How to dispose of excess, expired prescription drugs
Find out how to get rid of your prescription drugs -- the ones you don't need anymore -- so they don't end up in waterways, re-genderizing fish and bouncing back into the tap.
View ArticleReal Food Challenge cooking up changes on campuses across the US
Like many kids of her millennial generation, Natalie Tran grew up on fast food meals, fried chicken and hamburgers that her parents lugged home after long work days. Today, she's rethinking that past...
View ArticleAustin-based Whole Foods Market takes top place for seafood sustainability
How's your favorite grocery doing when it comes to selling only sustainable seafood? Greenpeace puts out a report every year so you can see how well Whole Foods Market, Safeway, Tom Thumb, Trader Joe's...
View ArticlePanera Bread promises to purge food dyes and additives
Panera Bread already prides itself on serving healthier foods, now it's pledging to rid its food sources of any artificial dyes and preservatives, joining a small but growing list of food purveyors...
View ArticleBiodynamic wine: The ultimate sustainable drink
Biodynamics is a down-to-earth approach to growing and producing wine – and many other foods -- that hews to organic methods and replicates nature’s biodiversity by using cover crops, buffer zones,...
View ArticleGreener, cleaner, tastier coffee — here’s how
My first glimpse of the Chemex was at a local food show. People were gathered around, craning to see what looked like a chemistry experiment that used an especially elegant beaker.
View ArticleWhat to do with kale? Here are 8 yummy dishes + a video
Kale, it's that other leafy veggie, not spinach, chard or mustard greens, but oh so good when sauteed, paired with butternut squash or white beans. See our video and recipes.
View ArticleFood is Free gets a new home; find out where they’re moving
Food is Free may finally be free of its search for a new home. You wouldn't have guessed where they're moving. Austin's loss is the new town's gain. The group is sad to leave, but excited about their...
View ArticleUS lowers safe threshold for fluoride
US health officials have lowered the safe threshold for fluoride in drinking water to 0.7 milligrams per liter, because Americans now get fluoride from a variety of sources and no longer need as much...
View ArticleMcDonald’s does kale, after saying it wouldn’t do kale
Things are getting crazy over at McDonald's as the restaurant reaches for healthier items for its menu amid sagging sales.
View ArticleBean eaters be glad; your diet helps lower cholesterol
Austin, with its Mexican, Tex-Mex and vegetarian offerings, is a bean-friendly city, and that may be helping keep residents more heart healthy, according to a new study that extols the value of beans...
View ArticleThe veggies and fruits you’ll pay more for because of the California drought
Eating healthier will get a little more expensive this summer as the effects of the California drought become apparent at groceries and food markets across the US. The state grows a majority of many...
View ArticleThis is the safe way to make your lawn truly ‘green’
Switching to a natural or organic lawn program is not difficult. It simply requires knowing what to substitute for what you've been using -- much as if you were altering a recipe for cake to reduce the...
View ArticleMark Bittman explains why and how our ‘Western Diet’ is killing us
New York Times food critic Mark Bittman pretty much said it all in a Ted talk a few years ago, outlining how we Americans became detached from healthy eating; persuaded by food companies and our...
View Article11 faux meats that are delicious, nutritious, hexane-free and easy on your...
So you want to know where we get our protein? You always ask, because you eat meat and we just turned down barbecued ribs/hamburger/chicken kabobs, highlighting the fact that we don't eat meat, or...
View ArticleHow to avoid BPA and its ‘evil twin’ BPS
Just when we thought plastics were safe, having been cleansed of BPA, along came its replacement, the chemically similar BPS. Recent research shows that BPS also acts as an endocrine disruptor, meaning...
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