Welcome to Eat Drink Better: Sustainable Food for a Healthy Lifestyle
Picnics and outdoor gatherings offer some of summer’s most enjoyable occasions. However, if you are an environmentally-conscious person, it’s likely that you cringe a bit when you see all of the trash generated from disposable plates and cups at parties. Disposable products may seem like the only practical option in our busy lives, but alternatives [...]
Monsanto’s got a great reputation in the world of people who read beyond the label. (Yes, that’s sarcasm.) Monsanto’s latest score is that they have to (and have actually agreed to) pay $2.5 million for misbranding violations regarding certain cotton seed products containing genetically engineered pesticides. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) made the announcement recently.
When I tell people now that I’m vegan, especially folks that knew me as a sushi-obsessed kid, they ask if I miss eating sushi. That always makes me smile, because sushi is so simple to veganize! Sushi doesn’t actually refer to fish at all. The word sushi actually means rice with some sort of filling [...]
Great basil is like a great tomato – its flavor really suffers when it’s grown in a greenhouse out of season and shipped across the country. So I always look forward to the first big basil harvest of the summer. Of course basil is great in everything from pesto to stir fries to salads, but [...]
School nutrition is a hot topic these days. With the Child Nutrition Bill making its way through Congress, food companies are apparently feeling some pressure to improve their offerings. As the largest supplier of pizza in the National School Lunch Program, Schwan’s is in a good position to get kids healthier foods.
Seriously? The Alliance for Food and Farming (AFF) is launching a campaign encouraging consumers to eat more fruits and veggies, regardless of pesticide content. The group is targeting the Environmental Working Group’s shopping guide, claiming that their Dirty Dozen list is causing Americans to eat fewer fruits and veggies.
Wild salmon populations are dwindling from over fishing, and consumers’ taste for the fish is far outpacing the salmon’s ability to reproduce. It takes about 3 years for these fish to reach maturity, meaning that natural populations take years to replenish. Massachusetts-based AquaBounty is has developed a genetically modified salmon that matures in 18 months, [...]
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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.
