By Hannah Saulters Spoiler alert: As much as 40 percent of the food produced in America ends up at the dump, off-gassing methane and contributing to climate change. And we consumers bear a great deal of the blame. Become part of the solution with these free apps. Three of the four require a critical mass […]
By Dan Nosowitz On Nov. 1, the National Organic Standards Board finally made a decision on one of the most divisive issues in the organic world: should crops grown in water, containers, or otherwise not in the ground be allowed to call themselves organic? The decision is thus: hydroponic and container gardens will remain eligible […]
By Andrew Amelinckx Lab-grown meat goes by many names—clean meat, cultured protein, animal-free meat, and so on—and all the various producers, of which there are eight around the world, use the same basic premise. At its most elementary, the process involves taking stem cells from a living animal, say, a chicken, then feeding those cells […]
By Andrew Amelinckx The fire the Hendels barely escaped was part of the Northern California firestorm that has so far claimed 40 lives—including one of their neighbors, Lynne Powell—destroyed countless homes, and caused billions of dollars in damage. “Later that morning when we had outrun the fires I cried, sure that I had sentenced Odie […]
By Dan Nosowitz Sixty-eight percent of coffee drinkers in the U.S. use some kind of addition, either a creamer or a sweetener, or both. And if that addition is coming in the form of a single-serve plastic container, it’s likely ending up in a landfill. These pods—you’ve seen them at hotels, airplanes, restaurants, conventions—are convenient […]
By Dan Nosowitz A beekeeper in Brooklyn, New York made an astounding discovery last week: A report of some bees in a bedroom was just the tip of a 35,000-bee iceberg. After seeing a few bees in her bedroom, East Flatbush resident Cherisse Mulzac called in a local bee expert, Mickey Hegedus (also known as […]
By Dan Nosowitz Last month, the National Organic Standards Board met in Denver, Colorado, to discuss what might be the most hotly-debated subject in all of eco-agriculture: What, exactly, does “organic” mean? The U.S. is unlike most countries (or regions, like the EU) in that our organic certification can legally be extended to crops that […]
By Dan Nosowitz It is, we assume, the dream of many readers (and writers and artists and gardeners and … well … just about everyone who’s reading this site probably) to someday own a little organic farm of their own. But the costs of acquiring one—and the difficulties of certification—can all make that dream seem […]
By Brian Barth The People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA), the animal rights organization, has a reputation for employing the oldest marketing trick in the book: selling their message with sex. The latest example? Their campaign to raise awareness of animal abuse in the wool industry, which features a poster of Alicia Silverstone […]
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