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In the wake of the Michigan Meatout Day fallout, it seemed like an appropriate time to share a little Meatless Monday love! The weather here is just about perfect for pulling out the grill, so we’ve rounded up a nice batch of tasty grill recipes for you!
For the past few weeks, I’ve been practically living on salads – one of the many perks of working on a small organic farm and vineyard that specializes in microgreens and shoots. Microgreens (such as arugula and radish) and shoots (like pea and sunflower) spend only a week or two in the soil. They are [...]
Winter is winding down and I might actually go outside barefoot in the next few days. It’s been unusually cold in the South this year, but that just makes the spinach taste that much better. As with many of the winter greens, spinach is a nutritional powerhouse most famous for its iron content, but also [...]
We know that it’s healthy to drink more water, but all of those empty plastic bottles are an environmental nightmare! Annie Leonard from The Story of Stuff is taking on the bottled water industry with her newest video, The Story of Bottled Water:
Author Joan Bruno has been hanging onto a McDonald’s Happy Meal for a whole year. She recently revealed that the food was so full of preservatives that it had not even begun to rot. Disgusting! If you’re reading this site, chances are you wouldn’t be too happy with a grey hamburger patty and a disposable [...]
The weather here in Atlanta is warming up, and it’s got us craving delicious dinner salads and the lighter dishes that go along with warmer weather. If you’re looking include more local, seasonal produce in your own cooking, we’ve got some resources for you!
When Michigan governor Jennifer M. Granholm declared this Saturday “Michigan Meatout Day,” the meat lobby in her state went ballistic.
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Hi there! I'm Becky Striepe, a green crafter and vegan foodie living in Atlanta, Georgia with my husband and two cats. My mission is to make eco-friendly crafts and vegan food accessible to anyone who wants to give them a go.
Jennifer Kaplan is the founder of VineCrowd.com and the author of Greening Your Small Business (November 2009, Penguin Group (USA)). She is adjunct faculty in marketing at Goldengate University and is also totally stoked have been named one of The 16 Women You Must Follow on Twitter for Green Business.
Jessi Stafford is a 20-something attempting to be a vegan on a recent graduate's budget. She currently writes for Vegan Mainstream and The Next Great Generation and graduated in 2009 from the University of Missouri School of Journalism.
Tanya Sitton is an ecovegavore, messy chef, green girl, food revolutionary, and general free-thinkin' rabble-rouser. Hi!
Who is Urban Artichoke? I'm Patricia Larenas, a writer and dedicated gardener living in Silicon Valley, doing my part to heal the planet one garden at a time. I recently left my career in the tech sector to dig in the dirt full time- and write about it.
