The debate over which local vs. organic food is wide, divided, and pretty muddled depending on who you ask. There are pros of both local food and organic food as well as cons. In the end you simply have to weigh all the arguments and make a choice based on your own ethics and health considerations.

Benefits of local food:

Less fossil fuels used for transport.
Supporting the local economy and often smaller scale farmers.
Preservation of local green spaces.
Better nutrients. After being picked fruits and veggies lose nutritional value quickly. Produce on an extra long shipment transport lose the most nutrients.
Cost can [...]

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Local Food vs. Organic Food

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The debate over which local vs. organic food is wide, divided, and pretty muddled depending on who you ask. There are pros of both local food and organic food as well as cons. In the end you simply have to weigh all the arguments and make a choice based on your own ethics and health considerations.

Benefits of local food:

Less fossil fuels used for transport.
Supporting the local economy and often smaller scale farmers.
Preservation of local green spaces.
Better nutrients. After being picked fruits and veggies lose nutritional value quickly. Produce on an extra long shipment transport lose the most nutrients.
Cost can [...]

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Local Food vs. Organic Food

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During a set up that’s less surprising than audacious, Las Vegas town fathers arrange to position solar panels on prime of carports at a number of city-owned and operated facilities.
The $11-million set up, can reportedly cut the city’s electricity prices by about $300,000 a year when completed, and generate enough electricity to supply one hundred [...]

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When it comes to feeding your baby, the best and most healthy start is breastfeeding. Once you start feeding your baby solid foods the healthiest choice is frozen organic baby food. Why?

Organic food is the best possible choice for little ones. Their bodies are much smaller, less developed, and less immune to harmful chemicals and pesticides than adult bodies. Pesticides in non-organics have a stronger affect on a baby than you. For more information on why babies need organics read HAPPYBABY The Organic Guide to Baby’s First 24 Months.
Frozen veggies and fruits retain more nutrients than canned or jarred fruits [...]

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Choices in frozen organic baby food

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If you go to its web site, the Massachusetts Renewable Energy Trust, which administers the state’s solar rebate program (the Commonwealth Solar Rebate Program) merely says it’s gotten enough applications to meet the state’s current goal; twenty seven megawatts of installed photovoltaic (PV) power by 2012.
The program, launched in January 2008, is an expression [...]

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This spring, the Organic Trade Association (OTA) is going to be awarding one school with a fully stocked organically grown garden or an organic vending machine as part of their new campaign, ‘Organic. It’s Worth it in Schools.’

Organic. Its Worth it in Schools. is a new initiative launched by the OTA – an organization who represents more than 1,400 organic food and product companies. Initiative goals include educating parents, school kids, and teachers about the benefits of organic and healthy foods in our schools. Not a moment too soon I’d say. As we’ve recently seen, most school food is not [...]

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Organic. It’s Worth it in Schools

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In the past few years solar power is being seen as the answer to our energy needs. On average throughout the center of the day the sun provides concerning one,000 watts of energy per hour per square meter. That interprets to one thousand watt per hour per sq. meter or one kWh/m2. To put it [...]

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Is there any chance of being electrocuted by solar panels?
Is there a risk for firefighters when they enter a building where there is solar power and stand in a puddle of water if there is short between the solar panels and the water.
They cut normal power before entering buildings, but do you get enough juice [...]

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