Overheard at the Coffee Cart

"Freezing out there this morning, huh?"
"Yes, I need the coffee! Heard it's going to be in the 50s on Tuesday and Wednesday, though."
"Wow, that's strange."
"Well, it's global warming, you know."

I live in the Northeast, and I've heard and had this conversation more and more lately. Global warming has become the stuff of small talk, an attempt to cut a huge and terrifying reality down to size. We were standing in front of a coffee cart that serves one fair-trade certified flavor, out of a selection of six. Fair-trade certification ensures that a food is sustainably grown and harvested, and the farmers who produce it (usually in the Third World) are paid a fair price by the companies that buy it.

And in that juxtaposition, between the conversation and the coffee, lies the connection between global warming, the food we buy, the food we eat, the food we should be eating, and the food some of us can neither afford to buy nor eat. This blog exists to explain those connections.

I hope this little blog o'mine will serve as a jumping-off point for your own exploration into that interconnection, and interconnections of all kinds, and makes real change in your beliefs and behaviors. In realizing our interconnectedness lies our personal, political, and cultural salvation--and we need to pick up the pace.