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How Good Is Your Food? These Two Brothers Are Reshaping Sustainable Food, Starting In Aisle One

Picture yourself in the grocery store, wheeling a cart along a linoleum grid divided by walls of mainstream food products. Now imagine if those walls and their contents could talk. Rows of grandstanding packages would shout buzz words and phrases from left and right to the likes of 'all-natural,' 'certified [...]

Some rays of hope at Sustainable Foods Institute

You could expect the worst at the Sustainable Foods Institute, the media-oriented counterpart to the Monterey Bay Aquarium’s consumer Cooking for Solutions program: drought, climate change, pollution, endangered species, antibiotic-resistance

Report: U.S. Pro Sports Shifting to More Sustainable Game Day Food | Business Wire

Sports industry concessionaires and venues are increasing the availability of healthier, local food and reducing food waste in an effort to embrace gr

Wearable Tech To Sustainable Food: The 2015 Business Plan Competition

The following post was published on the Knowledge@Wharton website on June 5, 2015.  The Venture Finals of the latest Wharton Business Plan Competition, which for 17 years has placed teams of students from throughout the University of Pennsylvania before a panel of judges, featured more than the usual diversity of ideas. This [...]

New Eat Well Guide Points Consumers to Sustainable Food Options

Consult the Eat Well Guide to find fresh, local produce that nourishes communities and the planet.

Local start-up Tall Foods creates sustainable farming, products

Tall Foods is the greener, healthier tastier way to eat red meat.

Agroecology Practices Critical to Sustainable Agriculture, but Lack Funding

The Union of Concerned Scientists puts rigorous, independent science to work to solve our planet's most pressing problems. Joining with citizens across the country, we combine technical analysis and effective advocacy to create innovative, practical solutions for a healthy, safe, and sustainable future.

Land agreement aims to increase sustainable agriculture in Loess Hills

Fifty-three acres of farmland and oak tree savannah in the Loess Hills will be farmed sustainably as part of an agreement between an area landowner and a budding nonprofit organization.

Community Supported Agriculture and Sustainable Farming are Part of Montville’s Middle School Curriculum

MONTVILLE, NJ – Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) is an important part of Matthew Myers’ science curriculum. A seventh grade science teacher, Myers teaches students organic and sust...

Duke Farms announces new manager of sustainable agriculture

Seth McDonough joins the team as Duke Farms' new manager of sustainable agriculture on April 1.

Taking Root with an urban farming revolution in Boston

There was a time in Boston when seeing vegetable gardens meant that some neighbor had a green thumb or others were looking for a way to transform the eyesore of a vacant lot. Today, the rise of the urban farming revolution is rooted in the demand for local, sustainable food, as well as the economic potential of urban agricultural small businesses.

From Food Trucks to Urban Farming – Boston’s Locally grown food startups on the rise.

The food industry in Boston is evolving, and people like Future Boston Alliance co-founder Malia Lazu are the core ingredients in a new recipe to cook up more local-grown small businesses. Future Boston Alliance’s new restaurant accelerator program is just one of the efforts to add to the growing selection of food startups simmering around the city from restaurants to food trucks to food suppliers.

An urban farming business that operates from supermarket rooftops

Focus Foods also has a social mission to reduce harmful environmental impacts of traditional farming while producing healthier food.

Tanya Fields Is Tackling Racial & Social Injustice With Urban Farming

Tanya Fields is tackling the issue of injustice and the lack of healthy, affordable food in her Bronx, NY neighborhood with an urban farm.

In St. Louis, an Urban Farmer Uses a Rooftop and Food to Spur Renewal

An architect has led an effort to dump some 40 tons of dirt on the roof of a two-story building and grow organic vegetables.

The Big Money Battle to Sway Americans’ Food Choices | Civil Eats

New report says food industry groups spend big and “spin” the truth to turn U.S. consumers away from organic.