Welcome to Eat Drink Better: Sustainable Food for a Healthy Lifestyle
It seems that no one uses just boring old salt anymore. It’s always sea salt, or kosher salt or some other crazy designer salt that’s called for. What you may not know about these salts is that many of them do not contain iodine, a necessary nutrient for proper thyroid function.
Consumer Reports recently released a video that took a look at the junk food masquerading as health food on store shelves.
This week we were fortunate enough to track down Dave Guffy of The Hess Collection in Mount Veeder, Napa. In addition to a wide range of sustainable practices, Hess is a leader in walking their susty walk and sets aside 1% of sales from several wines such as their Small Block Series of limited-release wines [...]
This curry vegan lamb recipe is perfect with a side of roasted potatoes and a big salad!
The Green Revolution of the 1960s led to a near tripling of global grain production and a doubling of the world’s irrigated area. It also, however, demanded vast quantities of water. Previous agricultural investments have focused narrowly on increasing crop yields, while there has been relatively little research and investment in ways to make better use of scarce water resources. Affordable innovations that boost agricultural development and meet the increasing demand on already-scarce water resources while also mitigating the impacts of climate change, are more important than ever.
California bill AB88 supports labeling genetically engineered fish.
A recent study conducted by Colombia University and the University of Miami Miller found those who consume regular amounts of diet soda have a 61% increased risk for strokes.
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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.
