Deep Green

04/27/2020

It can feel wrong, or simply impossible, to focus on anything other than getting through this most challenging moment. It is reasonable to argue that since lessons will not reduce our immediate suffering, we should learn them once we’re through this. But the vulnerability that makes the present so...

04/26/2020

Avoiding meat and dairy could reduce your carbon footprint from food by nearly three-quarters

06/13/2019

So very sad.

Police are investigating.

10/17/2018

Cutting down on meat and dairy is increasingly accepted as a healthier, kinder and more environmentally sound way of eating. Jessica Brown asks: could a food-based revolution to rival the anti-plastics movement be on the horizon?

08/07/2018

Developments in plant-based alternatives to fish and other marine life have the potential to save our oceans and offer lucrative opportunities for entrepreneurs.

08/06/2018

Increasingly, nutritional psychiatry says yes

07/22/2018

Fascinating!

‍‌Researchers discover trees have a “heartbeat,” it’s just so slow we’ve never noticed before Until now, scientists thought water moved through trees by osmosis, in a somewhat continuous manner. Now they’ve discovered the trunks and branches of trees are actually contracting and expand...

07/14/2018

Woohoo!

Lego company pledges to phase out fossil-fuel-based plastics and make all blocks from sugarcane by 2030 Danish toy maker Lego announced last week that all its core products and packaging will soon be made from “bio”plastic. Plant-based Lego leaves, trees and bushes are already in production and ...

07/08/2018

Drug-resistant bacteria—sometimes referred to as superbugs—were detected on 79 percent of ground turkey, 71 percent of pork chops, 62 percent of ground beef, and 36 percent of chicken breasts, wings and thighs sampled in supermarkets by NARMS in 2015, the latest year for which data is available.

07/07/2018

It marks a major milestone in the movement against disposable plastics.

07/06/2018