Agriculture & Food, Food Safety, Food Security

Back in April, the New York Times published a piece questioning the link between obesity and healthy food access. The main thrust of the article was to debunk the notion that there are neighborhoods in the United States that have little access to healthy food–and that limited access to healthy food negatively impacts community health. [...]

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Wine on tap is an emerging phenomenon in California restaurants. Kegging wine has multiple advantages; it is environmentally beneficial, cost effective, and keeps the wine at its ideal quality.

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As the world now has 7 billion people, what innovative approaches to housing, land and forestry are available to investors?

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Read more about this project You may have seen pictures of women in Africa cooking their daily meals on a small cookstove. These cooking implements look remarkably similar to the portable charcoal grills an American family might bring to the beach for an afternoon of grilling hot dogs and hamburgers. Imagine using one of these [...]

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Read more about this project CleanStar Mozambique’s founders and investors have this crazy idea that they can make the lives of a few hundred thousand people in Mozambique a lot better, avoid climate-change inducing deforestation, and make money at the same time. RP Siegel shared their six-point plan with us back in September, but in [...]

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Clif Bar, the granddaddy of the modern day energy bar, has been sustainably celebrating its 20th birthday this year. The company’s latest accomplishment is this week’s announcement that its headquarters in Emeryville, CA, across the bay from San Francisco, was awarded with LEED Platinum certification.

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NDZiLO’s ethanol plant in the province of Dondo has a capacity to supply two million liters of cassava-based ethanol. The cassava will be grown by local farmers using a sustainable crop rotation system developed by the company’s agriculture experts.

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You would think that Mitt Romney, as the former governor of a coastal state would have a better handle on the fishing industry. For him to come out and say at a campaign stop in New Hampshire that that reason fishermen up there are having such a hard time earning a living is because of excessive regulation, not because the fish in that region are overfished, is either ignorant or disingenuous.

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Lakefront Brewery recently started serving “Wisconsinite,” what it describes as the first truly “local” beer in the U.S.

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Judith McGeary fights for family farms, small ranches and food producers outside the agricultural-industrial complex. In 2006, this former lawyer founded FARFA, which is designed to save the family farm from regulation and follow what it calls common-sense food policies. In just a few years, she’s made a mark.

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With most of the world’s population living in urban areas for the first time in history, understanding food supply in urban areas is becoming increasingly important. With the resurgence of the local food movement, urban food production in the form of personal, institutional and community gardens, rooftop gardens and urban farms, are emerging as a [...]

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Oplon Pure Science in Rehovot, Israel, has developed a new technology against the development of germs and bacteria in food products. The company recently signed an $8 million agreement with PepsiCo Corporation.

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The people of India have a deep connection with mangoes. Every person claims to have at least one favorite kind but the Alphonso mango is undoubtedly the king. Anyone who has eaten it will attest that its distinctive flavor is hard to forget. However, the last couple of years have spelled trouble for mango farmers in India.

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Safeway and Whole Foods tops the list of Greenpeace’s rating of sustainable seafood retailers.

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Indirect land use change, or ILUC, dictates that the conversion of land into farms for biofuel crops must account for its carbon emissions-and the policy is dividing the EU.

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Zurich-based group designs a rooftop fish farm that can also grow vegetables – is this the future of local, sustainable, seasonal, and organic food?

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Many people have been turning to a plant based diet for a variety of reasons. A plant based diet is environmentally-friendly, cruelty-free and has amazing health and wellness benefits. A plant-based diet is good for you and good for the environment.

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Biomass energy has been around since long before anyone spoke of renewables or alternative energy sources. There was a time when wood was the primary fuel for heating and cooking, and it is still used that way today, though in much fewer locations in countries like ours. While biomass seems compelling at first blush, given that it is renewable and can be domestically produced, there are a number of drawbacks that make it far from a perfect solution.

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Hershey’s is getting with the program, and its most recent CSR report is a step in the right direction on responsible sourcing and child labor.

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Last month Leon Kaye suggested that America might have reached ‘peak-meat consumption.’ Now it appears that China consumes way more meat that the United States ever had. The way meat is produced is going to have a massive impact on agriculture as well as planetary health. According to the Earth Policy Institute, over the last [...]

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When people think of Fair Trade, they might think of fair prices for farmers, better labor standards, or maybe even safe working conditions – but what people often forget about is that Fair Trade is equally invested in protecting the environment.  Fair Trade not only helps improve farmers’ living and working conditions, but also helps them become better stewards of the land.

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There is a push for McDonald’s to retire Ronald McDonald, one of the most recognizable icons in the world.

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A diverse crowd of sustainability gurus honored by the White House this month with the Champions of Change Award for their efforts in the category of Corporate Environmental Sustainability. April is the month to recognize companies, organizations and individuals whose mission is to advance holistic sustainability practices in their community, business or organizational structure.

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Scientific and environmental groups announced that they will submit comments to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in response to EPA’s proposed finding that palm oil should not qualify for inclusion in the EPA’s Renewable Fuels Standard (RFS) this morning. While the organizations,including the Union of Concerned Scientists, World Wildlife Fund, the Natural Resources Defense Council, and the National Wildlife Federation, agreed with the EPA’s conclusion not to include palm oil, they argued that EPA’s analysis actually underestimates the greenhouse gas emissions of palm oil and the serious environmental problems that palm cultivation creates.

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GM employees, led by its manager of waste reduction John Bradburn, are doing their part to divert waste from landfill. Watch for coffee grounds to become the new french fry oil.

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Yesterday Burger King announced that its restaurants would transition to cage-free pork and eggs by 2017. Watch for other fast food companies to follow.

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How one company is working to make this crucial margarita ingredient more sustainable.

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This is the official entry of Akhila Vijayaraghavan for the Rio Blogger Prize. The winner of the prize gets to go to Rio to cover the climate talks in June. If you like what you read, please support her and like, share, comment and tweet the original on TckTckTck’s website.  One of the biggest deterrents [...]

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Kellogg’s released its annual corporate responsibility report to coincide with Earth Day and focuses on sustainable agriculture and water stewardship.

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Can McDonald’s and “Best of Green” be in the same sentence? Projects around the world have boosted the company’s efforts on energy efficiency and waste diversion.

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