Welcome to Eat Drink Better: Sustainable Food for a Healthy Lifestyle
Wait…vegan cocktails? Sure, your regular gin and tonic is going to be vegan, but around the holidays, things tend to get a little bit more elaborate and you’d be surprised at how many hoilday libations feature milk and even eggs. Don’t you fret, though! There are easy peasy ways to veganize even the most fancy pants holiday beverage.
Let’s Cook – part of Michelle Obama’s Let’s Move initiative which includes increasing physical education among children and improving school nutrition – has videos from chefs with ideas for busy weeknight dinners.
To find out whether older or improperly stored seeds are still viable, you need to do a quick and easy experiment called a germination test. Here’s how.
This is an easy, week-night dinner dish, and it’s versatile to boot. You can serve over your favorite grain – I recommend rice, noodles or cous-cous.
Food can be serious business. Whether you’re talking about GMOs and the biotech industry or controversial food policy, sometimes we just need a break. I hope you’ll dig this clip from British sitcom The Mighty Boosh as much as I did!
Aside from producing renewable energy, wind turbines may have beneficial effects on crop growth.
Did you know that cruciferous vegetables were loaded with health benefits? I had a vague idea that they were some kind of super veggie but didn’t know any details. A little digging turned up a slough of information!
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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. M.S. in a health profession, with strong interests in biology, health, and nutrition.
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. My personal blog is urbanartichoke.com.
