Like  many meat-eaters Kim O’Donnel used to have a rocky relationship with soy-staples, tofu and tempeh. Starting April 5th, she encourages all of us to give T&T a try with a week of culinary advice and recipes from acclaimed authors.
Interviewed by Kerry Truman
You occasionally eat meat but prefer to promote a plant-based [...]

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Starting tomorrow, School Food FOCUS is hosting their annual meeting to change how school food is sourced. For details, read the press release below:
SCHOOL DISTRICTS FROM ACROSS THE COUNTRY WORK TOGETHER IN CHICAGO TO SOURCE BETTER SCHOOL FOOD
Food Service Professionals Joined by Community Organizations, Government Officials and Vendors to Learn, Share, and Make Change Happen
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This was posted yesterday on our sister blog, The Green Fork, by Kerry Trueman. Tonight, in honor of World Water Day,  Kerry will be holding a live Vokle chat with Story Of Stuff creator Annie Leonard and Elizabeth Royte, author of Bottlemania: How Water Went On Sale and Why We Bought It. Tune [...]

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Earlier this month I ventured down to the nation’s capital to attend Meeting the Demand: Growing Markets for Sustainable Meat and Dairy Production, a conference organized by the Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility (ICCR).  Turned out to be well worth the epic all-in-one-day roundtrip subway/train ride; ICCR managed to cram [...]

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Today’s post comes from our friends at Meatless Monday…

Perhaps the most revolutionary thing about Michelle Obama’s Let’s Move initiative is that it works with the today’s busy, complex world, instead of fighting it. “How do we answer the questions or give solutions or approaches to parents in all different kinds of communities?” the [...]

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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 – You can find the full post on her blog: My Kitchen Nutrition.
The Child Nutrition Reauthorization (CNR) act is going to be re-signed in Congress very soon [...]

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New York City recently passed a regulation banning bake sales from public schools with the exception of one per month and after 6 PM (when no one is around). So what’s left to sell? Doritos, pop-tarts, bags of cookies and other processed junk-food permitted by the Department of Education. Instead of home-baked items prepared with [...]

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This post comes from our friends at Meatless Monday…
Elizabeth Puccini is co-founder of the NYC Green Schools initiative and parent of a student at The Children’s Workshop School in Manhattan. With the help of like minded parents, Elizabeth brought Meatless Monday to three New York City schools. She tells us how easy [...]

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In anticipation of SXSW, Eat Well Guide teamed up with Edible Austin on a free interactive map to sustainable food in the City of Weird. The festival, in its 24th year, began last week with SXSW film and interactive, with SXSW music kicking in this Wednesday, the 17th. If you’re lucky [...]

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This post was written Regina Weiss and was originally posted on the Green Fork.

Last week some of us met with a delegation of Russian agricultural and health officials to talk about sustainable meat production. This group has been touring the country looking at aspects of meat and poultry production in the [...]

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