Tag: Diet - Page 4
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Going Meat-Free One Day a Week Saves More GHG Emissions Than A 100% Local Diet (Redux)
Image: bgarciagi via flickr TH note: Thanks to Harvard Business Review a three year old study is making the media rounds for a second time. We covered it at the time and have analyzed the issue of over-simplication of food miles a number of times. But
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Sarah Rich on Local Food and Disruptive Technology (Podcast)
Sarah Rich is a former senior editor at Dwell magazine, the creator of Longshot Magazine, and the co-author of the WorldChanging book. Sarah's journalistic obsession pivots around design, urban agriculture, technology, and new media. She tells
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The Food of Social Enterprise: How We Feed Back is Solving the Global Food Crisis
Did you know over 1 billion people will be perpetually hungry in 2011? For our already overpopulated world, food prices continue to rise due to a variety of reasons,
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"Gobble" Helps You Order Take-Out From Your Neighbors' Kitchens
We can agree that most take-out is bad for you. We can agree that a home-cooked meal is usually far better than take-out both for you and for the environment. And we can probably agree that even if you're a great cook, a
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US Missing Out On Agricultural Millions Because The DEA Can't Distinguish Hemp From Pot
In case you missed it (and you certainly may have in the midst of other current world affairs) it's Hemp History Week. The second annual one in fact. I imagine most TreeHugger readers don't need much convincing that
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FTC Investigating Online Food Marketing to Kids
Once upon a time food marketing meant TV commercials with cartoon leprechauns or rabbits. Now, kids get blitzed round the clock by
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Sugar is "Like Cigarettes and Alcohol, And Killing Us"
The New York Times Magazine cover article has the provocative title Is Sugar Toxic? which they have ever so kindly let loose outside their new pay wall. Author Gary Taubes has become
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Portion-Control Plate Reminds Meat Eaters What's Missing
Yanko Design points us to this plate concept by designer Dave Wu, which is somewhat like a training wheels plate for meat eaters going vegetarian. The plate has a pop-up of the portion that would normally be set aside for meat,
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America's Weight Problem Means Mass Transit Needs An Upgrade
I'll assume that you know America's collective growing waistline in a major health problem, with myriad causes from diet to exercise to economic. Well, the situation has become bad enough that the Federal Transit
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Vegans, Vegetarians & Omnivores Unite! Against Factory Farms
Over at Grist yesterday Tom Philpott wrote one of the most important and practical pieces in food politics writing I've seen in a while (and self-reflective green movement commentary). Philpott rightly urges both
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Genetically Modified Cows To Produce 'Human' Milk
Details are a bit thin on this one, but my initial reaction to this is an overwhelming grossness: Reports from Times of India are that researchers in China have genetically modified some 200 cows so that the
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The Self-Compassion--Sustainability Connection (i.e., Take it Easy)
If "self-love" or "self-compassion" sounds sort of hokey, I don't blame you. The often hallow-sounding words can conjure up images of hippies and yoga instructors wearing flowing white gauzy garb. (This is not to disparage,
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10 Fresh, In-Season Fruits and Vegetables the West Coast Should be Eating Now (Slideshow)
Eating local food can be tricky during the winter months. A few weeks ago we showed you how the East Coast could keep the food miles low, and readers responded, hey, what about the rest of the continent?
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10 Fresh, In-Season Fruits and Vegetables the West Coast Should be Eating Now
Eating local food can be tricky during the winter months. A few weeks ago we showed you how the East Coast could keep the food miles low, and readers responded, hey, what about the rest of the continent? West Coast residents are lucky when it comes to se
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Make Proper Porridge with the Porridge Lady
What do you eat for breakfast? A recent TreeHugger survey revealed that 52% of readers eat a high fibre cereal. What could be healthier than to start the day with a bowl of hot steaming porridge. Unfortunately many of us envision grey, lumpy glop
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Help Michael Pollan Write the Food Rules Expanded Edition - Submit Your Rules Via Slow Food
Now Michael Pollan's Food Rules wasn't my favorite book of his, but it was a best-seller and a new edition is being written--and Pollan is in general a fine writer. To help craft it Pollan is partnering with Slow Food USA for a user-generated portion
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10 Healthy, Green Breakfast Cereals to Start the Day Off Right (Slideshow)
If breakfast is the most important meal of the day, are you sure you're starting off with the healthiest -- and greenest -- possible meal?
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10 Healthy, Green Breakfast Cereals to Start the Day Off Right
If breakfast is the most important meal of the day, are you sure you're starting off with the healthiest -- and greenest -- possible meal? Cereal is quick and easy, but this is one processed food that can be seriously deceptive -- with artificial sweete
