Timothy's Blog
Welcome to my blog.
My intention is to present helpful information around a variety of topics from Green Living, Cooking, Organic Food, Sustainable Agriculture, along with the policy and politics that these categories tend to swim. You'll even find a few postings that touch upon some of life's philosophical quesitons. Feel free to suggest topics or add comments (I take offense to nothing). As always I'm open to ideas. Enjoy.
Note: If you would like to be alerted whenever a new entry is posted to my blog, subscribe to our RSS feed. You'll need an RSS feed reader or an RSS-friendly browser or email program. If you don't have any of those, you can get one here.
Run Across Palestine: Running Into Apartheid
6 March 2012
Apartheid. Apartheid. Apartheid. There. I said it. It's time to say it. It's time for all of us to stop fearing this word. I received a small taste while participating in On The Ground's Run Across Palestine in February of 2012. It's bitter. The goal was to run across the West Bank, donate and plant olive trees while telling the story of Palestinian farmers. We didn't expect it to go smoothly. Few things do in such a region. But none of us expected to witness the flagrant injustices that were meted out by the hand of Israeli authorities.
- Comments (0) |
- Email to a Friend |
- Permalink
Multimedia Memories from the Run Across Ethiopia
23 February 2011
Since returning from Ethiopia, I've been swamped with re-entry projects. Getting the remaining Ethiopian school projects off the ground along with getting caught up here at Food For Thought have been eating up the hours. So there's been little time to do any writing since my return. Fortunately for me, Chris Treter of Higher Grounds Coffee, idea guy for Run Across Ethiopia and founder of On The Ground, has just written a wonderful blog post summarizing the highlights of the run. Chris and I traveled to Ethiopia three times since January 2010 to make this event happen and he was the critical partner that made it possible. So I don't think I could have said it any better than he has here.e.
- Comments (0) |
- Email to a Friend |
- Permalink
Making a Difference in Ethiopia
24 November 2010
Never has Margaret Mead’s famous quote, "Never underestimate the power of a small, dedicated group of people to change the world; indeed, that is the only thing that ever has" been so accurately demonstrated in my life than in what a group of northern Michigan volunteers are doing with the project Run Across Ethiopia.
- Comments (0) |
- Email to a Friend |
- Permalink
Why Ethiopia When There’s So Much Local Need?
4 October 2010
As the founder of a company that has a reputation for it's commitment to local and sustainable food, it's no surprise that I'm often asked, "Why are you working on a project in Ethiopia when we have so much need here in our local community?"
It's a fair question. There's no doubt we have needs close to home. The key word here is "community" and how one defines it. For me, I define my community as anyone that is touched by actions I take every day. That can be my neighbor next door or a sugar cane farmer in Paraguay.
- Comments (5) |
- Email to a Friend |
- Permalink
100-Mile Cultural Diet
23 November 2009
Local food is hot. As we continue discovering evidence of all the social, environmental and economic benefits of eating local, the phenomenon becomes less of a debate and more of a movement. For instance, it seems that almost every day I hear of more and more people who are adopting the 100-mile diet approach to life. The goal of the diet is to eat foods produced within 100 miles of your home.
Thinking about this always makes me wonder, "If it works for food, why not culture?"
- Comments (13) |
- Email to a Friend |
- Permalink
