Climate Food and Agriculture
All Stories
-
New Agtivist: Meg Paska runs Brooklyn’s first urban farm pop-up
This urban homesteader started a seasonal shop where farmers in the city can buy supplies at a decent price, take classes, and ask for advice.
-
Cartoon explains what’s wrong with our food system in under four minutes
Here's a quick, simple primer on the relationship between corporate interests, farmers, and consumers.
-
Americans want more fruits and veggies for everyone
A new survey from the Kellogg Foundation says Americans are eating more fresh food and want public institutions to make fruits and vegetables more widely accessible.
-
Flame retardants could affect our bodies for generations
Flame-retardant chemicals are building up in our bodies, with unknown effects. To add insult to injury, they don't actually retard flames.
-
New documentary is like ‘The Real World’ for farming
Filmmaker Hailey Wist’s documentary The Garden Summer is the true story of five strangers picked to live on a farm, work together, and have their lives taped. Wist recruited four other good-looking 20-something suburbanites to spend the summer on an Arkansas farm, getting all their food (except booze, coffee, and cooking oil) either from their […]
-
Critical List: Keystone XL could raise gas prices; Italy earthquake threatens cheese
Counter to everything Republicans say, building the Keystone XL could raise gas prices. Please, parents, don’t buy your children trendy pets in imitation of popular book characters. In England, hundreds of Harry Potter-inspired pet owls are being dropped off at animal shelters after their owners realized that they’re expensive to care for and don’t actually […]
-
The Domino’s effect: The pizza giant refuses to phase out inhumane pork
A wave of change has hit the meat industry as most of the biggest food brands have pledged to do away with gestation crates for pigs. But Domino's Pizza is holding out -- and gaining applause from Big Ag.
-
Stanford nutrition guru on how to change our food system (without giving up pizza)
Stanford professor Christopher Gardner says all the nutrition studies in the world couldn’t convince Americans to change their diets. He knows what is finally doing the trick, though.
-
T-bone steak with fennel-radicchio relish and olive oil flatbreads [RECIPE]
This recipe is from Pure Beef: An Essential Guide to Artisan Meat with Recipes for Every Cut (Running Press Book Publishers, 2012). Read an interview with the author here. A grilled steak adorned with a crunchy and shredded vegetable salad is one of my ultimate no-fuss summer meals. Toss sweet fennel and bitter radicchio with […]
-
Cut above: Cooking with grass-fed beef
A new book by Lynne Curry covers everything from how grass becomes beef to the basics of butchery -- with plenty of recipes along the way.