|
Friday, 02 January 2009 |
|
 
Watch GreenStar's new TV ad.
Green Shopping Guides
Need help making informed shopping choices?
Check out these sites:
Who Owns Organic?
What's on My Food?
GoodGuide
The Daily Green
|
By Kristie Snyder,
GreenLeaf Editor
It’s not easy growing fresh vegetables through the depths of a Finger Lakes winter. But Melissa Madden and Garrett Miller of the Good Life Farm in Interlaken have been supplying GreenStar with fresh greens since November, as they work toward building their young farm into a long-term, sustainable, permaculture enterprise.
Perched on a hillside overlooking Cayuga Lake, and largely powered by horse, human and dog, the 69-acre farm was named in homage to both Helen and Scott Nearing (the homesteading pioneers whose famous 1954 book about their “Forest Farm” is titled Living the Good Life) and to Mark Shepard, who mentored Madden and Miller on his “New Forest Farm” in Wisconsin. And, says Madden, “the good life is what we want to provide!”
|
|
Read more...
|
Run for Council. Download the Candidate Declaration Form and submit by March 1 to appear on the ballot.
By Dan Hoffman,
Councilmember
Around the world, there is a clamoring for more democracy and transparency — in government and economic institutions. For more than 150 years, the cooperative movement has offered the opportunity for both. GreenStar and its many sister co-ops are showing how people from all walks of life, with a common mission and as member-owners, can create and shape important enterprises in their own communities. This is what democracy looks like — at the grassroots level.
The cooperative model works as intended only if member-owners choose to get involved in the governance of their co-op, helping with the work of finding out what’s important to members, building a shared vision for the future, crafting policies to help realize cooperative values, and overseeing the entire enterprise to ensure that operations are managed appropriately and members’ equity is protected.
|
|
Read more...
|
|
By Joe Romano,
Marketing Manager
Translation: Only the knife when it penetrates knows what is truly in the heart of the yam.
—Haitian kreyol proverb
On Tuesday, Jan. 12, a magnitude 7.0 earthquake struck Haiti just outside the capital city of Port-au-Prince. Haiti has one of the highest population densities in the world and the earthquake struck a city that is home to over two million people. “Nobody knows how many bodies are buried in the rubble — 200,000, 300,000?” wondered Communications Minister Marie-Laurence Jocelyn Lassegue. “Who knows the overall death toll?”
|
|
Read more...
|
|
|
|
Read more...
|
