By Jay Walljasper For too long biking has been viewed skeptically as a white-people thing, a big city thing, an ultra-fit athlete thing, a twenty-something thing, a warm weather thing or an upper-middle-class thing. And above all else, it’s seen as a guy thing. But guess what? The times, they are a-changin’. More than 100 […]
By Don Hazen When I spoke with Alice Waters, we didn’t focus on her famed restaurant, Chez Panisse, or her profound impact on the way we eat today, starting with the concept of farm to table. Rather, we talked about her passionate, decades-long campaign to provide organic school lunches to kids across the country. Waters […]
By Jacky Miller Dark chocolate is not a guilty pleasure; it actually comes with many health benefits. Real dark chocolate—not processed and sweetened milk chocolate—is chock-full of incredible health benefits. Some nutrients are destroyed in the process of making chocolate available for the general market. Make sure the chocolate you buy is within the healthy […]
By Melissa Kravitz In the second edition of the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Dietary Goals for the United States, published in 1977, Americans were advised to limit their intake of fats, replacing their regular fat sources (meat, butter) with complex carbohydrates and manufactured substitutes (margarine). And just as low-fat, fat-free and “lite” products began […]
By Kali Holloway As Donald Trump takes office, pushing a wave of explicitly authoritarian federal policies and practices, Republican leaders at every level are following suit. The latest example is North Dakota lawmaker Keith Kempenich, who has introduced a bill that says a driver “who unintentionally causes injury or death to an individual obstructing vehicular […]
By Melissa Kravitz As climate change makes it harder for avocado growers to produce the fruits, the criminal underworld has seized on avocados’ ever-growing popularity. 10 foods that could disappear because of #climate change https://t.co/sXQgtoDDbd via @ecowatch pic.twitter.com/fNMr4Byekk — Climate Nexus (@ClimateNexus) December 26, 2015 In January 2015, the Washington Post demonstrated how this once […]
By Alex Kotch The Trump White House is going to be very, very Koch-y. During the 2016 presidential campaign, billionaire industrialists and Republican mega-donors Charles and David Koch made headlines by refusing to endorse a candidate. But ads in U.S. Senate races paid for by Koch-linked independent political groups hurt the image of Donald Trump’s […]
By Emily Johnston I’ve been thinking a lot about risk lately—what we’re willing to risk and why. I was one of five activists who turned off the major tar sands pipelines coming into the U.S. on Oct. 11, 2016. As a result, I’m risking prison time, ostensibly for property damage (we cut a few chains […]
By Alexandra Rosenmann With the Dakota Access Pipeline nearly 90 percent complete, developers are focusing their attention elsewhere. Meanwhile, protests against additional pipelines throughout the country have yet to receive a tenth of the airtime. “If you draw a line from Chicago to the Gulf Coast—Houston, Port Arthur, Baton Rouge—that line goes through Patoka, Illinois,” […]
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