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...activist slogan on campuses is "Eat local." Students are rediscovering the political adage that you are what you eat. And colleges are voting with their palates--and their multimillion-dollar food budgets--against an ever more global agricultural industry in which produce travels, on average, 1,500 miles from farm to plate. Posters around the University of Portland campus proclaimed that BUYING LOCAL FOOD IS ONE WAY YOU CAN HELP STOP GLOBAL WARMING ... AIR AND WATER POLLUTION. A racier consciousness-raising stunt was staged at Brown University, where activists published Ripe, a 2005 calendar featuring naked students posing with strategically...
Will politically correct gastronomy save the family farm? That may be wishful thinking. At the University of Portland, the all-local lunch was merely symbolic--Pepsi was back for dinner. What's meatier is that the university, which serves 22,000 meals weekly, has hiked spending on local and regional products to 40% of its food dollars--up from less than 2% five years ago. "Even the burgers are from Oregon steers," boasts dining manager Kirk Mustain...
...Winning wind energy’ means that we will pay the premium for renewable energy over what Harvard normally pays for its (non-renewable) utilities.” The energy consumed by Harvard won’t actually come from wind. “We pay a wind farm in Minnesota and receive renewable energy certificates (RECs) in return,” Leahy wrote. But, she added, “that energy does not actually come to Harvard. Until we get Cape [W]ind or a turbine on campus, we can only do it from a distance...
...face value, Howard's reasoning appears questionable. Of course there is discrimination. The skilled have a better chance than the unskilled of migrating to Australia. Those laden with assets can enter as "business migrants." Australia already allows European and American backpackers to do seasonal farm work. (Howard is on much firmer ground here; backpackers and guest workers are as different as apples and bananas.) But it is also true that Pacific Islanders are coming in greater numbers to Australia, some after a long holiday in New Zealand. While the money they wire back to the islands is no doubt welcomed...
...high, and ... the need for the two to live and work together in our increasingly interdependent world has never been greater," he said in 1993. Even alternative medicine can now be obtained on the National Health Service. "He is always pushing the boundaries, he wants to go further," says farm manager Wilson. "And he takes a very long view." His communications director, Paddy Harverson, says Charles "works ferociously hard." Last year he had 501 public engagements and wrote 2,300 letters. He never eats lunch (but likes an evening martini, straight up). The directors of his charities receive regular calls...