Mr Meek said the company was probably the longest-established natural food business in Australia and was proud of the esteem in which its name was held. Gold Coast-based natural food supermarket Mrs Flannery's, the largest chain in Queensland with an annual turnover of $14 million, has announced it wants to expand the group nationwide. The family-run company, which had a humble beginning at Tweed Heads 20 years ago, is seeking partnership to help it do so. Mrs Flannery's has eight...

Organic food shouldnt be something only rich people can eat. With the lotto, a family who couldnt otherwise afford organic food will have a chance to eat healthy. The lotterys winner will receive 10 pounds of free, locally grown, organic produce every Wednesday for six months. The initiative is sponsored by the Somerville Community corp. (SCC) and is part of a one-year project to identify ways to close the gap between local healthy food distributors and the low income and immigrant...

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I'm glad the Chinese government's hired clean tech trailblazer William McDonough's design firm to create a green blueprint for six new cities and a village--who better to help China bind its ever-widening carbon footprint than McDonough, the internationally influential green architect and designer who turned Ford's River Rouge factory green and helped Nike create a biodegradable sneaker? I'm glad the Chinese government's hired clean tech trailblazer William McDonough's design firm to...

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Using simple strategies, you can make sure to reduce your footprint the next time you purchase food. One of the biggest energy uses in our food system involves the length of our food supply chain, says Mickey Swisher, associate professor in the sustainable agriculture department at the University of Florida. Kat James, a holistic beauty and lifestyle expert and bestselling author of The Truth About Beauty: Transform Your Looks and Your Life From the Inside Out, cautions, Be aware that some...

The Senate Appropriations Committee has invoked a previously unused law to block a tax credit for a Columbia plant to recycle its cellophane-like hot dog casings used in the manufacturing process. More stories in Local Urinetown musical tackles futuristic revolt (5/01/07) The company will likely challenge the senates action in court. The tax break, originally enacted in 1990, is worth $341,315 a year for Kraft Foods Global inc. But the Senate committee used a state law that says a tax...

Avoid processed foods, which use up more energy in production than fresh foods and meals you prepare yourself. Producing it puts less CO2 into the atmosphere than producing conventional food does. It takes 17 percent of the fossil fuel consumed in the United States to produce the food we eat. Even carbon-friendly organic food comes with an emissions price tag the CO2 given off by processing, packaging, and transportation. Food travels an average 1,500 miles before it's bought and eaten....

Organic To Go is already available during the school week at three locations on the UCLA campus and one location at the UCLA Medical Center Cafeteria, and the company will set up two festival locations in the food courts to serve the hungry readers at the always popular Festival of Books. Organic To Go is already available during the school week at three locations on the UCLA campus and one location at the UCLA Medical Center Cafeteria, and the company will set up two festival locations in...