While many plastics are recyclable, they still end up in landfills, oceans and ultimately, in our bodies. With less than 9% of plastic waste being recycled—and packaging comprising the largest percent of plastic waste—businesses and entrepreneurs are rethinking how to package food. This story was produced in partnership with Food Tank.Story by Emily Payne, Food…
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By Emily Payne and Danielle Nierenberg
Is Plastic Waste the Cost of Eating?
By Monty Moran
Living Sustainably: To Honor Ourselves is to Honor our Planet
How can we take decisive action towards living sustainably with so many competing points of view? We’re told climate change is man-made, but then hear it’s a natural phenomenon. We hear that we need to regulate our companies, but also that doing so limits job growth and hurts our economy. We hear calls to “kill…
By Bruce Cole
Edible Pursuit: Largest Tomato Plant
The world’s largest tomato plant was grown in the experimental greenhouse at Walt Disney World Resort. It produced how many tomatoes over 16 months? 7,500 13,000 32,000 The answer is 32,000. The world’s largest tomato tree was grown in the experimental greenhouse at Walt Disney World Resort. It produced over 32,000 tomatoes in the first…
By Colleen Troy
The Hype and Hope of Hemp
Walk into any health or wellness store today and be prepared for a big dose of CBD marketing. It’s been the focus of New York Times articles, national TV news stories and more. In areas around the country, CBD products ranging from infused honey to lotion have popped up at stand-alone stores, festivals and local…
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Filmmaker Marcelina Cravat reveals the regenerative magic of biochar in her new documentary. Back in 2013, the environmental concern most Northern Californians were losing sleep over was the drought. Our more recent pattern of frequent firestorms had not settled in or signaled its frightening potential, and Elizabeth Kolbert’s book, The Sixth Extinction, was not yet…
Women for the Land: A Program by American Farmland Trust Seeks to Help Women Agrarians Succeed
SPONSORED LeTicia Marshall has always been drawn to the soil. As a child, she helped with chores on her grandparents’ farm in Kentucky, feeding the pigs, picking strawberries and sidestepping cow patties along the way. The deep connection she has to the land was seeded at an early age and has since germinated into something she…