A few weeks ago, at the age of 25, I learned how to ride a bike. Yes, I had been taught as a child; but upon trying to ride after over ten years with virtually zero bicycling experiences, I realized that riding as an adult is quite different. Luckily, our local Berkeley REI offers a [...]
Posts under ‘Health’
A taste of justice
Think of agents for change in American eating habits, and Berkeley’s Alice Waters and Michael Pollan come immediately to mind.
Indeed, eat-more-greens advocates can appear as white as Wonder Bread.
On the menu at La Pena Cultural Center last night: some much-needed color in the conversation about good food matters.
Visceral Feast, a work-in-progress performance piece, featured Oakland-based [...]
Another bite of Saul’s
In case you missed the discussion about the future of the Jewish deli, hosted by Saul’s, the other night, you can watch a video of the whole event. You can find the program split into digestible chapters on Fora.tv.
A bigger splash: save the pools
Robert Collier lives in North Berkeley and is co-chair of the Berkeley Pools Campaign. Following Tuesday’s City Council decision to approve a June ballot measure on pools, he wrote this commentary for Berkeleyside:
As the worsening California fiscal crisis finally starts to hit home in Berkeley, city voters will have the chance to defend our [...]
A green, pedestrian-friendly vision for Downtown
On Saturday Berkeley citizens were given a taste of how their fair city might become quite a bit fairer when the people behind the Streets and Open Space Improvement Plan (SOSIP) held an open house to present a number of possible scenarios to prettify the downtown area.
Not to be confused with the Downtown Area Plan [...]
Berkeley to Brooklyn: Edible Schoolyard takes root
Details have emerged of the latest Edible Schoolyard project — this time the Alice Waters effect has spread its tentacles all the way from the West Coast to Brooklyn, New York
According to Inhabitat, a new $1.6 million garden and center will be built at PS. 216, an elementary school located in Brooklyn’s Gravesend neighborhood. Designed [...]
Seal blubber and why low-fat diets make us fat
In case you missed Berkeleyite foodie extraordinaire Michael Pollan on Oprah yesterday, catch the interview on the Oprah website.
Unions protest Safeway’s toxic cleaning
Two dozen janitors protested outside the Rockridge Safeway at lunchtime today, to draw attention to health, safety and environmental concerns associated with toxic cleaning chemicals used at local Safeway supermarkets. In wet and miserable weather, the protesters wore protective masks saying “Toxic Stinks” and “Green Cleaning Now!” The janitors are members of SEIU United Service [...]
Raging against the vegetables
As predicted, Caitlin Flanagan’s Atlantic article in which she slammed the concept of edible schoolyards as espoused by Alice Waters — and Flanagan grew up in Berkeley it turns out… the traitor! — has triggered a raft of rebuttals. Probably most amusing is the one written by Andrew Leonard in Salon yesterday:
What a nightmare! Public school Latino [...]
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