Category Archives: Food

What is your farmers market for?

By Flavie | Published: September 4, 2009

I just stumbled on this March/April 2009 Mother Jones article discussing the evolution of farmers markets in North America. It explains how many farmers markets bring more diversity into the range of products that are being sold in order to generate more revenue. Street performers, baked goods and restaurants are now commonly seen alongside [...]

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Wal-Mart’s eco-labels: brilliant or evil?

By Flavie | Published: July 16, 2009

Wal-Mart announced today the launching of an eco-labelling program that will allow customers to see the environmental footprint of the products they wish to buy. In collaboration with a consortium of universities, the giant retailer will work on issuing an index that will reflect the life cycles of its products. The news seems to have been [...]

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Urban agriculture: an interview with Joe Nasr and June Komisar

By Flavie | Published: May 7, 2009

This is an interview I did a couple of months ago with Joe Nasr, Co-coordinator at MetroAg (Alliance for Urban Agriculture) and June Komisar, Associate Professor at Ryerson University’s Department of Architectural Science. They both curated Carrot City, an exhibition that ran in Toronto last Winter and showed how design, architecture and urban planning can [...]