Healthier food choices not only benefit people, but they can also have a positive impact on the environment. We share articles highlighting issues in the current food environment as well as articles about promising alternatives.
Old family cookbooks stuffed with all sorts of extra recipes clipped from newspapers, magazines, and even canned food labels are like a time machine back to our grandmothers and long-lost aunts. You never know what you will find in them!
Amidst growing concerns about future global food security, many people are thinking about sustainable ways to provide adequate protein for the world’s growing population. In their book, Sustainable Protein…
Who hasn’t cringed after coming home from a grocery shop to find that those expensive avocados we thought were going to be ripe and tasty turn out to be duds?…
This isn’t an article about what kind of cooking oil is healthiest for you. This is an article urging you to make sure that if you buy coconut oil,…
There are all kinds of beliefs wrapped up in a decision to pursue a vegetarian or vegan lifestyle. The attitudes vegetarians and vegans encounter from people around them can be…
A remarkable report by the independent think tank, RethinkX, predicts total collapse of the dairy and cattle industries within ten years as traditional dairy and beef products are replaced by…
If you’ve always done your best to dodge invitations to go in on a share (aka, subscription) to a CSA farm (community-supported agriculture), this might be the year you change…
Dr. David Tilman at the University of Minnesota has been at this for a while. He traced urbanization and income growth around the world between 1961 and 2009 and linked…
Taking stock of what’s in my pantry reminds me of how truly fortunate so many of us have been. Nationwide trucking, international produce imports, and refinements in freezing have…
The Guardian published an eye-opening article about the impact of America’s growing love for everything almond and the devastating impact it is having on the country’s honeybee population. Our consumption…
