Any number multiplied by 27 billion will be fairly big, so the prospects of the planet coming up with three meals a day for nine billion humans on the planet some 40 years from now has some people worried. The worrying went mainstream during 2007 when a sudden hike in the price of groceries fomented [...]
How Toronto Found Its Food Groove

The following is an excerpt, written by Wayne, and edited by Christina Palassio and Alana Wilcoxfor The Edible City: Toronto’s Food from Farm to Fork. The Edible City: Toronto’s Food from Farm to Fork asks: if a city is its people, and its people are what they eat, then shouldn’t food play a larger role [...]
Wok the Dog
A lot of people were upset to learn that their best friend was a major global warming culprit. According to the October 23 issue of the New Scientist, pet owners can no longer look down on SUV owners as if they alone belonged in the eco-criminal doghouse. New Zealand green architects Brenda and Robert Vale [...]
Podcast: Eat this Recession!
Video: Food Policy and the New Urban Vision
Food Literacy Gets Trumped By Financial Literacy
The Ontario government has a new theory about the cause of the global recession. To share this breakthrough in economic analysis, Minister of Education Kathleen Wynne announced on November 2 that she will require that financial literacy be integrated into the school curriculum from grade 4 on in order to “promote a stronger economy.” According [...]
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