From our friend Kerry Trueman over at The Green Fork blog:
Serious about energy conservation? Consider hibernation; curling up into a ball and snoozing away the winter while surviving on surplus fat might just be the way to go. You’d wake up next spring feeling lighter and brighter, rested and ready for the new decade.
Then [...]

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Check out this great “Top 10″ list from our friends at Meatless Monday – Good Job! And for another interesting recap of the whole decade read this, Food & Nutrition 2000-2009: A Brief Recap, from Fooducate.

Our Monday Movement grew by leaps and bounds this past year – thanks to all of you who are making [...]

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We are taking a holiday break starting today, back for a couple of days next week, then not back until 2010! It’s hard to believe January is right around the corner. With the new year, we have some new and exciting things happening (a new Meatrix website, blog changes, and more!), so please check in [...]

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From our friends at Healthy Monday…
The 2007 Dutch documentary Meat the Truth was the first of its kind. Meat the Truth took an in-depth look at the environmental impact of wide scale meat production at a time when most people still attributed greenhouse gasses to cars. Last week, it was featured at Klimaforum 09, held [...]

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This post comes from our friend Julie Negrin M.S. – Julie is a nutritionist, cooking instructor, writer and most recently, a blogger – check out her blog: My Kitchen Nutrition at www.julienegrin.com/blog.
Some people call it procrastination – I prefer the phrase, “working well under pressure.”
Still need a few gifts? Forget the bath salts and striped [...]

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In case you weren’t already convinced by the tons (literally) of anecdotal evidence that High Fructose Corn Syrup is bad for you, science has finally proven it. Read the details on Grist about how HFCS alters metabolism and goes straight to the thighs.
What do anthropologists do? They take all the factors– biology, culture, ecology – [...]

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This post comes to us from our friends at Healthy Monday…
Joshua Rosenthal is the founder and director of the Institute for Integrative Nutrition. Integrative Nutrition is the world’s largest nutrition school, training students to become certified health counselors since 1992. It is the only school that teaches over 100 dietary theories, combining the knowledge of [...]

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This article comes to us from The Mark, Canada’s daily online forum for news, commentary, and debate. By David Suzuki and co-authored by Faisal Moola.
In gearing up for the 2010 release of its super-genetically modified corn called “SmartStax,” agricultural-biotechnology giant Monsanto is using an advertising slogan that asks, “Wouldn’t it be better?” But can we [...]

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The menu may say sustainable, but they may be “fudging” the truth. The Washington Post reports on one well-known eatery whose promise of local/sustainable doesn’t always pan out in reality.
Marion Nestle gives a nice round-up of what our tireless food agencies have been (or haven’t been) up to lately.  USDA – FDA – FTC
How does [...]

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From our friends at Healthy Monday…
Sir Paul McCartney has teamed up with climate change expert Dr. Rajendra K. Pachauri to encourage cities worldwide to go meatless on Monday! The duo urged legislators to adopt the program during the “Less Meat = Less Heat” hearing at the European Parliament on December 3rd. McCartney cited the U.S. [...]

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