Which plant-based milk is right for you

Evaluating the plant-based milk that has the lowest environmental impact, best nutrition profile, and tastes good is hard. Allow us to make it easier for you.

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6 myths about plant-based eating—busted.

6 myth-busting facts about plant based eating, and recipes that make for an easy switch

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Rethinking our relationship to animals

Leslie Crawford, author of Sprig the Rescue Pig and Gwen the Rescue Hen, interviews Sy Montgomery. Montgomery’s enthusiasm and devotion to Earth’s creatures — and the similarities we share with them — has inspired her readers to get to know the eight-tentacled and big-brained wonders in The Soul of the Octopus, and taken us to the ends of the Earth and back to our own backyards in such award-winning books as Spell of the Tiger and Birdology.

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Dumpster diving at home

Sometimes the answer to the perpetual question of what’s for dinner? comes not from a recipe or a shopping list, but from the fruits and veggies languishing in your produce drawer. By embracing the idea of cooking what’s often called “root-to-shoot”  – or getting experimental with the stems, roots, cores, peels, and imperfect parts that might end up in the compost, we can reduce food waste and mitigate climate change. Turning a produce-drawer clean-out into a meal when provisions are running thin is a kind of tame, hyper-local version of dumpster diving

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Are plant-based athletes the ultimate game-changers?

Reviewing the case The Game Changers makes for a plant-based diet.

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Dumpster diving isn't crazy. Food waste is.

Dumpster diving isn’t crazy. Food waste is.

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A more humane Thanksgiving dinner

It’s easy to go plant-based for the holidays—especially if you bring some of this delicious food.

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Eating “next-generation” fish can help save the ocean

Eating new varieties of fish, like trash fish or bycatch, can help oceans recover.

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Can’t cut it as a vegetarian? Try this instead.

Can’t cut it as a vegetarian but want to eat for the planet and your own health? Try the reducetarian diet instead.

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We waste lots of food. Can grocery store Happy Hours help?

While US food chains have improved over the last year, they still have a long way to go to mitigate the nearly 133 billion pounds of food wasted each year. European grocers are taking creative and political steps to lower their waste. Here are a few ways you can help solve this problem at home.

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There’s a problem with “compostable” containers

Reason to avoid compostable containers, and non-toxic alternatives

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