It's time for a delicious revolution
By Alice Waters

Learning to make the right choices about food is the single most important key to environmental awareness - for ourselves, and especially for our children.

Until we see how we feed ourselves as just as important as - and maybe more important than - all the other activities of mankind, there is going to be a huge hole in our consciousness.

If we don't care about food, then the environment will always be something outside of ourselves. And yet the environment can be something that actually affects you in the most intimate - and literally visceral - way. It can be something that actually gets inside you and gets digested. More »

2nd Annual Healthy Living Fair June 14-15
The 2nd Annual Healthy Living Fair will be held from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. June 14-15 at the Quad City Botanical Center, 2525 4th Ave., Rock Island, Ill. The event is presented by Radish magazine and the Quad City Botanical Center. The fair will present information about healthy living through the natural foods, products, resources and services of western Illinois and eastern Iowa. Exhibits will include alternative energy methods, environmentally friendly... More »

The 'shroom boom: Spring's the season for fabulous, flavorful fungi
The vernal tide has turned, and warm-weather foods are springing up all over. The mushroom is one you won't want to miss. Mushrooms are so versatile. No matter what you're making, mushrooms will fit in. They easily stand in for other proteins -- think meaty portobello caps -- and they offer hearty substance to soups and salads. On their own, maybe with a bit of butter and some bread crumbs, they create a simple, tasty side dish. In recipes, they... More »

Rebuilding Earth: 10 green fields for work-hungry graduates
May is graduation month for thousands of high school and college students, many of whom are pounding the pavement for full-time employment in tough economic times. According to the American Solar Energy Society, 8.5 million clean-energy jobs cropped up in 2006. Yes, green jobs exist, and the call for all kinds of green-collar labor -- from less-skilled to highly-skilled -- is only expected to grow, according to a report on eco-jobs from the non-profit... More »

A brand new bag: Shoppers shirk plastic sacks for reusable totes
Call them the Worst Collectible Ever. They're bursting out of closets and floating down streams. Plastic shopping bags hang from trees and dance on the breeze -- a scene never quite as lovely in real life as it was in the 1999 film 'American Beauty.' In the U.S. alone, the plastic-bag industry makes about $4 billion a year. Since the average sack is used just once and costs the buyer 4 cents, that's a whole lot of tossed bags. Sadly, EPA estimated... More »

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