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Eco Etiquette: Being Black In The Green World

Jennifer Grayson | Posted 05.14.2012 | Green
Read More: Food Stamps, Pollution and Asthma, Antonio Villaraigosa, Green Advice, African American Issues, Urban Environmentalists, Broccoli City, Eco Etiquette, Green Living, Green Movement, Brandon McEachern, White Environmentalists, Van Jones, Hip-Hop Culture, Food Deserts, Green News
Jennifer Grayson

Send all your eco-inquiries to Jennifer Grayson at eco.etiquette@gmail.com. Questions may be edited for length and clarity. Hope you don't take offen...

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Public-private Partnership in California Tackles Obesity, Hunger Epidemics

Araceli Ruano | Posted 04.22.2012 | Impact
Read More: Michelle Obama, Hunger, Obesity, The California Endowment, California Freshworks Fund, Healthy Eating, Healthy Food, Food Insecurity, Michelle Obama Food, Food, California Food Deserts, Food Deserts, Impact News
Araceli Ruano

California's Freshworks Fund serves as a model for an innovative public-private partnership loan fund with the potential to increase access to healthy and affordable food throughout the state.

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Want to Reduce Food Access While Killing Jobs? Open a Walmart

Michele Simon | Posted 03.19.2012 | Home
Read More: Jobs, Walmart, Workers, Food Access, Food Deserts, Food Politics, Home News
Michele Simon

I shudder to think of the consequences to America's already suffering urban populations if Walmart succeeds in duplicating its rural retail takeover.

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Alice Hines

Dollar Stores' Cheap Food Expansion Hits Not-In-My-Backyard Neighbors

HuffingtonPost.com | Alice Hines | Posted 01.11.2012 | Business
Read More: Family Dollar, Processed Food, Health Risks, Dollar Tree, Dollar Store, Dollar Store Earnings, Dollar General, Germantown, Food Deserts, Business News

With food prices rising and incomes going nowhere, dollar stores are thriving, luring squeezed customers -- many from the middle class -- with discoun...

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Wal-Mart's Coming to Town

Nick Wiseman | Posted 02.01.2012 | DC
Read More: Food Access, Washington DC, First Lady, Michelle Obama, DC Central Kitchen, Wal-Mart, Dc, Healthy Corners, Dc Impact, Food Deserts, DC News
Nick Wiseman

For Wal-Mart to grow, it has to turn to urban areas. Not because of some moral epiphany, but because of the bottom line. The "food deserts" Wal-Mart wants to occupy lie on top of deep reserves of customers.

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Finding More Purpose in Food

Cathy Erway | Posted 02.01.2012 | Home
Read More: Nutritious Food, Food Safety, Health Foods, Food Safety Modernization Act, Cooking Healthy, Healthy Cooking, Food Security, Food Deserts, Home News
Cathy Erway

When is a soup not a soup, in my humble opinion? I would say when it's made with dehydrated crystals of vegetable, meat, and monosodium glutamate, in a packet or bouillon cube.

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D.C. Central Kitchen Video Shows Off Its Healthy Corners Program (VIDEO)

The Huffington Post | Posted 11.16.2011 | DC
Read More: Department of Agriculture, DC News, Video, District of Columbia, Dc Impact, Healthy Corners, D.C. Hunger Solutions, Usda, D.C. Central Kitchen, Food Deserts, DC News

WASHINGTON -- Earlier this summer, D.C. Central Kitchen launched its Healthy Corners program, which provides corner stores with low-cost fresh fruit a...

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New Law Will Increase Access to Healthy California Foods

John A. Perez | Posted 12.26.2011 | Los Angeles
Read More: California Assembly, Food Deserts, California Agriculture, California Public Health, California Health Food Access, Health Food, American Food Deserts, California Food Deserts, Los Angeles News
John A. Perez

California's nutritional shortcomings extend beyond that of trans fat and caloric challenges, and into the disturbing realm of simple access to affordable, healthy food options.

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Michelle Obama Reveals Cookbook Plans

Posted 12.25.2011 | Home
Read More: Let's Move, Michelle Obama Cookbook, Michelle Obama Food Deserts, Michelle Obama Let's Move, American Grown, Michelle Obama, Video, Michelle Obama American Grown, Food Deserts, Home News

Michelle Obama may not be a chef, but we have a feeling that it won't matter. Michelle Obama's first cookbook, American Grown: How the White House Kit...

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Reports: Chicago Food Deserts Down 40 Percent

Posted 12.24.2011 | Chicago
Read More: Michelle Obama, Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, Chicago Farmers Markets, Food Stamps Program, Michelle Obama Fundraiser Chicago, Chicago Urban Farming, Food Stamps, Rahm Emanuel, Urban Farming, Farmers Markets, Chicago Food Deserts, Mari Gallagher, Snap, Mari Gallagher Food Deserts, Michelle Obama Chicago, Food Deserts, Chicago News

With First Lady Michelle Obama slated to appear in Chicago Tuesday for a fundraising event focused on addressing the city's food desert problem, a lea...

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In Light Of World Food Day, Help Fight Hunger In Your Own Backyard

Enid Borden | Posted 12.17.2011 | Impact
Read More: Hunger, Nutrition, Food Prices, Food Insecurity, Food Deserts, Food Swamps, Hunger in America, Meals on Wheels, Poverty, Senior-Hunger, Meals on Wheels Association of America, Enid Borden, National Resource Center on Nutrition and Aging, World Food Day, Fao, Impact News
Enid Borden

I always thought it was true, but it is appalling to see it for oneself. In my hands were two grocery items - one snack-sized cream filled yellow ca...

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Fishing on the Anacostia

Nick Wiseman | Posted 12.06.2011 | DC
Read More: Anacostia Restoration Plan, Anacostia River, Forgotten River, DC Real Estate, Washington Nationals New Stadium, Food Deserts, Anacostia River Cleanup Fund, DC News
Nick Wiseman

Not since the Anacostan Indians canoed these waters in the 17th century has there been such an upsurge in subsistence fishing. Some of D.C.'s poorest neighborhoods flank the river -- food deserts without access to healthy food.

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Can Walmart Solve America's 'Food Desert' Problem?

The Nation | Posted 11.18.2011 | Home
Read More: Walmart, Groceries, Nutrition, Obesity Epidemic, Grocery Stores, Walmart Fresh Food, Obesity, America Obesity, Food Deserts, Home News

On a map of “food deserts” in Chicago, a red bow-tie-shaped splotch covers parts of Englewood, a historically working-class neighborhood on the So...

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Kia Makarechi

Taking Aim At Low-Quality Food

HuffingtonPost.com | Kia Makarechi | Posted 10.31.2011 | Impact
Read More: Healthy Food, Local Groceries, Urban Food Program, Sanson, Fresh Food, Good News, Food Deserts, Home Food Delivery, Case Western University, Organic Food, Local Food, Huffpost Greatest Person of the Day, Ian Wong, Cleveland, Food Delivery, Greatest-Person-of-the-Day, Case Western Reserve University, Freshbag, Impact News

You'd think an M.D./Ph.D. student at competitive medical schools would have his hands full with school, but Ian Wong isn't waiting until he's practici...

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Do You Live in a Food Desert?

Bill Davenhall | Posted 10.29.2011 | Healthy Living
Read More: Healthy Living Body, Local Food, Access to Healthy Food, Nutrition, Grocery Shopping Health, Usda, Healthy Food Access, Food Deserts, Healthy Living News
Bill Davenhall

If physical proximity to a grocery store (stocked with wholesome foods) is critical to getting and staying healthy, then it is crucial for us to find a way to be assured that grocery stores are located within easy reach -- both physically and financially.

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The Must-Have School Supply for Girls: Educational Access

K. Sujata | Posted 10.10.2011 | Chicago
Read More: Girls, Literacy, Education, Poverty, Rape, High Poverty Schools, Dating Violence, Teen Pregnancy, Chicago Food Deserts, Illinois Dream Act, Girls Education, School Bullying, Food Deserts, Chicago Impact, Chicago News
K. Sujata

Back-to-school chatter is already building in Chicago. However, in the discussion of education reform and politicking, one facet is missing: access.

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A Mobile Strategy for America's Eating Problem

Laurie M. Tisch | Posted 10.04.2011 | New York
Read More: Walgreens, Walmart, Nutritious Food, Michelle Obama, Food Stamps, Supervalu, Nutrition, Food Assistance, Ny Impact, Feeding America, Fresh Produce, Green Carts, Obesity, Food Deserts, New York News
Laurie M. Tisch

Rather than going hungry, millions of Americans are turning to calorie-dense fast food that won't break the bank. But programs that bring affordable, wholesome foods to neighborhoods that crave them are popping up everywhere.

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Walmart's Food Deserts: Greening the Bottom Line

Eric Holt Gimenez | Posted 09.27.2011 | Home
Read More: Healthy Food, Fresh Food Financing Initiative, Walmart, Food Justice, Michelle Obama, Walmart Unions, Food Deserts, Walmart Food, Food Deserts Walmart, Food Desert Walmart, Home News
Eric Holt Gimenez

Campaigns across the country are underway to pressure the promised 1,500 Walmarts, SUPERVALUs and Walgreens to hire full-time employees from the neighborhoods they serve, sign labor peace agreements, and pay living wages.

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Wal-Mart Opens First City's 'Express' Store

Posted 09.26.2011 | Chicago
Read More: Walmart, Big Box Retailers, Chatham Chicago, Rahm Emanuel, Walmart Chicago, Walmart Expansion, Retail, Business, Chatham, Wal-Mart, Food Deserts, Retail Chains, Chicago News

With the opening of the chain's first-ever 10,000-square-foot store in Chicago's Chatham neighborhood Wednesday, Wal-Mart officially launched the firs...

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Bringing Healthy Foods to Food Deserts

April D. Ryan | Posted 09.20.2011 | Politics
Read More: Michelle Obama, Food Deserts, Wendell Pierce, Politics News
April D. Ryan

Actor and activist Wendell Pierce is heeding First Lady Michelle Obama's call to prevent food deserts across the nation. Private equity entwined with...

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City Greenlights $7M TIF For Upscale Greektown Grocer

Posted 09.12.2011 | Chicago
Read More: Mariano's Fresh Market, Chicago Business, Tif Reform, Tax Increment Financing Districts, Rahm Emanuel, Tifs, Food Deserts, Chicago News

On Tuesday, the city's Community Development Commission approved a $7 million public subsidy, through the city's controversial tax increment financing...

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Report: Illinois's Obesity Rate Continues Steady Climb

Posted 09.06.2011 | Chicago
Read More: Skinniest States, Illinois Obesity, Fattest States, Food Access, Health, Exercise, Obesity Report, Illinois, State Obesity Rankings, F as in Fat, Child Obesity, Food Deserts, Chicago News

Per a report published Thursday by the Trust for America's Health and the Robert Woods Johnson Foundation, adults in Illinois are among those in 16 st...

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Rahm Emanuel's 40 Days in the Desert

Al Norman | Posted 08.19.2011 | Business
Read More: University of Illinois, Mayor Richard M. Daley, Loyola University, Moses, Mayor Rahm Emanuel, Wal-Mart Express, Food Deserts, Canaan, Business News
Al Norman

Just as Moses never reached Canaan, Mayor Emanuel may never emerge from the food desert if he keeps having visions of Wal-Mart as the promised land.

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Will Guzzardi

PHOTOS: Grocery Store On Wheels Offers A Fresh Take On Food Deserts

HuffingtonPost.com | Will Guzzardi | Posted 08.16.2011 | Chicago
Read More: Fresh Moves, Mobile Grocery Store, Fresh Moves Mobile Grocery, Mobile Produce, S, Chicago, Chicago Food Deserts, Illinois, Good News, Chicago Impact, Fresh Moves Bus, Grocery Store Bus, Food Deserts, Chicago News

In a move that exemplified Rahm Emanuel's approach to Chicago's most intractable problems, the city's new mayor sat down on Wednesday with the leaders...

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Are Mobile Groceries The Solution For Food Deserts?

Posted 07.16.2011 | Home
Read More: Mobile Food Groceries, Food Truck, Truck Farm, Mobile Food Grocery, Food Desert, Mobile Food, Food Deserts, Food Trucks, Home News

A food desert is defined as an area where food is non-existent, not healthy or too expensive. The government recently released a food desert locator a...

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