New Smartphone App Alerts Consumers to Food and Product Recall Info, Allows Reporting of Questionable Items
New Smartphone App Alerts Consumers to Food and Product Recall Info, Allows Reporting of Questionable Items…
Primate Study: Eating Less Extends Lifespan
Study of monkeys found cutting calories by almost a third slowed their aging and fended off death. The study suggests that a similar diet might work in humans…
Sustainable seafood in supermarkets
Trader Joe’s got a failing score on Greenpeace’s seafood sustainability scorecard last year – and unfortunately, held tight to its F in 2009 – despite the fact that more than half the other supermarkets improved their fishy scores…
Urban agriculture has enormous potential
Lindbert turned to rooftop gardening in the belief that his actions might encourage people to grow their own food or buy locally grown produce…
Gardens in the sky
Rooftop gardens are popping up everywhere. According to the article, restaurants are growing rooftop gardens for their restaurants, schools to their students
Just BARE Chicken eases your conscience
The makers of Just BARE Chicken say they raise their birds cage-free on a vegetable diet and don’t give them antibiotics or growth hormones…
Guidelines for labeling alcohol beverages with organic claims
Guidelines for labeling alcohol beverages with organic claims have been updated. Guidelines contain sample labels for wine, malt beverages, and distilled spirits…
USDA Releases Survey of Farmers Markets
Report reviews number of vendors, customers, age of the market, types of goods sold, and the way those goods were labeled, analyzing factors contributing to success of the markets…
Nutrient Delivery to the Gulf of Mexico Among Highest Measured
hypoxic zone is the second largest in the world, and threatens the economic and ecological health of one of the nation’s largest and most productive fisheries…
Veggie Chronicles: Failure…and some success
Every year I tell myself I’m going to buy plants from the nursery, and instead, every year I get sucked into buying all these seeds from the catalog companies…
13 strategies for shopping a farmers market
Farmers markets have returned when interest in sustainable produce is strong. Whether a newbie or market veteran, we’ve got some tips to get the most from your visit…
Speak up about eggs
People are more aware of the impact that not only the products they buy have but also the packaging that the products come in has…
A Natural Hand Refresher
Natural Hand Refresher was inspired by the motto “Because clean is good… sterile is not.” With this in mind, they created a hand cleaner with only 12…
Reducing Global Warming One Bean at a Time
Linda Watson wants to reduce greenhouse gases – one pot of beans at a time, developing cooking method to help people eat healthy, low-cost meals, use less energy…
Vineyards increasingly thinking ‘green’
Turns out, it is fairly easy being green. And the rewards go way beyond feeling good about yourself, U.S. grape growers largely agree…
Shopping by Expiration Date
He observed that tree-huggers (not sure how he identified tree-huggers from others) reached into the back to find the milk with the latest expiration date…
An Organic Wine That Tastes Great and Good for the Enviornment
Call me a skeptic, call me a wine snob, call me crazy, but seeing the words “eco-friendly” and the product packaged in a box did not give me high hopes about Yellow+Blue’s wines. Please note: I was wrong.
