From the monthly archives:

October 2008

Why You Shouldn’t Entrust Your Eating Habits to the Media, the Government, or Food Science

Alongside 11 other fantastic presenters, The Reluctant Eater spoke at Ignite Boulder on Wednesday night. Ignite is a worldwide movement of people getting together to present and share ideas but with a twist: 20 slides, each advances automatically after 15 seconds.

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Today, The Reluctant Eater is honored to talk with Meredith Niles (who just returned from a conference regarding green farming in Mozambique!). She is the Coordinator of the Cool Foods Campaign, a non-profit organization which challenges harmful food production technologies and promotes organic and other sustainable alternatives. Meredith writes extensively about agriculture, food, and climate change [...]

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If you couldn’t make it to the PitchSlam at Naturally Boulder Days, fear not! I furiously tried to write down as much as I could, and below is my summary. It all happened so quickly, an it is entirely possible that I misspelled names of people and companies. Let me know if any corrections are [...]

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This morning’s 8 am presentation at Naturally Boulder Days was led by Chef Ann Cooper (her website: Lunch Lessons), who, despite her busy schedule as a chef, director of nutritional services, and consultant was able to fit in a morning full of compelling statistics, inspirational stories of improving school lunches, and a short question and [...]

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This post brought to you by me, The Reluctant Eater, coming from inside the Julian Hotel & Spa in downtown Boulder, host of Naturally Boulder Days 2008. The first of two breakout sessions has just concluded. Although I begrudgingly passed up both The Climate for Innovation - What is it about Boulder? and The Perfect [...]

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