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Slow Food Nation: The plus-side of high gas prices

Posted on September 03, 2008

By Russ WalkerAdmit it, climate change is the kind of problem that leaves you wondering, What the heck can any one person do about it? That's exactly how Patrick Holden said he felt about it during the Climate Change and Food panel discussion last week at the Slow Food Nation conference in San Francisco. Holden has been an organic farmer for 30 years, and in his spare time runs Britain's Soil Association, which makes and enforces organic standards in the U.K. Holden's feeling about global warming changed, he said, when the concrete reality of high energy prices came crashing down on ...

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britain , carbon , climate change , global warming