Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
While the number of Americans who have visited food banks has increased from 5.6 million people to 6.2 million people since 2010, various food banks and emergency food programs are now taking a more selective approach to the kinds of food they will allow onto their shelves.
Grass, Soil, Hope tackles an increasingly anguished question: what can we do about the seemingly intractable challenges confronting us today, including climate change, global hunger, water scarcity, environmental stress, and economic instability?
Inadequate management of human waste is a dire problem in much of the developing world.
This week, more evidence came in that hydraulic fracturing (or fracking) poses potentially serious risks to drinking water quality and human health.
A basic tenet of Slow Food is that everyone on the planet should have the right and access to good, clean, and fair food.
My wife and I went semi-nomadic in 2010, traveling the mountain West for almost two years. Not having a settled home was eye-opening, and taught me a lot about one of my perennial themes: how much humans lost when we became domesticated by agriculture.
In 2012, EPB, an electricity and communications distributor, partnered with Gaining Ground, a nonprofit dedicated to local food awareness, to develop a business plan that would make CSAs more accessible.
A growing number of hospitals are shifting the way they think about protecting and improving health, and taking a closer look at how and where the food they serve is grown.
The results of the dialogue I conducted with my garden in 2013 are in. Did my hypotheses bear out? What questions did the garden ask and answer that I didn’t anticipate? You’ll have to read the post to find out!
When you do a 10 or 100 or locavore diet, you realize how our current food system is like a stage set for the Okay Corral. Behind those false fronts is a machinery of illusion.
Every year, my favorite gift to give (and to get) is a good book.
En los más de quince años desde que comencé a dar cursos en permacultura y eco-diseño, me he dado cuenta que lo que más convence no son las palabras sino el ejemplo.
