Leah Mayor is the sweetest force to be reckoned with you’ll ever meet. A community leader in food sustainability and eco-travel, Leah has just launched her newest project combining the two, Taking Root.
In Zacharias Kunuk and Ian Mauro’s new film, Qapirangajuq: Inuit Knowledge and Climate Change, it’s clear that climate change is happening right now and is already having a dramatic impact on the Inuit communities in the Canadian Arctic.
One of the last vegetables hanging around your local farmers’ market in March is likely to be the rutabaga. Not always first on people’s minds, but aren’t you getting bored of carrots, parsnips, beets and potatoes?
The two groups present radically different visions, but share an enemy: industrial animal agriculture. Yet rather than collaborate, too often they squabble. Meanwhile, industrial meat lurches on, consolidating its grip on our food system and spreading globally. Enough!
Lately, we've been having cold (below freezing) nights and warm (above freezing) days -- the exact conditions needed for maple sugaring. The change in temperature is what makes the sap rise and spill out of taps into waiting buckets.
As Japan's nuclear power plant emergency has spotlighted, water is needed in copious quantities to generate energy. On this World Water Day, let's consider energy's huge slice of our water footprint pie.
Few people know solar energy like Vote Solar’s Executive Director Adam Browning. In today’s Hero podcast, Adam discusses Vote Solar, how he got into the solar field, and what’s on the horizon for his team and the solar industry in the United States.
When I played on the beach as a little kid my favorite activity was to build little dams in the stream of water flowing out of the storm drain outfalls. Of course, I was also playing in filth.
My ex once told me that when he was little he flushed his father’s keys down the toilet. He was fascinated and wondered where everything went. On a recent Saturday morning I met a group of 20 or so curious people who all shared my ex's childhood curiosity.
In 2004, the late, great Peter Jennings ran the hard-hitting series "How the Food Industry is Deceiving You." Nearly seven later, there is still much to be done to divorce the partnership between Big Ag and Big Gov. The good news? Other journalists have followed in Jennings’ footsteps.
As we watch the events unfold at the Fukushima nuclear power plant we are struck by how yet again the interdependencies of water and energy are on full display. Many of the United States’ power plants are archaic, with fossil fuel plants that date back to the 1940s and nuclear plants built in the [...]
Joan Gussow is known as the matriarch of the local food movement. One year ago this week, Joan's garden was devastated by a massive storm and flood. The story of its rebirth is a story about grit, hope and living a purposeful life.
Our Hero: Leah Mayor of Taking Root
Seasonal Food: Rooting for Rutabagas as Winter Winds Down
This World Water Day, Think — Energy
