Tag: Food Miles - Page 11
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Locali Conscience Convenience Stores Launched
With agave slushies and grass fed hot dogs, Locali Conscious Convenience Stores is taking grab n' go to a whole new level. The new convenience store is encouraging its customers to Think Globally While Acting
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Fruit for Thought? Tu B'Shevat with TreeHugger and 92YTribeca
I've always been a big fan of holidays that celebrate food and of meeting up with my TreeHugger colleagues in person. So when the invitation
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Meet The Food You Eat: Measuring Carbon Footprints With a Kitchen Scale
Three students at the Copenhagen Institute of Interaction Design have experimented in physical representations of the environmental impacts of food. Their project, Meet the Food You Eat measures the CO2 emissions resulting from food transport and the
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Eight Exotically Green Sushi Options (Slideshow)
With overfishing and increased mercury levels, it seems like no fish is safe fish these days. For these reasons, I barely indulge myself in my favorite of all ocean-borne culinary delights: the sushi bar. I
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University of New Hampshire Launches an EcoGastronomy Program
If only this major had been available when I was in college I would have paid a lot more attention in my classes. No, no I'm not saying that I have any regrets about my journalism degree but the idea of going to class
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5,000 Farmers Markets In Japan As Food Safety And Worries About Food Self-Sufficiency Grows
I try to buy locally grown vegetables and eggs as much as possible, but I don't have a local farmers market nearby. Instead, my supermarket has a large section with foods that farmers here in central Saitama are producing. I
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Can You Have Your Vegan Truffle and Eat it Too?
photo: Allison's Gourmet Allison's Gourmet thinks so. If you're trying to give up animal products in 2009, Allison's Gourmet has come up with a nice way to thank you: yummy vegan truffles. They are great for your vegan Valentine, but if you're like me,
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Cuba Relies on Urban Gardens to Feed Hungry Populace
Planet Ark/Reuters has a nice piece out of Havana about how urban gardens are filling a key void in food production after three hurricanes wiped out 30 percent of the country's farm crops. In Cuba, urban gardens have proliferated in vacant lots,
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Crushing Seed to Fry the Turkey - DIY Thanksgiving Extreme
How Much Canola Does it Take to Fry a Turkey? From moving toward vegetarianism to buying local, organic or free range for the Thanksgiving table, TreeHugger and Planet Green are both full of examples of how we can enhance our celebrations by nurturing a
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From Community Supported Agriculture to a Community Supported Kitchen
Community Supported Agriculture is now widespread in many U.S. cities and towns- you can find the ones nearest you at the great resource Local Harvest - as a way for farmers to get the economic support they need to keep
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The Life of a Swedish 'Climate Smart' Chicken: Nasty, Brutish, Short?
The 'kycklingdebat' or chicken debate is hot in Swedes' minds since Svenska Dagbladet (SvD), on of the country's two main dailies, published a long report on the short lives of the 74 million chickens annually born and bred
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Organic Foods Roach Coach Feeds Los Angeles
A roach coach never sounds so good as during a 2 AM walk home from a bar. But most of the time, we're looking for something healthier and more substantial. In fact, wouldn't it be nice if we could find an organic meal truck?
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Eating Foil Balls and Extension Cords: the 48hr Film Competition
Dangerously Disconnected From our Food "It's easy if you stick to a few basic principles — no real food and nothing from living things [ ] You can't genetically engineer something that doesn't have genes." Tom Bardwell in Hard to
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Grain Shipped Under Sail Reduces Carbon Footprint
Local eating advocates often cite reduced shipping emissions as a good reason to source food from as close to home as possible. The concept of reduced food miles equaling reduced carbon output quickly
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The TH Interview: Jerry Greenfield of Ben & Jerry's
Between their Climate College, "global cooling" efforts and PETA's calls for them to use breast milk in their ice cream (say what!?), Ben & Jerry's have managed to stay several steps ahead of the game for years.
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Guayaki's Maté - "Carbon Subtracting" Beverage in Biodegradable Packaging
Biodegradable only good if it's being degraded Biodegradable packaging is a bit like carbon offsetting - of dubious value if it is only a band aid for our guilt. We actually must be biodegrading the packaging to make the premise work. Guayaki, which
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Five Outstanding Green Restaurants
Here at TreeHugger, we've covered the sustainable food movement for years, but have never pulled together our own list of the greenest restaurants. Wait no more: these five outstanding green restaurants -- in no particular order -- are sure to please
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5 Strategies for Getting the Most from Your Farmers' Market
We’ve devoted plenty of space to the benefits -- both health and environmental -- of eating locally: buying food produced near your home lowers your carbon footprint; decreases the energy used to transport and
