Organic Food!

I've written about the Farmers Market, which is renowned throughout the country as one of the top farmers markets to visit. This market only sells organic products, such as vegetables, fruits herbs and like so on. After a while I caught myself wondering whether or not I should explain what exactly is an organic product. I realized that even I didn't know what it is. Read the text above and get to know why this is important.

Healthy life is always assimilated into eating more fruits, vegetables, whole grains and good fat than fried and oiled food. It's very true, but how much can the quality of food influence your health and the environment? What's the difference between organic and conventionally grown foods?
Organic refers to the way that the food is grown. The organic crops must be grown in safe of oil, have no modifications. They must not use any kind of synthetic pesticide, bioengineered genes (GMOs), petroleum based fertilizers and sludge-based fertilizers.
The benefits of organic foods are more beneficial nutrients, like antioxidants. Also, people with some sort of allergy of food, chemicals, or preservatives often find their symptoms lessen or go away when they eat only organic food.
This kind of food is fresher, and the fruits and vegetables remain their original size and taste. It's grown using natural methods to control animals and insects that might eat and destroy the crop. It definitely takes longer to grow, and demands more people to work. However all this duble effort results in great health for you and for the environment.

Ferry Building Farmer Market!

Uau! What a big name to a post title! 

Ferry Plaza Farmers Market is a California certificated farmers market operated by Center for Urban Education about Sustainable Agriculture. This market is acclaimed not only for high quality of organic products, but also for diversity of them. 
The market offers many options of food, fruits, herbs, vegetables, flowers and like so on. Plus many of them have a certificated proving that they are organic food.
The farmer markets is open on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays at Ferry Building. On tuesdays and thursdays you can find the markets in front of the building. On saturdays, especially, the market includes local restaurants serving a variety of meals, as wood-fired pizza, sandwiches, grilled meats, and like so on. On tuesdays and thursdays it's open from 10am to 2pm. On saturdays, from 8am to 2pm.

The news is that now you can find it on Wednesdays, Fridays and Sundays at Civic Center! It's completely the same farmers market, but now in a different location and on other days! How amazing, huh?
The hours are a little bit different. Wednesdays it's from 7am to 5:30pm. On Fridays, 7am to 2:30pm and Sundays, 7am to 5pm.

More info:
http://www.ferrybuildingmarketplace.com/farmers_market.php
http://hocfarmersmarket.org/

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Green Technology!

In San Francisco some companies developed a solar system to save energy on bus stops. Designers created a special shelter, called "Seismic Wave", which has a wave on top. This wave is made with 40 percent of post-consumer recycled polycarbonate and can capture solar energy. The system not only produces energy for itself, but also gives back energy to grid. Up to 40 percent of all energy produced can be recycled back into the power grid. During the winter and in cloudy days the panels can work because the equipment just need sunlight (sunlight can go beyond the clouds). The new wave can generate up to 100 watts of electricity; this is more than enough to power high backlit information panels, NextBus and Push to Talk technologies.

I've never seen this technology in Brazil, nor have I seen in other part of the world.