Imagine if we could just EAT our enemies! I mean we’d end war AND famine. Not into cannibalism? No problem. For one very unassuming enemy, you don’t have to be. Check out what John Rosser, founder of Sustainatopia, and his gang are cooking up for the planet, and if you’re in the south Florida area April 19 – 25th, check out this Sustainatopia Super Event!

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Lion Eyes: Eat the Enemy  (w/REEF Foundation)

Native to the Indo-Pacific, lionfish are voracious eaters with no known natural predators in the Atlantic and the Caribbean. Spreading rapidly throughout the region, lionfish are consuming both fish and shrimp at unsustainable rates and unmitigated impacts are predicted to be severe.

The good news is that local control can be effective and that lionfish are great to eat: as they say in the Bahamas “eat ‘em to beat ‘em”.

Come enjoy delicious lionfish appetizers and an informational presentation about the lionfish invasion and what control  programs are being implemented throughout the region- led by Lad Akins, Director of Reef Environmental Education Foundation, and Alexa Elliott, Producer...

Ready to start fixing the food system, but don’t know where to start? ME TOO!

Here’s a great article from Grist with five fast food actions YOU can take NOW!

Why not kick things off with this list of easy, meaningful actions you can take right now — some without even leaving your computer screen.

Make yourself useful: Five food actions in five minutes

via Make yourself useful: Five food actions in five minutes | Grist.

Look at this awesome article I found!

Last week, scientists found evidence of a 300-million-year old forest below a coal mine in China. Now, remnants of an even older collection of trees and plants have been uncovered right here in New York. Researchers discovered the floor of a 385 million year old forest — believed to be the world’s oldest — while excavating a quarry upstate near the Gilboa Dam. The fossils and forest floor are so well preserved, scientists can see and study what looks to have been a complex ecosystem...

Believe it or not, you can actually grow vegetables in your own urban garden – even if you don’t have a yard.

If you’re a city gal like me, the only place you ever see vegetables is in the grocery store. When I first moved to Florida I was actually shocked that you could pull an avocado off a tree and eat it.

I’m not sure where I thought fruits and vegetables came from. I mean I knew they came from a farm somewhere in the middle of nowhere, but the idea of growing them in your backyard and actually eating what you grew was totally foreign to me.

Ten years later I’ve come to accept the idea that we can actually grow our own vegetables. I say “we” collectively of course. Not me personally.

Not only do I live in a townhome with no yard and sand for what little “yard” area there is, but I also am notorious for having a “black” thumb. Seriously, when I wanted to get all Feng Shui with my first office, I Googled “plants I can’t kill.”

True...

The fast-growing Walmart Neighborhood Stores, just another one of Walmart’s attempts at world domination, are sprouting up in communities across the country, claiming to be food system saviors, while they’re nothing more than wolves in sheep’s clothing.

A recent report from Food & Water Watch shows just how unrealistic these claims are.

With the massive consolidation of our food system devastating our soil, polluting our water, destroying family-owned farms and single-handedly disintegrating our physical and fiscal sustainability, who does Walmart think they’re kidding?

That’s why we have to occupy our food supply according a Huffington Post blog by Willie Nelson, founder and president of Farm Aid and fellow activist Anna Lappé.

And don’t even get me started on their sugar-coated claims of bringing in more jobs. Seriously? You mean the kinds of jobs that make nearly 20 percent less per hour than grocery store union workers? At least that’s the comparison according to this LA Times article.

And how is putting mom and pop operations out of business a boon to communities? Isn’t it strong small business sectors that have...