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Chris Hunt is a research and policy advisor for GRACE, where he devotes his attention to issues related to food production and consumption, focusing on the problems created by industrial livestock operations.
Ecocentric bloggers have a soft spot for cool stuff on roofs. Check out a slideshow of our latest venture above street level and read about sub-irrigated planting systems, a diy technology that could[...]
The public health crisis presented by skyrocketing rates of obesity warrants the dramatic revision of cheap-calorie US food policy.
Join Bob Hyland of the Center for Urban Greenscaping for a workshop about sub-irrigated planter systems on July 29 in Brooklyn, NY.
I agreed to help Gwen Schantz move some soil. It weighed 1.2 million lbs and had to be hoisted atop a seven-story building in NYC.
Kind of like the Tour de France except without the 2,200 grueling miles of high-speed cycling.
Tomorrow, the House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Health will hold a hearing about antibiotics use in livestock production.
What’s big and yellow, has three wheels, hauls a quarter ton and is poised to revolutionize small-load urban transport? Answer: the cargo tricycle!
After a long day in the sweltering sun (or windowless cubicle, depending on your situation), few beverages are quite as enjoyable as a nice cold beer. Fortunately, craft brewers have preserved traditi[...]
Never an industry to miss the chance to make a quick buck or million, Big Ag has long since jumped on the greenwagon. Lately though, a new shade of greenwash has emerged from the smarmy depths of ind[...]
Eat Well Guide is hosting the Tour de Farmers’ Markets on May 15! It’ll be kind of like the Tour de France except without the 2,200 grueling miles of high-speed cycling.
Earlier this month I ventured down to the nation's capital to attend Meeting the Demand: Growing Markets for Sustainable Meat and Dairy Production, a conference organized by the Interfaith Center on C[...]
Demystifying the Environmental Sustainability of Food Production, a paper by Jude Capper, Roger Cady and Dale Bauman, demonstrates either a lamentable misunderstanding of the impacts of livestock prod[...]
