Category: Agriculture and farming
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Trump Administration Cutting SNAP: What Does This Mean for Our Food System?
The Trump Administration proposed three new changes to the federal SNAP food stamp program that threaten to kick millions of needy families off the assistance they need to [...]
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Fact: We’re Still Eating Meat
As the plant forward movement gets more media attention, there’s growing excitement in the food space around new companies and new products being launched that focus on meat [...]
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EAT-Lancet Report – A Review
The EAT-Lancet Commission Report on Healthy Diets has caused a lot of discussion and debate in the food space, and we’re digging in to find out answers to questions some [...]
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Eating Real with Change Food: Viraj Puri on Food Waste
Hey everyone! Happy Friday! This week’s video is a talk from Viraj Puri of Gotham Greens, a pioneer in urban agriculture, with urban farms in both New York and Chicago. Here, [...]
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Hello September: National Organic Harvest Month
“Organic” must be the buzzword of 2017 and there’s no better time to talk about it than in September: National Organic Harvest Month. Anyone from [...]
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How 400 Students and a Haunted Garden Built the Latest CNN Hero
If you flicked to CNN this past weekend, you might have seen a familiar-looking guy. If you don’t know, now you know: It was Tony Hillery! Tony was named this week’s CNN [...]
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Thomas McQuillan of Baldor SparCs: Changing Cultural Norms Around Food
Imagine a world where food waste doesn’t exist. Now, imagine a world where the term “food waste” doesn’t exist, either. For years, Thomas McQuillan has not only been [...]
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Food Waste in the U.S. and Efforts Toward Reduction
Those of us fortunate enough to turn down our least favorite veggies growing up heard some version of the seemingly non-sequitur dinner table threat, “Finish your food. There [...]
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From Diane’s Desk: A Review of Seeds & Chips 2017
For a nonprofit that works mainly in the U.S., you might wonder why Change Food was at last week’s Seeds & Chips “The Global Food Innovation Summit” in Milan, Italy. And [...]
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TIME’s 100 Influence the Good Food Movement
From the Change Food Editorial Team The April issue of TIME Magazine announces The 100 Most Influential People of 2016-17. At Change Food HQ we gave it a look, because few [...]
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Tuesday Night at Project Farmhouse: Steve Ritz’s Power of a Plant Book Launch
Change Food’s Diane Hatz moderated a lively discussion with Stephen Ritz Tuesday evening at Union Square’s Project Farmhouse in celebration of the release of his [...]
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How Sustainable Food Leaders Are Celebrating Earth Day
In 1970, the 22nd of April was named Earth Day. The dedication followed the 1962 release of Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring, a novel which courageously pioneered skepticism and [...]