How to Dine Ethically During Climate Crisis
How one San Francisco restaurant incorporated carbon awareness into dining and is changing the way restaurants think and act around climate change.
Food System
The Prison to Liberation Pipeline
How Planting Justice is changing the way we think about land, ownership, and justice.
Preserve Farm Kitchens
P101: Preserving Produce and the Planet one jar at a time Same Thing with different Image-Copy Ties. One woman’s quest to transform potential food waste into award-winning jams and sauces. On a sunny day over a picnic-style lunch of fried chicken, salads, and chocolate mousse (the only items missing were the gingham blanket and picnic …
Everyone Eats: Employee Engagement Solved
Guest post by Sarah Ahern, The Cleaver Group When I say we build healthy food environments for companies, a lot of people ask, “That’s sounds great, but what exactly does that do for an organization?” A fair question! The conversation around food is robust, but very little of it focuses on using food as an organizational or community development tool. The idea of …
“What’s for dinner?” Of course, there’s an app for that.
“What’s For Dinner?” Of course, there’s an app for that. Airbnb and VRBO are changing how we travel. Lyft and Uber have definitely disrupted the taxi industry. What about the food business? Will apps and sharing models change our daily routines for getting dinner on the table? The San Francisco Bay Area has seen a myriad of news services offering bringing …
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My Health in a Vulnerable Food System
By Theo Ferguson, Vital Systems. I am an eater, as are you. My relationship with food, farming, and living systems is very personal. As Barbara Kingsolver writes, “Recall that whatever lofty things you might accomplish today, you will do them only because you first ate something that grew out of dirt.” Is it inconceivable to …
Inquiries into the Nature of Slow Money
Let us dare to imagine an investor who has the sacred passion of an earthworm, slowly making his or her way through the soil of commerce and culture, playing a small, vital role in the maintenance of fertility.
Now, whether such notions have any practical import to the task of creating this new entity called Slow Money seems, at first, implausible. But it isn’t so.