spud! fan blog
Blog URL http://spudfanblog.blogspot.com
Located Vancouver, British Columbia Canada
Tags organic, grocery, local food, sustainable, grocery delivery, SPUD, david van seters
The spud! blog provides a sampling of thoughts and news about food policy, organic agriculture, and all the environmental issues involved in getting your food from the pasture to plate!
Latest Blog Posts
- A new breed of investors is emerging to build a better world on Nov 20, 2009 in Joel Solomon Carol Newell Renewal2 investing Investors Circle
A few days ago I travelled to Washington D.C. for a unique investment conference put on by a fabulous group called Investor's Circle. It is a network of angel investors, venture capitalists and family foundations whose mission is to provide "patient...
- Eat whole foods. Live. Be Happier on Nov 10, 2009 in healthy diet
When we developed the slogan Eat. Live. Be Happy for spud! two years ago, we meant it to refer to the happiness our customers would feel by eating nutritious, high quality food and simplifying their lives by avoiding grocery shopping trips. However,...
- GMOs are not the solution to world hunger on Oct 31, 2009 in world hunger genetic engineering Genetically Modified Organisms GMOs
It’s Halloween and I’m feeling spooked by the thought of our rising production of “Franken Foods”. Promoters of Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs) have long touted them as a key solution to meet the food demands of our rapidly growing worl...
- spud! wins Better Business Bureau Green Torch Award on Oct 19, 2009 in benefits of grocery delivery Better Business Bureau environmental aspects of home delivery spud award
I am very excited to tell you that this past Thursday spud! received a Green Torch Award from the Better Business Bureau. This is the first time that the Bureau has given out such an award, and it is a timely addition to its three main awards for Mar...
- Homegrown: the ultimate urban farming family on Oct 10, 2009 in urban agriculture organic gardening Devraes family
This week, our firm sponsored the screening of a movie called "Homegrown" at an international film festival. I had not seen the film but given our company's passion for sourcing local foods, it felt like a good fit to give this independent documentar...
- Raising money with a little help from the Beatles on Oct 2, 2009 in The Beatles Slow Money spud
On September 15th in this blog, I wrote about a fabulous conference that I attended in Sante Fe put on by the Slow Money Institute, which brought together food entrepreneurs, NGO leaders, farmers, and investors committed to financing local food syste...
- Nine green limits to live safely on planet earth on Sep 25, 2009 in ozone depletion climate change chemical pollution planetary boundaries biodiversity
A group of 28 world renowned scientists released a ground breaking report this week outlining nine key "planetary boundaries" that humans must not cross if we are to avoid catastrophic environmental change. The bad news is that we have already crosse...
