I couldn't believe that the giant goldenrod was still blooming in late December, when the temperature was only 32 degrees. But there it was, its curvy...
Dan Imhoff | Posted 02.07.2009 | Green
People want our unhealthy food and agriculture system made healthy. And it doesn't look like we'll be giving up any time soon.
Graham Hill | Posted 04.15.2009 | Green
Bittman's recipes are frequently 'flexitarian' -- that means they are good to make either with or without meat.
Kerry Trueman | Posted 01.18.2009 | Green
I honestly don't know what to make of the Vilsack nomination, so I asked Denise O'Brien, the organic farmer who ran for Iowa's Secretary of Agriculture in 2006, to share her invaluable Iowan insights.
Seth Bauer | Posted 01.02.2009 | Green
There's no better way to tour a California vineyard than on horseback. So when Karl Wente, the 30-ish head of the 3,000-acre Wente vineyards in Liverm...
Josie Garthwaite | Posted 12.15.2008 | Green
But chocolate made with an eye to its social and environmental impact needn't taste virtuous, as Sierra Club staffers recently found out.
Treehugger | Alex Smith | Posted 12.06.2008 | Green
Yesterday, California voters voted overwhelmingly in favor of Proposition 2, a historic move that brings animals legal rights in the land of factory f...
Karin Kloosterman | Posted 10.24.2008 | Green
America's bee colonies are collapsing. It's a big mystery, with much at stake. Green websites like TreeHugger have been on the case since the phenom...
Michael Markarian | Posted 10.12.2008 | 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.
Progress Illinois | Adam Doster | Posted 10.10.2008 | Chicago
was just past 9 am and the sun was already beating down on the dozen or so teens assembled in a small corner of Chicago's Grant Park. Wisely, Jessica...
Chi Town Daily News | Mary Brophy | Posted 09.27.2008 | Home
Eventually, the land at City Farm in Chicago's Cabrini Green neighborhood will sell for millions of dollars and a development deal. But for now, it s...
Kerry Trueman | Posted 09.21.2008 | Green
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.
Frances Moore Lappe | Posted 09.11.2008 | Green
NPR chose to reinforce the myth that the only hope for poor rural people is dependency on concentrated economic power when, all over the world, poor farmers are discovering their own power.
Kerry Trueman | Posted 09.08.2008 | Green
Small-scale farmers are thriving and the rest of us are flocking to greenmarkets and planting our own veggie gardens. A handful of knee-jerk naysayers at the Times can't derail this local train.
Rebekah and Stephen Hren | Posted 06.12.2009 | Green
If we're truly interested in creating a sustainable transportation network, then we need to envision a future where our limited supply of biofuels is used for much more efficient modes of transportation.
New York Times | Anne Raver | Posted 02.09.2009 | Green