Welcome to Eat Drink Better: Sustainable Food for a Healthy Lifestyle
Researchers are using sophisticated image processing techniques to better identify plants so that less herbicide can be used on our conventionally grown crops. This is obviously a good thing, as herbicides can be quite nasty to the environment and human health.
The Sleeping Naked is Green segment focused on sharing, borrowing and bartering before you buy, which led to a discussion and information on intentional living communities, community bartering systems and fun sharing ideas for books (other than libraries) and everything (freecycle.com). Hear just the fun 5-min segment by clicking here.
I love pineapples. They are one of my favorite foods. We happened to buy one this week, and it was so good I thought I’d finally write a piece about the yellow jewel.
While I normally write about my favorites recipes when I write about a specific food, I really love pineapples in one way much more than any other — plain and simple. So, I don’t have any recipes to share that compare (in my opinion) to a freshly cut pineapple.
BUT, I think it’s always useful to write about the wonderful health benefits of a fruit or vegetable. So, here are some of the health benefits of pineapples for you:
Women, research has discovered another way to reduce health risk. This time with chocolate!
OK, so before I even start this post, I think I need to tell you guys that I am not any sort of rep for Chemex or the filters I talk about below. In fact, when my husband told me that he bought a Chemex, I rolled my eyes a little, thinking that it was just another thing we’d need to store in the kitchen. Consider me a Chemex convert!
In honor of non-GMO month, folks from the Institute for Responsible Technology have shared a great film with us, Scientists Under Attack, and a lot of information to go with it.
Food Day is coming up on October 24. To help everyone with the planning, the sponsors of Food Day have put together a free recipe booklet with twenty-eight recipes from some of America’s top chefs.
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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.
