Cultivating the Web: High Tech Tools for the Sustainable Food Movement

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Cultivating the Web:
High Tech Tools for the Sustainable Food Movement
Published by the Eat Well Guide, 2008.

"Cultivating the Web: High Tech Tools for the Sustainable Food Movement  was created by the folks at Eat Well Guide (EWG) and they will be distributing 20,000 copies of the book at Slow Food Nation, the four-day gathering planned for Labor Day weekend in San Francisco where tens of thousands of citizens will come together to set a national agenda for a secure, sustainable food future.

As Eat Well Guide director Destin Layne put it, “Although it may seem the most unlikely of catalysts, digital technology is jogging our memories of real food and agrarian culture. We may be going back to the land, but lots of us are bringing our smart phones and laptops along.”

In Cultivating the Web, leading environmentalist and prize winning author Bill McKibben (The End of Nature, Deep Economy) notes, “It is undeniably odd and lovely that among the most important parts of our food system — a little behind rain and sun and seed — are the new digital tools that allow us to bypass the big advertisers, the mega-chains, the junk peddlers, and instead find all the other people growing, processing, cooking and eating actual, delicious food.”

Illustrating the very digital virtues it documents, Cultivating the Web will live on the Eat Well Guide website (www.eatwellguide.org), where it will be maintained as an up-to-date resource for everyone working to promote a future of good, local, sustainable food for all."
 
 

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