Grist dared me to make a change
Green crush: Beets in Brooklyn
For the series “Grist dared me to make a change,” we challenged author and activist Anna Lappé to write love poems to her favorite green groups in NYC. Read her first here. And support her dare with a gift to Grist!
Thanks to Just Food, a New York City nonprofit started in 1995:
- More than 100 Community-Supported Agriculture programs now bring fresh vegetables to roughly 30,000 people living in all five boroughs.
- Hundreds of people throughout New York learn about all aspects of urban agriculture through a newly launched innovative two-year certificate program, Farm School NYC.
- Dozens of community gardens have been supported to start chicken coops.
- We can keep bees in the city. (Just Food helped pass the city policy making it legal to keep these sweet and endangered buzzing farmer’s friends.)
And more!
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Grist dared me to make a change
Plastic purge: The enemy is everywhere
I am going to eliminate as much plastic as possible from my life for two weeks. But I'm keeping my toothbrush. I'm not THAT crazy.
Grist dared me to make a change
Plastic purge: Trouble on every aisle
It took me two hours to buy five days' worth of groceries that didn't have any plastic packaging. Two hours! WTF?
Grist dared me to make a change
Secondhand style: Wearing clothes dropped off in garbage bags
Accepting Grist's dare, I vow to wear only secondhand clothes for a week. Goodbye, Bloomingdale's. Hello, Salvation Army.
