
A couple weeks ago we brought you this choice quote from Anthony Bourdain about his distaste for Alice Waters's particular brand of food orthodoxy...

An increase in the consumption of meat is directly correlated to an increase in a country's economic development. As a country becomes richer,...

At least since the publication of Frances Moore Lappé’s Diet for a Small Planet, environmentalists have worried about the consequences of meat...

Hey, good news. That compostable SunChips bag we mentioned last May is out on shelves now. It's made from corn and will compost within 14 weeks in...

When talking about the environmental effects of industrial meat industry, people often refer to a 2006 U.N. report that concluded that cattle was...

This is great news for our oceans:
Trader Joe's has changed their tune, and plan to sell only sustainable seafood by the end of 2012.
Within...

Although many reports about Gulf of Maine fish stocks-cod, haddock, cusk, flounder, and grey sole-are not optimistic, Ted Ames, a scientist and...

We can't avoid all the wasteful packaging in our lives, but we can try to reduce it.n

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...

Is foie gras foul or a freaking delicious model for meat production?
We are a culture of duck lovers. There's Daffy, Donald, and Daphne. Rubber...

TakeOutWithOut is a new online campaign to get restaurants to reduce their waste. They have three principles they're trying to promote: They want...

We've all heard that going vegetarian is better for the environment. But how much better, exactly? In the chart below, from The Oil Drum, you can...

Ever since Al Gore assumed the mantel of climate-change-crusader-in-chief, he's been dogged by a vocal group of critics (led by PETA) who accuse...

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...

This is a damn shame:
An unprecedented effort to use world trade rules to save a species from rampant overfishing has failed. A proposal to ban...

How do you know that your pinot noir is really from 2004? Or that the wild salmon you ordered wasn't actually farmed? You don't. The Washington...

Ensuring the long-term survival of the world's agriculture by preserving one of its most basic resources: seeds.

The average car vs. the average human
Cars use gas to power themselves, just as people use food. And energy is energy, no matter where you get...

As we become more and more aware that we may be using water at an unsustainable pace, the idea of water footprints-the amount of water an...

Ten more great, food-focused items.
In the midst of the GOOD 100, I've come up with an additional list of 10 people, projects, and ideas that...