Jennifer Bunin
Jennifer Bunin is a program associate for the Food Team at GRACE. She graduated from Wesleyan University with a B.A. in English. She strives to build upon the avenues of communication for the food movement in order to bring both knowledge and good food to our nation of diverse communities. Originally from New Jersey, she now lives in Brooklyn.
For over a decade an international debate has raged over the cause of the global decline of honeybees. In just the past month, three separate studies have connected bee die-offs and neonicotinoid pesticides- a culprit blamed by farmers and scientists since the debate began.
We’ve been talking about corporate “greenwashing” for a while, now, but if food activists have been hard at work talking to consumers about food systems, so have food marketers.
For Earth Day, the Ecocentric team examines two ways children are involved in the environmental movement: corporate greenwashing aimed at kids, from fun-shaped water bottles to a coloring book featuring a fracking-themed dinosaur, and green media produced by kids themselves.
The egg, a symbol of life and fertility, is used across many cultures to celebrate spring. It's the perfect time of the year to reflect upon how eggs make it to our plates and how our choices in eggs, guided by labels, affect our health and the environment.
In 2009, Gary Oppenheimer had an idea to reduce food waste and help feed the hungry in his community by connecting those with extra produce to food pantries. Three years later, AmpleHarvest.org has registered nearly 5,000 food pantries nationwide.
City folk are now peeing glyphosate, the main ingredient in Monsanto's Roundup – but that isn’t the only news that’s garnered Monsanto headlines recently. Here’s a “roundup” (ouch) of important Monsanto and GMO news.
There’s a new GMO in town: Monsanto’s GE sweet corn. If you’re unhappy about this, you’re not alone. Food and Water Watch has initiated a national campaign to pressure Walmart to refuse to sell products using the GE corn.
A few weeks ago Congress dismissed the USDA's healthy school lunch reform proposals and decided to count pizza sauce as a vegetable. Sound ridiculous? It is.
Major American universities are practicing "land-grabbing" - buying up African farmland in deals that will likely result in displacement of small farmers, environmental devastation and the further impoverishment and political destabilization. Students and alumni: you have the power to change this.
The bloggers at Ecocentric took some time to reflect and offer you now second annual Thanksgiving roundup, in which we celebrate all we have to be thankful for in the world of sustainable food, water and energy.
If your biggest worry is getting circus peanuts or conventional apples in your trick-or-treat bag tonight, hold on to your hat, because there are a LOT scarier food issues these days. Here’s a roundup of the most frightening.
Hurricane Irene caused the worst flooding eastern upstate New York and Vermont have seen in centuries, devastating farms and dairies throughout the Northeast. We've mapped as many as we could find, as well as local events organized to support them.
Green Lessons: What Corporations Are Telling Kids and What Kids Are Saying about Environmental Issues
Our Hero: Gary Oppenheimer of AmpleHarvest.org
