#ForewordFriday: Food Town, USA

By Erica Sánchez Vázquez / On October 4th, 2019
Explore the food movement in Sitka, Alaska in this excerpt from Food Town, USA: Seven Unlikely Cities that are Changing the Way We Eat.

#ForewordFriday: Spoiled, Rotten, and Left Behind

By Katharine Sucher / On March 16th, 2018
By 2050 we will have ten billion mouths to feed in a world profoundly altered by environmental change. How we meet this challenge will be the difference between food abundance and shortage, environmental preservation or destruction, and even life and death. We have the tools and ingenuity needed to achieve global food security—but the pursuit of a secure future begins with a clear understanding of the challenges facing our food system today.
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#ForewordFriday: Nature's Chemistry Edition

By Katharine Sucher / On June 23rd, 2017
Bugs and germs are big problems—and they’re evolving. Each year, 2,300 people in the U.S. die from drug-resistant bacterial infections and farmers lose billions of dollars of crops to insects that evade pesticides. But there is reason for hope. In the fight to protect our food and health, bugs and germs may also be part of the solution. Natural Defense by veteran science writer Emily Monosson is the first book to bring readers into this exciting new world.

#ForewordFriday: Biting the Hands that Feed Us

By Katharine Sucher / On September 15th, 2016
As a regular consumer of food, you would be reasonable to assume that food laws and agencies work to combat things like food waste, foodborne illness, inhumane livestock conditions, and disappearing fish stocks. However, some regulations do just the opposite.
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#ForewordFriday: Making Cities More Fruitful

By Meghan Bartels / On October 17th, 2014
Orange trees in Berkeley, California. The remarkable absence of fallen fruit proves that public produce is prized in some communities.
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#ForewordFriday: Get Your Hands Dirty Edition

By Meghan Bartels / On April 11th, 2014
With spring finally starting to show its face, we're thinking about everything that's green and growing. But as Yvonne Baskin shows in Under Ground: How Creatures of Mud and Dirt Shape Our World, we'd be nowhere without that most overlooked of substances: dirt. In the first chapter, she introduces an amazing world that holds two-thirds of the planet's biodiversity, from gigantic fungi to ancient microbes that can live in boiling hot springs or under sheathes of polar ice.