Tag: Drinks - Page 3
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From Schools to Hospitals, Fresh Healthy Vending Makes Healthy Snacking Easier
It seems like a good sign when an eighth-grade girl says this about a vending machine stocked with things like fruit slices, (healthy) granola bars and dairy-free snacks: "All the vending machines I see have candy or
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Astronauts Drink Their Urine in DIY Energy Drink
Unlike most boys, I've never really wanted to be an astronaut. And this latest piece of news just confirms my misgivings. The internet is full of stories that astronauts on the current shuttle mission will be testing a
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The Carbon Footprint of Whisky, and How to Reduce It
Liquor can have a negative impact on more than just your health, the massive waste problem of tequila being a prime case in point. Whisky-making too can be a pretty energy-intensive and wasteful process, but steps are being taken to address this. We've
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How a Cooperative Pub is Keeping a Village Alive (Video)
From community supported beer to a cooperative effort to build a solar power station on a brewery roof, the British public seem to be on a roll when it comes to combining activism with that popular national pass-time of
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Declining Coffee Production Is Climate Change's Canary In the Coal Mine
The oil industry-backed groups keep funding anti-climate change groups, and the Republicans in the U.S. Congress back
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Odwalla "Plastic" PlantBottle Now Made With 100% Plant Materials
One-upping Pepsi's plant-based bottle scheduled to be piloted next year, the Odwalla PlantBottle is now at least 96 percent and up to 100 percent plant-based materials—and is still recyclable in existing facilities. It's only the Odwalla bottles
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Toast Your Health With These Five Organic Drinks
Among all the "natural" energy drinks, chill-out beverages, coconut waters, probiotic kefir shooters, alternative milks, and superfruit juices at the recent Natural Products Expo, there were some
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Beer as a Metaphor for Sustainability
As an occasional homebrewer myself, I have been known to muse on what brewing beer can teach us about living green, but beer advocate and American University's Director of Sustainability Chris O'Brien is streets ahead of me. Back in 2007, Siel got
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The New Pepsi Challenge: Beating Coke to Produce A 100% Petroleum-Free Plastic Bottle
Pepsi unveiled a new bottle yesterday: the first of its kind, the company says, to be made entirely from plant materials, which include switch grass, pine bark, and corn husks.
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Natural Products Expo 2011 Report: Functional Food and Sustainable Packages
Ancient grains, coconut water, fair trade chocolates, protein bars, and organic pet food were in abundance in Orange County this weekend, where baobab and sea buckthorn joined acai, goji
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Coca Cola, DuPont, Kellogg's and Others Establish a Trade Organization for Sustainable Packaging
Some of the most ubiquitous products on supermarket shelves may soon have greener packaging— Colgate-Palmolive, Coca-Cola, DuPont, Dow Chemical, Kellogg's and others have formed a trade organization to coordinate
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Heinz to Adopt Coca Cola's "PlantBottle"
Heinz explains more about the
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Coca-Cola Case Could Set Precedent on Secret Ingredients
Anybody who advises companies on how to walk the line between trade secret and full ingredient disclosure knows that the threat of a lawsuit weighs as much or more than the regulations in any decision made. Protecting recipes --
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'Conscious Cocoa' Hot Chocolate Recipe
Lowering the thermostat is a good, green thing. And I mentioned last week, it could surprisingly help you lose weight. Those of us in cold climes less in for the weight loss and more in for a cooler planet, are trying to keep the
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Ecolean Packaging Minimizes Without Loss of Functionality
Yesterday's milk purchase came with a bit of surprise: the skinny packaging which we featured popping up in Asia three years ago has arrived at our table. Although it is heartening to see the spread of a good idea, it is a mixed blessing:
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Would You Drink Milk from a Papier-Mache Bottle?
Since the average plastic bottle takes 500 years to decompose, more solutions to this rapidly growing landfill crisis are needed, quickly.
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Why Bother Chewing? Pepsi Out to 'Snackify' Beverages and 'Drinkify' Snacks
Pepsi is rolling out a new product next month: Tropolis, a drinkable snack. It's marketing its Tropolis "smooth blend of real squeezable fruit" to moms and kids, apparently to replace the role of actual fruit. Why is this not the
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Eco-Liquors to Toast the New Year (or Anything Else)
Why is liquor on my mind? Could it be that the in-laws came to stay over Christmas? Nah, probably just a coincidence. Now that Dec. 25 has passed, it's time to plan for New Year's Eve, where people stay up too late and
