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This interview features local social entrepreneur, Mary Wessel Walker, owner of the Community Farm Kitchen. Mary is in her early 20s, and started the Community Farm Kitchen when she saw a way to fill a social need: preparing meals for busy families from local and biodynamically grown food. A2ethics.org talked with Mary about her ideals and vision for the Community Farm Kitchen.

The Ypsilanti, Michigan water tower landmark. Is our food heritage also worth saving? 

Catharine Dann Roeber and Hanna Raskin, food "preservationists" and co-owners of American Table Culinary Tours join us at the Ann Arbor area's iconic Washtenaw Dairy for some donuts and a provocative discussion about food and its moral  role in our culture.

Working Ethics Series...Further Practical Ideas

At a2ethics.org, we have been trying to put in perspective our ramble through the community to talk with various 20 to 30 something locals and people who have left but still consider themselves locals to the Ann Arbor area. Here are some rambling thoughts intended to give some practical ideas to our friends and fellow a2ethics.org networkers.

Originally submitted by: jadelay

In Washtenaw County, we all know that education is our major industry. Michigan, Eastern Michigan, Washtenaw Community College, Concordia University, Cleary University are all options. Given the large number of education choices, why is college admissions so hypercompetitive? And when higher education degrees have become a ticket not just to the good life, but the ticket to a life that just allows you to make ends meet, the ethics of college admission take on a whole new importance.

A2ethics.org discusses how the photojournalist outsider becomes an insider in a community and the ethical problems becoming an insider can pose. Jack Bridges, a freelance photographer, spent over four years taking pictures of the residents of the Robert Taylor Homes, a public housing development in Chicago, while the city debated how to tear the Homes down.

Originally submitted by: jadelay

Originally submitted by: jadelay