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Sustainable Table celebrates local sustainable food, educates consumers about the benefits of sustainable agriculture and works to build community through food. Our new site offers brand new content, updates to many of our pages, and tried-and-true tools like Eat Well Guide and The Meatrix movies.

The Issues

Everything you need to know about sustainable food and agriculture from the basics to key issues in depth.

In The Kitchen

Find out how to shop for and prepare sustainable food, and learn how it can benefit your health.

Take Action

Learn how you can take action and educate others to help build a sustainable food future!

In Focus

Sustainable Agriculture - The Basics

Sustainable agriculture involves production methods that provide healthy food for consumers, do not harm the environment, respect workers, are humane to animals, provide fair wages to farmers, and support farming communities.

About Sustainable Table

Sustainable Table celebrates sustainable food, educates consumers about food-related issues and works to build community through food.

Recipes

Any recipe can be made sustainable! Our recipes come from chefs, cookbook authors, Eat Well Guide restaurants and others who share the same food philosophy for local, sustainable, organic.

Real Food Right Now

Real Food Right Now and How To Cook It is a series about seasonal ingredients from our blog, Ecocentric. Learn the history, sustainability issues and nutrition of your favorite ingredients.

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Eco Quiz

Eco News

Quick Facts

On average, one large banana has a water footprint of 42 gallons.
Households directly use the most water indoors in the morning (5am to 11am) because of showering and prepping for the day ahead.
Between 1985 and 2001, the use of antibiotics in feed for industrial livestock production rose a startling 50%.
It takes 520 million MWh of electricity per year to move, treat and heat water in the U.S. this is 13% of the total U.S. electrical consumption.
The meat industry generates nearly one-fifth of the man-made greenhouse gas emissions. One more reason to go Meatless Monday!
The earth receives 1500 times as much energy than humans use from the sun each day.
41% of energy used in the home is for space heating, which is the #1 energy user in our homes.
A shower leaking just 10 drips per minute wastes 500 gallons of water per year. That's enough water to run your dishwasher every day for two months!
25 percent of all freshwater consumed in the US is associated with discarded food -- about as much as the volume of Lake Erie.
73 percent of the Earth's surface water is locked in ice and snow.
One egg has a water footprint of 53 gallons.
20 percent of energy used in homes is for water heating
About 50 million Americans get sick from unsafe food each year, resulting in over 100,000 hospitalizations and 3,000 deaths.
One dairy farm with 2,500 cows produces as much waste as a city with around 411,000 residents, but dairy waste goes untreated.
The US consumes 800 million gallons of oil each day.

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