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Nutritional Psychology: The Gut-Brain Connection

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As the connection between the health of our gut microbiome and our mental health becomes an increasing focus of research, a new field is emerging to put findings into practice: enter nutritional psychology.

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Composting is the process of turning food scraps into soil. Start composting  and you can evolve the quality of what you can grow and eat in your life. Read more now!

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Composting Benefits: The Alchemy of Composting

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Composting Benefits: The Alchemy of Composting

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The Composting Benefits are endless. From saving the planet, to reducing carbon emissions, composting is one of the best ways to go green! Start composting  and you can evolve the quality of what you can grow and eat in your life.

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There's a simple way to make your soil more productive. Start composting and you can evolve the quality of what you can grow and eat in your life. The composting benefits will become clear immediately, and will change the way you interact with nature and the world!

"Composting is one of the most rewarding things you can do," said Kevin at the popular Epic Gardening YouTube site in his guide to composting. "It feels like you're an alchemist. You bring in your food scraps and your garden trimmings and leaves and such, and then magically turn them into something that then grows more for you."

5 Hot Composting Mistakes To Avoid

Composting is the process of turning food scraps into soil. It helps keep food out of the landfill, and it's a great way to participate in a no-waste circular food system. There are several different kinds of composting, including pit, closed container, open container, tumbler, and vermicomposting.

You don't need a big yard to start composting. Composting can be done in small spaces like apartments, with the right tools. You will need a container and some starting materials described below. Once you realize the composting benefits, you will want to get started immediately.
Composting in an Apartment:
If you live in an apartment and want an indoor compost container, here's how to get started. Figure out where you want to keep the compost and then select a suitable container. For instance, if you want to keep it underneath the kitchen sink then look for a small metal or plastic container that fits. Remember to choose somewhere that pets and children won't disturb.

Next, drill a few holes in the container to allow for air circulation. Then, sprinkle some shredded newspaper in the bottom, followed by a few inches of soil, and topped off with a bit more newspaper. You don't need worms to compost, but read this if you are interested in worm composting. Place a small spade nearby and voila! It's ready to use. Mix in your compost with a new scoop of soil each week. Use it to grow plants indoors or offer it to your neighbors.

CalKim has shared advice for years about this topic. Watch her small-space composting video for a visual introduction for composting in a simple five-gallon container!

This lady is amazing. More of this, great video. She even has a business set up. There are the people we need to bring to terra.
Outdoor Composting
The process is mostly the same if you plan to start composting outdoors.

First, you'll need to choose a location in your yard that receives a reasonable amount of sun. The heat will help raise the temperature of the compost pile and speed the decomposition of the food scraps. If you live in a very hot environment, make sure it's a slightly shaded spot so it doesn't evaporate all the moisture.

If you have a garden, consider locating your compost pile directly beside the garden. This reduces the wheelbarrow trips you'll take with yard waste for the pile.

The off-grid experts at Pure Living for Life have a practical introduction to creating an outdoor compost pile. Following their advice, you can make a bin or a pile, depending on your size constraints.
More Composting Resources
Kevin at Epic Gardening shared a few more methods of composting, if you are looking for additional solutions.

Urban Worm Bag Countertop Composters Bokashi Bran

Always double-check the laws around outdoor composting where you live.

The U.S. Composting Council has a state-by-state compost regulations reference guide you can check to find out what regulations you have to follow (if any).

You can keep researching composting benefits and methods for years! But, as that video reminds us, just get started. Your compost will help you live a more sustainable lifestyle and change your gardening forever.

"While we do try to do research and understand what we're getting ourselves into, ultimately, we don't want to suffer from analysis paralysis. So, while there's probably a lot we could be doing differently in the end, this is working out pretty well for us and we do have usable compost that's ready to go in the garden."

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Slow Food Movement: Finding Sanity, Good Health, & the Antidote to Fast Foods

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Slow Food Movement: Finding Sanity, Good Health, & the Antidote to Fast Foods

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Slow Food is an idea and a way of living that focuses on local food sources and traditional cooking in order to prevent the disappearance of food cultures and appearance while promoting healthy eating and sustainability.

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Everything You Need to Know About the Slow Food Movement

Slow Food is an idea and a way of living that focuses on local food sources and traditional cooking in order to prevent the disappearance of food cultures and appearance while promoting healthy eating and sustainability.

You may know that "slow food" refers to the movement toward thoughtful, organic eating, but do you know how the movement began? The history of what began as a grassroots organization and continues its mission today can be found on SlowFood.com.

This website also has resources including a Slow Food Almanac, information about food culture around the world, and how you can become more involved in the mission of better feeding the world.

Food

Food impacts the environment and global health.

The global food production system is based on intensive agriculture, which relies on synthetic pesticides and fertilizers to produce highly processed, calorie-dense foods packed with additives, preservatives, sugars, and saturated fats. This is creating imbalances in environmental, economic, and social dynamics, particularly in more vulnerable countries, generating many public health problems like obesity and malnutrition.
SLOWFOOD.COM

SlowFood.com asks the questions of how are we, how is the environment, what is the impact we are having on climate with our food choices? From family farming to GMOs and food waste.

Photography by Andrea Lightfoot

Slow Food is working to promote production, processing, and consumption models that are as sustainable and healthy as possible for both individuals and the planet.
SLOWFOOD.com

Slow Food And Health

Diet, food quality, and lifestyle are all key factors in our health.

Many of us know that fast food is detrimental to our physical health. Leaving many without access to the rich tapestry of traditional food cultures where real nutrition is actually contained in its ingredients. Have our fast-paced lifestyles put us at the mercy of burger conglomerates and Big Agra? The Slow Food Movement says it's time to slow down, smell the flowers... and actually taste our food again.

Renowned author Michael Pollan explains:

Along with the industrialization of our food system has come an industrialization of eating, and the former won't be effectively countered until people have rejected the latter. Slow Food aims to teach us to taste what makes Iroquois corn special (it's wonderful stuff, with an earthy, sweet, extra-corny flavor that makes commercial corn products taste pallid by comparison) and to slow down to enjoy some slow dishes traditionally cooked with it." Michael Pollan

In an inspiring TED Talk, Slow Food USA president Josh Viertel asserts that all our problems come back to food and farming-and the slow food movement is what is needed to change the world.

The Three Pillars of Slow Food

Building a slow food nation

The Slow Food movement is dedicated to building a new food system that helps people all over the world access healthy and delicious food. The movement is built on three fundamental principles.

1- Food should be good.

Food should be delicious as well as nutritious. Most ancient food systems naturally produce delicious food. It is the modern food delivery systems that deaden flavor to enhance shelf life.

Slow Food movement founder Carlo Petrini says:

The quest for slowness, which begins as a simple rebellion against the impoverishment of taste in our lives, makes it possible to rediscover taste." CARLO PETRINI

Carlo Petrini on Slow Food and Terra Madre

2- Food should be clean.

Clean doesn't mean it isn't grown in dirt. "Clean food" means that it is grown and produced without causing any harm to the environment. No harmful pesticides or farming practices that strip the soil of its nutrients.

To illustrate this principle, explore this recipe from Alice Waters, one of the slow food movement's most important evangelists. One of her most trusted chefs, Russell Moore of Chez Panisse Café, created a clean and kid-friendly recipe you can make at home.

Alice Waters' Chez Panisse Cafe

3. Food should be fair.

This principle applies to both the producers and consumers of food. Fair refers to the conditions and payment given to the growers. "Fair" means equitable treatment, safe work environments, and living wages.

Consumers must also be offered a fair price for this food. A price that covers production costs without the "premium brand" price gouging.

I began to realize more and more that every problem I cared about-whether it's a problem of environmental degradation or a problem of social injustice, a problem with the global economy or a problem of public education-has at its core, issues linked to food and farming. If we're going to address those problems in ways that are meaningful we have to transform the way we grow and share food together."
JOSH VIERTEL

How to Get Involved

Check out the Ark of Taste program on the Slow Food website and you'll see the impact that Slow Food is making on the world. Ark of Taste is "a project to rediscover, catalog, describe, and publicize forgotten foods. It has been created to point out the existence of these products, draw attention to the risk of their extinction within a few generations, and invite everyone to take action to help protect them."

It's easy to get involved in the Slow Food movement. You can start by yourself, in your own neighborhood, by seeking out local growers with ethical growing practices. Become more mindful in the preparation and eating of your meals. Savor each ingredient, mindful of the food's origins. If you want to get involved at a deeper level, join a chapter. The Slow Food movement is building connections between restaurants, individual consumers, and food producers across the globe.

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Slow Food Movement: Finding Sanity, Good Health, & the Antidote to Fast Foods

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Treats and Snacks that Won’t Break Your Keto Diet

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Treats and Snacks that Won’t Break Your Keto Diet

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When you think of a treat, especially when you’re on keto, you likely think of a bag of Doritos, a tub of ice cream, or some other salty or sweet snack. We have found some of the nest treats from the keto diet list of foods you can eat!

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The keto diet may be one of the leading weight loss diets, but that doesn't mean you can't treat yourself. Similarly, snacking doesn't have to be limited to hard-boiled eggs and avocados. With a little guidance, you can still fit plenty of high-fat, moderate-protein, and little-to-no carbs snacks and treats into your diet. We have found some of the nest treats from the keto diet list of foods you can eat!

Granted, when you read that dscription, the word "treat" likely doesn't jump out at you. When you think of a treat, especially when you're on keto, you likely think of a bag of Doritos, a tub of ice cream, or some other salty or sweet snack.

To help you soothe both of these cravings without falling off your diet, consider including the following three recipes into your keto rotation.

Heavy Cream and Stevia-Sweetened Coffee

If you miss your sweetened frappuccino in the morning, try mixing heavy whipping cream into your black coffee and topping it off with a sprinkle of Stevia. Stevia is one of the healthiest no-calorie sweaters available and will even add a slight taste of licorice to your coffee.

Baked Kale Chips

One of the sensations people miss most when they go on keto is crunch, as it's often associated with carb-filled, off-limits foods like crackers. Taking a head of kale, chopping it up into chips-sized squares, adding some olive oil, and throwing the squares into the oven, however, delivers a delightful crunch sensation without any of the carbs.

Coconut Egg Bakes

Don't let the title throw you off; coconut egg bakes are delicious, low-carb, and super simple to make. Just put an egg into a standard drinking mug, sprinkle coconut flakes on top, add salt, add any no-calorie sweetener you wish (optional), and you throw it into the microwave for a couple of minutes.

If you're still in need of more keto snack and treat recipes, check out this Reddit post.

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Treats and Snacks that Won't Break Your Keto Diet

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Are Prescription Psychedelics Coming To a Pharmacy Near You?

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Are Prescription Psychedelics Coming To a Pharmacy Near You?

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Noting that many of the treatments currently employed to treat mental health problems have setbacks and side effects that are undesirable, innovators are seeking new solutions using ingredients as old as the natural world itself.

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Are Prescription Psychedelics Coming To a Pharmacy Near You?

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After decades of relying on corporate food producers and distributors, a new generation of urban farmers is taking control of their own food. Where food deserts once reigned with supermarkets and fast chains, these pioneers are creating oases of healthy, homegrown food.

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What is urban farming? After decades of relying on corporate food producers and distributors, a new generation of urban farmers is taking control of their own food. Where food deserts once reigned with supermarkets and fast chains, these pioneers are creating oases of healthy, homegrown food.

When you think of sprawling gardens and farm-to-table eating, you probably imagine the countryside. But urban gardeners are determined to change your mind.

Rob Greenfield an urban farmer and forager managed to grow and forage 100 percent of his food for a single year.

Greenfieldshared his urban farming journey with more than 275,000 YouTube followers, giving us all practical steps we can follow in our own lives.

I Grew and Foraged 1005 of My Food for an Entire Year

I lived in the city of Orlando, Florida in a 100 square foot tiny house. With no land of my own I turned front yards into gardens and shared the bounty of food with the homeowners. Over the year I grew over 100 different foods in my gardens, foraged over 200 foods from nature and I even grew and foraged my own medicine and vitamins too. "
ROB GREENFIELD

Growing food in a city environment does present some unique challenges. It can be difficult to find available land, and many urban dwellers struggle to carve out the time and energy to care for small crops. However, the benefits of urban gardening can be immense.

Bringing Local Produce to Urban Spaces

Urban gardening gives an opportunity for people who never thought about where their food comes from to participate in growing it. This can result in many benefits, starting with saving considerable amounts of money. This hands-on access to food can also lead to better nutrition, as urban gardeners learn about the growing process and grow passionate about fresh vegetables.

Leading the way in this movement are activists like Ron Finley. Finley is a longtime city dweller and designer who turned to urban gardening when he observed a need for affordable produce in his community. He dug up a strip of city land and planted vegetables there. It was illegal at the time, but he was able to get the city of Los Angeles to change the laws.

Ron Finley: Urban Gangsta Gardner in South Central LA

Being a gardener, that's gangster. Being educated, that's gangster. Building your community, that's gangster. people need to hear how urban gardening helps with the redesign in a multitude of ways. It's not just about the food. It's about people. Now you're engaged in communities you're bringing in pollinators, you're bringing in bees, butterflies, and hummingbirds. You're changing the ecosystem when you put in a garden." RON FINLEY

All too often, access to fresh food is hard to come by for poor communities. Food deserts are the first domino in a long series of cause-and-effect events that result in health problems for poor people.

Meet Garden Marcus

Plants have many lessons to teach, and plant activists like Garden Marcus are determined to make plants accessible to more people.

On TikTok, his videos have blown up for their mixture of plant education and uplifting positivity.

If you don't have TikTok, you can explore Marcus' work in this YouTube collection of his TikTok work! The compilation was created for Choice Forward, an organization that offers workshops so more people can learn from his work.

Garden Marcus TikTok Compilation

We cannot make anything grow, but we can foster an environment where growth is a byproduct of living." GARDEN MARCUS

Mushroom Pioneer

William Padilla-Brown is passionate about setting an example that everyone can grow and benefit from mushrooms. "I was a city kid, I just played video games. My parents never really took me on hikes or went outside. So finding mushrooms to me was like a spiritual journey," he said in an interview.

Today this self-taught "citizen-scientist" is one of the most respected mycologists in the world.

William Padilla-Brown Low Tech Mushroom Cultivation

"I farm to get close to the source of things, to know what I'm made of..." WILLIAM PADILLA-BROWN

City dwellers deserve the opportunity to participate in growing their own food, and urban gardeners are helping bring about a shift in consciousness and their ideas are well worth a listen.

When Ron Finley says,...

A lot of people are banding together and realizing 'it's not just about me' ... My wish is that this is a true shift, and that people go out and design the lives they want to live."

...it makes sense to listen.

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Could Artificially Intelligent Therapy Help You?

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Could Artificially Intelligent Therapy Help You?

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Artificial intelligence mimic human behavior while also learning from every conversation to improve. With AI, the availability of therapists doesn’t have to limit therapy options for people who need it.

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Have you sought relief from anxiety or depression with traditional therapy sessions, found them helpful, but difficult to fit into your life? Are COVID-19 restrictions keeping you from visiting or connecting with a psychotherapist? Enter: Artificial Intelligence Therapy.

The good news is that Artificial Intelligence (AI) is more than a science fiction concept. It has very real applications as a healing modality. Personal therapy sessions, sans therapists, can be had in the privacy of your home right now.

Vice News took a look at the phenomenon recently.

AI Won't Replace Therapy - Yet

A 2014 study funded by DARPA found that participants who believed they were speaking with an AI therapist were more likely to open up than participants who were told a human operator was behind their virtual therapist." VICE

Jen Jop, writing for Depression Defined, tried an artificially intelligent therapist and wrote the following passage about her experiment with a chatbot:

I assumed relaying mundane details to a robot wouldn't matter much, but it was a crucial part of my success. In traditional weekly or monthly therapy, I sometimes lose momentum after a few days and forget to implement CBT skills. Woebot's lessons are consistent and build upon each other, making it easier to reject automatic thoughts before they spiral out of control." JEN JOPE

Artificial intelligence mimic human behavior while also learning from every conversation to improve. With AI, the availability of therapists doesn't have to limit therapy options for people who need it. There are now chatbots and virtual reality-powered meditation products that use artificial intelligence to provide live, individualized therapy remotely.

For low-grade therapy situations like anxiety and depression, AI chatbots can be a great solution for people who need daily support. Indeed, many experts are saying that "digitalized mental healthcare could bring lasting benefits to a wide range of people who might otherwise go untreated."

Gatekeeping is a major problem in therapy, where people without a diagnosis (or without disposable income) are not able to access therapy. But AI-powered therapy could change that. We are entering a time when artificial intelligence therapy isn't just conceptual.

Woebot
This mental health chatbot that users can converse with on-demand. The app also offers mood tracking and educational videos. Using AI in a mobile phone framework makes it easy for people to access therapy in their daily lives. They can chat with an AI therapist on the bus or silently in the bathroom at work, and it just looks like they're texting a friend.

Wysa
This AI tool has already counted more than a million users, and 60 psychologists and 15,000 users were tapped to help improve the platform. While the service is free to use online, " users can receive support from a real-life mental health professional ('Wysa Coach') for a fee. This can prove particularly helpful in contexts where there is a lack of trained mental health professionals."

Addicaid app
This tool helps addicts track their recovery and connect with support. It creates custom plans for each user based on the information they provide within the app. It uses artificial intelligence to predict when a user is at high risk of relapsing and then delivers extra support to the user inside the app.

Youper
Developed by therapists, this Emotional Health Assistant app treats the human mind as the greatest frontier to explore in the future. "Youper was born from the idea that everyone can become the best version of themselves, like being a super you. In fact, Youper comes from the combination of the words You + Super. We're using Artificial Intelligence to understand human emotions and empower people to take care of their emotional health."

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Could Artificially Intelligent Therapy Help You?

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Have you sought relief from anxiety or depression with traditional therapy sessions, found them helpful, but difficult to fit into your life? Are COVID-19 restrictions keeping you from visiting or connecting with a psychotherapist? Enter: Artificial Intelligence Therapy. The good news is that Artificial Intelligence (AI) is more than a science fiction concept.

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The Slow Food movement is dedicated to building a new food system that helps people all over the world access healthy and delicious food. Read more about Slow Food Movement and its principles.

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Slow Food is an idea and a way of living that focuses on local food sources and traditional cooking in order to prevent the disappearance of food cultures and appearance while promoting healthy eating and sustainability.

You may know that "slow food" refers to the movement toward thoughtful, organic eating, but do you know how the movement began? The history of what began as a grassroots organization and continues its mission today can be found on SlowFood.com.

This website also has rsources including a Slow Food Almanac, information about food culture around the world, and how you can become more involved in the mission of better feeding the world.

Food impacts the environment and global health.

The global food production system is based on intensive agriculture, which relies on synthetic pesticides and fertilizers to produce highly processed, calorie-dense foods packed with additives, preservatives, sugars, and saturated fats. This is creating imbalances in environmental, economic, and social dynamics, particularly in more vulnerable countries, generating many public health problems like obesity and malnutrition. SLOWFOOD.COM

SlowFood.com asks the questions of how are we, how is the environment, what is the impact we are having on climate with our food choices? From family farming to GMOs and food waste.
Slow Food is working to promote production, processing, and consumption models that are as sustainable and healthy as possible for both individuals and the planet.
SLOWFOOD.com

Diet, food quality, and lifestyle are all key factors in our health.

Many of us know that fast food is detrimental to our physical health. Leaving many without access to the rich tapestry of traditional food cultures where real nutrition is actually contained in its ingredients. Have our fast-paced lifestyles put us at the mercy of burger conglomerates and Big Agra? The Slow Food Movement says it's time to slow down, smell the flowers... and actually taste our food again.

Renowned author Michael Pollan explains:

Along with the industrialization of our food system has come an industrialization of eating, and the former won't be effectively countered until people have rejected the latter. Slow Food aims to teach us to taste what makes Iroquois corn special (it's wonderful stuff, with an earthy, sweet, extra-corny flavor that makes commercial corn products taste pallid by comparison) and to slow down to enjoy some slow dishes traditionally cooked with it." Michael Pollan

In an inspiring TED Talk, Slow Food USA president Josh Viertel asserts that all our problems come back to food and farming-and the slow food movement is what is needed to change the world.

Building a slow food nation

The Slow Food movement is dedicated to building a new food system that helps people all over the world access healthy and delicious food. The movement is built on three fundamental principles.

Food should be delicious as well as nutritious. Most ancient food systems naturally produce delicious food. It is the modern food delivery systems that deaden flavor to enhance shelf life.

Slow Food movement founder Carlo Petrini says:

The quest for slowness, which begins as a simple rebellion against the impoverishment of taste in our lives, makes it possible to rediscover taste." CARLO PETRINI

Carlo Petrini on Slow Food and Terra Madre

Clean doesn't mean it isn't grown in dirt. "Clean food" means that it is grown and produced without causing any harm to the environment. No harmful pesticides or farming practices that strip the soil of its nutrients.

To illustrate this principle, explore this recipe from Alice Waters, one of the slow food movement's most important evangelists. One of her most trusted chefs, Russell Moore of Chez Panisse Café, created a clean and kid-friendly recipe you can make at home.

Alice Waters' Chez Panisse Cafe

This principle applies to both the producers and consumers of food. Fair refers to the conditions and payment given to the growers. "Fair" means equitable treatment, safe work environments, and living wages.

Consumers must also be offered a fair price for this food. A price that covers production costs without the "premium brand" price gouging.

I began to realize more and more that every problem I cared about-whether it'sa problem of environmental degradation or a problem of social injustice, a problem with the global economy or a problem of public education-has at its core, issues linked to food and farming. If we're going to address those problems in ways that are meaningful we have to transform the way we grow and share food together."
JOSH VIERTEL

Check out the Ark of Taste program on the Slow Food website and you'll see the impact that Slow Food is making on the world. Ark of Taste is "a project to rediscover, catalog, describe, and publicize forgotten foods. It has been created to point out the existence of these products, draw attention to the risk of their extinction within a few generations, and invite everyone to take action to help protect them."

It's easy to get involved in the Slow Food movement. You can start by yourself, in your own neighborhood, by seeking out local growers with ethical growing practices. Become more mindful in the preparation and eating of your meals. Savor each ingredient, mindful of the food's origins. If you want to get involved at a deeper level, join a chapter. The Slow Food movement is building connections between restaurants, individual consumers, and food producers across the globe.

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Slow Food Movement: Finding Sanity, Good Health, & the Antidote to Fast Foods

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Slow Food is an idea and a way of living that focuses on local food sources and traditional cooking in order to prevent the disappearance of food cultures and appearance while promoting healthy eating and sustainability. You may know that "slow food" refers to the movement toward thoughtful, organic eating, but do you know how the movement began?

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We have become a serious threat to the survival of our planet. But here is a case in which Nature comes to the rescue – when mushrooms clean up oil spills!

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Humans are the cause of most current environmental catastrophes. From oil spills, to leaking toxic landfills, to Chernobyl, humans are directly responsible. We have become a serious threat to the survival of our planet. But here is a case in which Nature comes to the rescue - when mushrooms clean up oil spills!

Amazingly, nature provides powerful solutions to help clean up some of our messes. An example of which is fungi-the magic life that exists beneath our feet-which have already demonstrated properties to help clean some of our largest modern oil spills.

Mushroos are the composting masters of the world. They are known for their ability to heal the earth and restore balance to ecosystems. Peter McCoy, the visionary behind Radical Mycology, showed us how this mind-blowing process unfolds through a small-scale art exhibit.

Radical Mycology Mycoremediation Lab At Le Commun In Switzerland

This one was trying to replicate an oil spill on a very small scale so people can understand one way that we can work with mushrooms that are quite dramatic in a relatively practical and straightforward way. This is arguably one of the easier remediation practices working with mushrooms cleaning up chemically occluded soil." PETER MCCOY

Basically, mushrooms can "eat" or break down nasty chemicals.

This process is called mycoremediation, and it is being studied and implemented by scientists today. Some even suggest that we put "Mycological Response Teams (MRTs) in place to react to catastrophic events, from hurricanes to oil spills. We need to preposition composting and mycoremediation centers adjacent to population centers."

One plan to use fungi in this manner made frontline news. The Texaco company has been testing mushrooms in the Amazon for nearly twenty years as a method for soaking up oil spill damage. Mycoremediation literally means to restore balance, and nature has many more lessons to share with us about how to keep ecosystems in balance.

This video from Peace Trees helps explain how mycoremediation works:

The role of decomposition is not the most attractive, but it is the most essential.

Without mushrooms, it would be much more difficult for plants and other organic material to decompose. That would mean diminished soil quality and could result in a total breakdown of the natural food chain.

In the end, deploying natural techniques to solve man-made crises is an excellent idea. But it must be a complement to the activists who are working hard to stop these disasters from occurring in the first place. Hopefully one day there won't be any oil spills, but for now, we know mushrooms clean oil spills!

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Humans are the cause of most current environmental catastrophes. From oil spills, to leaking toxic landfills, to Chernobyl, humans are directly responsible. We have become a serious threat to the survival of our planet. But here is a case in which Nature comes to the rescue - when mushrooms clean up oil spills!

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How Indigenous Perspectives Can Help Us Navigate the Modern Age

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How Indigenous Perspectives Can Help Us Navigate the Modern Age

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Indigenous traditions are what us brought us to where we are in time. We need to remember our roots and how to nurture the planet the way it cares and provides for us! Read more about Indigenous traditions now.

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The publishing world is often dominated by big-name authors promoting their work through publishers with colossal marketing budgets behind them. But every so often, a new voice breaks through totally organically. That was the case for Robin Wall Kimmerer, whose essay collection Braiding Sweetgrass has been on the New York Times nonfiction bestseller list for 46 weeks and counting. It encompasses indigenous traditions and our symbiosis with nature as human beings.

Kimmerer is a member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation and a botanist.

The author says she wrote the collection initially on a yellow legal pad, and that she prefers to work outdoors.

Kimmerer says part of the reason her message is resonating now is that Indigenous knowledge emphasizes connection and interdependence, rather than independence."

The other day I was raking leaves in my garden to make compost and it made me think, This is our work as humans in this time: to build good soil in our gardens, to build good soil culturally and socially, and to create potential for the future. What will endure through almost any kind of change? The regenerative capacity of the earth. We can help create conditions for renewal."
Robin Wall Kimmerer

Indigenous traditions are what us brought us to where we are in time. We need to remember our roots and how to nurture the planet the way it cares and provides for us!

Robin Wall Kimmerer's essay collection, "Braiding Sweetgrass," is a perfect example of crowd-inspired traction...On Feb. 9, 2020, it first appeared at No. 14 on the paperback nonfiction list; it is now in its 30th week, at No. 9.
THE NEW YORK TIMES

Click here for the full book review on The New York Times.

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How Indigenous Perspectives Can Help Us Navigate the Modern Age

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The publishing world is often dominated by big-name authors promoting their work through publishers with colossal marketing budgets behind them. But every so often, a new voice breaks through totally organically. That was the case for Robin Wall Kimmerer, whose essay collection Braiding Sweetgrass has been on the New York Times nonfiction bestseller list for 46 weeks and counting.

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Are Prescription Psychedelics Coming To a Pharmacy Near You?

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Are Prescription Psychedelics Coming To a Pharmacy Near You?

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Who would have thought that medical psilocybin could be used to help people and become something that you can get at a pharmacy? To learn more about psilocybin and it’s benefits you can read more here.

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Are Prescription Psychedelics Coming To a Pharmacy Near You?

Once the subject of government fear campaigns (mostly laughable), psychedelics are being recognized by medical professionals and the public as being at least useful and possibly even an absolute panacea in treating OCD, PTSD, alcoholism, opioid addiction, migraines and suicidal tendencies. Business has taken notice and is lavishing financing. Doctors are putting high hopes in more natural magic bullets like medical psilocybin with less chemical side effects.

Understanding of how psychedelic drugs may be used to treat mental illness is arguably higher than ever in popular consciousness.

After a string of advances, the business community has taken notice of this resurgence in research, and are preparing to make major investments in a potentially large sector within health care. To learn more about psilocybin and it's benefits you can read more here.

Tim Ferriss has become a sort of pied piper in the movement to advance psychedelics as a potential elixir for a murderers' row of psychiatric afflictions, including OCD and PTSD, opioid addiction, alcoholism, eating disorders, cluster headaches, and suicidal ideation."
FORTUNE

Noting that many of the treatments currently employed to treat mental health problems have setbacks and side effects that are undesirable, innovators are seeking new solutions using ingredients as old as the natural world itself. Who would have thought that medical psilocybin could be used to help people and become something that you can get at a pharmacy?

I view the next five years as an absolutely golden window. There's an opportunity to use relatively small amounts of money to have billions of dollars of impact and to affect millions of lives," Tim Ferris. "There just aren't that many opportunities that are so dramatically obvious."
FORTUNE MAGAZINE

You can review the entire piece on Fortune.

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Once the subject of government fear campaigns (mostly laughable), psychedelics are being recognized by medical professionals and the public as being at least useful and possibly even an absolute panacea in treating OCD, PTSD, alcoholism, opioid addiction, migraines and suicidal tendencies. Business has taken notice and is lavishing financing.

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There are endless benefits of composting.  From saving the planet, to reducing carbon emissions, composting is one pf the best ways to go green! Start composting  and you can evolve the quality of what you can grow and eat in your life.

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There's a simple way to make your soil more productive. Start composting and you can evolve the quality of what you can grow and eat in your life. The composting benefits will become clear immediately, and will change the way you interact with nature and the world!

"Composting is one of the most rewarding things you can do," said Kevin at the popular Epic Gardening YouTube site in his guide to composting. "It feels like you're an alchemist. You bring in your food scraps and your garden trimmings and leaves and such, and then magically turn them into something that then grows more for you."

5 Hot Composting Mistakes To Avoid

Composting is the process of turning food scraps into soil. It helps keep food out of the landfill, and it's a great way to participate in a no-waste circular food system. There are several different kinds of composting, including pit, closed container, open container, tumbler, and vermicomposting.

You don't need a big yard to start composting. Composting can be done in small spaces like apartments, with the right tools. You will need a container and some starting materials described below. Once you realize the composting benefits, you will want to get started immediately.
Composting in an Apartment:
If you live in an apartment and want an indoor compost container, here's how to get started. Figure out where you want to keep the compost and then select a suitable container. For instance, if you want to keep it underneath the kitchen sink then look for a small metal or plastic container that fits. Remember to choose somewhere that pets and children won't disturb.

Next, drill a few holes in the container to allow for air circulation. Then, sprinkle some shredded newspaper in the bottom, followed by a few inches of soil, and topped off with a bit more newspaper. You don't need worms to compost, but read this if you are interested in worm composting. Place a small spade nearby and voila! It's ready to use. Mix in your compost with a new scoop of soil each week. Use it to grow plants indoors or offer it to your neighbors.

CalKim has shared advice for years about this topic. Watch her small-space composting video for a visual introduction for composting in a simple five-gallon container!

This lady is amazing. More of this, great video. She even has a business set up. There are the people we need to bring to terra.
Outdoor Composting
The process is mostly the same if you plan to start composting outdoors.

First, you'll need to choose a location in your yard that receives a reasonable amount of sun. The heat will help raise the temperature of the compost pile and speed the decomposition of the food scraps. If you live in a very hot environment, make sure it's a slightly shaded spot so it doesn't evaporate all the moisture.

If you have a garden, consider locating your compost pile directly beside the garden. This reduces the wheelbarrow trips you'll take with yard waste for the pile.

The off-grid experts at Pure Living for Life have a practical introduction to creating an outdoor compost pile. Following their advice, you can make a bin or a pile, depending on your size constraints.
More Composting Resources
Kevin at Epic Gardening shared a few more methods of composting, if you are looking for additional solutions.
Urban Worm Bag Countertop Composters Bokashi Bran
Always double-check the laws around outdoor composting where you live.

The U.S. Composting Council has a state-by-state compost regulations reference guide you can check to find out what regulations you have to follow (if any).

You can keep researching composting benefits and methods for years! But, as that video reminds us, just get started. Your compost will help you live a more sustainable lifestyle and change your gardening forever.
"While we do try to do research and understand what we're getting ourselves into, ultimately, we don't want to suffer from analysis paralysis. So, while there's probably a lot we could be doing differently in the end, this is working out pretty well for us and we do have usable compost that's ready to go in the garden."

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There's a simple way to make your soil more productive. Start composting and you can evolve the quality of what you can grow and eat in your life. The composting benefits will become clear immediately, and will change the way you interact with nature and the world!

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Health Guide on Keto Diet - Treats and Snacks

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Health Guide on Keto Diet - Treats and Snacks

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Are you on Keto and looking for healthy snacks to keep your diet on check? With a little guidance, you can still fit plenty of high-fat, moderate-protein, and little-to-no carbs snacks and treats into your diet. Find out the list of food perfect for you to stay on keto.

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Treats and Snacks that Won’t Break Your Keto Diet

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The keto diet may be one of the leading weight loss diets, but that doesn’t mean you can’t treat yourself. Similarly, snacking doesn’t have to be limited

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Treats and Snacks that Won’t Break Your Keto Diet

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After decades of relying on corporate food producers and distributors, a new generation of urban farmers is taking control of their own food. Where food deserts once reigned with supermarkets and fast chains, these pioneers are creating oases of healthy, homegrown food. Read more now.

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What is urban farming? After decades of relying on corporate food producers and distributors, a new generation of urban farmers is taking control of their own food. Where food deserts once reigned with supermarkets and fast chains, these pioneers are creating oases of healthy, homegrown food.

When you think of sprawling gardens and farm-to-table eating, you probably imagine the countryside. But urban gardeners are determined to change your mind.

Rob Greenfield an urban farmer and forager managed to grow and forage 100 percent of his food for a single year.

Greenfield shared his urban farming journey with more than 275,000 YouTube followers, giving us all practical steps we can follow in our own lives.

I Grew and Foraged 1005 of My Food for an Entire Year

I lived in the city of Orlando, Florida in a 100 square foot tiny house. With no land of my own I turned front yards into gardens and shared the bounty of food with the homeowners. Over the year I grew over 100 different foods in my gardens, foraged over 200 foods from nature and I even grew and foraged my own medicine and vitamins too. "
ROB GREENFIELD

Growing food in a city environment does present some unique challenges. It can be difficult to find available land, and many urban dwellers struggle to carve out the time and energy to care for small crops. However, the benefits of urban gardening can be immense.

Bringing Local Produce to Urban Spaces

Urban gardening gives an opportunity for people who never thought about where their food comes from to participate in growing it. This can result in many benefits, starting with saving considerable amounts of money. This hands-on access to food can also lead to better nutrition, as urban gardeners learn about the growing process and grow passionate about fresh vegetables.

Leading the way in this movement are activists like Ron Finley. Finley is a longtime city dweller and designer who turned to urban gardening when he observed a need for affordable produce in his community. He dug up a strip of city land and planted vegetables there. It was illegal at the time, but he was able to get the city of Los Angeles to change the laws.

Ron Finley: Urban Gangsta Gardner in South Central LA

Being a gardener, that's gangster. Being educated, that's gangster. Building your community, that's gangster. people need to hear how urban gardening helps with the redesign in a multitude of ways. It's not just about the food. It's about people. Now you're engaged in communities you're bringing in pollinators, you're bringing in bees, butterflies, and hummingbirds. You're changing the ecosystem when you put in a garden." RON FINLEY

All too often, access to fresh food is hard to come by for poor communities. Food deserts are the first domino in a long series of cause-and-effect events that result in health problems for poor people.

Meet Garden Marcus

Plants have many lessons to teach, and plant activists like Garden Marcus are determined to make plants accessible to more people.

On TikTok, his videos have blown up for their mixture of plant education and uplifting positivity.

If you don't have TikTok, you can explore Marcus' work in this YouTube collection of his TikTok work! The compilation was created for Choice Forward, an organization that offers workshops so more people can learn from his work.

Garden Marcus TikTok Compilation

We cannot make anything grow, but we can foster an environment where growth is a byproduct of living." GARDEN MARCUS

Mushroom Pioneer

William Padilla-Brown is passionate about setting an example that everyone can grow and benefit from mushrooms. "I was a city kid, I just played video games. My parents never really took me on hikes or went outside. So finding mushrooms to me was like a spiritual journey," he said in an interview.

Today this self-taught "citizen-scientist" is one of the most respected mycologists in the world.

William Padilla-Brown Low Tech Mushroom Cultivation

"I farm to get close to the source of things, to know what I'm made of..."
WILLIAM PADILLA-BROWN

City dwellers deserve the opportunity to participate in growing their own food, and urban gardeners are helping bring about a shift in consciousness and their ideas are well worth a listen.

When Ron Finley says,...

A lot of people are banding together and realizing 'it's not just about me' ... My wish is that this is a true shift, and that people go out and design the lives they want to live."
RON FINLEY

...it makes sense to listen.

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Could Artificially Intelligent Therapy Help You?

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Are COVID-19 restrictions keeping you from visiting or connecting with a psychotherapist? Artificial Intelligence is more than a science fiction concept. It has very real applications as a healing modality. Read more on our blog post.

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Have you sought relief from anxiety or depression with traditional therapy sessions, found them helpful, but difficult to fit into your life? Are COVID-19 restrictions keeping you from visiting or connecting with a psychotherapist? Enter: Artificial Intelligence Therapy.

The good news is that Artificial Intelligence (AI) is more than a science fiction concept. It has very real applications as a healing modality. Personal therapy sessions, sans therapists, can be had in the privacy of your home right now.

Vice News took a look at the phenomenon recently.

AI Won't Replace Therapy - Yet

A 2014 study funded by DARPA found that participants who believed they were speaking with an AI therapist were more likely to open up than participants who were told a human operator was behind their virtual therapist." VICE

Jen Jope, writing for Depression Defined, tried an artificially intelligent therapist and wrote the following passage about her experiment with a chatbot:

I assumed relaying mundane details to a robot wouldn't matter much, but it was a crucial part of my success. In traditional weekly or monthly therapy, I sometimes lose momentum after a few days and forget to implement CBT skills. Woebot's lessons are consistent and build upon each other, making it easier to reject automatic thoughts before they spiral out of control." JEN JOPE

Artificial intelligence mimic human behavior while also learning from every conversation to improve. With AI, the availability of therapists doesn't have to limit therapy options for people who need it. There are now chatbots and virtual reality-powered meditation products that use artificial intelligence to provide live, individualized therapy remotely.

Talk Therapy With Artificial Intelligence You Can Try Right Now

For low-grade therapy situations like anxiety and depression, AI chatbots can be a great solution for people who need daily support. Indeed, many experts are saying that "digitalized mental healthcare could bring lasting benefits to a wide range of people who might otherwise go untreated."

Gatekeeping is a major problem in therapy, where people without a diagnosis (or without disposable income) are not able to access therapy. But AI-powered therapy could change that. We are entering a time when artificial intelligence therapy isn't just conceptual.

Woebot
This mental health chatbot that users can converse with on-demand. The app also offers mood tracking and educational videos. Using AI in a mobile phone framework makes it easy for people to access therapy in their daily lives. They can chat with an AI therapist on the bus or silently in the bathroom at work, and it just looks like they're texting a friend.

Wysa
This AI tool has already counted more than a million users, and 60 psychologists and 15,000 users were tapped to help improve the platform. While the service is free to use online, " users can receive support from a real-life mental health professional ('Wysa Coach') for a fee. This can prove particularly helpful in contexts where there is a lack of trained mental health professionals."

Addicaid app
This tool helps addicts track their recovery and connect with support. It creates custom plans for each user based on the information they provide within the app. It uses artificial intelligence to predict when a user is at high risk of relapsing and then delivers extra support to the user inside the app.

Youper
Developed by therapists, this Emotional Health Assistant app treats the human mind as the greatest frontier to explore in the future. "Youper was born from the idea that everyone can become the best version of themselves, like being a super you. In fact, Youper comes from the combination of the words You + Super. We're using Artificial Intelligence to understand human emotions and empower people to take care of their emotional health."

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Could Artificially Intelligent Therapy Help You?

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Have you sought relief from anxiety or depression with traditional therapy sessions, found them helpful, but difficult to fit into your life? Are COVID-19 restrictions keeping you from visiting or connecting with a psychotherapist? Enter: Artificial Intelligence Therapy. The good news is that Artificial Intelligence (AI) is more than a science fiction concept.

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Slow Food Movement: Finding Sanity, Good Health, and the Antidote to Fast Foods

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Slow Food Movement: Finding Sanity, Good Health, and the Antidote to Fast Foods

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Slow Food is an idea and a way of living that focuses on local food sources and traditional cooking in order to prevent the disappearance of food cultures and appearance while promoting healthy eating and sustainability.

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Everything You Need to Know About the Slow Food Movement

Slow Food is an idea and a way of living that focuses on local food sources and traditional cooking in order to prevent the disappearance of food cultures and appearance while promoting healthy eating and sustainability.

You may know that "slow food" refers to the movement toward thoughtful, organic eating, but do you know how the movement began? The history of what began as a grassroots organization and continues its mission today can be found on SlowFood.com.

This website also has resources including a Slow Food Almanac, information about food culture around the world, and how you can become more involved in the mission of better feeding the world.

Food

Food impacts the environment and global health.

The global food production system is based on intensive agriculture, which relies on synthetic pesticides and fertilizers to produce highly processed, calorie-dense foods packed with additives, preservatives, sugars, and saturated fats. This is creating imbalances in environmental, economic, and social dynamics, particularly in more vulnerable countries, generating many public health problems like obesity and malnutrition.
SLOWFOOD.COM

SlowFood.com asks the questions of how are we, how is the environment, what is the impact we are having on climate with our food choices? From family farming to GMOs and food waste.

Photography by Andrea Lightfoot

Slow Food is working to promote production, processing, and consumption models that are as sustainable and healthy as possible for both individuals and the planet.
SLOWFOOD.com

Slow Food And Health

Diet, food quality, and lifestyle are all key factors in our health.

Many of us know that fast food is detrimental to our physical health. Leaving many without access to the rich tapestry of traditional food cultures where real nutrition is actually contained in its ingredients. Have our fast-paced lifestyles put us at the mercy of burger conglomerates and Big Agra? The Slow Food Movement says it's time to slow down, smell the flowers... and actually taste our food again.

Renowned author Michael Pollan explains:

Along with the industrialization of our food system has come an industrialization of eating, and the former won't be effectively countered until people have rejected the latter. Slow Food aims to teach us to taste what makes Iroquois corn special (it's wonderful stuff, with an earthy, sweet, extra-corny flavor that makes commercial corn products taste pallid by comparison) and to slow down to enjoy some slow dishes traditionally cooked with it." Michael Pollan

In an inspiring TED Talk, Slow Food USA president Josh Viertel asserts that all our problems come back to food and farming-and the slow food movement is what is needed to change the world.

The Three Pillars of Slow Food

Building a slow food nation

The Slow Food movement is dedicated to building a new food system that helps people all over the world access healthy and delicious food. The movement is built on three fundamental principles.

1- Food should be good.

Food should be delicious as well as nutritious. Most ancient food systems naturally produce delicious food. It is the modern food delivery systems that deaden flavor to enhance shelf life.

Slow Food movement founder Carlo Petrini says:

The quest for slowness, which begins as a simple rebellion against the impoverishment of taste in our lives, makes it possible to rediscover taste." CARLO PETRINI

Carlo Petrini on Slow Food and Terra Madre

2- Food should be clean.

Clean doesn't mean it isn't grown in dirt. "Clean food" means that it is grown and produced without causing any harm to the environment. No harmful pesticides or farming practices that strip the soil of its nutrients.

To illustrate this principle, explore this recipe from Alice Waters, one of the slow food movement's most important evangelists. One of her most trusted chefs, Russell Moore of Chez Panisse Café, created a clean and kid-friendly recipe you can make at home.

Alice Waters' Chez Panisse Cafe

3. Food should be fair.

This principle applies to both the producers and consumers of food. Fair refers to the conditions and payment given to the growers. "Fair" means equitable treatment, safe work environments, and living wages.

Consumers must also be offered a fair price for this food. A price that covers production costs without the "premium brand" price gouging.

I began to realize more and more that every problem I cared about-whether it's a problem of environmental degradation or a problem of social injustice, a problem with the global economy or a problem of public education-has at its core, issues linked to food and farming. If we're going to address those problems in ways that are meaningful we have to transform the way we grow and share food together."
JOSH VIERTEL

How to Get Involved

Check out the Ark of Taste program on the Slow Food website and you'll see the impact that Slow Food is making on the world. Ark of Taste is "a project to rediscover, catalog, describe, and publicize forgotten foods. It has been created to point out the existence of these products, draw attention to the risk of their extinction within a few generations, and invite everyone to take action to help protect them."

It's easy to get involved in the Slow Food movement. You can start by yourself, in your own neighborhood, by seeking out local growers with ethical growing practices. Become more mindful in the preparation and eating of your meals. Savor each ingredient, mindful of the food's origins. If you want to get involved at a deeper level, join a chapter. The Slow Food movement is building connections between restaurants, individual consumers, and food producers across the globe.

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Slow Food Movement: Finding Sanity, Good Health, & the Antidote to Fast Foods

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Slow Food is an idea and a way of living that focuses on local food sources and traditional cooking in order to prevent the disappearance of food cultures and appearance while promoting healthy eating and sustainability. You may know that "slow food" refers to the movement toward thoughtful, organic eating, but do you know how the movement began?

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We have become a serious threat to the survival of our planet. But here is a case in which Nature comes to the rescue – when mushrooms clean up oil spills!

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Humans are the cause of most current environmental catastrophes. From oil spills, to leaking toxic landfills, to Chernobyl, humans are directly responsible. We have become a serious threat to the survival of our planet. But here is a case in which Nature comes to the rescue - when mushrooms clean up oil spills!

Amazingly, nature provides powerful solutions to help clean up some of our messes. An example of which is fungi-the magic life that exists beneath our feet-which have already demonstrated properties to help clean some of our largest modern oil spills.

Mushrooms are the composting masters of the world. They are known for their ability to heal the earth and restore balance to ecosystems. Peter McCoy, the visionary behind Radical Mycology, showed us how this mind-blowing process unfolds through a small-scale art exhibit.

Radical Mycology Mycoremediation Lab At Le Commun In Switzerland

This one was trying to replicate an oil spill on a very small scale so people can understand one way that we can work with mushrooms that are quite dramatic in a relatively practical and straightforward way. This is arguably one of the easier remediation practices working with mushrooms cleaning up chemically occluded soil." PETER MCCOY

Basically, mushrooms can "eat" or break down nasty chemicals.

This process is called mycoremediation, and it is being studied and implemented by scientists today. Some even suggest that we put "Mycological Response Teams (MRTs) in place to react to catastrophic events, from hurricanes to oil spills. We need to preposition composting and mycoremediation centers adjacent to population centers."

One plan to use fungi in this manner made frontline news. The Texaco company has been testing mushrooms in the Amazon for nearly twenty years as a method for soaking up oil spill damage. Mycoremediation literally means to restore balance, and nature has many more lessons to share with us about how to keep ecosystems in balance.

This video from Peace Trees helps explain how mycoremediation works:

The role of decomposition is not the most attractive, but it is the most essential.

Without mushrooms, it would be much more difficult for plants and other organic material to decompose. That would mean diminished soil quality and could result in a total breakdown of the natural food chain.

In the end, deploying natural techniques to solve man-made crises is an excellent idea. But it must be a complement to the activists who are working hard to stop these disasters from occurring in the first place. Hopefully one day there won't be any oil spills, but for now, we know mushrooms clean oil spills!

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Humans are the cause of most current environmental catastrophes. From oil spills, to leaking toxic landfills, to Chernobyl, humans are directly responsible. We have become a serious threat to the survival of our planet. But here is a case in which Nature comes to the rescue - when mushrooms clean up oil spills!