discovered the Transition Town movement through reading Small is Beautiful, or maybe it was while I was living in New Zealand...I'm not sure. Vancouver, BC's community site Village Vancouver is a really helpful resource, and has helped get the Underground Market in Vancouver going. Check o ...
It's spring so there are a lot of transitions going on, this means a few things for Hella Delicious. I have mentioned this a couple times before, but my health is finally good enough that I can do things without collapsing from toxic overload--thank you GAPS diet! This was proven by our trip to Port ...
Please join us May 1st at noon for the third annual Cedar Cottage Garden Spring Fling in Vancouver, BC! I am very excited and a little nervous because I am signed up to be a vendor for this event and will be selling my handmade aprons, to die for hazelnut truffles, homemade salves, soapnut laundry p ...
We finally had our first underground market meeting here in Vancouver. It went really well, we met in a lovely old house in a nice central location. I even--just barely--remembered to get a photo to document the event--too bad my camera sucks at indoor photos-this was the best I could do. We decided ...
To search for solutions to hunger means to act within the principle that the status of a citizen surpasses that of a mere consumer. -City of Belo Horizonte.
