Mind, Spine & Heart
Tuesday, December 25, 2012
Top 3 Paulin8 posts from 2012
3... 2... 1... The top 3 Paulin8 posts from 2012...
#3 30th Aniversary of The Canadian Charter of Rights & Freedoms
#3 30th Aniversary of The Canadian Charter of Rights & Freedoms
And....... #1 Canadian Right to Food Trial
Thursday, December 20, 2012
Calgary Transit should encourage this type of development at all LRT Stations
Why can't @CalgaryTransit encourage this type of development at all LRT Stations?
Wednesday, December 19, 2012
96 + 1 Books for Foodies
The real #1 Foodie book in my opinion is Cultivating Food Justice: Race, Class and Sustainability (MIT Press, 2011) by Julian Agyeman and Alison Hope Alkon
Explains #FoodJustice better than anything else I've read.
1 Turn Here Sweet Corn by Atina Diffley
2 The $64 Tomato by William Alexander
3 The Dirty Life by Kristen Kimball
4 The Omnivore’s Dilemma by Michael Pollan
5 The Hundred-Foot Journey by Richard C. Morais
6 The Everlasting Meal by Tamar Adler
7 Tomatoland by Barry Estabrook
8 The Secret Life of Food by Clare Crespo
9 This Life Is in Your Hands by Melissa Coleman
10 Plenty (Eating Locally on the 100-Mile Diet) by Alisa Smith, J.B. Mackinnon
11 Urban Homesteading-Heirloom Skills for Sustainable Living by Rachel Kaplan with K. Ruby Blume
12 Nourishing Traditions by Sally Fallon and Mary Enig
13 The Unhealthy Truth by Robyn O’Brien and Rachel Kranz
14 Stolen Harvest by Vandana Shiva
15 Wheat Belly by William Davis
16 Slaughterhouse by Gail A. Eisnitz
17 Righteous Porkchop by Nicolette Hahn Niman
18 Folks, This Ain’t Normal by Joel Salatin
19 The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind by William Kamkwamba and Bryan Mealer
20 The Art of Fermentation by Sandor Katz
21 Animal, Vegetable, Miracle by Barbara Kingsolver
22 Teaming with Microbes: A Gardener’s Guide to the Soil Food Web by Jeff Lowenfels and Wayne Lewis
23 Wild Fermentation: The Flavor, Nutrition, and Craft of Live-Culture Foods by Sandor Ellix Katz and Sally Fallon
24 The Viking in The Wheat Field by Susan Dworkin
25 The Phytozyme Cure: Treat or Reverse More Than 30 Serious Health Conditions with Powerful Plant Nutrients by Michelle Cook
26 An Everlasting Meal, Tamar Adler
27 Eat & Run by Steve Friedman Scott Jurek
28 Greenhorns: 50 Dispatches from the New Farmers’ Movement by Paula Manalo
29 Eat the City: A Tale of the Fishers, Foragers, Butchers, Farmers, Poultry Minders, Sugar Refiners, Cane Cutters, Beekeepers, Winemakers, and Brewers Who Built New York by Robin Shulman
30 Bread Bones and Butter, Jeffrey Hamelman
31 Nourishing Traditions by Sally Fallon and Mary Enig
32 Turn Here Sweet Corn
33 Obligate Carnivore
34 Eat and Run
35 Bidoche, Fabrice Nicolino
36 BET THE FARM by Frederick Kaufman
37 GUT AND PSYCHOLOGY SYNDROME by Dr. Natasha Campbell-McBride.
38 Farm City by Novella Carpenter
39 A Homemade Life by Molly Wizenberg
40 The Holistic Orchard: Tree Fruits and Berries the Biological Way by Michael Phillips
41 Greenhorns
42 The 150 Healthiest Foods on Earth: The Surprising, Unbiased Truth About What You Should Eat and Why by Jonny Bowden
43 Folks, This Ain’t Normal, Joel Salatin
44 Goat: Meat, Milk, Cheese by Bruce Weinstein, Mark Scarbrough and Marcus Nilsson
45 Aquaponic Gardening by Sylvia Bernstein
46 Life Rules by Elllen LaConte
47 Folks this Ain’t Normal by Joel Salatin
48 Holy Cows and Hog Heaven by Joel Salatin
49 The Art of Fermentation By Sandor Katz
50 Organic Manifesto by Maria Rodale
51 Farewell, My Subaru: An Epic Adventure in Local Living by Doug Fine
52 The Good Food Revolution: Growing Healthy Food, People, and Communities by Will Allen and Charles Wilson
53 The Joy of Foraging: Gary Lincoff’s Illustrated Guide to Finding, Harvesting, and Enjoying a World of Wild Food by Gary Lincoff
54 Flour Power: A Guide To Modern Home Grain Milling by Marleeta Basey
55 Fateful Harvest by Duff Wilson
56 Deep Nutrition: Why Your Genes Need Traditional Food by Catherine Shanahan and Luke Shanahan
57 Save Our Soil by Christopher Bird
58 Animal, Vegetable, Miracle. Barbara Kingsolver.
59 Folks, This Ain’t Normal by Joel Salatin
60 The Ecology of Eden by Evan Eisenberg
61 Gaia’s Garden – Toby Hemenway
62 The Resilient Gardener: Food Production and Self-Reliance in Uncertain Times by Carol Deppe
63 Everything I Want To Do Is Illegal: War Stories From the Local Food Front by Joel Salatin
64 The One-Straw Revolution: An Introduction to Natural Farming (New York Review Books Classics) by Masanobu Fukuoka, Larry Korn, Wendell Berry and Frances Moore Lappe
65 Beautiful Corn: America’s Original Grain from Seed to Plate by Anthony Boutard
66 The Art of Fermentation by Sandor Ellix Katz
67 Sowing Seeds in the Desert by Masanobu Fukoka
68 The Humanure Handbook: A Guide to Composting Human Manure by Joseph Jenkins
69 The Feast Nearby by Robin Mather
70 Gathering by Diane Ott Whealy
71 The Heirloom Gardener by Jere and Emiliee Gettle
72 Nutrition by Rudolf Hauschka, Marjorie Spock and Mary T. Richards
73 Nourishing Traditions by Sally Fallon
74 The Good Life byHelen and Scott Nearing
75 Organic Manifesto by Maria Rodale
76 Plenty: One Man, One Woman, and a Raucous Year of Eating Locally by Alisa Smith and J.B. Mackinnon
77 100-mile diet
78 Vegetable Gardening the Colonial Williamsburg Way by Wesley Green
79 Beating the Food Giants by Paul A. Stitt
80 Eating Animals by Jonathon Safran Foer
81 Unjunk Your Junk Food-Healthy Alternatives to Conventional Snacks by Andrea Donsky
82 Sugar Blues by William F. Duffy
83 Full Moon Feast: Food and the Hunger for Connection by Jessica Prentice
84 Silent Spring by Rachel Carson
85 The Omnivore’s Dilemma by Michael Pillan
86 Turn Here Sweet Corn by Atina Diffley
87 Folks, This Ain’t Normal by Joel Salatin
88 Salt: A world History by Mark Kurlansky
89 Nourishing Traditions
90 Pacific Feast by Jennifer Hahn
91 The Makers Diet. Dr Jordan Ruben
92 Tomatoland: How Modern Industrial Agriculture Destroyed Our Most Alluring Fruit by Barry Estabrook
93 Teaming with Microbes, Jeff Lowenfels & Wayne Lewis
94 Eating Animals by Jonathan Safran Foer
95 The End of Overeating: Taking Control of the Insatiable American Appetite by David Kessler
96 The Weekend Homesteader: A Twelve-Month Guide to Self-Sufficiency by Anna Hess
Explains #FoodJustice better than anything else I've read.
Here's some more books for the foodies in your life:
1 Turn Here Sweet Corn by Atina Diffley
2 The $64 Tomato by William Alexander
3 The Dirty Life by Kristen Kimball
4 The Omnivore’s Dilemma by Michael Pollan
5 The Hundred-Foot Journey by Richard C. Morais
6 The Everlasting Meal by Tamar Adler
7 Tomatoland by Barry Estabrook
8 The Secret Life of Food by Clare Crespo
9 This Life Is in Your Hands by Melissa Coleman
10 Plenty (Eating Locally on the 100-Mile Diet) by Alisa Smith, J.B. Mackinnon
11 Urban Homesteading-Heirloom Skills for Sustainable Living by Rachel Kaplan with K. Ruby Blume
12 Nourishing Traditions by Sally Fallon and Mary Enig
13 The Unhealthy Truth by Robyn O’Brien and Rachel Kranz
14 Stolen Harvest by Vandana Shiva
15 Wheat Belly by William Davis
16 Slaughterhouse by Gail A. Eisnitz
17 Righteous Porkchop by Nicolette Hahn Niman
18 Folks, This Ain’t Normal by Joel Salatin
19 The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind by William Kamkwamba and Bryan Mealer
20 The Art of Fermentation by Sandor Katz
21 Animal, Vegetable, Miracle by Barbara Kingsolver
22 Teaming with Microbes: A Gardener’s Guide to the Soil Food Web by Jeff Lowenfels and Wayne Lewis
23 Wild Fermentation: The Flavor, Nutrition, and Craft of Live-Culture Foods by Sandor Ellix Katz and Sally Fallon
24 The Viking in The Wheat Field by Susan Dworkin
25 The Phytozyme Cure: Treat or Reverse More Than 30 Serious Health Conditions with Powerful Plant Nutrients by Michelle Cook
26 An Everlasting Meal, Tamar Adler
27 Eat & Run by Steve Friedman Scott Jurek
28 Greenhorns: 50 Dispatches from the New Farmers’ Movement by Paula Manalo
29 Eat the City: A Tale of the Fishers, Foragers, Butchers, Farmers, Poultry Minders, Sugar Refiners, Cane Cutters, Beekeepers, Winemakers, and Brewers Who Built New York by Robin Shulman
30 Bread Bones and Butter, Jeffrey Hamelman
31 Nourishing Traditions by Sally Fallon and Mary Enig
32 Turn Here Sweet Corn
33 Obligate Carnivore
34 Eat and Run
35 Bidoche, Fabrice Nicolino
36 BET THE FARM by Frederick Kaufman
37 GUT AND PSYCHOLOGY SYNDROME by Dr. Natasha Campbell-McBride.
38 Farm City by Novella Carpenter
39 A Homemade Life by Molly Wizenberg
40 The Holistic Orchard: Tree Fruits and Berries the Biological Way by Michael Phillips
41 Greenhorns
42 The 150 Healthiest Foods on Earth: The Surprising, Unbiased Truth About What You Should Eat and Why by Jonny Bowden
43 Folks, This Ain’t Normal, Joel Salatin
44 Goat: Meat, Milk, Cheese by Bruce Weinstein, Mark Scarbrough and Marcus Nilsson
45 Aquaponic Gardening by Sylvia Bernstein
46 Life Rules by Elllen LaConte
47 Folks this Ain’t Normal by Joel Salatin
48 Holy Cows and Hog Heaven by Joel Salatin
49 The Art of Fermentation By Sandor Katz
50 Organic Manifesto by Maria Rodale
51 Farewell, My Subaru: An Epic Adventure in Local Living by Doug Fine
52 The Good Food Revolution: Growing Healthy Food, People, and Communities by Will Allen and Charles Wilson
53 The Joy of Foraging: Gary Lincoff’s Illustrated Guide to Finding, Harvesting, and Enjoying a World of Wild Food by Gary Lincoff
54 Flour Power: A Guide To Modern Home Grain Milling by Marleeta Basey
55 Fateful Harvest by Duff Wilson
56 Deep Nutrition: Why Your Genes Need Traditional Food by Catherine Shanahan and Luke Shanahan
57 Save Our Soil by Christopher Bird
58 Animal, Vegetable, Miracle. Barbara Kingsolver.
59 Folks, This Ain’t Normal by Joel Salatin
60 The Ecology of Eden by Evan Eisenberg
61 Gaia’s Garden – Toby Hemenway
62 The Resilient Gardener: Food Production and Self-Reliance in Uncertain Times by Carol Deppe
63 Everything I Want To Do Is Illegal: War Stories From the Local Food Front by Joel Salatin
64 The One-Straw Revolution: An Introduction to Natural Farming (New York Review Books Classics) by Masanobu Fukuoka, Larry Korn, Wendell Berry and Frances Moore Lappe
65 Beautiful Corn: America’s Original Grain from Seed to Plate by Anthony Boutard
66 The Art of Fermentation by Sandor Ellix Katz
67 Sowing Seeds in the Desert by Masanobu Fukoka
68 The Humanure Handbook: A Guide to Composting Human Manure by Joseph Jenkins
69 The Feast Nearby by Robin Mather
70 Gathering by Diane Ott Whealy
71 The Heirloom Gardener by Jere and Emiliee Gettle
72 Nutrition by Rudolf Hauschka, Marjorie Spock and Mary T. Richards
73 Nourishing Traditions by Sally Fallon
74 The Good Life byHelen and Scott Nearing
75 Organic Manifesto by Maria Rodale
76 Plenty: One Man, One Woman, and a Raucous Year of Eating Locally by Alisa Smith and J.B. Mackinnon
77 100-mile diet
78 Vegetable Gardening the Colonial Williamsburg Way by Wesley Green
79 Beating the Food Giants by Paul A. Stitt
80 Eating Animals by Jonathon Safran Foer
81 Unjunk Your Junk Food-Healthy Alternatives to Conventional Snacks by Andrea Donsky
82 Sugar Blues by William F. Duffy
83 Full Moon Feast: Food and the Hunger for Connection by Jessica Prentice
84 Silent Spring by Rachel Carson
85 The Omnivore’s Dilemma by Michael Pillan
86 Turn Here Sweet Corn by Atina Diffley
87 Folks, This Ain’t Normal by Joel Salatin
88 Salt: A world History by Mark Kurlansky
89 Nourishing Traditions
90 Pacific Feast by Jennifer Hahn
91 The Makers Diet. Dr Jordan Ruben
92 Tomatoland: How Modern Industrial Agriculture Destroyed Our Most Alluring Fruit by Barry Estabrook
93 Teaming with Microbes, Jeff Lowenfels & Wayne Lewis
94 Eating Animals by Jonathan Safran Foer
95 The End of Overeating: Taking Control of the Insatiable American Appetite by David Kessler
96 The Weekend Homesteader: A Twelve-Month Guide to Self-Sufficiency by Anna Hess
Sunday, December 16, 2012
idleCalgary
A veil of secrecy around a Plan to introduce transparency. Rampant mismanagement. Council apathy. Bureaucratic betrayal. Administrative abuse of a vision from 18,000 Calgarians.
A slap in the face of future Calgary. A dead plant as a gift to the citizens.
Momentum is not building for imagineCALGARY and just by stating such on a website does not make it true. The imagineCalgary Plan has been seriously mismanaged by the administration and bureaucracy of City Hall.
The groups listed below are according to imagineCalgary "...actively implementing the imagineCALGARY Targets and Goals within
their organizations."
The website erroneously states: "Members of the imagineCALGARY Partnership and citizens, corporations, community agencies and the civic government of Calgary are now using the Plan and working together to shape the city’s future."
Again, organizations are not working together, the Plan is not being taken seriously by council or admin and the future is not being shaped by imagineCalgary... its a neglected, withering vision.
So what does this all mean?
Simply, that civic engagement is really a cruel and costly comedy of errors. The result is a lengthy, dust collecting tome which the City of Calgary has no intention of truly implementing and has somehow evolved into a form of appeasement with the local sustainability culture. Citizen and organizational silence is bought via the opportunity to passively participate in this increasingly comical venture at the very unfunny cost of the future of Calgary.
What council and administration is clearly saying to citizens is this...
1. We really want your input,
2. We want you to believe we value your input,
3. We'll go to great lengths to promote and drape ourselves in this input,
4. There's not a hope in hell we'll ever take citizen input seriously.'
5. We'll continue telling citizens the exact opposite, shamelessly.
The list below has not changed significantly in 3 years.
Also, many of the groups below are small, social justice/environmental orgs that already adhere to sustainability protocols, with imagineCalgary failing miserably to make a dent outside the perimeter of the choir.
ImagineCalgary is idle, stagnanting and withering... How ironic is that?
The website erroneously states: "Members of the imagineCALGARY Partnership and citizens, corporations, community agencies and the civic government of Calgary are now using the Plan and working together to shape the city’s future."
Again, organizations are not working together, the Plan is not being taken seriously by council or admin and the future is not being shaped by imagineCalgary... its a neglected, withering vision.
So what does this all mean?
Simply, that civic engagement is really a cruel and costly comedy of errors. The result is a lengthy, dust collecting tome which the City of Calgary has no intention of truly implementing and has somehow evolved into a form of appeasement with the local sustainability culture. Citizen and organizational silence is bought via the opportunity to passively participate in this increasingly comical venture at the very unfunny cost of the future of Calgary.
What council and administration is clearly saying to citizens is this...
1. We really want your input,
2. We want you to believe we value your input,
3. We'll go to great lengths to promote and drape ourselves in this input,
4. There's not a hope in hell we'll ever take citizen input seriously.'
5. We'll continue telling citizens the exact opposite, shamelessly.
The list below has not changed significantly in 3 years.
Also, many of the groups below are small, social justice/environmental orgs that already adhere to sustainability protocols, with imagineCalgary failing miserably to make a dent outside the perimeter of the choir.
ImagineCalgary is idle, stagnanting and withering... How ironic is that?
Current Partners
Alberta Ecotrust Foundation
Bridgetown Works
Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR)
City of Calgary
Cultural District Renaissance Society of Alberta
Enmax
Families Matter
Flextronics Calgary Centre
Light up the World
LINKages Society of Alberta
Old Y Centre
Peratos Consulting
REAP Business Association
Sierra Club of Canada
The Unique Blend
Theatre Calgary
Torode Commercial Ltd.
Tour de Nuit
Friday, December 14, 2012
Resurrecting The Urban Hen Egg Laying Pilot Project in Calgary
Dear Mayor Nenshi, Ald Carra & Mgr Bowen,
Please read the letter sent today, 14Dec2012 to Animal & Bylaw Services, requesting the reintroduction of the Urban Hen Egg Laying Pilot Project.
The volume of City of Calgary official policy that supports both the concept of a pilot project and the removal of the bylaw against egg laying hens is simply enormous.
"...the Urban Hen Egg Laying Pilot Project will align the City of Calgary with its numerous guiding/vision documents (imagineCalgary, Food Assessment & Action Plan, Fair Calgary, 2020 Sustainability Direction, et al) that support a local, sustainable, healthy food system and the tenets of food justice, food security and the right to food for all Calgarians."
Link: http://www.calgary.ca/CA/cmo/Pages/Office-of-Sustainability.aspx
On behalf of the members of CLUCK, I request that you support reintroducing the Urban Hen Egg Laying Pilot Project.
For your consideration and action,
Paul Hughes
CLUCK
-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Urban Hen Egg Laying Pilot Project: Resurrection
Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2012 12:54:43 -0700
From: Paul
Reply-To: paul
Organization: CLUCK
To: Andrew Bissett & Paul Hughes
Hi Andrew,
I'm requesting that you discuss with Tracey Birch the reintroduction of this pilot project to the SPC/CPS Committee.
A tremendous amount of work has already gone into the design, terms, conditions, references, targets and governance of the Urban Hen Egg Laying Pilot Project. Most of this work (95%) was performed by Animal Bylaw via Bill Bruce (rtd) and his team. I encourage Bylaw to continue to show leadership on this issue and resurrect the pilot. You have my assurance that CLUCK members will willingly cooperate in the implementation of the pilot.
Perhaps more importantly, the Urban Hen Egg Laying Pilot Project will align the City of Calgary with its numerous guiding/vision documents (imagineCalgary, Food Assessment & Action Plan, Fair Calgary, 2020 Sustainability Direction, et al) that support a local, sustainable, healthy food system and the tenets of food justice, food security and the right to food for all Calgarians.
Link: http://www.calgary.ca/CA/cmo/Pages/Office-of-Sustainability.aspx
For your consideration and action,
--
Paul Hughes
CLUCK
Thursday, December 13, 2012
Epic Big Walls
In Columbia.
(Calgary has epic big walls, but they're a nice shade of grey... sigh.)
Courtesy of FatCap.com
(Calgary has epic big walls, but they're a nice shade of grey... sigh.)
Courtesy of FatCap.com
Monday, December 10, 2012
Sunday, December 9, 2012
Friday, December 7, 2012
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