Archive for December, 2008
Farming groups help kids learn about nutrition
By admin at 17 December, 2008, 11:16 pm
Compare an apple and a bag of chips and decide which is the nutrient-dense snack. Uh, right. The exercise became surprisingly easy for some midstate kids after they prodded familiar and not-so-familiar fruits and vegetables and learned how the vitamins within each fight disease and nourish growing bodies. Chips have plenty of salt and fat. [...]
Read More >>Trash to treasure: artful gear with a conscience
By admin at 17 December, 2008, 11:14 pm
It’s a long way from this New England village to Jakarta, Indonesia. But the distance is bridged creatively by a company named Monsoon Vermont. Founded in 2005 by Julia Genatossio, Monsoon Vermont sells items made from nonrecyclable plastic collected by scavengers from the streets, landfills, and waterways of Jakarta, the capital city with more than [...]
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