Agriculture & Food, Food Safety, Food Security

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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What do successful social entrepreneurships have in common? A key element is design. One of the best design concepts is IDEO’s “human centered design” (HCD), a set of design approaches and tools that put the end-users’ needs in the center of design solutions, and ensure that their experiences drive innovation. Now IDEO.org, the social arm of IDEO, is launching a new platform, HCD Connect that brings together people and projects across diverse geography and sectors.

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The FDA’s three-decades of inaction on antiobiotics took a fresh turn last week when a federal court ruled that government regulators must decide whether feeding antibiotics to healthy livestock could pose a threat to human health. The FDA has been ignoring the studies and warnings of its own scientists who have linked the rise of [...]

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To help people better evaluate Walmart’s claims of being a green leader, Food & Water Watch and the Institute for Local Self-Reliance have published their Top Ten Ways Walmart Fails on Sustainability. While their perspective differs from TriplePundit’s, we welcome their participation on the site.

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Caribou Coffee has announced in January that all of its American stores will sell only coffee sourced from Rainforest Alliance Certified farms.

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Patagonia has rolled out a new snack that could help save the Pacific coast’s salmon population. Salmon jerky could help save endangered salmon species.

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Brooklyn’s Sunset Park neighborhood will soon be home to a 100,000 square foot, multi-acre rooftop farm that will produce a million pounds of produce per year – enough to feed 5,000 people – without using any dirt. The farm will be built by BrightFarms, a new company with a unique business model that finances, builds, and operates hydroponic greenhouse farms for supermarkets and other retailers who purchase the produce.

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Gary Hirshberg explains how he scaled Stonyfield and stayed true to his values at the same time.

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A review of Tracie McMillan’s new book The American Way of Eating: Undercover at Walmart, Applebees, Farm Fields and the Dinner Table.

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They say the definition of insanity is behaving the same way and expecting a different result. If that’s the case, then McDonalds’ twitter feed has been crazy all year.

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Picarro’s new N2O istopomer analyzer provides scientists with greater insight into the earth’s nitrogen cycle, as well as helping them address problems spanning agriculture, ecosystems and climate.

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Earlier this week Nicholas Kristof cited two studies that gave evidence of arsenic, caffeine, Tylenol, Benadryl and certain banned antibiotics in chicken.They did not find anything that they felt was an “immediate health concern,” but you have to wonder what the long term effects of ingesting these things might be. You might think this is all a bunch of chicken feed, but really, how did these things get in there?

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The ongoing debate about the cause of colony collapse disorder has finally ended.

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By Lorna Li From a cup of tea shared in ceremony with a family of Kichwa shamans to an Amazon adventure that sparked a business, Tyler Gage is young social entrepreneur brimming with wisdom on what it takes to start a social enterprise that works with indigenous communities in a developing country like Ecuador. Today, [...]

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Nine more companies joins the likes of Nestle, Kraft, Unilever, Adidas, Mattel and many more who have already dropped APP following the ongoing campaign Greenpeace is running against APP following a Greenpeace’s report accusing APP in cutting protected tree species in Indonesia. The list of customers that leave APP is indeed growing, but the company doesn’t seem to show any signs of change, at least for now. Even now, with nine less customers, APP seems reluctant to throw in the towel. So who wins this fight – Greenpeace or APP?

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The Plant, an old meat packing facility in Chicago is being renovated into an urban farm that can grow fish, herbs and also contain a brewery.

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Whole Foods Market found a way to commemorate Earth Day: it will no longer sell wild-caught fish with a “red-rating,” meaning a species is overfished, in its seafood departments, starting this Earth Day (April 22).

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Chipotle is receiving criticism for its refusal to sign on to an agreement aimed at protecting farm workers on Florida farms where the company purchases tomatoes.

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On Friday Wendy’s ran advertisements in eight major American newspapers that state pink slime was never used in its products.

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In terms of GDP per capita, Brazil and India’s wealth grew 34% and 120%, respectively, from 1990-2008. According to a new, alternative Inclusive Wealth Indicator developed by UNU-IHDP that measures natural and human, as well as economic capital, Brazil’s wealth actually increased only 3% and India’s 9% over the period.

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In this video interview, author of The Unhealthy Truth, Robyn O’Brien, chronicles her journey behind the American food system, which started when her youngest of four kids developed an egg allergy.

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The interrelated social, environmental and economic challenges associated with rapid, growing urbanization is bringing some 3,000 experts from around the world together in London this week for “Planet Under Pressure 2012″ conference.

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Wendy’s made the announcement on March 22, 2012 that it will require its U.S. and Canadian pork suppliers to outline plans to phase out the use of gestation crates.

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Technology is the glue that binds the pieces of the sustainable food puzzle.

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I’ve been covering the food distribution market over at Software Advice for the last year, and one thing that’s perplexed me is the insistence of U.S. food distributors to stick to a centralized approach to distribution. While a centralized approach to food distribution does offer economies of scale, it has negative impacts on the quality [...]

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Yesterday McDonald’s announced that the fast food giant would test the use of paper coffee cups instead of foam in 2000 of its U.S. locations.

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McDonald’s has decided it will serve chicken sourced within the United Kingdom after all during this summer’s Olympics in London.

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Here’s a good one for the “think global, act local” contingent. A group of folks up in the Twin Cities are taking vacant urban lots and converting them into productive urban farms.

Stone’s Throw Urban Farm is a unique and vital embodiment of community supported agriculture. With the resilient spirit of weeds growing up through cracks in a sidewalk, they move into abandoned spaces, turning them productive and green.

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In February, Sustainable Land Development Initiative and Ocean Mountain Ranch – a SLDI carbon-negative project providing a model for sustainable forest and wildlife habitat management, integrated with mixed-use development activities – co-hosted the world premiere of Ocean Frontiers, a feature-length movie which captures the compelling stories of a number of ocean pioneers — people who are [...]

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A 20-year study conducted by the Harvard School of Public Health found that the consumption of any kind of red meat significantly increases the likelihood of premature death. The study, which tracked 110,000 people over two decades found that the consumption of a little as 3 oz. of unprocessed red meat per day, increased the death rate by 13%. An equal size portion of processed red meat, such as bacon or hot dogs added to the diet will increase the chance of premature death by 20%. That’s just about as high as the risk due to smoking cigarettes which is rated between 20-30%.

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