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Real Bread Maker Week
Launched by the Real Bread Campaign in 2009 as Real Bread Maker Week, this is the annual, celebration of Real Bread and its makers.The main aim of the week is to encourage people to get baking Real...
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This Crop of Women Farmers is Stepping Up to Sustain the Land
Lindsey Morris Carpenter is the owner-operator of Grassroots Farm, a certified-organic, 40-acre farm in Wisconsin. “It’s important to me to use sustainable methods because it’s the only ethically sound...
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Why There is So Much Sugar in Your Kid’s School Breakfast?
Bettina Elias Siegel is a nationally recognized writer and commentator on issues relating to children and food, with a particular interest in school food reform. Her work has appeared in The New York...
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Flirting with the 1.5°C Threshold
Research Report by Climate Central Global leaders are meeting in New York this week to sign the Paris climate agreement. One of the expressed purposes of the document is to limit warming to “well below...
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Dirt First
Rick Haney, gangly and garrulous, paces in front of a congregation of government conservationists, working the room for laughs before he gets to the hard data. The U.S. Department of Agriculture soil...
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Citizens Revolutionary Week
Four days of days of learning, planning and organizing. 4 Day Pass for $75 May 23rd, $20 May 24th, $20 May 25th, $20 May 26th, $20 Click here for information about Hotels, Restaurants and...
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What’s a Carbon Farmer? How California Ranchers Use Dirt to Tackle Climate...
For many climate change activists, the latest rallying cry has been, “Keep it in the ground,” a call to slow and stop drilling for fossil fuels. But for a new generation of land stewards, the cry is...
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Children Are Most at Risk From Climate Change
Children around the world face unique risks from climate change, according to a new Princeton University study. Researchers found that the young are physically more susceptible to extreme heat,...
View ArticleRAFI Rallies Around Contract Poultry Farmers, Demanding Justice
Eric Hedrick, a contract chicken farmer in West Virginia, produces 1.3 million pounds of chicken every 35 days on his farm. As a contract farmer, once Eric has raised the chickens, the major food...
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Watch: A Tour of the White House Kitchen Garden
First Lady Michelle Obama planted the White House kitchen garden in 2009 in an effort to spark a national conversation around health and wellness, and it has since become a centerpiece in her Let's...
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28% of US bees wiped out this winter, suggesting bigger environmental issues
More than a quarter of American honeybee colonies were wiped out over the winter, with deadly infestations of mites and harmful land management practices heaping mounting pressure upon the crucial...
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Climatarian, vegavore, reducetarian: Why we have so many words for cutting...
A climatarian, a reducetarian, and a sustainatarian walk into a bar. It sounds like the beginning of a joke (and it is*) but it’s also the world we live in now. Those words are just the tip of the...
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Can a Craigslist for cucumbers tackle the UK's food waste?
Where most people see a bruised banana, Saasha Celestial-One and Tessa Cook see a chance to share. Their new app, Olio, allows greengrocers, cafes, restaurants and neighbours to photograph and post...
View ArticleNo One Knows Exactly How Much Herbicide Is in Your Breakfast
Last week, lawyers in New York and California initiated a class-action lawsuit against Quaker Oats for selling oatmeal labeled "100% natural," even though it contains trace amounts of the...
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USDA: ‘Agriculture Wants To Play Its Role’ In Fighting Climate Change
Last April, the United States Department of Agriculture announced plans to tackle agriculture’s contribution to climate change. Dubbed the USDA’s Building Blocks for Climate Smart Agriculture &...
View ArticleTristram Stuart on the Zero Food Waste Future
On May 10, GRACE proudly joined a coalition of nonprofits, government agencies and civil institutions to host Feeding the 5000 NYC, an event created to raise public awareness about food waste and to...
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Survey Says – Confusion about Food Date Labels
True or false? “Use by,” “best before” and “sell by” dates are federally regulated food labels that indicate safety. The answer is “False,” which surprised many shoppers at Baltimore’s Northeast Market...
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Olive Garden protests target drugged chickens and fair wages
Dozens of protesters picketed Olive Garden restaurants in seven cities on Thursday, including New York and Los Angeles, delivering a petition with 130,000 signatures that asks the chain to serve more...
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White House Launches The National Microbiome Initiative
Last October, we ran a story titled “Hey Obama, Can We Have a Unified Microbiome Initiative? Yours, the microbiologists.” As it happens, the answer is yes. Today, the White House is announcing the...
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What the Nonprofit Sector Needs to Reach Its Full Potential
The nonprofit sector has limbs. It has fingers that reach into the most neglected corners of society, forearms that lead large national chapter and affiliate organizations, legs made up of the nation’s...
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