Eat Well Guide® is a free online directory for anyone in search of fresh, locally grown, and sustainably produced food in the United States and Canada. The Guide’s thousands of listings include family farms, restaurants, farmers’ markets, grocery stores, Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) programs, U-pick orchards and more. Users can search by location, keyword, category, …
Gloucester, MA—The Cape Ann Fresh Catch (CAFC) Community Supported Fishery (CSF) looks to rejuvenate one of America’s original small businesses—fishing. The CAFC CSF helps our local fishermen put their sustainably-caught seafood straight onto your dinner plate through a direct-to-you distribution model. It is a collaboration between area residents, shore-side operations, and the local-fishing community. CAFC …
How can we be sustainable on days that are dedicated to indulgence? Harvard Chan School’s This Week in Health podcast interviews Gary Adamkiewicz, our Director of Healthy Cities, to give us food for thought as we head into a meal-centric holiday season. Dr. Adamkiewicz suggests that the focus on abundance and indulgence around the holidays …
The ocean is a vast and mysterious place, home to a staggering diversity of marine life. For seafood lovers, this diversity is a tantalizing promise of delicious meals and culinary adventures. However, what you see on your plate may not be what you think it is. The rampant mislabeling of fish that consumers buy can …
From sea to sushi bar, a system open to abuse (Boston Globe) Read More »
Renewable electricity projects and energy efficiency measures could have health benefits worth millions of dollars a year, according to a study published online in Nature Climate Change. The value of such projects varies greatly depending on the type of project, and where they are located, however. Generating electricity from low-carbon energy sources and cutting energy …
For several years, our Executive Education for Sustainability Leadership program has worked with senior executives to use sustainability as a driver for promoting innovation within their organizations. Redirecting an organization to become more sustainable is frequently met with resistance and therefore becomes the perfect model for implementing any type of organizational change or transformation. From …
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Gregory Norris, Co-Director of the Sustainability and Health Initiative for NetPositive Enterprise (SHINE), delivered a webinar on the ideas and methods that are at the center of his life cycle assessment (LCA) practice–NetPositive sustainability. In NetPositive Sustainability: A Framework for Transformatively Sustainable Products, Companies, and Living, Gregory introduces the concept of a “handprint.” Similar to a …
This video breaks down the science behind our paper on the health benefits of a low carbon energy policy, and explores how renewable energy is good for our health. Generating electricity from low-carbon energy sources and cutting energy demand reduces the need for fossil fuel power generation, decreasing emissions of harmful gases such as nitrogen oxides, …
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The United States imports over a billion pounds of shrimp annually. Most of it arrives frozen from environmentally destructive tropical farms. Now U.S. shrimp farmers are using environmentally friendly techniques to produce a fresh, delicious product with a much gentler environmental footprint. Barton Seaver speaks with Living on Earth about the definitions of “sustainable” and …
John Mandyck, a member of our Corporate Council and author of Food Foolish, opened his blog to Barton Seaver, the Program Director for our Sustainable Seafood and Health Program. Barton is one of America’s leading voices for sustainable food systems, who believes that bringing people together around a shared table may be the best way …
Wasted Food Means Wasted Opportunity to Feed Our Soul Read More »
Get your custom seafood list based on your weight, age, gender, whether you are nursing or pregnant, and if you have heart disease. We like this calculator as a companion to our Seafood Decision Guide, which we produced in partnership with National Geographic. Visit Site
By Eileen McNeely, Co-Director of the Sustainability and Health Initiative for NetPositive Enterprise (SHINE). Reprinted from the Huffington Post. I’ve been working at the intersection of health and the environment for over 25 years. While my research in this space has evolved over time, I inevitably keep coming back to the same insight: human health and …
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