Embedded in America's soil, wind, and sun, we have the capacity to change. It will be the policy of my administration to reverse our dependence of foreign oil while creating a new energy economy that will create millions of jobs.
It’s time we built a high-speed rail system connecting Cleveland-Columbus-Cincinnati. It’s time we fund our transit systems to be strong competitors to the car. It’s time we invested in Complete Streets (like the Euclid Corridor). It’s time we fixed our potholes. It’s time we stopped building new highways to nowhere. It’s time we had a real conversation about investing in a transportation system that recognizes climate change, peak oil, and sustainable solutions.
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Becoming a "locavore"
Can we learn to eat bioregionally? It will mean eating more local foods in season, rather than foods shipped from halfway around the world.
This section will offer creative ways to prepare foods grown in our own region. Send us your recipes!
Resources
Northeast Ohio harvest guide
General tips for eating locally in winter
Eat Local Challenge
Locavores
Putting Food By, the classic book on preserving foods
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fresh food in restaurants at last
Susan Miller Says:Wonder where that lettuce leaf came from when you pay high dollar prices in local fancy restaurants? Well now there is a chance it may have come from a local farm.
Case Western Reserve quintet cooks up idea for a farm-to-table business
As I perused the PD online this morning and saw the persistent, "have you been to ____ (fill in the blank restaurant), I thought, Please, please tell me about a restaurant where I will be eating local produce. Well this is the answer. Good work guys!
Now in NEO, we can ask before we pay $8.00 for that small salad, "Is this produce local?" This is the way to support local agriculture in our region -- that is when you're eating out. My local grocer's produce guys do tend to tire from hearing me ask, "What's local today?"