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Thumbs up for Stirling school meals

30 May 2012

Stirling Council in Scotland has been awarded the prestigious bronze Food for Life Catering Mark form the Soil Association for serving fresh and healthy meals in 37 primary schools. This guarantees that all 2,000 meals served every weekday are fresh...

‘The path not taken’: self-government, community and the ‘freedom’ school at the Peckham Health Centre (1935-1950)

30 May 2012

Emily Charkin explores the Pioneer Health Centre’s ‘free school’, which was open between 1947 and 1950, and examines how the school was an expression of the Centre’s aim of empowering communities and a core belief in the innate capacity of children ...

The Limits to Girth: How our waistlines became a supersized model

30 May 2012

In this essay Molly Conisbee explores the ideological assumptions of continual growth that drive so much of our political and economic policy, and argues that the obesity epidemic we have seen in recent years serves as a symptom of what is wrong wit...

Food for Life Catering Mark helps University of Greenwich to highest ever Green League score

30 May 2012

The University of Greenwich, which has been awarded the Soil Association's bronze Food for Life Catering Mark across all of its catering services, has become the newest name at the top of The People and Planet Green League. Awarded 55 out of a possi...

The Future is Biology

30 May 2012

Rob Richmond looks at current organic farming practice and argues that it needs to concentrate on biology rather than chemistry (in the form of soil nitrogen availability) if we are to ensure that organic farming really can be a true alternative to ...

Sir Albert Howard on artificial manures

30 May 2012

In this article Charles Dowding examines Albert Howard's 1940 book An Agricultural Testament, which was the first articulation in print of the urgent need for a healthy soil.

Feeding the future: How organic farming can help feed the world

30 May 2012

This Soil Association report explores whether just increasing production is the answer to the problem of 'feeding the world'; as we already produce more than enough food to feed the world comfortably, yet one billion people go hungry. Or do we need ...

Design a t-shirt competition

18 May 2012

Can you design a slogan or logo to be printed on our newest T-shirts?

Organic volunteers wanted - Oxfordshire

18 May 2012

Coleshill Organics are actively seeking volunteers with a commitment to growing organically and a desire to learn as much as possible about the process.

VIBES Awards 2012

17 May 2012

Search begins for Scotland's leading green businesses
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