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An Ecopedagogical Take on the New Dietary Guidelines: Why Food Guidance Fails Without Lived Context
The new U.S. dietary guidelines were released this week, and as expected, debate followed almost immediately. Arguments about saturated fat, meat consumption, plant-forward diets, and “nutrition wars” are everywhere. But beneath all of that noise is a quieter, more important question: Can population-level guidance ever stand in for lived context? What dietary guidelines do well and where they break down Dietary guidelines are built on population-level data . They are designed
Michaela Ensweiler
Jan 133 min read


Compost as Curriculum: What Soil Can Teach Us About Systems Thinking
“Nothing is waste, only misplaced potential.” There’s a quiet alchemy that happens when we stop trying to control the death and decay. When we let carrot tops, eggshells, and coffee grounds soften back into the earth, they whisper something we forget in classrooms and economies alike: nothing is waste, only misplaced potential. The Lesson Beneath Our Feet Compost is not just rot - it’s relation. Every pile tells a story of what we consume, what we discard, and what we imagine
Michaela Ensweiler
Nov 6, 20253 min read
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