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- The problem and solution of food deserts in the US Sat, 13 Aug 22, 1:30amFor many people living in marginalized neighborhoods in the U.S., it’s a long trek to a store with a decent produce department. Instead of making a salad or steaming veggies, they wind up making do with nearby fast food...
- A food forest emerges in LA's famous Venice neighborhood Thu, 27 May 21, 1:30am“Food desert” has become a well-known term for an urban area where people do not have access to fresh food. But now, community “food forests” are popping up around cities and towns across the U.S., including one on...
- LA's Everytable cafe provides low-income residents a healthy alternative to McDonalds Wed, 10 Aug 16, 12:59amFood deserts and the often exorbitant prices of healthy fare leave low income and working families with few options to feed their families. Everytable is a grab-and-go cafe opening up in downtown and South Los Angeles that...
- Denver food desert raises $50K for first community-owned grocery store Wed, 28 Oct 15, 12:30amCombine a powerful, supportive civic society with killer marketing chops and enlightened grassroots activism, and amazing things can happen. Case in point is the Westwood Food Co-op in Denver, Colorado, which just raised...
- Toronto’s Converted Veggie Bus Brings Produce to Food Desert Areas Tue, 25 Nov 14, 2:25amA new mobile organic food market is making its way around Toronto, bringing fresh fruit and veggies to areas considered to be food deserts. Designed by LGA Architectural Planners, the mobile farmer’s market was converted...
- Good Eggs Delivers Farm Fresh Food to Your Door Sat, 16 Nov 13, 2:41amThink the only way to get fresh, organic, local produce direct from the farm is by spending your Saturday morning at the farmer's market? Think again. Good Eggs is a new online service that makes fresh organic produce available...
- Click & Grow Introduces Internet-Controlled Smart Farm for Urban Agriculture Thu, 10 Oct 13, 2:09amCalifornia-based company Click & Grow makes urban farming easy for even the least savvy green thumbs. Their electronic smart pots monitor plants and use a proprietary growth medium that eliminates excess watering and...
- Economists Debate Whether the McDonald’s Hamburger is the Most Nutritious and Inexpensive Food in Human History Fri, 23 Aug 13, 1:00amFast food offers a cheap and calorie-rich option to fill your stomach, but can it be considered the "most bountiful food" of all time? The Freakonomics authors and radio broadcasters are asking just that question after receiving...
- Real Food Farm’s Mobile Market is a Produce Oasis in the Food Deserts of Baltimore Thu, 8 Aug 13, 6:00amFood Deserts are areas where a supermarket is more than 1/4 mile away, poverty is high, access to a vehicle is rare and the average Healthy Food Availability Index score is very low...
- Map Reveals Who is Eating Their Fruits and Vegetables in America Fri, 14 Jun 13, 10:20pmJust about every doctor on the planet will advise their patients to eat a good selection of fruits and vegetables each day in order to bolster their health, but for some Americans, it's simply not that easy...
- Data From Google Earth Helps to Uncover Chicago’s Hidden Urban Farms Thu, 17 Jan 13, 4:00amGoogle Earth has already been helpful in such endeavors as monitoring the destruction of the Amazon rainforest and determining the location of landmines...
- National Resources Defense Council Study Finds 40% of the World’s Food Goes Uneaten Fri, 24 Aug 12, 2:20amIt’s not exactly breaking news that we humans waste a lot of our food, but a new study by the National Resources Defense Council puts a striking figure on the actual statistics, suggesting that we waste a whopping 40%...
- New Data Suggests 30-50% of the World’s Food Goes Uneaten Sat, 17 Mar 12, 3:41amIt’s not exactly breaking news that humans waste a lot of our food, but a new study by the National Resources Defense Council puts a striking figure on the actual statistics, suggesting that we waste a whopping 30 and...