Posted June 22nd, 2010
Source: Co-op Advantage Program’s June Flyer
You can reduce your impact on the environment through different methods for outdoor cooking and grilling food.
- Limit residues on food and ground level ozone by using propane, electric grills, solar ovens, or lump coal for cooking food. Charcoal briquettes often contain chemical inputs.
- Use a chimney starter for briquettes instead of lighter fluids.
- Choose lean, organic, and locally grown meats, and trim the fat to avoid carcinogens that could occur from charcoal smoke and flame ups.
- Set the picnic table with reusable dishware. If that’s not possible, look for biodegradable or recycled paper napkins, cups, and plates.
Alberta Co-op has you set when it comes to summer BBQs with meaty options like:
- Harmony JACK Farm Organic Ground Beef from Scio, OR at $6.99/lb.
- Applegate Farms Organic Hot Dogs at $6.99/8pk.
- Loki Wild Caught Salmon at $9.99/lb.
- Ranger Chicken Breast from Mt. Vernon, WA at $7.99/lb.
Veggie choices like:
- Amy’s 1/4 pound Veggie Burgers at $6.29/box
- Tofurkey Kielbasas and Italian Sausages at $4.69/4pk.
And all-time favorites like:
- Fresh Corn at $0.99/ear
- Kettle Krinkle Cut Chips on sale for $2.99/14oz. (regularly $4.69)
- Amy & Brian Coconut Juice on sale for $1.69/17.5oz. (regularly $2.39)
- Red Session Beer at an good. coop. value. of $12.99/12pk.
Tags: bbq, environment, summer
Posted in Food and Drink, General Information, Home and Garden
Posted June 9th, 2010
opinion by Jhan Hochman, Working Owner
The oil continues to gush, plume, ball, and slick, the gilled and shelled immobilized and choking; the branched and leaved engulfed in sludge; the feathered dying together; people (those suffering and not) tarring OTHER people with blame.
No one’s to blame. Everyone’s to blame. NTB. ETB.
NTB: but it was an accident. All action’s subject to accident. We can’t cease acting.
ETB: it was BP, no, the government. No, it’s our fault for suckling too long at the teat of Big Oil.
How many seas must we choke and drown before we cop to the blame?/How much crude must be spewed and spilled before we’re coated with shame?
ETB: Greasy corporate greed and negligence; government greed and negligence; worker greed, desperation, and negligence; consumer greed, desperation and negligence. There are too few prisons to hold all the criminals.
Will the well be capped? Will desire? Stupidity? Greed? Selfishness?
“The horror! The horror!” can no longer be supplanted with comforting words.
Nature creates night; we create darkness. Our fangs are buried deep, slurping at earth’s tender veins, cowering from the light of our villainy.
No, wrong metaphor. We don’t’ suck life from earth but choke it with massacres, holocausts, genocides, purges, disappearances, slaughters. The blood keeps getting washed off, but the ecocidal oil? With dispersants?
NTB: Are we not products of time, place, tradition? How much can we change? How much can we be changed?
When will the catastrophe be ours, not just somebody else’s? “Human kind cannot bear very much reality.”
The Gulf of Mexico, now the black sea. Will all the seas become blackened? Will Homer roll over, change “wine-dark” to “oil-dark” sea?
Human onslaught deepens and spreads. Nightmare plumes engulfing feathers, leaves, scales, hair. Waking up seems like a dream.
We know, as deeply as the ocean, what must be done: we must stop cursing the grease mongers with words while encouraging them with behavior. A curse held for ourselves when we spew at them.
Watch the day slowly dim, the night gradually darken. But rage against the spreading darkness, in them, in ourselves, in the sea.
NYT: Oily remains.
Tags: environment
Posted in General Information
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