published January 23, 2011 and has No Comments
Image: http://www.flickr.com/photos/young-in-panama/119624720/"> Young in Panama The ACS' science journal Langmuir has published a paper describing a breakthrough in sonochemical coating of paper by microbiocidal silver nanoparticles . We picked up on the dramatic moniker "killer paper" over at
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published January 20, 2011 and has No Comments
Image: Walmart With Michelle Obama there to applaud and promote the effort, Walmart announced a plan this morning to bolster healthy foods by reducing the sugar, sodium and fat content in its packaged foods, lowering fruit and vegetable prices, working with suppliers to lower prices of healthier products, and fighting food deserts around the country.... Read the full story ...
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published December 29, 2010 and has No Comments
Image: Popsop.com Pepsi is rolling out a new product next month: Tropolis , a drinkable snack. It's marketing its Tropolis "smooth blend of real squeezable fruit" to moms and kids, apparently to replace the role of actual fruit. Why is this not the greatest idea ever?... Read the full story on TreeHugger
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published October 29, 2010 and has No Comments
In wealthier NYC neighborhoods, bodegas often stock a wide range of healthy produce, but in poorer areas your options are generally limited to four food groups: Sugary, highly processed, alcohol and tobacco. Photo: Paul Lowry / Creative Commons . The phenomenon of healthy food deserts existing in America's poor communities is well documented. In New York City, Grow... Read ...
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published October 22, 2010 and has No Comments
Image: Institute for Southern Studies Pacific Tomato Growers, one of the largest tomato producers in the U.S., agreed last week to a penny-per-pound wage increase for the people who work the tomato fields. Some of the country's biggest tomato buyers, including McDonald's and Whole Foods, are on board, in a major victory for the Florida-based
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published September 9, 2010 and has No Comments
Image from Daily Mail There must be something in the air, or the soil, but monster vegetables keep popping up in Great (!) Britain. First we have potatoes, the world's biggest potato to be precise. It weighs a whopping 8lbs 4oz, that's 9oz more than the previous record holder. The amateur gardener who grew it thinks that it bear ...
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published September 3, 2010 and has No Comments
photo: Dave Parker via flickr In the tug of war over whether organic farming is really better than conventional chemical-laden farming, a new study in the online peer-reviewed journal PLoS One comes out solidly in support of the benefits of organic. Self-described as the most comprehensive study of its kind, researchers from Washington State University found that commercial organic ...
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published August 23, 2010 and has No Comments
Images by B. Alter: Would you rather shop here... Way back in 2007, TreeHugger Lloyd went to Loblaws, Canada's largest supermarket chain, looking for fresh local food in July and he found: cherries. It's three years later and things have changed--sort of. Now they have a little booth at the front of the store called "Grown Close to Home" ...
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published August 11, 2010 and has No Comments
Photos of the "mobile ethnic garden" via Christina Cho . Compared to learning a new language or traveling to another country, digging into a plate of Chinese greens or whipping up a spicy serving of salsa may seem like a superficial shortcut to cultural understanding. But food, and the rituals surrounding it, is often so close to the heart ...
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published August 10, 2010 and has No Comments
There's a myth that to eat healthily we must eat boring tasteless food. But there's fight on to persuade people that eating a balanced diet can be utterly delicious. Jamie Oliver has taken on the nutrition battle this year with his TED prize , Michael Pollan has published his entertaining
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