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The USDA announced a new initiative to use psychology to improve school nutrition in the lunchroom. Restaurants and grocery stores have been using marketing psychology for years to entice customers into buying more expensive (and often less healthy and higher calorie) items. Now the USDA wants to use that same marketing psychology to get schoolkids to choose healthier meals at school.
Leeks are my favorite member of the allium family, which also contains garlic, onions, and scallions. Here are my favorite vegan and vegetarian leek recipes!
The fun of costumes and sweet foods has become the focus of this time of year. Hot apple cider; warm pumpkin bread or pie; friendly spiders; and webs of community fun, mystery, and magic are all over the place. Sugary treats from the store, however, do not need to take center stage. On Halloween, we can [...]
Cross posted from Worldwatch Institute’s Nourishing the Planet. In the Maradi area in south central Niger, where 70 percent of the population lives below the poverty line, the months before the harvest are called “the hunger season.” From mid-July to mid-September, food supplies are at their lowest and most families only eat one meal a [...]
Recipe for a guilt-free alternative to ice cream: walnut banana smoothie.
Health inspectors in San Antonio, TX believe that unsanitary conditions in a food processing plant led to listeriosis contamination. At least ten people are ill and 5 dead.
The Fruit Guys has a new product called the Take Home box. It provides customers with convenient fruits and vegetables. This is a review of their product.
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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.
