Did you eat some amazing local food this 4th of July? Did you show your red, white, and blue by shopping at the farmer's market? HuffPost Green wants ...
Dana Joy Altman | Posted 04.29.2009 | Chicago
Your local farmers' market is where you will find the most beautiful, wonderful tasting, alive, fresh foods you can possibly get your hands on.
Michael Pollan | Posted 04.22.2009 | Green
If we want to make significant progress in reducing global warming we will need to wean the American food system off its heavy diet of fossil fuel and put it back on a diet of solar energy.
Marc Gunther | Posted 03.29.2009 | Green
The Low Carbon Diet is pretty simple. You eat less beef and cheese. You throw away less food. And you try, when possible, to eat locally grown food.
Josh Ruxin | Posted 02.12.2009 | World
At a time when the stock market is providing dizzyingly negative returns, it may be time to look at the conservative but positive returns that can be had by investing in subsistence-level farmers.
Profits Vs Public Health | Posted 12.23.2008 | World
MANILA, Dec 23 (IPS) - Cecilia Moran never thought that she would one day have to give up farming owing to poor health. She grew up helping her father...
Los Angeles Times | Deborah Netburn | Posted 12.05.2008 | Green
Erik Knutzen and Kelly Coyne started keeping chickens in their Echo Park backyard a little more than a year ago. The two are co-authors of "The Urban ...
New York Times | Anne Raver | Posted 12.05.2008 | Green
Locally grown, pesticide-free food is gaining sway these days because it is fresh, healthy and supports area farmers. But how many of us give the same...
Liz Neumark | Posted 12.02.2008 | Green
This new crop of small local farmers is different. While some of them are from multi-generational farm families, others have found their path to the fields via academia, rock 'n' roll or the arts.
Nathan Havey | Posted 11.27.2008 | Living
This year, if you really want to celebrate Thanksgiving, I want to challenge you to enjoy feasting on what is fresh and local.
Liz Neumark | Posted 11.11.2008 | Style
This fall, within the period of a few weeks, I fed Bill Clinton, George W. Bush and Barack Obama. First thing a good New York foodie will ask is what did they eat.
Isabel Cowles | Posted 10.16.2008 | Green
Food needs a piece of that seven billion dollar pie. For fortunate Americans, food is as much a source of entertainment as it is nourishment. Yet desp...
Jenna Woginrich | Posted 09.24.2008 | Green
Let's show this industry that we care, and demand a more humane product. It's a sad truth, but for millions of animals across America, that red plate could be a vote for a greener future.
Frances Moore Lappe | Posted 09.22.2008 | Green
While we're told that big agribusiness will save us, it's a system centralizing their control of our food system that got us here.
Michael Markarian | Posted 09.11.2008 | Living
The nation's largest egg producer is also one of the dirtiest; It has been cited numerous times for spilling chicken manure and chicken parts into rivers and streams.
Nathaniel Bach | Posted 08.27.2008 | Home
Going beyond the mantras "use mass transit," "shop local," and "use renewable energy sources," the student group Partly Sunny seeks to go beyond the basics and maximize the effectiveness of those efforts through design and resourcefulness.
AP | VALERIE BAUMAN | Posted 08.26.2008 | Green
ALBANY, N.Y. — More farmers markets nationwide are accepting food stamps for their summer squash, apples and other fresh produce _ fattening pro...
Mark Strausman | Posted 08.24.2008 | Green
Gas prices are giving us a second chance to evaluate our economy, our values, the very way we live. I say one solution is to grow our own crops, locally.
Flora Lazar | Posted 08.14.2008 | Chicago
A chef and columnist who many culinary enthusiasts remember as a technological pioneer for her early embrace of the Cuisinart food processor took a technological step back when she founded the Green City Market ten years ago.
Josie Garthwaite | Posted 08.12.2008 | Green
Green Zebras, Mortgage Lifters, White Wonders, and other heirloom tomato varieties are taking American palates by storm this week. At least 52 San Fra...
Graham Hill | Posted 08.07.2008 | Green
The burning question: local vs. imported. When we want to make the best food decision what should we choose?
Andrew Kimbrell | Posted 07.30.2008 | Green
We can use summer to consider how much better locally grown foods are, not only in taste and price, but because they help to cool the planet. Change can taste delicious.
Green Biz | GreenBiz Staff | Posted 07.02.2008 | Green
In a bid to offset the rising cost of fuel, Wal-Mart plans to expand its offerings of fresh fruits and vegetables grown and shipped from local farms a...
Collin Dunn | Posted 06.05.2008 | Green
Like many green issues, there isn't one correct way to engage in the behavior; making more sustainable, healthy choices almost always requires that multiple factors be considered; take a quick peek at some of the best ways to make your food choices good-tasting and planet-saving, too.
David Mixner | Posted 06.02.2008 | Living
As the first day of June arrives, the general consensus here in Turkey Hollow, is that May was one of the coldest in quite some time. So it is with arms open to the newly clear sunny sky that I welcome summer.
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Katherine Goldstein | Posted 07.05.2009 | Green