By Danielle Nierenberg and Jared Kaufman Eating together does more than make people happier — it can help us all be healthier, especially around the holidays. Conviviality — eating with good company — creates a joyous atmosphere around food that reminds us to honor the food and the people eating it as well as those […]
Ireland is ready to say goodbye to plastic cutlery, plastic balloon sticks and grocery items wrapped in plastic as a way to drastically reduce the amount of waste in Irish landfills, according to the Ireland’s national broadcaster, RTE. Speaking at a Waste Summit in Dublin on Monday, the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment […]
By Paul Brown A sustainable food policy which ends red meat meals has improved student diets and boosted a university catering service’s profits. The University of Cambridge in England, one of the richest and most famous universities in the world, has ended red meat meals in its outlets. Beef and lamb are off the menu […]
The UN set a global goal to cut food loss and waste in half by 2030. Alarming figures show just how big of a challenge remains. Nearly a third of all food produced in the world goes uneaten each year — an amount that costs the global economy $940 billion and emits 8 percent of […]
Food production must change drastically and immediately in order to sustain ourselves through the ongoing climate crisis, says a new United Nations report put together by more than 100 experts from 52 different countries, according to The New York Times. The special report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change concluded that efforts to curb […]
By Jared Kaufman Eating a better diet has been linked with lower levels of heart disease, stroke and type 2 diabetes. But unfortunately 821 million people — about 1 in 9 worldwide — face hunger, and roughly 2 billion people worldwide are overweight or obese, according to the U.N. World Health Organization. In addition, food […]
When it comes to creating waste, no one tops the U.S. And when it comes to recycling waste, well, the U.S. is one of the worst, according to a new analysis by the English risk management firm Verisk Maplecroft. The numbers for the outsized contribution to the global waste crisis by the U.S. are staggering. […]
By Douglas Donnellan With growing awareness of how food waste affects the environment, many conscious eaters are looking for ways to reduce their impact. According to the UN Food and Agriculture Organization, the global greenhouse gas emissions from food waste are larger than those of all countries except for China and the U.S. Part of […]
By Bridget Shirvell On a farm in upstate New York, a cheese brand is turning millions of pounds of food scraps into electricity needed to power its on-site businesses. Founded by eight families, each with their own dairy farms, Craigs Creamery doesn’t just produce various types of cheddar, mozzarella, Swiss and Muenster cheeses, sold in […]
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