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Most local grocery and convenience stores put the price of milk up on red-lettered signs and placards because it's a must-shop-for item -- it's the gateway purchase, the one that gets us to the store in the first place. Consumers often make a determination about where to shop based on the...

Steve Jobs is likely to unveil a new iPhone at Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference in San Francisco. At least one developer has his fingers crossed that it will include RFID, "to detect the presence of phones."

At first blush, James E. McWilliams' new book Just Food could be taken as an attack on three movements; eating locally, fighting genetically modified crops, and using organic farming practices. He argues that these three could be responsible for more, not less, damage to the environment. Heresy?...

In the United States, many school cafeterias use bulk-produced commodity food that is reheated on-site. While the dishes provide the basic calories that students need to power them through the day, meal providers often focus on economy, to the detriment of flavor and nutrition. The price: roughly...

In the summer of 2009, a combination of organic growing and home gardens have, ironically, inspired what is beginning to look like a big environmental mess. As people have become enamored of fresh-off-the-vine tomatoes, millions of us are obsessing about the tomato and potato blight that's struck...

Food isn't grown on Mars, Michael Pollan muses, which is why the food industry has had no problem with a message to consumers about how "local" their food is. After books by Barbara Kingsolver, Michael Pollan, and Alisa Smith and J.B. MacKinnon became best-sellers by praising the consumption of...

For 18 months now, since chugging books by Barbara Kingsolver, Michael Pollan, and Alisa Smith and J.B. MacKinnon in the span of a few weeks, I've been eating local, seasonal food as much as possible. In the winter this means I stuff myself with bacon, potatoes and celeriac; this week, thrilled...

A group here in Portland has taken the eat local movement one step further and started its own currency. Cascadia Commons has developed Community Way Local Exchange Trading System (LETS), "a non-profit, local community currency that more efficiently provides value to traditional dollars exchanged...