Eat Well Guide

Getting Time on Your Side

Caroline Dowd-Higgins | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Cell Phones, Humor, Time Management, Eat Well Guide, Swaps, Schedule, Email, Bartering, Relaxation, Business News
Caroline Dowd-Higgins

Many people ask me how I juggled a full-time job with a private career coaching practice and still managed to get a book published. I'd be remiss if I...

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Got Ethics? Dirty Dairy Exposed

Sarah Newman | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Michael Pollan, Cafos, Alicia Silverstone, Food Inc., Dairy, Eat Well Guide, Humane Society of the US, Vegan, Milk, Cafo, Oprah, Hsus, Tara Lohan, Nightline, Alternet, Animals, Healthy Living News
Sarah Newman

You don't have to give up dairy, but you can start buying dairy from local farms that treat their animals humanely.

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Big Barack Bummer

Sarah Newman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Sarah's Social Action Snapshot, Pesticides, Michelle Obama, Islam Siddiqui, Tom Vilsack, Eat Well Guide, Organic, Barack Obama, Sustainable, Department of Agriculture, Usda, Monsanto, Pesticide Action Network, White House Garden, Food Inc., Takepart, Croplife, US Chief Agriculture Negotiator, Roger Beachy, Green News
Sarah Newman

It's disappointing that the Obama Administration is not providing the visionary leadership on agriculture, like it is in some many other policy areas.

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Declare Your Food Independence

Sarah Newman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Sarah's Social Action Snapshot, Bill of Rights, National Veggie Hotdog Month, Compost, Eat Well Guide, Corn, July 4th, Garden, Paul Revere, Food Grid, Declaration of Indpendence, Hormone-Free Dairy, Hormone-Free, Michael Pollan, Grill, Food Inc., Takepart, Eat Wild, July, Green News
Sarah Newman

It's time that we return to our roots. Literally. We need to support a food system that offers us healthy, safe, sustainable, fresh foods. And what better time to begin than on Independence Day?

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I Saw Food, Inc. Now What?

Sarah Newman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Sarah's Social Action Snapshot, Sustainable Table, Michael Pollan, Barb Kowlacyk, Hungry for Change, Kevin's Law, Food Inc., Eat Well Guide, Food, Organic Consumers ASsociation, Inc. Twitter, Takepart, Facebook, Spinnio, Eatwild, Green News
Sarah Newman

There's a lot of simple but highly effective things you can do to transition off of a corn-based diet, lessen your carb(on) food/footprint, support local farmers and choose humanely raised meats.

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7 Ways to Grow Your Own Food and Save Money

Sarah Newman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Foreclosures, Sarah's Social Action Snapshot, Canning, Eat Well Guide, Economy, Guerrilla Gardening, Fallen Fruit, Grow Your Own Food, Stimulus, Yes We Can, Edible Estates, Wall Street, Takepart, Herbs, Save Money, Detroit, Healthy Eating, Farming, Vegetarian, Victory Gardens, Csas, Organic, Food, Gardening, Green News
Sarah Newman

Tear up your front lawn and plant a garden. In the long-term, it will be a lot cheaper than shopping at the supermarket. And you can share your harvest with your community.

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Blaze A "Sun Food" Trail To The Inauguration

Kerry Trueman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Sustainable Agriculture, Road Food, Eat Well Everywhere, Obama Inauguration, Eat Well Guide, Industrialized Agriculture, Green News
Kerry Trueman

The election may be over, but we still get to vote three times a day for a more humane and sustainable food chain.

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Finding the Best, Local Food Near You Just Got Easier

Tara Lohan | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Food, Eat Well Guide, Sustainable Food, Healthy Eating, Eco-Friendly, Eating Locally, Sustainability, Green Living, Eating Local, Locavore, Green News
Tara Lohan

While technology may not always have been the best companion to agriculture (think biotech), the Internet has emerged as an incredible tool for planning the future of food.

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Time To Mothball The Butterball!

Kerry Trueman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Consumers Union, Factory Farming, Heritage Turkeys, Eat Well Guide, Turkeys, Butterball, Food, Thanksgiving, Sustainability, Green News
Kerry Trueman

There are some not-so-wonderful aspects to Butterball's signature product -- in a concession to our obsession with big breasts, American turkey breeders created an avian abomination.

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The Fast Track To Slow Food

Kerry Trueman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Wendell Berry, Bill Mckibben, Eat Well Guide, Sustainable Agriculture, Food, Slow Food Nation, Technology, Cultivating the Web, Green News
Kerry Trueman

A funny thing happened on the way to Agribiz ascendancy; the same military-industrial complex that locked us into this fuel-ish food chain also gave us the key to free ourselves -- the Internet.

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