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Share Each year The Buckminster Fuller Challenge, an international design competition hosted by the Buckminster Fuller Institute, awards $100,000 to a project proposal that has the potential to address...
View ArticleNew Book to Inspire a Redesigned, Fair Food System
Share By Matt Styslinger Oran Hesterman, author of the newly released book Fair Food: Growing a Healthy, Sustainable Food System for All, believes our food system is broken. Designed to bring us...
View ArticleGrowing Food, Justice, and Power
Share By Kamaria Greenfield This September in Milwaukee, the Growing Food and Justice Initiative (GFJI) will hold its fourth annual conference, including a program entitled “Sacred Soil: Cultivating...
View ArticleEnvironmental Working Group recommends less meat and cheese
Share By Kamaria Greenfield The Environmental Working Group (EWG) recently released their findings on the climate impacts of eating twenty different proteins, ranging from lentils to lambs. The data...
View ArticleAre Donor Countries Reneging on L’Aquila Promises?
Share By Kamaria Greenfield According to the anti-poverty group The ONE Campaign, the Group of Eight (G8) and other rich nations have donated only a fifth of the US$22 billion promised to impoverished...
View ArticleFive Simple Things Consumers Can Do to Prevent Food Waste
Share By Graham Salinger The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), reports that an estimated one-third of the food produced worldwide for human consumption is wasted annually. In the...
View ArticleWasted Food Aid: Why U.S. Aid Dollars Aren’t Going as Far as They Could
Share By Eleanor Fausold An article recently published in The Atlantic suggests that U.S. food aid money is not always being spent in the most efficient way possible. U.S. food aid programs can be...
View ArticleFive food guides that are combating malnourishment
Share By Jenna Banning If you are what you eat, our world is certainly unhealthy. People across the globe are not getting the nutrients that they need, resulting in high levels of both hunger and...
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