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BT Brownies—makers of marvelous chocolate morsels—has opened a storefront in Lansdowne. Via Meal Ticket:  The brand-new spot, located at 54 West Marshall Road in Lansdowne, will feature all of their popular brownies (chocolate, cookie, peanut butter), and they’ll soon add a peppermint brownie to the mix.  Their hours of operation (for the time being) are

350.org is hosting a new campaign to raise awareness about climate change through art. Dubbed “350 EARTH,” the project is the first art exhibit large enough to be seen from outer space. Participants all over the world have submitted photos of their larger-than-life works. The pictures are beautiful and the message is powerful. Check them

Food & Water Watch, a non-profit that works to make sure the food, water and fish we consume is safe, accessible and sustainable, recently unveiled a new website called Factory Farm Map. The site is a serious wake up call for anyone unaware of the sprawling presence of factory farms in the U.S. The map

Grid contributor (and all-around favorite) Madame Fromage has just released the first episode of Cheese TV, a video project detailing her adventures in all things cheese. Watch and learn as this culture warrior tastes Bridgewater, brought back by a friend from Ann Arbor, MI.  And don’t forget about Madame Fromage’s upcoming Yuletide Cheese Tasting at the Fair

I rode cross country, then crashed outI've had quite a few bike crashes in my life. A couple casual tip-overs due to clip-in pedal malfunction (or I-don't-need-to-clip-out hubris), one slide on a gritty road that left my thigh covered in road rash, a loss of balance on the Chestnut Street bridge that resulted in some

Regarding to the critical policy decision we mentioned yesterday, the Senate has passed an overhaul of the country’s food safety system. Holla. Included in the Senate bill were exceptions for small producers who sell most of their products locally (animportant sticking point for sustainable food advocates who argued the burden of regulation would hurt those

In anticipation of my Greensgrow Farm winter CSA share starting up this weekend, I’ve been doing a lot of reading on CSAs. TreeHugger has an interesting post up about a new computer program called Farmigo that was designed to help farmers manage their CSA programs in more efficient, streamlined and (hopefully) profitable way: Farmigo basically takes over

We all know how much I love foraging, so I’ve been meaning to share this New York Times story on top chefs looking to the wild for new ingredients: Increasingly, in an era when truffles are farmed and Whole Foods sells fresh porcini, the ingredients that chefs seek are not the ones anyone can order;

Also, Michael Pollan has a must-read Op-Ed in the Times on the F.D.A. Food Safety Modernization bill. I won’t even excerpt it here because I think everyone should click through. Let’s just say this is a huge moment for food safety in our country.

Some exciting new for the Postgreen folks! The USGBC has named their 100K House the 2010 LEED Homes Project of the Year. Treehugger shared the news this morning, and I particularly enjoyed this quote from Postgreen’s Nic Darling on the company’s marketing strategy: “Most of our marketing to date has been developed in an environment of