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Agricultural practices, such as tilling soil and managing animal wastes, determine the amount of greenhouse gases that are released into the atmosphere or are sequestered in the biosphere. Likewise, the transport of food products around the world also has an impact on climate change.
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Our food system is depleting the earth’s resources and making us sick, even as a billion people around the world go hungry. It’s got to change, and it can change.
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At the Sustainable Operations Summit this week in New York City, leaders from companies in widely different industries shared their secrets of successful composting, and how to cut costs while not...
Walmart is making progress on its sustainability goals, but it still has a long way to go.
Janet Voute, vice president and global head of public affairs at Nestle, discusses the company's experience of issuing its first sustainability report to meet the Global Reporting Initiative...
Sodexo’s food service sites have been serving less meat -- while keeping customers happy and maintaining sales -- as part of Meatless Monday.
Paul Sellew, the CEO of the company that turns food and agricultural leftovers into energy, talks about community-building, the importance of organics management in renewable energy, and why...
The wife of Bill Niman, the name that launched a revolution in human cattle farming, is a vegetarian. But she's quick to say that eating meat is not a sin, although the meat that most...
What's the carbon impact of banana yogurt? How about strawberry? Thanks to a new SAP system, Danone now knows the carbon footprints of each of its 35,000 products....
Engineers and soil scientists at Iowa State and its Bioeconomy Institute are trying to find out as they explore the feasibility of a process called biochar.
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As the world faces huge multidisciplinary sustainability challenges, many university sustainability programs remain part of a single discipline. Dow hopes its $10 million gift could help change...
With cows emitting all that methane, the milk-production industry contends with a carbon footprint as large as the airline industry's. But many dairies are doing something about it --...
The world's largest soupmaker says it will eventually stop using BPA -- a controversial chemical -- to line its cans. Advocates call the decision a big step for the canned-foods industry.
The food services industry needs a united voice to deal with the huge costs of avoidable food waste, according to the conglomerate.
Eight key steps to make fast food packaging more eco-friendly.
McDonald's and Starbucks stand out at leading examples of what fast food companies should do to lower the impacts of their packaging.
Major meat producers including McDonald's, Cargill and Walmart are committing to making meat production more humane and environmentally friendly. Bon Appetit Management Company, a Bay Area...
Food waste isn't a problem generally associated with the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, but the network of cafes and food service operations catering to VA facilities generates tons of......
A deal brokered this week between the world's two largest markets for organic foods provides mutual recognition to each region's organic certification, lowering barriers to expanding a $50...
The new cold cases for Ben & Jerry's ice cream, Klondike bars, Popsicles and other frozen treats from Unilever are designed to be more energy efficient and climate-friendly....
It's easy to lose sight of sustainability issues on a day that's focused on material expressions of affection, but there are resources gift-givers can use to gauge the environmental......
Even as both sides continue to wage a battle around whether or not genetically modified organisms are good for the planet and its people, new data show that ever-larger swaths of land are being...
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