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Cheap Seafood's High Cost quaziefoto/flickr

Cheap Seafood's High Cost

A visit to a fish processing plant reveals the inefficient processes that have helped seafood suppliers and marketers meet sky-high demand for boring filets year-round

Still No Tomatoes: Is Global Warming to Blame? nowviskie/flickr

Still No Tomatoes: Is Global Warming to Blame?

Floods, fires, and scarcity of a favorite crop lead to the question of whether climate change is affecting our food

A Low-Carbon Four-Course Meal: Can It Be Done? Helene York

A Low-Carbon Four-Course Meal: Can It Be Done?

A sustainable dining executive cooks for 18—and teaches how to keep fossil fuels from seasoning a tasting menu

'Local' Wholesale Produce: Not All That Local limeasia/flickr

'Local' Wholesale Produce: Not All That Local

Delivery services are talking the talk, but they can't put sustainable foods where school diners' mouths are

Fields on Wheels: Teaching With a Truck Farm Courtesy of Curt Ellis

Fields on Wheels: Teaching With a Truck Farm

How to demystify the way food grows? Take the plants to the kids—and show them you don't even need land.

The 'Veggie' Option: As Bad as Mystery Meat Greencolander/flickr

The 'Veggie' Option: As Bad as Mystery Meat

A food service executive argues for eliminating menus' enigmatic "vegetarian option"—or making it sound good

Waste Not, Warm Not: Cutting Dining Hall Scraps mangpages/flickr

Waste Not, Warm Not: Cutting Dining Hall Scraps

Can we save the planet from lunch tray leftovers? How to ensure the word "green" applies to more than just salad bars.

The Myth of Green Beef Silly Jilly/flickr

The Myth of Green Beef

Grass-fed or not, the steak you eat each week could be responsible for as much greenhouse gas as a car driving hundreds of miles. A case for cutting back.

Vegetable Protein: Culprit of the Moment stevendepolo/flickr

Vegetable Protein: Culprit of the Moment

The latest recall is of this flavor additive and stabilizer. And it's found in almost everything, from hot dogs to dressing.

How Your Dining Hall Can Buy Local Helene York

How Your Dining Hall Can Buy Local

Sustainable cafeterias are next to impossible, right? Well, not if you address these 8 common impediments.

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