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EarthLust

12-Jun-09

In my recently published book, Food and Nutrition Controversies Today: A Reference Guide, there is an entire chapter devoted to bottled water. On the second page of the chapter, I include a quotation from Richard Wilk, a professor of anthropology at Indiana University. “This is an industry that takes free liquid that falls from the [...]

Envirosax: Reusable Bags

20-Apr-08

For years, customers heard the same question from supermarket cashiers – “Paper or plastic”? Just about always, my husband and I would reply, “Paper.” For those of us who patronize the Whole Food stores in the Boston-area, as we do, those days are over. There are no longer any plastic bags. And, while there are [...]