Drink Recipes for a Green Saint Patrick’s Day
Imagine if we picked sustainably-produced beer and whiskey over the conventional stuff? We’ve got some drink suggestions and a list of organic stouts to help you do just that!
Imagine if we picked sustainably-produced beer and whiskey over the conventional stuff? We’ve got some drink suggestions and a list of organic stouts to help you do just that!
If you're getting your veggies from a CSA or farmers market and working hard to reduce your food miles, it feels counterintuitive to purchase wine from hundreds or thousands of miles away.
The corn lobby would have us believe that high fructose corn syrup is a safe, natural food additive. In fact it's highly processed, and a recent study discovered that it often contains mercury.
Are Peter Pan's new peanut butter jars "Earth Friendly"? Maybe friendlier, but friendly?
Nearly one in three U.S. children are obese: that's over three times the childhood obesity rate from thirty years ago! That means a rise in obesity-related illnesses such as diabetes and heart disease. A recent study estimated that this spike in illnesses translates into almost $150 billion in health care costs.
This delightful cocktail combines sweet, sparkling apple cider with romantic lavender for a perfect Valentine's Day drink!
Where can folks take that compostable dishware? It doesn't decompose in a regular compost pile, but instead requires very high temperatures to break down, which you're really only going to get in a commercial facility. Most cities don't have easy access to municipal composting, so what does that mean for all of that "green" compostable plastic? How green is it really?
What does organic really mean? How does food really go from farm to table? City girl Dorothee Royal teamed up with photographer Mark Andrew Boyer to answer those questions and document their adventure as they “explore America’s sustainable food landscape.” They’re traveling the U.S. visiting organic farms, community gardens, and restaurants to learn about where [...]
Last week I was drinking tea in a bustling San Francisco coffee shop and reading ‘Integrative Nutrition‘ by Joshua Rosenthal, when I was approached by a complete stranger - ecstatic about the Integrative Nutrition program, which his fiancee had recently graduated from, and his mother was enrolled in for the coming year. A few weeks ago, [...]
Weddings in the U.S. produce, on average, 63 tons of CO2 and 400-600 pounds of trash. That’s for one wedding! With over 2.5 million weddings per year in this country, that adds up to a crazy amount of pollution and waste. When Brooke and her fiance Ben got engaged, they knew they wanted no [...]