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Project Open Hand's Blog http://site.openhandstore.org/blog Tue, 11 Nov 2008 22:04:46 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en F-Line Street Car Dedicated to Harvey Milk, former San Francisco City Supervisor Last week, Tom Nolan, POH Executive Director, in his role as SFMTA Vice-Chair, was at the dedication ceremony for the naming of an F-line street car dedicated to the late San Francisco City Supervisor Harvey Milk.  Milk was the first openly gay man to be elected to public office in ... http://site.openhandstore.org/blog/2008/11/11/f-line-street-car-dedicated-to-harvey-milk-former-san-francisco-city-supervisor/ Aging with AIDS The New York Times has an article up today discussing what it means when HIV/AIDS changes from a critical to a chronic disease: Today, because of antiretroviral therapy and an array of drugs to treat both symptoms and side effects, AIDS has become a chronic condition to be managed, at least ... http://site.openhandstore.org/blog/2008/11/11/aging-with-aids/ Eat Quinoa (and Go Vote)! So, um, there's some sort of big election going on and you might want to go excercise one of your most powerful rights and vote. Voted, yet? Good, now check out this short article on one of our favorite little wonder grains, quinoa. http://site.openhandstore.org/blog/2008/11/04/eat-quinoa-and-go-vote/ Dear Mr. President… Our favorite food write, Michael Pollan, has written an open letter to the next President regarding the state of the nation's food supply and what is to be done to save it, here's a sample:  But with a suddenness that has taken us all by surprise, the era of cheap and ... http://site.openhandstore.org/blog/2008/10/15/dear-mr-president/ Keeping tabs on Solar In June of 2007, Project Open Hand went live with our dual (electric/hot water) solar power array. Since that time, we have generated many megawatts of power and avoided the emission of many thousands of tons greenhouse gasses and now, you can monitor our solar progress right through your web ... http://site.openhandstore.org/blog/2008/10/09/keeping-tabs-on-solar/ We Are All Antaeus Somewhere around the 7th grade or so, there was a moment of learnin' that we actually enjoyed, when we learned about greek mythology, Hercules and a certain wrestler named Antaeus. It seems Antaeus was the most fearsome wrestler in all the land but he was powerless when his feet left ... http://site.openhandstore.org/blog/2008/10/08/we-are-all-antaeus/ Sugar by any other name… is still sugar. And high fructose corn syrup (HFCS) is sugar, two sugars in fact, glucose and fructose. Our favorite food columnist, Marion Nestle,has a great Q&A post on HFCS up at SFGate, today. You can read it, here. And for once, we can safely recommend you cruise the reader ... http://site.openhandstore.org/blog/2008/09/30/sugar-by-any-other-name/ How to eat? You'd think that one woulnd't need to ask but we are bombarded with different messages about what to eat and it can be confusing and even contradictory. And what to make of vitamin enriched water and anti-oxidant drinks? Marion Nestle has a new column up today and she has some ... http://site.openhandstore.org/blog/2008/09/16/how-to-eat/ What is Slow Food? The short answer is: the opposite of fast food but there's a lot wrapped up in that snappy response. Steven Winn does a nice job of unpacking the Slow Food agenda in this article from today's Chronicle.   http://site.openhandstore.org/blog/2008/08/29/what-is-slow-food/ Slow Food Comes to SF The Slow Food movement was formed as a direct response to the growth of fast food and the subsequent crowding out of traditional foods and food cultures. The movement was founded in Italy in 1986 by Carlo Petrini. Slow Food USA is coming to SF this weekend and we will be linking ... http://site.openhandstore.org/blog/2008/08/27/slow-food-comes-to-sf/