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Sea to Table: Salmon or Gold?

2013-05-21T15:42:36Z

Fisherman Christopher Nicolson is gearing up for salmon season. Each summer he makes the long trek to Alaska with his family, from Brooklyn to Brist...

Read more: Sea to Table, Salmon, Sustainable Food, Farm to Table, Fish, Epa, Pebble Mine, Sustainable Fishing, Sustainable Seafood, Fishing, Fisheries, Bristol Bay, Fishermen, Video, Taste News

Monique Ruffin: Moms Change the World: Josephine Miller

2013-05-16T23:31:22Z

Josephine Miller is changing the way we live our lives each and every day. Miller a driving force behind implementing plastic bag and Styrofoam bans in Santa Monica, California.

Read more: Community, Empowered Women, Plastic Bag Ban, Families, Sustainable Food, Working Mothers, Santa Monica-California, Food Politics, Impact News

Andrew Gunther: GE Crop Thriller Leaves Bond and Bourne for Dust

2013-05-15T18:33:46Z

Mounting calls in the U.S. for the labeling of GE foods also represents a huge problem for the likes of Monsanto: What will happen to demand for GE seeds once consumers actually have a real choice over whether or not they consume GE food?

Read more: Food & Water Watch, Sustainable Food, Agriculture, Genetically Engineered Foods, Sustainable Agriculture, Biotech, Bayer CropScience, Genetically Modified Foods, Monsanto, Dupont, Syngenta, Green News

Rachel Berman: The Best Way To Shop A Farmer's Market

2013-05-15T08:07:18Z

With the warm weather comes a plethora of farmer's markets that sprout up every spring. They can be an overwhelming experience, with so many stands and so much fresh produce to navigate. Here are my tips for making your trip to the farmer's market cost-effective, successful, and fun.

Read more: Healthy Eating Tips, Healthy Living Health News, Healthy Food, Healthy Eating, Diet, Personal Health, Health, Farmers Markets, Local Food, Farmers Market, Sustainable Food, Healthy Foods, Local Farmers, Wellness, Healthy Living News

Zester Daily: Trader Joe's Seafood Promise to Greenpeace Still Murky

2013-05-13T14:57:46Z

Although Trader Joe's is moving in the right direction, I can't go there today and pick up fish fillets for dinner without worrying about whether I am contributing to the degradation of the ocean.

Read more: Sustainability, Trader Joe's, Zester Daily, Evelyn-Iritani, Greenpeace, Seafood, Sustainable Food, Taste News

Elizabeth Kucinich: Mothers of Pure Food, Rebirthing a Movement

2013-05-10T13:51:52Z

This Mother's Day, let us remember mothers and women who understood the patriotic nature of standing up for wholesome food, of standing up for the health of young children who would become our future.

Read more: Organic Farming, Congress, Children, Mother's Day, Sustainable Food, Agriculture, Factory Farms, Regulation, Sustainable Agriculture, Fda, Food Politics, Healthy Eating, Healthy Food, Farming, Gmos, Factory Farming, Personal Health, Pure Food, Free Trade, Franklin Roosevelt, GMO Labeling, Mothers, Toxic Chemicals, Farm Bill, Senate, Women's Health, Health, Deregulation, Environment, Food, Food Safety, Food Borne Illness, Industrial Agriculture, Children's Health, Gmo, Food Bill, Politics News

Zester Daily: How Food Tank's Danielle Nierenberg Wants to Save the World

2013-05-07T13:39:22Z

Follow Danielle Nierenberg, and you will end up in interesting places.

Read more: Zester Daily, Corie Brown, World Vegetable Center, Danielle Nierenberg, Food Tank, Sustainable Food, Food Politics, Taste News

Mark Tercek: A New Diet for the Planet?

2013-05-01T15:34:00Z

You might expect me to say that environmentalists should say no to meat, and that we should focus on changing what people eat in the interest of saving the planet. But it's not quite so simple.

Read more: Veganism, Sustainable Food, Marc Gunther, Genetically Modified Food, Sustainability, Diet and Nutrition, Vegetarianism, Gmo, Agriculture, Sustainable Agriculture, Green News

Mia MacDonald: Rethinking Agriculture: National Climate Assessment Provides (Another) Reason

2013-04-24T17:24:48Z

Food systems are an important area for scrutiny. New agricultural ideas and actions are essential amid rising climate stress, a growing human population, widespread degradation of ecosystems, and rampant food insecurity.

Read more: Sustainable Food, Sustainable Agriculture, Globalization, Food, Sustainability, Climate Change, Meat, Global Warming, Green News

Sea to Table: Why We Need a National Ocean Policy

2013-04-24T15:45:32Z

This week over one billion people in 192 countries celebrated Earth Day. We planted trees, shared recycling tips, pledged action to combat climate c...

Read more: Sea to Table, National Ocean Policy, Sustainable Food, Farm to Table, Fish, Green News, Sustainable Fishing, Sustainable Seafood, Oceans, Fishing, Fisheries, Fishermen, Green News

Celebrate Earth Day! How To Grow Healthy Food, No Matter Where You Live

2013-04-21T11:08:29Z

People celebrate Earth Day in many ways: Some clean up their local park, others work on educational efforts or even donate to their favorite environme...

Read more: Kitchen Garden, Environmental Impact Food, Ways to Grow Food, Earth Day Gardens, Garden Sustainability, Home Garden, Sustainable Food, Earth Day Activities, Kitchen Garden Sustainability, Grow Your Own Food, Healthy Living News

LOOK: Local Foodies Rejoice! Your Grocery Store Has Arrived!

2013-04-19T18:01:00Z

WASHINGTON -- Whole Foods, YES Organic Market and farmers market customers will have a new grocery destination beginning this Sunday. Glen's Garden Ma...

Read more: Dupont Circle Grocery, Danielle Vogel, Video, DC Food, Sustainable Food, Sean Sullivan, Glen's Garden Market, Washington Dc Local Food, DC News

Jennifer Maffett: I Dig the Ramps

2013-04-19T17:15:09Z

Unfortunately, harvesting puts the ramp's ability to multiply in jeopardy. In recent years, the enthusiasm for these wild plants has caused many patches of ramps to be completely decimated by over-zealous purveyors.

Read more: Chefs, Wild Leeks, Ramps, Recipes, Sustainable Food, Vegetables, Spring Onion, Sustainability, Spring, Healthy Foods, Springtime, Green News

Danielle Nierenberg: Earth Day: 13 Things Everyone Can Do in 2013

2013-04-19T14:36:55Z

Being aware of the environmental costs that unsustainable farming and eating practices can have on the environment, and making food choices accordingly, can help to fight climate change and protect the environment.

Read more: Warwick University, Slow Food, University of Illinois, Environment Protection Agency, American Cancer Society, Sustainable Food, Earth Day, Cornell University, Love Food Hate Waste, Wwoof, Barilla Center for Food and Nutrition, Food Tank, Slow-Food-International, Diet for a Small Planet, The Land Institute, Danielle Nierenberg, University of Minnesota, Green News

Heritage Radio Network: Eating Healthy to Save the Earth

2013-04-19T10:02:51Z

As we think about Earth day and what that means to each of us, take advantage of these simple and accessible ways to do your part. Your body and your planet will thank you.

Read more: Anna Lappé, Climate Change, Organic Gardening, Cathy Erway, Sustainable Food, Earth Day 2013, Earth Day, Sustainable Agriculture, Taste News

Epicurious: 7 Ways to Eat Green and Save Money

2013-04-17T12:38:05Z

In honor of Earth month, how to eat green on budget.

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Larry Jacobs: A Good Bug Doesn't Mean a Dead Bug

2013-04-12T09:50:56Z

The reality of our dependence on toxic pesticides in the United States and around the world can be hard to stomach. The toxic chemicals we spray on our crops aren't just killing pests.

Read more: Pesticides, Organic Food, Sustainable Food, Sustainable Business, Nrdc, 2013 Growing Green Awards, Green Business, Growing Green Awards, Video, Green News

Ben Droz: Eat-In at the FDA

2013-04-10T22:45:40Z

Whatever your thoughts on GMO foods or GMO fish, whether you eat them or avoid them, please take action. f you don't, the FDA will continue to spend American tax dollars asking the wrong questions.

Read more: Healthy Eating, Usda, Biotechnology, Monsanto, Sustainable Food, Fda, Agriculture, Food, Organic, Food Safety, Biotech, Dc, Aquabounty, Gmo, DC News

Andrea Grossman: Mark Bittman: Two-thirds Vegan and a Handful of Other

2013-04-10T19:33:52Z

Bittman brings out the joy in eating light, healthy meals for breakfast and lunch, and dives head first into a moderate omnivorous meal at dinner. It's about balance. It's about enjoyment. And it's also about eating less meat not just for health reasons, but for positive environmental impact.

Read more: Healthy Food, Healthy Lifestyle, Personal Health, Sustainable Food, Cooking, Vegan, Food, Vegetarianism, Mark Bittman, Evan Kleiman, Meat, Mark Bittman Vegan, Los Angeles News

Brianna Almaguer Sandoval: Fresh, Healthy Food: Coming to a Corner Store Already Near You

2013-04-09T17:44:55Z

While corner stores are often viewed negatively and blamed for contributing to the obesity epidemic, I've had the privilege over the past four years to view corner stores in a new light: as critical allies in improving the health of our communities.

Read more: Healthy Food, Healthy Corner Store Initiative, Corner Stores, Sustainable Food, Healthy Corner Stores, Nrdc, Growing Green Awards, 2013 Growing Green Awards, Food Deserts, Video, Green News

Sea to Table: Eat Patriotic Fish

2013-04-08T14:47:07Z

How do I know what fish is ok to buy? One simple step we can all take is to buy wild domestic seafood.

Read more: Sea to Table, Sustainable Food, Dogfish, Farm to Table, Fish, Sustainable Fishing, Sustainable Seafood, Fishing, Fisheries, Fishermen, Taste News

Tezozomoc: Renewing Our Community's Agricultural Life From Loss in South Central Los Angeles

2013-04-08T10:17:06Z

Too often, the same people who work our fields during the day, planting and harvesting fresh produce, spend their evenings in line at the local food bank.

Read more: 2013 Growing Green Awards, Sustainable Food, Growing Green Awards, Nrdc, Food Justice, South Central Farmers Health and Education Fund, Food Deserts, Video, Green News

Mark Hyman, MD: 'FRANKENFOODS': What The Food Industry Doesn't Want You To Know

2013-04-04T08:15:09Z

The sustainability of our planet, our health, and our food supply are inextricably linked. The ecology of eating -- the importance of what you put on your fork -- has never been more critical to our survival as a nation or as a species. The earth will survive our self-destruction, but we may not.

Read more: Food as Medicine, Nutrition, Processed Food, Big Pharma, Big Food, Sustainable Food, Health News, Agricultural Industry, Diet and Nutrition, Sustainable Foods, Processed Foods, Big Agriculture, Agriculture Industry, Food Industry, Healthy Living News

Frances Beinecke: Pioneers in Sustainable Food Show We Can Eat Well and Protect Environment

2013-04-04T00:28:19Z

People are starting to realize that if we change the way we eat, we can change the way the food system works. We can grow food that is good for our health, good for our communities, and good for the planet. The winners of the Growing Green Awards are showing us how.

Read more: Antibiotic Resistance, Farming, Pesticides, Video, Organic Food, Sustainable Food, Factory Farms, Antibiotics, Sustainable Agriculture, Sustainability, Community Gardens, Pork, Philadelphia, Farmworkers, Growing Green Awards, Green News

Danielle Nierenberg: 5 Ways to Make Your Passover Seder More Sustainable

2013-03-24T12:31:37Z

This week marks the Jewish holiday of Passover. Here are five tips to help observers to celebrate this important holiday while keeping in line with their equally important environmental values.

Read more: Sustainable Food, Sustainable Agriculture, Passover, Seder Food, Passover Food, Local Food, Farmers, Sustainable Food Seder, Seder, Sustainable Food Passover, Green News