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POPSWe Are What We Eat part 2 Carlo Petrini, a charismatic Italian who writes about food and wine, started Slow Food with friends who shared his notion that leftist politics and gastronomic pleasure could be happily married. The international organization has grown to 86,000 members and become an industry in Petrini's hometown, Bra, Italy. There are Slow Food restaurants, a university and a hotel. You can buy a cashmere truffle-hunting vest embroidered with the Slow Food snail logo at the main office in Bra. The group's budget is about $39 million, and subsidized by the Italian government. Much of the organization's work involves identifying traditional foods, like Ethiopian white honey or Amalfi sfusato lemons, and designing ways to help the people who produce them. Its philosophy — that food is about much more than cooking and eating — is often hammered home by Petrini on his frequent trips around the world.
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POPSEnd of life care Helping people to confront the reality of death is rightly seen as one of the hospice movement’s biggest feats. But on this front too, it still has some way to go. Whether in the earthy, family-minded Mediterranean or the buttoned-up culture of the Teutonic world, men and women hesitate to contemplate the practical details of planning for a messy, protracted demise. Although talking about death is no longer a taboo, dementia and incontinence remain hard to discuss. Workers in palliative care across the world already talk to each other in a very down-to-earth way. But as Dr Lynn says,“we need to start telling the story” to the general public if the movement is to achieve another 40 years of success.
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POPSGlobal Giving GlobalGiving Green gives you the power to make a difference and control over where your money is being spent. Whether you choose to support one of GlobalGiving Green's charities, or use the Eco-mmunity Map to gain awareness of your part in the Earth's future, you can rest easy knowing that the world has gotten a little bit better.
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POPSJill Bolte Taylor: My stroke of insight You have to click the link to view. This was one of the most moving stories I have had the privilege of viewing. I am a a very BIG fan of TED for sometime now. It never ceases to amaze and educate in the most unusual and enlightening ways.
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