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66 Instagram Accounts Helping Cultivate a Better Food System! One of the fastest-growing and powerful emerging social media networks is Instagram.

66 Instagram Accounts Helping Cultivate a Better Food System!

The photo and video sharing site now has 150 million active users who are uploading an astonishing 55 million photos a day. To follow Food Tank on Instagram, click here! And while Rihanna, and Usher use Instagram to show off their latest outfits or connect with fans, many organizations are using the network to create awareness, spur action, and make positive change in the food and agriculture system.

True Food Kitchen, for example, is highlighting healthy and seasonal food, like this farm fresh salad. Change Food – my new program. I’m pleased to announce that I am the Founder and Executive Director of a new program called Change Food.

Change Food – my new program

Read on to find out more about what I’m doing…. Change Food’s vision is to help shift the U.S. food supply to a regional, sustainable food system where healthy, nutritious food is accessible to all. Change Food’s mission is to help individuals change the way they eat by raising public awareness and educating consumers about problems with the U.S. food system. It highlights what can and is being done to dismantle the ill effects of industrial agriculture as well as promoting sustainable solutions so that all people have access to healthy, nutritious food. Goals of the program are to: The first project of Change Food is TEDxManhattan “Changing the Way We Eat.” Eat Well Guide. BC fresh inc. 201-7560 Vantage Way Delta, BC V4G 1K7 Tel. 604-946-3139 Fax. 604-946-2924 [ website ] More Information Did you know that the average ingredient in a North American meal travels 1,500 miles from farm to plate?

Eat Well Guide

On the other hand most local produce has been picked inside of 24 hours. It comes to you ripe, fresh and with its full flavor. Data provided by: Beyond Factory Farming Get Local Metro Vancouver Is this listing correct? Farm Folk City Folk. By reducing the amount of food you throw away you can help the planet, save money and have fun doing it.

Farm Folk City Folk

Here's the short course on how! The planet is only so big. Wasting food means more has to be produced than is actually needed. Food production uses valuable resources including water, energy, and land. The unsustainable expansion of farmland into natural habitat threatens over 80% of all endangered birds and mammals. Take the pledge and let us know what you are doing to reduce your Foodprint. The value of food produced in Canada that we throw away at home is a staggering $13.8 billion each year, that’s $35 each month for each and every one of us or $140 each month for a family of four. Here are 2 tips to help save your money, Buy What You Eat Learn how changing your shopping habits can help save you money. Social Movements. The Bountiful Year: A Guide to Seasonal Fruits and Vegetables.

The Beershed of America and Other Fascinating Food Visualizations - Nicola Twilley. Maps of the global almond trade, farmers' market accessibility, European food specialties, and more Strips from five of the seventy-plus maps in Food: An Atlas.

The Beershed of America and Other Fascinating Food Visualizations - Nicola Twilley

What do you see when you map the world through food? According to Food: An Atlas, a crowd-sourced, crowd-funded, "guerrilla cartography" project led by UC Berkeley professor Darin Jensen, you see the distribution patterns of the global almond trade but also the lost agrarian landscapes of Los Angeles, the geography of taco trucks of East Oakland and the United States beershed, as well as the rise of foodbanks in the UK, and much more besides.

GIS Project & Implementation Consulting Services. Menu Services Extended Support Esri extended support includes programs and packages that augment core support and training to offer you the highest level of assistance possible.

GIS Project & Implementation Consulting Services

Smart Farms. Getting_Started: Flash Tutorials: Flash Shape Tweening. Adobe Flash Tutorials - Best of. Although usability evangelists often consider Flash to be a usability nightmare, used properly, Flash can provide users with a rich and interactive interface which would be impossible otherwise.

Adobe Flash Tutorials - Best of

Today Flash is the de-facto standard for interactive elements on the Web as most users install Flash plug-in by default. And in fact, there are many paths creative designers can take to create a more interactive and user-friendly interface. Searching for ‘flash tutorials’ via Google & Co. won’t provide you with the results you expect. Not that you won’t find any relevant results, on the contrary — you will be directed to a large number of Flash repositories which offer everything: sometimes useful, but mostly not. Create Interactive Infographics.

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