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Fedele Bauccio: Thomas Keller Has a Responsibility -- To Set the Record Straight

2012-05-29T10:18:59Z

Chefs have an enormous power to make a difference, and they can do so without sacrificing flavor. If chefs ignore climate change, those oysters Thomas Keller and I both love will disappear from our warming oceans.

Read more: Locavore Restaurants, Celebrity Chefs, Thomas Keller, Sustainable Food, Climate Change, Sustainable Seafood, Food News

Rachel Marie Stone: The Antinomian Religious Diet

2012-05-18T16:25:46Z

I'm not telling you to go eat processed cheese, or that all food rules are bad and doomed to become pathological and isolating. It's just that there's more to food than just its ability to confer health, or even spiritual enlightenment.

Read more: Mindful Eating, Organic Food, Mindful Living, Sustainable Food, Orthorexia, Conscious Eating, Food Politics, Religion News

Nick Wiseman: Thomas Keller's Disappointing Stance on Sustainable Cooking

2012-05-17T12:24:41Z

It's not Thomas Keller's responsibility to help save the planet (though many chefs have taken on this calling with great ambition). But focusing solely on the aesthetics and disclaiming any other responsibility altogether is a cop-out.

Read more: Farm-to-Table, New York Times, Michael Pollan, The French Laundry, Thomas Keller, Sustainable Food, Locavore, Food News

Frances Beinecke: Growing Green Awards: Winners Produce Food that Nourishes People and the Planet

2012-05-16T10:04:00Z

Today, NRDC announces the winners of the 2012 Growing Green Awards. These awards celebrate the farmers, business owners, and bold thinkers who are transforming America's food system.

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Katherine Gustafson: Mobile Slaughterhouses Help Meat Go Local

2012-05-14T15:26:04Z

The meat industry, like much else in U.S. agriculture, has consolidated rapidly over the last half-century. Four giant companies produced 83.5 percent of U.S. beef as of 2007. It is in this context that the mobile slaughterhouse makes local slaughter available and affordable to small farmers.

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Dr. Sushi Serves Up Sustainable Nigiri

2012-05-14T10:19:00Z

The doctor is in. The sushi doctor, that is, and he's working to bring sustainable sushi to Detroiters.

Dr. Sushi, a Wayne State University studen...

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Eric Holt Gimenez: Occupy the Farm: Democracy for Land Grant Universities?

2012-05-08T07:27:46Z

The occupiers demand UC Berkeley halt plans for further sale and private development of what was once the site of its renowned International Center for Biological Control.

Read more: Food, University of California Berkeley, Occupy the Food Supply, Sustainable Food, Occupy Movement, Food News

Laura DiMugno: Sustainable Seafood: Which Retailers Topped the List? (INFOGRAPHIC)

2012-05-03T17:32:08Z

Finding sustainable seafood has long been a challenge for environmentalists and foodies alike. Recently, however, supermarkets and food stores have stepped up their efforts to reconcile that dilemma.

Read more: Green, Food, Sustainability, Oceans, Sustainable Seafood, Sustainable Food, Biodiversity, Seafood, Fish, Greenpeace, Green News

Dan Allen: Don't Start a Veggie Garden to Save Money

2012-05-03T17:13:56Z

Saving money is a popular rationale for starting a vegetable garden at home. A commonly cited statistic suggests that home gardeners can expect a return of $8 worth of produce for each $1 they invest in seeds, starts, fertilizers and pest control.

Read more: Fruits, Food, Gardening, Sustainable Food, Vegetables, Food Gardening, National Gardening Association, Food News

Katherine Gustafson: Farmers' Markets Move Online

2012-04-30T16:57:03Z

Smart use of the Web can shift the focus of food retail away from industrial suppliers and toward those in the position to offer on-demand delivery of the freshest food around.

Read more: Sustainable Living, Green Bean Delivery, Farmers Markets, Foothills Connect, Sustainable Food, Local Food, Ecotrust, Csas, Sustainable Agriculture, YES! Magazine, Timothy Will, Arganica, Rutherfordton, Foodhub, Food News

Bill Chameides: Food and Environment Smorgasbord

2012-04-26T20:52:54Z

What happens in Las Vegas may stay in Las Vegas, but what is sprayed on industrial farms does not necessarily stay on those industrial farms.

Read more: Pesticides, Herbicides, Food Production, Sustainable Food, Food and Population, Herbicides Food, Food Technology, Food Crops Herbicides, Raising Resistance Film, Green News

Tamar Haspel: How to Stop Eating Junk

2012-04-23T12:35:47Z

A funny thing happened after I moved to Cape Cod and started planting things to eat. Slowly, my fundamental idea of what food is started to change.

Read more: Gardening, Kids, Junk Food, Vegetables, Sustainable Food, Food News

Ted Danson: Wild Seafood: An Unlikely Key to Combating Climate Change

2012-04-20T17:11:17Z

We can drastically improve our chances of battling climate change if we start thinking seriously about wild seafood. Wild seafood, properly managed, can replenish itself year by year, decade by decade, millennia by millennia.

Read more: Climate Change, Oceans, Earth Day, Wild-Seafood, Oceana, Healthy Oceans, Sustainable Food, Sustainability, Preserving Oceans, Ocean Preservation, Green News

Andrew Sharpless: Saving the Oceans to Feed the World: What San Francisco Needs to Know

2012-04-19T12:38:44Z

When it comes to sustainable seafood, San Francisco gets it. As a progressive, seaside town, seafood is plentiful and the options for eating sustainably are constantly improving.

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Jeffrey Buchanan: Bless These Shrimp: Faith, Fishing And Gulf Coast Restoration

2012-04-19T12:00:03Z

For many years, communities of faith have provided a safety net to fisher families impacted by bad seasons or disasters like Hurricane Katrina and the BP spill. They have also seen firsthand the vital connection between the health of natural resources and the life of the community.

Read more: RESTORE Act, Sustainable Food, Gulf Coast Recovery, Gulf Oil Spill, Louisiana, Catholic Church, Deepwater Horizon, Gulf Coast, Green Faith, Gulf of Mexico, BP Oil Spill, Religion News

Michael P. Owens: The Top 10 Green Dining & Drinking Destinations In New York City

2012-04-12T13:05:32Z

I spent the past month researching and visiting venues that embrace sustainability as a core value of their business. A few thousands calories later (and one small hangover), I am happy to share my findings with you.

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New Williams-Sonoma Line To Bring Mushroom Logs, Kombucha Kits To All

2012-04-05T09:34:00Z

Good news for green thumbs everywhere: On Thursday Williams-Sonoma launches an agrarian line on its website and in six stores nationwide on April 9th....

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Carl Safina: Whole Foods Market Bans 'Red'-Coded Seafood

2012-04-01T18:10:02Z

Starting on Earth Day (April 22), Whole Foods won't be selling any more red-rated seafood. They'll be the first (and so far only, but we hope that will change) national grocer to do so.

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University Of California Reaches For Sustainable Food

2012-03-28T17:11:58Z

Fast food joints offer a quick and easy fix for hungry, busy students on college campuses. But at the University of California, they've also become a ...

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Alison Rose Levy: Deepak Chopra and Vandana Shiva Talk Seeds and GMOs

2012-03-26T18:15:28Z

By surveying the versatile ecology of cow dung, even urban dwellers, like me, can see the earthy pragmatism embedded in the Indian worship of cows (and indeed all life) as sacred.

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Peter Lehner: Superbug Suit: Antibiotics Victory Will Preserve Medicines for Sick People, Not Healthy Livestock

2012-03-26T14:51:00Z

While conscientious doctors do their best to limit the use of unnecessary antibiotics, the livestock industry continued its indiscriminate use of these powerful medicines.

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Kiyotaka Akasaka: Sustainability Is the Sensible Alternative

2012-03-26T13:24:10Z

More people in the world are living better, but the natural world that underpins this prosperity is constantly being eroded.

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Food & Wine: Is The Hunger Games' Katniss Everdeen A Model of Sustainability?

2012-03-23T12:41:45Z

From a food-world perspective, the message of the story is almost as exciting as Katniss's big screen quest to make it through the deadly arena with her humanity (and head!) intact.

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Leona Palmer: A Model Farmer: Fashion to Farming

2012-03-23T10:47:13Z

I once heard that humans seek out natural environments because nature is not in resistance to itself. Having finally accepted the truth that my father is gone, I am surrendering my resistance as well.

Read more: Models, Sustainable Agriculture, Sustainability, Fashion, Organic Food, Sustainable Food, Mindfulness, Life Changes, Life Lessons, Emotional Wellness, CSA Farming, Community Supported Agriculture, CSA Farm, Healthy Living News

Anna Brones: Can Fast Food Be 'Real' Food? An Interview With Burger King

2012-03-15T10:58:03Z

Being someone who, for the most part, strictly abstains from fast food, I was interested to see what someone who plans the menu of a nationwide chain had to say about the process behind what they serve.

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