New wine in old bottles
A European idea is catching on in Washington’s wine country: reusable bottles. It saves money and is kind to the environment. By Harris Meyer | Crosscut.com | February 18, 2010 Refillable wines, at...
View ArticleThe Great Grocery Smackdown
Will Walmart, not Whole Foods, save the small farm and make America healthy? by Corby Kummer | Atlantic Monthly | March 2010 (IMAGE CREDIT: ELI MEIR KAPLAN) BUY MY FOOD at Walmart? No thanks. Until...
View ArticleTHE NANOTECH GAMBLE: Bold Science. Big Money. Growing Risks.
Regulated or Not, Nano-Foods Coming to a Store Near You Second in a Three-Part Series By Andrew Schneider | AOL Special Report | March 24, 2010 According to a USDA scientist, some Latin American...
View ArticleNew way of fish farming could help fix environment
Biologists study whether sea creatures could be used to counteract damage to ecosystems By Randy Shore | Vancouver Sun | March 24, 2010 Mussels grown in experimental multi-species fish farms not only...
View ArticleWhat Climate Change Means for Wine Industry
By Mark Hertsgaard | Wired Science | April 26, 2010 | 6:28 pm John Williams has been making wine in California’s Napa Valley for nearly 30 years, and he farms so ecologically that his peers call him...
View ArticleVegetarian Diet Guide for Cyclists: Nutrition | Bicycling Magazine
Veg Out | Selene Yeage | 2012 August 10 If you drop meat from your diet, you have to pick up new eating habits to keep riding strong [image by T. Walenta] Vegetarianism isn’t a new concept, but it...
View ArticleWilling To Play The Dating Game With Your Food? Try A Grocery Auction | The...
by SERRI GRASLIE | All Things Considered | August 23, 2012 Runner Tom Howard holds up the merchandise at a grocery auction in Dallas, Pa., in 2009. These auctions are becoming more popular as people...
View ArticleA Banker Bets on Organic Farming | NYTimes.com
Mark Bittman | On food and all things related | 28 August 2012 It’s unlikely that large-scale changes in the so-called food system will happen without movement on the part of big investors. Sadly, most...
View ArticleA Simple Fix for Farming
By Mark Bittman | NYTimes.com | October 19, 2012 IT’S becoming clear that we can grow all the food we need, and profitably, with far fewer chemicals. And I’m not talking about imposing some utopian...
View ArticleFixing Our Food Problem – NYTimes.com
By Mark Bittman | The NYT Opinion Pages | Jan 1, 2013 Mark Bittman on food and all things related. Nothing affects public health in the United States more than food. Gun violence kills tens of...
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