Climate Food and Agriculture

Food justice — for Navina Khanna, it's what's for dinner

Meet the first member of the Change Gang, a group of people leading change on the ground toward a more sustainable society and greener planet.

Food Studies: Canvolution!

Canning is hip again, a century after it first caught on -- but for very different reasons.

The unmasking of a school lunch hero: Mrs. Q speaks

Now that her book, Fed Up with Lunch, is out, the teacher who blogged her way through a year of eating school lunch finally comes clean.

Peebottle Farms: Have eggs, will barter

What's a girl with a constant stream of backyard eggs to do -- aside from conditioning her hair with the yolks? Why barter, of course.

No girls allowed: Dr. Pepper's latest is dudes-only

Dr. Pepper is marketing its new diet soda strictly to men. You can have this one, dudes.

Chow-to: Stop worrying and love your kitchen timer

Getting used to cooking while doing other things does more than save you time. It changes your eating habits, making it easier to go green in the kitchen.

Climate change could cause a chocolate shortage

Chocolate lovers have two decades to consume all the Godiva they can before climate change drinks their milkshake. After that, global warming will cause production to dwindle in current cocoa-producing regions, like Ghana and Côte d'Ivoire, according to a new study by the International Center for Tropical Agriculture.

That doesn't necessarily mean that humanity will lose chocolate, though. It just might have to come from somewhere else.

Genius shopping cart gizmo helps you eat local

This shopping cart attachment lets you compare the food miles on your purchases in a way that's quick, easy to interpret, and less complicated than the self-checkout. That is cool as hell! Also, this demonstration video, which was made for a conference, is a complete hoot. (I am a sucker for a British accent, though.)

Critical List: Leaking New Zealand oil tanker could break apart; EPA to speed Great Lakes cleanup

Eeek. A huge crack has opened up in the hull of the ship leaking oil off the coast of New Zealand, and the ship could break up apart "at any point," according to Maritime New Zealand.

In the U.S., the Justice Department had to sue Transocean to force the company to answer government subpoenas related to the Macondo well spill.

Can we feed people without killing the planet? Yes, says a new study, but it’ll take money, planning, and eating less meat.

Food Studies: The life of an airline chef

Meet the people behind the plastic trays.