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January 31, 2010 The National Council on Science and the Environment (NCSE) holds an annual conference in Washington DC that is intended to generate key recommendations for government, educators and the private sector. I participated in this year’s conference, which was held Jan. 20—22. The theme was “The New Green Economy”. Morning sessions with big name [...] January 24, 2010 Today is the big day for Diane’s fundraising chili supper to pay the taxes for Thornapple CSA. As you may have guessed, my job is clear. It’s put me in mind of an old Sir Douglas Quintet album I used to put on the turntable whenever it was time to cook chili. There [...] January 17, 2010 This week I spent two days in Columbia, South Carolina where I was attending a meeting of the USC NanoCenter External Advisory Board. If you surf the web looking for connections between nanotechnology and food, you will turn up some documents that describe new products and other pages that describe nanotechnology as “the [...] January 10, 2010 My day job cranks up tomorrow. Classes begin at MSU. I’m a professor of food ethics, and people quite reasonably wonder what that is. As for the ethics part, I usually introduce myself at farm gatherings by explaining that people become philosophy professors because they really wanted to be a good old-fashioned fire [...] January 3, 2010 So if I have my facts straight, Christmas Eve was the last day of business for the old Lansing City Market, and the property passed into the hands of local developer Pat Gillespie on January 1st. These events were the source of some sadness in the Thompson household. Diane was deeply involved in [...] |
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