New Sustainability Ranking System Shows You How to Save the World by Eating

May 14, 2013 // 8:00 am

We remember the days before big chains like McDonald’s and Starbucks pledged to make sustainability a top priority, back when “organic” was the only health-food buzzword people cared about and using “sustainability” in a sentence usually meant we’d have to define it at least once*. But things…

McDonald’s Serving Sustainable Fish Now, Still Not Serving Sustainable Beef

January 25, 2013 // 4:40 pm

McDonald’s USA gets an environmental pat on the back this week for making a move towards sustainability and serving Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) certified sustainable fish at all of their U.S. eateries.

Sustainability Becoming ‘Standard,’ We Contemplate What That ‘Means’

December 6, 2012 // 4:25 pm

The local/DIY/artisanal/craft/micro-brew is the hippest of hip right now in the food world. The part of me that wants humans to inhabit the earth for a long time rejoiced when I saw this story from the National Restaurant Association indicating that sustainability is now “more standard operating…

Mars Mission Astronauts Will Have Just Two Menu Options, and Both Seem Pretty Miserable

July 19, 2012 // 10:09 am

I’m sure being locked for three years in a pressurized metal container would be enough to turn anyone into a green, hulking rage monster, but imagine if your only diet options while up there were to go completely vegan or only eat pre-packaged space food.

Let’s just say you…