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Articles by Twilight Greenaway

Twilight Greenaway has been reporting on food, agriculture, and the climate for nearly two decades. She served as Grist's food editor from 2011 to 2012 and as an editor at Civil Eats from 2014-2024. She is currently working for the Climate and Equity Reporting Project through UC Berkeley Journalism, writing and editing stories about greenhouse gas reduction efforts in California.

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  • Hacking the Farm Bill

    A slide from the winning entry. Rebecca Klein wasn’t expecting a lot when she signed up to attend last week’s Farm Bill Hackathon. This public health expert from the Center for a Livable Future at Johns Hopkins University had never heard of a hackathon — a gathering of computer programmers who lock themselves in a […]

  • Fair trade lite: Fair Trade USA moves away from worker co-ops

    Maya Vinic Co-op in Chiapas, Mexico. Photo: Courtesy of Peace CoffeeCompared to so many other purchasing decisions — like which humane meat label to trust, for instance — the “Certified Fair Trade” logo has made buying ethically produced coffee a relatively simple choice. Most of us either buy fair trade or we don’t.   But […]

  • Pesticides on trial [VIDEO]

    On Dec. 3, the 27th anniversary of the Bhopal disaster, anti-pesticide advocates are bringing the six largest pesticide companies to trial. Or rather, to something called The Permanent People’s Tribunal, an international body that “officially facilitates the trial, lacking any set of binding national laws.” According to a recent press release from the North American […]

  • Talking vertical farms: An interview with Dickson Despommier

    Your classic vertical farm rendering. Rendering: Blake KurasekIf you haven’t seen the slickly rendered architectural models of farms growing in skyscapers, you probably live under a rock. When I first I saw one — this was a few years back, they’ve been making their way around the internet for years — I got a little […]