otrops: jeff van campen's personal blog

For those of you who don’t already know, this coming Saturday has been declared Shutdown Day. As many of you know, I spend far too much time in front of a computer. And computers are pretty energy intensive. I suspect, though I haven’t confirmed this, that my computer usage probably consumes [...]

As you’ve probably ready, Joel Stein has recently written an article in Time questioning the logic of the local food movement. He has added a fourth meal to the industrial, organic and hunted/gathered meals that Michael Pollan describes in The Omnivore’s Dilemma. The meal is prepared from ingredients that were shipped from more [...]