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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The good food news of 2011
2011 was a big year for food politics. In case you dozed off anywhere along the way, I’ve collected the year’s most important stories below. (Want something lighter? See my Sustainable Food Trends story from last week. Want something heavier? Here’s the bad food news.) 1. Urban farming is flourishing. An urban farm in Chicago.Photo: […]
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2011: Sustainable food trends
A good year-end trend list should do two things simultaneously: confirm the conscientious reader’s suspicions while providing a few surprise nuggets. Sustainable food is a vast category with many opportunities for interpretation, so what I offer up here is an entirely subjective list of favorites. In other words: These are just a few of the […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
