Tag: Mexico

  • Mexican Artisans Collaborate with Adidas to Celebrate Sports

    Mexican Artisans Collaborate with Adidas to Celebrate Sports

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    Although industrialization is efficient and clearly necessary to meet the needs of large populations, what is lost in mass-produced objects is the soul, artistry and unique style of the craftsman. So I was heartened when I came across a piece about Adidas’ collaboration with Mexican artisans to “create stunning pieces that celebrate both traditional Latin…

  • Meet Deborah Szekely, a 91-Year-Old Wellness Warrior

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    Reposted from The Atlantic The nonagenarian just started her “project for the next decade.” EMMA GREEN Organic food may be a fad of the 21st century, but Deborah Szekely, 91, has been organic farming since 1930. In her nine decades of life, she has run for Congress, managed a federal agency, and served as a…

  • Farm Workers Get Help To Be Their Own Boss

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    Kirk Siegler featured a piece on ALBA Organics on Morning Edition at NPR.  You can go here for the broadcast.  Although ALBA concedes that not everyone will make it, this still gives migrant farm workers an opportunity to become their own boss.  Here’s an excerpt from the story: Northern California’s Salinas Valley is often dubbed…

  • Western-Style Diet Makes Mexicans Sick

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    In Civil Eats, Judy Bankman writes about the nutritional transition that Mexico has made from a healthy natural foods diet to a “western style” diet of high protein, high sugar and highly processed food. On a visit to southern Mexico in 2008, I was shocked to see Coca-Cola billboards dotting rural highways, and roadside tiendas selling bottles of…

  • Become a WWOOFer and Travel The World For Next to Nothing

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    WWOOF — an acronym for Worldwide Opportunities on Organic Farms — offers you a way to travel the world for next to nothing. (Normally, you pay only to get there.) At the organization’s website, you can search the database of organic farms around the world to see who’s looking for someone to help out. WWOOF hosts are those…