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Good Food Movement

Should Your Zip Code Determine How Long You Live?

Dr. Gail Christopher | Posted 04.16.2013 | Healthy Living
Dr. Gail Christopher

Here in the United States, a zip code can tell us a lot about how well and how long you'll live. So can census tracts. Most people are stunned to hear the differences.

Walmart and the Good Food Movement

Eric Holt Gimenez | Posted 12.05.2011 | Home
Eric Holt Gimenez

If good jobs and a diversified food system are key to food security, we cannot afford to be fooled into thinking that Walmart is working for the Good Food movement.

Let's Ask Marion Nestle: How Did Junk Food and Obesity Become a Red State / Blue State Debate?

Kerry Trueman | Posted 05.25.2011 | Home
Kerry Trueman

I cornered NYU Professor of Nutrition Marion Nestle to ask why the issues of junk food and obesity have become so incredibly politicized.

Just Food's Let Us Eat Local: Where Sustainability And Good Food Are Stars

Katherine Goldstein | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green
Katherine Goldstein

What's so inspiring about combining a love for food with a passion for the environment is that you can see, feel and taste your values -- you can put your money where your mouth is.

Jamie Oliver Turns the Spotlight on Our Own Homegrown Heroes

Kerry Trueman | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green
Kerry Trueman

We've heard from the right that the new health care law is a "baby killer." But aren't taxpayer dollars already killing our children? That's essentially the premise of ABC's Food Revolution, which debuts tonight.

Is Becoming A Farmer The New American Dream?

Chelsea Green | Makenna Goodman | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green

In the post-Omnivore's Dilemma reality, where farmer Joel Salatin is known far outside his county, it doesn't take a genius to say it: farming has tot...

Plotting Michelle Obama's Next Food Move

Grist | Tom Laskawy | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green

For anyone still doubting the food-related ambitions of First Lady Michelle Obama, the WaPo's Jane Black wishes to disabuse you. In an article that ch...

Street Farmer Genius: Will Allen And Future of the Good-Food Movement

nytimes.com | ELIZABETH ROYTE | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green

Like others in the so-called good-food movement, Allen, who is 60, asserts that our industrial food system is depleting soil, poisoning water, gobblin...