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3 big trends headlining a tumultuous year in food

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I’m going to try to make sense of this tumultuous year, starting with three trends from the past 12 months that I see as key to the immediate future of food.

December 11, 2020 by Jim Giles

Parsing Panera's plan to nudge consumers toward low-carbon meals

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Something changed recently in America’s fast-casual restaurants. It involved only a single company, but it could herald the start of a fundamental shift in the

October 23, 2020 by Jim Giles

Can regenerative grazing allow for a low-emissions future for meat?

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A new meat brand had its official launch this week. Wholesome Meats isn’t big, yet. But it’s coming out swinging. The first thing you’ll learn on the

September 18, 2020 by Jim Giles

There's a big appetite for farm-to-consumer shopping

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Avrom Farm sits in the hills above Green Lake in central Wisconsin. With 5,000 chickens, 200 pigs and six acres of vegetables, it’s a minnow in an industry

August 21, 2020 by Jim Giles

Pondering the rise of 'food parks'

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Investment money continues to pour into food and agriculture — more than $7 billion so far in 2020, according to an estimate out this week. Much of this

July 31, 2020 by Jim Giles

The entire meat supply chain faces perilous future

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Global meat consumption will drop by close to 3 percent in 2020, the United Nations predicted recently. That would be the second consecutive annual fall. So

July 17, 2020 by Jim Giles

Where Unilever's product labeling initiative could have a huge impact

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One of the most significant projects in sustainable food in 2020 was unveiled last week. The news is important partly because of the company involved: CPG

June 26, 2020 by Jim Giles

Discrimination in our food system is everybody's problem

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The team at GreenBiz started Food Weekly to track progress toward a better food system. But as protestors filled streets across America last week, I was

June 5, 2020 by Jim Giles

The decarbonization promise of indoor agriculture is still in the seed stage

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Here’s a tale of two chefs. Both are based in the Midwest and both are preparing a Caesar salad. One uses lettuce shipped from where much of our lettuce is

May 22, 2020 by Jim Giles

Bringing home the bacon: A kindergartner tests the future of food

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Today I bring you exclusive data from the cutting edge of food science. Let me begin by managing expectations. This experiment is so grievously flawed that,

May 15, 2020 by Jim Giles

There's a more sustainable way to deliver online grocery orders

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This article was adapted from the GreenBiz Food Weekly newsletter. Sign up here to receive your own free subscription. Welcome to part two of our forecasting

May 1, 2020 by Jim Giles

This vision of the post-pandemic food system looks a lot like a microgrid

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This article was adapted from the GreenBiz Food Weekly newsletter. Sign up here to receive your own free subscription. The immediate impacts of the

April 24, 2020 by Jim Giles

Utopia? Imagining the food system of 2050

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This article was adapted from the GreenBiz Food Weekly newsletter. Sign up here to receive your own free subscription. Over the past few days, I had the

April 17, 2020 by Jim Giles

The premiere of the GreenBiz weekly newsletter about sustainable food systems

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Hello and welcome to Food Weekly. I’m Jim Giles, senior analyst for carbon and food systems here at GreenBiz. Thanks for signing up. (If this was forwarded to

February 14, 2020 by Jim Giles

Trend: Carbon markets get real on removal

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Trey Hill’s family has been working the land around Rock Hall, Maryland, since the early 1900s. Their company, Harborview Farms, harvests corn, wheat and soy

February 10, 2020 by Jim Giles

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