Beth began her writing career in second grade when she won her first writing contest with her essay entitled "If I Were President, Bubblegum Would Be Free and Taxes Would Go Up (So Teachers Could Get More Money)."

Clearly not destined for a career in politics, Beth has focused her talents on creative writing, education, and curricula development.

There's a developing movement in the United States today concerning the food industry. Books are filling shelves on the value of fresh foods and breaking away from the mass production model. Organic produce is showing up in all kinds of stores, including Walmart. There's also two new movies out on the subject, Food, Inc. and FRESH. So, what does the Glocal Family think of all this, plus an interview with Door to Door Organics.

Door to Door Organics delivers fresh organic produce and groceries throughout Colorado, Michigan, and the East Coast. This week, we were thankful to have the companies new president, Chad Arnold join us for an interview.

This week Joe and Anita talk about something better than recycling ... reusing! That's right, we explore how get the most benefit out of existing resources, before we ship them off to become something else.

Along the way we talk about why reusing beats recycling, have an interview with Zwaggle founder Adam Levy, and share a few of the ways we reuse in our home, including the introduction of a tip that makes use of all those tiny bits of crayon.

Zwaggle is a national network (sorry non-US folk) of parents who have come together to share ... well, at least that's how it started out, because if you visit the site now, you'll find that there are plenty of non-parenting items exchanging hands through zoints, the sites official currency.

In this interview, Joe sits down with Zwaggle founder Adam Levy and talks about the site, how it came about, and how you can maximize resources through Zwaggle.

This week, Joe and Anita finally get back to the second part of their expanding your mind series (click here for part 1). They have an interesting interview with Crystal from Couch Surfing, one where's Joe's brain must have been couch surfing at the time of recording, they talk about books religion, and politics, and they encourage you to get social on the Glocal Family website. All that and more, this week, on the Glocal Family Podcast.

A few weeks back we planned to air our initial interview with Crystal Murphy the week after our Expanding Your Mind (Part 1) episode. Unfortunately, the audio files were somehow deleted and we frantically put together the discombobulated You Are What You Eat episode.