While many plastics are recyclable, they still end up in landfills, oceans and ultimately, in our bodies. With less than 9% of plastic waste being recycled—and packaging comprising the largest percent of plastic waste—businesses and entrepreneurs are rethinking how to package food. This story was produced in partnership with Food Tank.Story by Emily Payne, Food…
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By Emily Payne and Danielle Nierenberg
Is Plastic Waste the Cost of Eating?
Breaking Bread and Changing the World: An Excerpt from Renee Guilbault’s Book, “A Taste of Opportunity”
If not us, then who? If not now, then when? As your journey takes you further into leadership, you will reach a point in your career when money and job titles provide only so much satisfaction. That’s when you’ll understand that real satisfaction comes from the fuel underneath it all. Your purpose. All the daily…
By Bruce Cole
Edible Pursuit: Tomato Language
Farmland for the Future: Preservation Programs Help Farmers Continue to Own and Access Viable Land
The U.S. is losing farmland at record rates. Agricultural conservation easements can ensure farmland is protected forever and accessible to the next generation for farming into the future. SPONSORED Amid a nationwide land run on rural, recreational property that’s inflated land values, sending many existing farmers packing and limiting the accessibility of farmland to the…
By Tracey Ryder
Rural Relevance — A Full Circle Return to Resilience
A review of A Bold Return to Giving a Damn by Will Harris Will Harris endeared himself to me the first time we met by telephone back in 2011, after he kindly agreed to speak at our Edible Institute conference taking place in Santa Barbara, California that spring. I was online, booking the flight for…
By Benjamin A. Wurgaft and Merry I. White
Nem on the Menu: An Excerpt from “Ways of Eating: Exploring Food Through History and Culture”
SPONSORED Restaurants were not part of my childhood. My family invariably ate at home. This was fairly common in the 1940s and 1950s in the Midwest. One consequence was that we did not eat “other people’s foods,” that is, the food of other ethnic groups. The most exotic things I ate, in my 1950s childhood,…