Food
GRACE works to promote the development of a sustainable food system that produces safe, healthful, accessible food while safeguarding the environment, human health, agricultural communities and animal welfare. In addition to educating the public about the benefits of sustainable agriculture (and the ills of the industrial alternative), GRACE maintains the Eat Well Guide, an online directory of sources of sustainable foods.
I met Sarah Haynes in January 2011 during my farming excursion in St. Croix. Sarah is now running a school garden, and teaching kids about food and farming as the EARTH (Education And Resiliency Through Horticulture) Coordinator at the Gifft Hill School on St. John.
Arguably the most iconic of the spring vegetables, asparagus is grown around the world and has been celebrated for millennia.What better vegetable with which to start our new weekly series on the ABCs and 123s of seasonal food?
We’re excited to offer ten lucky Ecocentric readers a free download of "WATERSHED," a film narrated by Robert Redford about the threats to the once-mighty Colorado River.
This is the one time we’d recommend you watching videos while you eat. Our friends at TEDxManhattan and The Glynwood Institute asked us to help spread the word about "Dinner and Some Ed," an event to raise awareness, and enjoyment, of local, sustainable food. You can do it any day, but why not pl[...]
Ecocentric's Kyle Rabin is moderating a panel at the Brooklyn Food Conference today on the interrelated nature of food, water and energy systems, so we thought we'd share some facts with our readers who aren't able to attend.
California’s Central Valley and New York’s Suffolk County may be miles away in geography and in culture, but both share the problem of nitrate contaminated drinking water as shown in two separate studies. The question is, how long can this pollution be tolerated?
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.
In a little-known Hallmark holiday back-story, Anna Jarvis, the founder of Mother’s Day, spent the last years of her life fighting its commercialization. Obviously, she lost that fight, but read on, there are sustainable options!
Both the "mad cow" and the "pink slime" fiascos are instances where an ethically-questionable processing technology was introduced without widespread public knowledge or acceptance, where the primary aim was to utilize slaughterhouse waste in order to minimize industry costs.
Last Saturday, May 5, people around the world marked Climate Impacts Day. In honor of the day, we decided to connect some of the dots between extreme weather and food, water and energy in the U.S. during 2011.
Heroic Endeavor: Sarah Haynes, Gifft Hill School, St. John USVI
Real Food Right Now and How to Cook It: Asparagus
Farming, Fracking and Power Plants: The Food/Water/Energy Connection
Drinking Water Week Blues: Nitrate Pollution from Coast to Coast
