Tag: food

Our addiction to plastic is having negative effects all along the food chain.

If you regularly drink water from plastic bottles, you’re likely ingesting even more plastic than the average consumer.

Megacorporations tend to dominate food contracting with schools and other large facilities in America. In Chicago, Black formerly incarcerated people are prepping locally sourced meals for schools, nursing homes and transitional housing facilities.

Despite the pro-climate rhetoric of the insurance industry—and warnings by the world’s climate scientists calling for an end to fossil fuel exploration—leading...

Our broken and inhumane food system is a huge source of emissions, so why isn’t it a major part of the climate solution?

Time-proven acequia irrigation systems already in use in New Mexico make it possible for people to thrive in arid regions.

Mark Skidmore talks about how the role of everyday citizens in affecting the relationship the U.S. now has and will have with the rest of the world community.

Educators use the community schools approach to tackle underlying causes of disparities that show up in classrooms.

Community fridge networks across the country are an important start—and symbol—in the work to make sure everyone has enough to eat.

Americans eat more meat per capita than any other country, even though meat consumption is linked to heart disease, diabetes and cancer.