Climate Food and Agriculture
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Street food boom towns: Three West Coast case studies
They may never catch up to Portland, but neighboring cities Seattle and Vancouver, B.C., are making strides to put food carts front and center.
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Lexicon of Sustainability: Eating down the food chain
The latest installment explains why eating fish lower on the food chain helps the ocean -- and offers up an easy sardine recipe to get you started.
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The man who blew the whistle on ‘pink slime’
Glad to see so many people talking about getting ammonia-treated beef trimmings out of school lunch? You have this former Beef Products Inc. employee to thank.
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This suds for you: Taste-testing organic beer
It's a hard job, but somebody has to do it: In a blind taste test, Grist staffers drink and rate a selection of imported and domestic organic beers.
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A sudsy chat on beer — organic and otherwise — with Grist!
New Belgium Brewing's sustainability specialist Katie Wallace and Beer West Magazine's editor-in-chief Megan Flynn chatted with Grist readers on sustainable brews.
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Home on the range: Can grass-based ranching be scaled up sustainably?
As new science reiterates the importance of cutting down on red meat, can a proposed grass-fed cattle ranch in Florida bring the eat-better-quality-meat-less-often approach to the mainstream?
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Faraway farms: Chronicling urban agriculture around the world
Filmmaker Karney Hatch set out to document urban farming outside the U.S. Here's a sneak preview of what he found.
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Trans fats linked to acting like a jerk
When New York City banned trans fats from local restaurants in 2006, it was trying to make its citizens healthier. Trans fatty acids — which, you’ll recall, are a type of unsaturated fat almost exclusively found in processed food — have a number of proven health effects, including raising bad cholesterol and lowering good cholesterol simultaneously. […]
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Tapped out: Water in California’s farm country is dangerously polluted
A new report details California's nitrate pollution problem -- and the expensive, potentially deadly impact it will have on the people who live in our nation's most productive farming region.
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Changes afoot at nation’s largest seafood event
A visitor to this year's International Boston Seafood Show tracks the sustainability beat.
