Promote a more sustainable food service, whether you are a restaurant, cafeteria, hospital, or school, with these 10 tips for going green in food service. Green is hot, and it’s here to stay. If you want to stay on top of the latest consumer and business trends, then you need to add eco-literacy to your …
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Learn how new research shows climate change is leading directly to poor diet quality in children around the world, and what you can do about it. Climate change has crept into the forefront of everyone’s minds. We’re feeling the impact now with unprecedented weather extremes, low water levels, melting glaciers. While much of our concern …
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These 11 tips for sustainable eating are perfect for cutting down your personal environmental footprint. What you choose to put on your plate can make the most powerful impact on your personal environmental footprint. At least three times a day you make choices on how to calm your growling belly and stoke your body with …
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Learn how to make local foods budget-friendly and accessible with these 7 tips for making local foods affordable. Local food is all the buzz! And I’m right there celebrating it, because there is a lot to love about supporting a local food system. First of all, buying from your local farmer is more delicious—the food …
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By upcycling food—giving almost wasted food another chance—you can lighten your impact on the planet. Learn how to upcycle food and turn that lost food into edible, nutritious, delicious opportunities. Nobody intends to waste food, yet 30-40 percent of our country’s food supply ends up as waste, unnecessarily filling landfills and contributing to greenhouse gas …
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Learn how to gather healthful, wild plant foods in your own countryside—the perfect picture of sustainability—with these expert tips on foraging for food. Gone are the days when a short walk could reveal a wild harvest of earthy mushrooms, plump raspberries, or aromatic sage. Or are they? Foraging for wild food is not only possible, …
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Take this one week zero food waste challenge to make a serious impact on your carbon footprint—these practical tips will help you make healthy habits to go green today! You can truly honor Mother Earth by adopting more green tips in your kitchen and eating a kinder dietary pattern for the planet. In fact, your …
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A recent study found that the Dietary Guidelines in the US is linked with a higher carbon footprint compared to other guidelines. The reason why? Too much animal protein. Keep reading to find out what diet is the worst for the environment! What does a “good” diet mean? Of course, it has to be rich …
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Sustainable living is about understanding how your lifestyle choices impact the world around you, and finding ways to live a better life for the good of all humans and the planet. A few examples of how to live sustainably include reducing the number of unnecessary purchases, buying used items, making DIY projects, buying items in …
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We can learn lessons about food sustainability by looking back at what happened during COVID-19 to grow a more resilient food system. COVID-19 disrupted everyone’s life and our way of functioning—especially the food system. One day we were going about our everyday lives, going to work, shopping as we pleased, eating out more than ever; …
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