published February 12, 2011 and has No Comments
Photo: Clean Metrics In the past it's been difficult to dig to the bottom of your diet's carbon footprint. It's difficult to include all the data behind food production and transport in one calculator. While various carbon footprint calculators can give you a vague idea of your diet's footprint, finding very specific information becomes more difficult. Until now. Clean ...
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published September 6, 2010 and has No Comments
Image credit: Roddas From the very beginning, TreeHugger has been a huge advocate for local food . Ever since Time Magazine declared that local food was going mainstream back in 2007, there's been a steady stream of retailers and restaurateurs getting in on the locavore bandwagon . Heck, we even have
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published August 22, 2010 and has No Comments
photo: Sara Novak Yesterday's piece on salmonella shown a pretty negative shadow on our nation's egg producing industry. The recent salmonella outbreak is a clear example of the downfalls of an out of control globalized food system. But the picture isn't all grim. As a farm-to-fork trend further gains momentum across the nation, there's certainly a light at the ...
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published August 21, 2010 and has No Comments
photo: Sara Novak You've likely heard about the latest salmonella scare . This time it revolves around eggs, 550 billion of them in all . Nearly 2,000 people in 17 states have already gotten sick as a result of the recent outbreak. Experts are saying that the outbreak is caused by rodents or tainted feed. But what exactly is ...
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published August 2, 2010 and has No Comments
photo: Fredrik Brauer Around the world, master chefs have long been the face of sustainable eating. After all, sustainably-sourced food tends to be better for you and tastier . From waking up at the crack of dawn to hit the fish market, to hand-picking heirloom produce, chefs understand that their menus are only as good as their ingredients. The ...
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published July 21, 2010 and has No Comments
Photo via Thomas Cheng A picture is worth a thousand words. How can we grab people's attention, and get them to eat more local food? Yes, local food -- because it is healthier, slashes food's carbon footprint, and makes you savour the seasons again. Advertising agencies around the world have launched some truly smart marketing campaigns to educate people ...
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published July 17, 2010 and has No Comments
photo: filmmij We've discussed the idea of turning vacant lots of a deserted Detroit into vibrant farms. After all, with a population that's decreased by 50 percent since the 1950's , we have to find use for all the available space. But a new documentary by Mascha Poppenk called Grown in Detroit
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published July 1, 2010 and has No Comments
Image credit: Good.is Baltimore is a set beset by "food deserts"—vast urban areas without access to anything but fast food, snack cakes, bags of chips, and soda. The city is not unique in it's situation—cities across the country face the same problem—but it is one of the first in the country to make a serious effort to address the ...
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published May 28, 2010 and has No Comments
Image via Local Dirt Buying food locally is a fast way to shed pounds...of carbon, anyway. By cutting down food miles, you're cutting back on the embodied carbon in the food, as well as helping out local growers. But if you don't have a farmers' market nearby or can't make it on a weekly basis, how else might you ...
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published May 27, 2010 and has No Comments
Image credit: The Kitchn Now that's what I'm talking about! Only yesterday I was musing over how sustainability has to be more interesting than business as usual if we are going to get out of the mess we have created. So I was delighted to discover an article over at The Guardian about why saving the... Read the full ...
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