Store by store, through one aisle that has 700 items, the Dutch supermarket chain Ekoplaza will support sustainability with plastics-free grocery shopping.…
What The Last Supper Says About Food Portions
Looking at entrée, bread and plate sizes in versions of the Last Supper during the past millennium gives us some clues about portion size history.…
The Green Blog: An Environmental Bet
33 years ago, an environmentalist and a economist made a $1000 bet. In The Population Bomb (1968), Paul Ehrlich predicted global ecological calamity. Disagreeing, Julian Simon said that free markets w…
Will We Have Enough Food in 2050?
The world is getting richer. And richer people eat more meat. And the animals they eat consume more food. Also, everyday, the world has more people. The bottom line? According to a study from Nature, …
From China to Iowa
We can travel very quickly from China to Iowa. In an excellent report from The Economist on feeding the world, you can see how an increasingly affluent Chinese urban consumer affects many of us. One e…