Meme Watch: The Hundred Mile Holiday

TreeHugger — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 14:23:51 +0000

Within a hundred miles of home Four years ago the Tyee published an article by Alisa Smith and J.B. MacKinnon called Living on the 100-Mile Diet; it became a meme, a successful book and a television show. Now the Tyee is in the meme biz again, with the Hundred Mile Holiday which sounds a lot less ugly and more fun that "Staycation." Nick Smith explains:

try convincing your friends that your "tourist in your own city" plans are exciting afte...Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Meme Watch: The Hundred Mile Holiday

Huffington Post Mashes Local Food with Community Participation

TreeHugger — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 20:27:20 +0000

As Bonnie wrote last year, "Seasonal restaurants are all the rage, and they should be at this time of the year. With fresh from the field vegetables and fruits available on an hourly basis, chefs are featuring recipes on their menus that take advantage of these ingredients." Also all the rage are social media and community participation. So over at Huffington Post they are trying out what they call their "first citizen journalism mapping project." Forget the Red State/ Blue State stuff for a change; we are talkin...Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Huffington Post Mashes Local Food with Community Participation

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Meme Watch: The Hundred Mile Holiday

Huffington Post Mashes Local Food with Community Participation