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Twitter Chat: Sustainable Holiday Meals with @EatSustainable, @GoodGuide & @PoojaMottl
After co-hosting our first (very fun!) Twitter Chat with Grist, we are happy to announce we are doing it again, this time with Good Guide and good food guru, Pooja Mottl. Join us December 7th at 4pm Eastern, using the hashtag #SustainableMeals!
New York City says “No Fracking Way!” at Public Hearing
New York City residents had their chance to respond to the state's plans for hydraulic fracturing (fracking) for natural gas. Their response? No fracking way!
On December 3, Food + Tech Connect and GoJee are hosting the Farm Bill Hackathon, bringing together food/ag experts, technologists, designers, policy makers and data specialists to develop tools and visualizations that can be used to help better understand how the farm bill impacts our lives.
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.
In which our resident home brew hobbyist and clean water advocate argues that craft beers strengthen communities and explores some characteristics (most of which also apply to the good food movement) of the better beer movement, particularly as it concerns local production and consumption.
For years inventors have looked towards biomimicry, the study of nature to solve human problems, to design a wide range of products. Now the science is being embraced by the clean energy industry.
Given the lack of respect with which most Americans treat cranberries, their environmental impact hardly seems worth it. But if we consider the hard work that goes into a product like Starvation Alley's, maybe cranberries can recapture the wonder and respect a traditional dish deserves.
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.
The best Thanksgiving turkey I ever had was the one I killed myself. That year, giving thanks took on a whole new meaning, as I contemplated the bird who sacrificed its life for my nourishment.
Join us Tuesday for #turktalk, a Twitter chat hosted by Grist Food editor Twilight Greenaway and Ecocentric editor Leslie Hatfield, in which we will dish up some serious food issue info, all with a holiday flavor.
