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What’s the Best Reusable Water Bottle?
Find out how to choose the best reusable water bottle, plus how to clean your water bottle and where to refill....

Conservation of Open Space in Boulder, Colorado, Makes Farming Affordable
In Boulder County, Colorado, an acre of farmland can easily sell for $100,000—and that’s without the unicorn-rare water...

What Is Quinoa? How Quinoa Became America's Hottest Whole Grain and Brought New Income to Bolivian Farmers
We eat lunch in the fields, potluck-style. Each worker pours his or her contribution into a heap on a crinkled tarp and...

How to Live Green: 5 Eating Changes that Have The Biggest Environmental Benefits
If you're trying to live green, check out Danny Seo's 5 suggestions for how to eat and cook more sustainably On his...

Foods of the Future
In the past year, biologists, food scientists and entrepreneurs have been working hard to envision the future of food...

7 Simple Ways to Green Up Your Kitchen
Find out 7 easy ways to make your kitchen healthier. Are you looking to spruce up your kitchen? You can start by...

3 Eco-Friendly Swaps That Could Be Bad for Your Health
How to ward off germs in your reusable water bottle, cloth shopping bags and more. These eco-friendly swaps are...

5 Ways to Green Up Your Lunch Box
Pictured Recipe: Pizza Roll-Up Bento Lunch Learn how to pack a healthy and eco-friendly bento box lunch. Take-along...

Clearing Up the Confusion About Genetically Modified Corn
Risking a rear-end collision, I braked and swerved into the gravel pullout of a roadside produce stand in our town....

How to Pack an Eco-Friendly Picnic
How you pack and serve your picnic can have a big impact on the environment if you consider the entire life cycle of...

Sushi Master Bun Lai’s Sushi Recipes for the Future
One night a few months ago, Paul Freedman, Yale professor and editor of the award-winning tome Food: The History of...

Green Success Story: Sustainable Aquaculture in Belize
Shrimp farmer Linda Thornton can glance out any window of her home in Belize and see what she’s contributed to...

How One Man's Foodscape on His Rooftop Garden Managed to Feed His Family
My garden is a lousy place for a garden. Located on a tenth-floor terrace a few hundred yards from Manhattan’s Ground...

5 Ways to Green Up Your Diet
Get our 5 tips to help you green up your diet. Throughout the year, and especially on Earth Day (April 22), eco-...

Why Grass Fed Meats are Better for You
Beef and lamb that graze on grass deliver a healthy dose of good-for-you omega-3 fats compared to animals fed a mix of...

The Benefits of Joining a Food Club
When Rebecca Andersson started a Meetup.com group in 2007 for green-minded moms in Portland, Oregon, she had playdates...

The Best Protein Choices and Worst for Your Health and the Environment
Find the best meat and best protein choices for your health and the environment. When it comes to your health and...

Peace Corps for Foodies
There’s no denying the statistics: 1 in 3 American kids is overweight, 2 in 3 don’t exercise enough and all live in a...

Host a DIY Food Swap
When Kate Payne posted on twitter that she had made too much marmalade, Megan Paska offered to trade her honey and eggs...

Spotlight on 5 Sustainable U.S. Shellfish Farms that are Getting It Right
On a foggy summer day, I walk the cobbly edge of Totten Inlet, a narrow estuary at the southern tip of Washington's...

How to Shop for GE-Free Food
One of the biggest quandaries for consumers today is that there is no labeling requirement for genetically engineered...

8 Genetically Engineered Foods to Watch For
What you need to know about these GE foods. Historically, crops have been genetically tweaked to be herbicide-...

Is Genetically Engineered Food the Food of the Future?
When I was a kid, I’d go down to the fishing docks near the New England town where my family spent our summer vacations...

Trend Watch: Community Supported Fisheries
When word got out among Boston-area foodies that the Cape Ann Fresh Catch community supported fishery (CSF) was being...