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• Lifestyle

  

  A New Market For New York's Regional Food

  For the past four years, the New Amsterdam Market, a gathering of local food vendors, has resided in a parking lot next to the South Street...

  by Elizabeth Thacker Jones +

• News

  

  Urban Beekeeping Is Now Legal in New York

  Keeping honeybees in New York City is no longer against the law: New York City's board of health voted Tuesday to lift a ban against beekeeping,...

  by Andrew Price +

• Business

  

  Inside New York's Most Sustainable Bakery

  Birdbath bakery is managing to be good to the environment and the bottom line. It doesn't hurt that its food is also delicious. For nearly two...

  by Nicola Twilley +

• Lifestyle

  

  Is Decentralized Urban Farming the Future of food?

  The founder of BK Farmyards advocates using urban land to grow crops closer to home. Growing food in dense cities like New York might seem like...

  by Stacey Murphy 4

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  Picture Show: Urban Chickens

  We frequently extol the virtues of local food, but nothing is more local than one's own backyard. To wit, in urban settings all across the...

  by GOOD, Todd Parsons 1

• News

  

  Phoenix Takes the Revolutionary Step of Taxing Staple Foods

  As you probably know, when you go to the grocery store, most of your non-luxury items are tax free. Your bread, and milk, and meat all comes...

  by Morgan Clendaniel 1

• News

  

  Los Angeles's Food Truck Revolution

  A new hub for food trucks expands the offerings beyond tacos. Food trucks are typically pretty hard to pin down. While some may argue that's the...

  by Nate Berg +

• Environment

  

  Making Urban Farming Scalable With Fish

  Why aquaponics may be the future of urban farming, and one solution to our local food problem. The majority of Americans live in urban environs....

  by Adam Starr +

• Environment

  

  Vote on the Pepsi Refresh Project

  The Pepsi Refresh Project, for which GOOD and Pepsi are teaming up to give away millions of dollars in grants over the next year, has its first...

  by GOOD +

• Design

  

  Taste Slowly

  Last month on Governor's Island in New York, Droog's design festival, Pioneers of Change, featured an interesting take on a pop-up restaurant,...

  by Elizabeth Thacker Jones +

• Business

  

  Your Taco, Deconstructed

  Examining the ingredients in a taco paints a picture of the globalization of our food production network. Look closely enough at anything and you...

  by Twilight Greenaway 2

• Business

  

  A New Kind of Cornerstore Makeover

  Design students in San Francisco find a new way to bring fresh produce to urban corner stores. Although they...

  by Twilight Greenaway 4

• Cities

  

  Putting the Stimulus to Work

  In February, the U.S. government passed the $787 billion Recovery Act, better known as the stimulus package, in an effort to breathe new life...

  by GOOD, Oliver Munday +

• Business

  

  Does Manhattan Need an Airport Instead of That Park?

  Sure, Central Park is nice...for some of the year, at least. But how convenient would it be to just have an airport there instead. So convenient,...

  by Andrew Price +

• Design

  

  Re-imagining Lower Manhattan

  After the success of the High Line, New York is ready for more innovative attempts at organizing public space. "Greenwich South," an area of lower...

  by Morgan Clendaniel +

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  Stop Feeding Your Garbage Can

  Talking to the chef of America's least wasteful restaurant Of the 350 billion pounds of food produced in America each year, we throw away a...

  by Adam Starr 1

• Lifestyle

  

  Who Should Feed Hungry School Kids?

  This is a question being raised in Uganda right now, where close to a million schoolkids are literally starving, and where the teachers' union is...

  by Siobhan O'Connor +

• Environment

  

  How Can We Feed Everyone?

  This video (below the jump) investigates why one in seven people is malnourished, how food dependency affects the poor, and how we can make sure...

  by Andrew Price +

• Lifestyle

  

  Where Is My Milk From?

  Curious about the sources of your food? Well your milk, at least, comes stamped with a handy code that allows you look up its origins. We just...

  by Andrew Price +

• Lifestyle

  

  Are You a Foodiot?

  A new group of foodies are sharing what they eat-obsessively, and online. In the post-climactic moments of a foodgasm, some of us, euphoric and...

  by Peter Smith +