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Transportation
Notes from the Road: ECO:nomics
Apr 16th, 2014 | By Amy Leibrock
Earlier this month, I attended The Wall Street Journal's ECO:nomics conference where top business and environmental leaders, policy makers and entrepreneurs met to discuss the intersection of business and the environment. This wasn’t a sudden embrace of the green movement by the preeminent business newspaper in the U.S. — it was a very realistic look at both the opportunities and threats that these companies face from environmental issues. Here’s a peek at what these leaders are thinking about food and fuel issues.
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Eco Living
Spring into Better Gas Mileage
Apr 13th, 2014 | By Amy Leibrock
Finally, spring. Daffodils! Budding trees! Short sleeves! Rising gas prices! Wait, what was that last one?
In case you hadn’t noticed, the average price of gas jumped from $3.49 to $3.62 in the last month, and prices are expected to hover around $3.57 a gallon throughout the summer, just one penny below last year’s average.
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Transportation
Nick Tiller Calls for Gas Conservation on CNBC
Apr 11th, 2014 | By Amy Leibrock
Part of our mission is to educate the public about food and fuel issues, and our founder, Nick Tiller, had a great opportunity to do just that recently. He was a guest on CNBC's mid-day show Fast Money: Halftime Report, where he explained how his background as a financial analyst and portfolio manager in the energy and food sectors led him to start a nonprofit organization.
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Food System
Growing a Generation of More Informed Eaters, Through Gardening
Apr 9th, 2014 | By Gray Peckham
As a high school health and PE teacher for the past 16 years, Stephanie Peckham has heard a lot of interesting stories and questions from her students. Questions run the gamut, with curious and not-yet-worldly students seeking answers about alcohol, drugs and cigarettes, to awkward birds and bees questions. But with the surge in childhood obesity and diabetes, Stephanie has found herself in the figurative epicenter of a battle to educate this generation of young Americans about the critical importance of eating healthy.
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Food System
The 'Omega Garden' Takes Hydroponics for a Spin
Apr 8th, 2014 | By Amy Leibrock
This month, Sustainable America will welcome the arrival of its new Omega Garden, an innovative rotary hydroponic system, which will serve as one of three indoor, urban agriculture demonstration units showcased in our new Stamford office. Its innovative design gets up to 3.5 times more in harvest per plant, without chemical fertilizers, herbicides or pesticides. Now that’s impressive.
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Eco Living
Thinking Beyond 'Reduce, Reuse, Recycle'
Apr 7th, 2014 | By Katrina Kazda
As the field of environmental sustainability matures, so does its core concepts, goals and operating principals. For example, “reduce, reuse, recycle” has served as a guiding principles of sustainability work over the last several decades. While the three Rs remain an important theme, the conversation is beginning to shift. The very concept of “waste” is being called into question.
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Food System
The Drought In California
Apr 4th, 2014 | By Nicole Rogers
California is the biggest U.S. producer of agricultural products. It's also in its third year of drought, with 95% of the state in moderate to exceptional drought conditions. Food prices have already risen as a result, but there are likely even higher prices to come. Oh, and the rivers are so dry salmon are being driven to the sea in tanker trucks.
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Transportation
"Why I Quit Oil"
Apr 1st, 2014 | By Nick Tiller
After 12 years of profiting from the energy and agriculture markets, I resigned my position as a hedge fund portfolio manager last year. Now, as the founder of Sustainable America, I devote a material portion of my time and net worth to helping make our nation’s food and fuel systems more resilient. Here's why
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Food System
"We Survived for 6 Months on Discarded Food"
Mar 31st, 2014 | By Amy Leibrock
What happens when two filmmakers challenge themselves to survive for six months only on discarded food? You get Just Eat It, a new documentary that explores the food waste issue from the farm all the way to a Vancouver fridge. Here, the filmmakers share some of the shocking things they learned and how they salvaged $200,000 worth of food.
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Food System
Peanuts and Cracker Jacks and...Compost?
Mar 26th, 2014 | By Amy Leibrock
Composting may not be the first thing that comes to you mind when you think about eating at a ball game, but the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) is working to change that. This week, the environmental group has published the Guide to Composting at Sports Venues, a free resource for stadiums that want to reduce and manage their food waste more effectively.
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