After reading a couple of articles about current food trends here are a few fascinating ones. Hopefully one will spark your interest and you will start following the trend. Eating from the bottom of the food chain: This idea is so intriguing- it seems a little out there but it also makes sense sustainability wise. [...]
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New Year’s Resolutions
January 6th, 2012 
Megan Stilley For the past few years I have been trying to take steps to be more sustainable. It started when I was an undergraduate and joined the campus environmental group. Recycling has always been a habit, so it wasn’t something I had to change. I did begin riding my bike and walking everywhere possible; a college [...]
Posted in Behavior, Green Products, Recylcing 
Tags: Cloth Diapers, Denver, Food, Megan Stilley, Toilet, Water Conservation 
No Comments »Rethinking Food Waste
December 22nd, 2011 Megan Stilley I recently read an article in the Urban Farm magazine that discussed how to reduce your food waste. I found it very informative. Since we are currently in a season of consumption, we can all learn some new tips on reducing our food waste. We also need to reduce our food waste since according to [...]
Sustainable Chocolate
December 13th, 2011 Megan Stilley The holiday season is a great time to give chocolate as a gift, especially when you don’t know what else to give. But what is that box of chocolate actually representing? Chocolate come from cacao trees- specifically cacao beans, which typically grow in tropical regions. “About 70% of the world’s cacao is grown in [West]Africa,” [...]
December 2011 Clean Energy and Sustainability Events
December 1st, 2011 Eric Wilson As often happens around the end of the year, the number of conferences seems to dwindle. However, given our newest writer’s interest in food security and a recent guest post on corporate social responsibility, there are a few key events listed below that pertain to recent stories on 2nd Green Revolution. In addition, new events [...]
Posted in Conferences, Eric Wilson, Japan, Policy, Renewable Energy Tags: Calendar, Climate Change, Corporate Social Responsibility, Desalination, Food, Washington DC, Water No Comments »The Farm Bill Problem
November 24th, 2011 Megan Stilley About every five years a new farm bill gets passed without much of the U.S. population knowing what happened. The truth is that the farm bill is rather secretive, and this year it keeps getting suggested they are going to secretly pass it. This is because now many groups are opposing the farm bill and [...]
Posted in Agriculture, Economics, Featured Posts, Local Energy/Food, News, Op-Ed, Policy, Sustainability Tags: Environment, Food, Megan Stilley, Washington DC No Comments »Five Friday Facts: Food Waste
November 18th, 2011 Eric Wilson The other day a copy of the Heifer International holiday catalog arrived. On the fourth page there were a collection of facts about food waste. Here are five of them: In the United States, an estimated 40 percent of food gets thrown away. The United States’ per capita food waste has increased 50 percent since [...]
Organic Beer Neumarkter Lammsbräu
November 16th, 2011 Mac Maloney As mentioned in a previous column, the Germans have been serious about the purity of their beer (at least in writing) since the putting forward of the Reinheitsgabot (beer purity law) in 1487 and there are many breweries which uphold that tradition today. As mentioned in the tagline of this website – People, Planet, Profit [...]
Posted in 2nd Green, Energy Efficiency, Revolutionary Spirits, Sustainability Tags: Beer, Food, Mac Maloney, Solar Energy No Comments »
