No Impact Week has kicked off – encouraging people to reduce behaviors that negatively impact our environment. It’s a community based project — based on the film No Impact Man — offering new themes and challenges each day of the week. We’re delighted that Meatless Monday is highlighted as the perfect way to cut your personal carbon footprint!
Josh Tickell is the driver of “The Veggie Van”, which travels the nation using little more than vegetable oil for fuel. Recently, Josh made his way of life the basis for the feature film Fuel.
The beginning of autumn marks the point when many of our favorite fruits and vegetables are ripe for the picking. This year, harvest has become a national affair. Michelle Obama’s famed White House garden is in bloom and ready to offer its bounty to a country hungry for nutritional guidance.
In Just Food: Where Locavores Get It Wrong And How We Can Truly Eat Responsibly, author James McWilliams argues that we must make sustainable food choices. He also insists that buying local is simply not enough.
No Impact Man goes meatless in making that rarest of things: a funny, feel-good environmental documentary.
Large quantities of cheap fast food may seem like a bargain on the surface, but a closer look shows us that these highly processed, industrialized food products have a multitude of hidden expenses. Brian Walsh, a health and science writer for TIME Magazine, recently tallied up the impact that industrial farming is having on the environment, our health and the national budget. Our solution: go meatless on Mondays!
Writers of all stripes are using blogging to spread the word about Meatless Monday. One of our favorites is Edible Aria, a recipe and news blog that advocates sustainable eating.
Once the work week gets underway, it seems that sitting down to a civilized meal becomes all but impossible for most of us. Slow Food USA is determined to reverse this trend.
