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Santa Monica Seascape (Spring 2012 Edition)
We have a new tool to put fresh, locally-grown food at your fingertips – the Eat Well Guide ® is a free online directory for anyone in search of healthier, locally-grown and sustainably-produced food in the United States and Canada. The Eat Well Guide creates local connections between consumers and producers of fresh, sustainable food to increase access to healthy food, expose unjust and unsustainable food production practices and expand markets for small-scale farmers and other socially responsible food producers. The Guide has over 50 listings in Santa Monica, including restaurants, farmers markets, stores, coffee shops, and more. Users can search the online directory by keyword, category or product to find good food and download customized guides. If you’re headed outside of Santa Monica, you can plan a trip with their innovative mapping tool, Eat Well Everywhere. Visit www.eatwellguide.org or www.eatwellguide.org/mobile to begin eating better – it’s never been easier! If you know of a food provider that should be listed in the Guide, contact the Office of Sustainability and the Environment at 310.458.2213 or submit the listing directly to Eat Well Guide.
9 Sites that Measure Companies' Social ResponsibilityMashable Business (October 25, 2011)
Applications that measure the corporate social responsibility, or CSR, of a company take many forms. Some websites crowdsource opinions and facts on companies, while other sites use their own set of metrics to gauge social good. Still others rely on the Global Reporting Index, which formalized and mainstreamed disclosure on environmental, social and governance performance more than a decade ago. With additional input from Martin Smith, founder of JustMeans and StartingBloc, below are the tools that stand out among the rest, along with five issue-specific resources that can assist you with purchasing decisions.
Eat Well Guide (Food): The Eat Well Guide is an online directory of fresh, local, and sustainable food in the U.S. and Canada including farmers’ markets, restaurants, grocery stores, family farms and more.
5 Ways to Connect to the Local Food Movement Online
Mashable Business (October 16, 2011)
If you're looking for locally grown food, but don't know where to start looking in your area, Eat Well Guide is the resource for you. The site is a database of farms, stores, restaurants, bakers and butchers in the U.S. and Canada. Check out the site's interactive mapping feature to visualize sources for locally grown, sustainable food. While the site maintains standards for inclusion, it relies on users to submit locations where they buy or sell food that fits its criteria.
Eat Local, Win Concert Tickets Food & Wine (June 10, 2010)
Scoring concert tickets by eating locally almost seems too easy. But the Boston alt-pop band Guster is challenging fans to use the Eat Well Guide to find and eat at least one meal using local, sustainably raised food; upload a photo of the meal as proof; and have a chance to win an ultimate-access pass to Live Nation-sponsored concerts in either the Comcast Center in Mansfield, MA, or Shoreline Amphitheatre in Mountain View, CA.
Eat Local, Like a Rock Star, Guster's Gardner Says
Planet Green (June 8, 2010)
For a nice play on words, Adam Gardner is supporting gardening this week. Sort of. Gardner, frontman for the alt rock band Guster, is challenging fans to eat local food at least once a day for the next seven days. No, not from a local fast food joint. We're talking about locally grown food. The deadline is noon Eastern on Friday, June 18. So get eatin'. You can use the Eat Well Guide to find locally produced and organic food in your community.
Eat Well Guide Helps You Eat Local, like Guster Treehugger (June 8, 2010)
Guster guitarist-singer Adam Gardner is challenging folks to eat local at least once a day for a week, then snap a picture, upload it, and vie for two Live Nation passes, and a chance to win a Honda Insight Hybrid.What's behind Door No. 2? The Eat Well Guide, which can help you find that local food.
Best Green Blogs of 2010Viewpoints (June 3, 2010)
The Green Fork is the blog extension of the Eat Well Guide, which lists thousands of resources for green foodies, in addition to downloadable customized guides and trip planning tools with maps.
The Groaning Table: Try a side of politics with your next mealSierra Club (March 2009)
"Eat Well Guide maintains a huge online database of where to find sustainable food that is searchable by zip code. The site also has a blog, Green Fork, that offers tips, news, recipes, and commentary."
Blaze a "Sun Food" Trail to the InaugurationThe Huffington Post (January 17, 2009)
"Whether you're heading out from the heartland--or the bi-coastal "arugula belt"--the EWG's interactive mapping tool, Eat Well Everywhere, lets you print out your own ready-to-roll, customized "eat-inerary" with directions to the shops, co-ops, restaurants, farmers markets and even B & B's along your route that feature locally grown fruits, veggies, pastured animal products and all the other good stuff you can't find at conventional roadside restaurants."
Take the Local, Organic Thanksgiving Challenge Planet Green (November 19, 2008)
"Chefs Alice Waters, Dan Barber, and Mario Batali [have] teamed up with Consumers Union and the Eat Well Guide to create the Thanksgiving Local and Organic Food Challenge."
Green Your Thanksgiving: Seasonal IngredientsSierra Club (November 17, 2008)
"The Thanksgiving meal lends itself nicely to seasonal foods, so opt for sustainable, local and organic ingredients. Find humanely raised turkeys using the Eat Well Guide, or try a heritage bird. Stock up on your root vegetables at local farmers' markets and produce stands."
Finding the Best, Local Food Near You Just Got Easier AlterNet (November 15, 2008)
"In reality, the site is as organic as the food it advocates. It is constantly changing each day, with updates and new entries from the site's readers and partners. It is also growing, with each new farmers market or locally rooted business that is able to connect to people seeking out exactly what they are producing. And, like a healthy garden, it thrives on diversity."
Make One Local Dish This Thanksgiving The Daily Green (November 14, 2008)
"Consumers Union and Eat Well Guide have teamed up to launch the Thanksgiving Local and Organic Food Challenge. Are you up to the task? The groups have made it easy to either enter your zipcode to find a local ingredient, or you can search the recipe database if you know what you want to work with."
Time to Mothball the Butterball! The Huffington Post (November 13, 2008)
"And by partnering with The Eat Well Guide, Consumers Union makes it supremely easy for you to participate. There's no need to embark on a marathon foraging expedition to hunt down organic cranberries or locally grown squash, because the Eat Well Guide's comprehensive online tool does the searching for you--you just have to do the gathering!"
A Delicious RevolutionO, The Oprah Magazine (September 2008)
"Whether you are a farmer or a farm-stand shopper, there are hundreds of remarkable organizations and resources to help you make smart, sustainable choices. Here are a few. For the best local sources of grass-fed beef or organic produce, check out LocalHarvest (LocalHarvest.org) and the Eat Well Guide (EatWellGuide.org)."
Eat Well Guide Shares High Tech Tools for the Sustainable Food MovementTreeHugger (August 28, 2008)
"We’re overjoyed to see Eat Well Guide’s growth from a seedling as a search engine for sustainably raised meat to a mature fruit bearing tree eager to share it’s bounty."
The Fast Track To Slow FoodThe Huffington Post (August 21, 2008)
"Anyone who travels knows how incredibly hard it can be to find healthy eating options on the road; now, the Eat Well Guide is also launching a new interactive mapping tool, Eat Well Everywhere (EWE), to help you locate fresh, local foods wherever you go."
Announcing Eat Well Everyhwere: Hungry For ChangeParticipant Media Productions (August 21, 2008)
"This downloadable guide has online tools, websites, tips and strategies on how to effectively use the web to support agrarian efforts. One of the chapters is called 'A Flickr of Hope' - brilliant!!"
A Modest Proposal for Sustainable EatingSan Francisco Chronicle (August 17, 2008)
"Here is a list of top resources for finding out more about food issues - and finding food. The Eat Well Guide is a free online directory of thousands of family farms, restaurants, markets and other outlets for fresh, locally grown food throughout the United States and Canada (eatwellguide.org)."
Women's Health 100 Best WebsitesWomen's Health (July 2008)
22. EAT LOCAL: eatwellguide.com. "Search by zip code to find restaurants and stores—from Whole Foods to little farm stands—that sell locally produced eats."
Learn More About Eating GreenPlanet Green (May 6, 2008)
"Good: A locally grown tomato. Better: A locally grown heirloom tomato. Why? Not only are they tastier, they help preserve biodiversity. This little factoid is an example of what you can find on the Green Fork, a new blog aimed at supplying the information you need to eat green."
Eating and Traveling VegetarianWall Street Journal (March 11, 2008)
"Though not strictly for vegetarians, eatwellguide.org lists restaurants, farms and stores offering local, sustainable and organic food nationwide."
4 Best Web Tools to Help you Eat LocalThe Daily Green (January 4, 2008)
"If you're not sure if those grapes you're eating have sailed from Chile to California and then trucked their way to your favorite downtown eatery—check out the Eat Well Guide."
