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Frida Garza

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Lab-grown meat rebrands itself to woo Trump — and RFK Jr

Lab-grown meat rebrands itself to woo Trump — and RFK Jr

"The cultivated meat industry hopes a pro-business argument can win over skeptical Republicans"

30.01.2025 10

Salon

Frida Garza

The US wants to cut food waste in half. We’re not even close

The US wants to cut food waste in half. We’re not even close

"Americans waste more than 300 pounds of food per person per year, study says"

23.01.2025 5

Salon

Frida Garza

NYC’s Long-Awaited Congestion Pricing Plan Will Have Big Environmental Benefits

The controversial new toll to drive into Manhattan will likely create cleaner air, safer streets and improved subways.

11.01.2025 2

Truthout

Frida Garza

Why it’s so hard to create a truly recyclable Keurig coffee pod

There's a Keurig machine in some 40 million households in the U.S. Single-serve coffee brewing systems — which allow consumers to make just one cup...

19.12.2024 7

Salon

Frida Garza

The Lazy Coffee Drinker’s Dilemma: Billions of Nonrecyclable K-Cups

If you lined up all the coffee pods in the world’s landfills side by side, they would comfortably circle the globe 10 times. Michal...

19.12.2024 7

Mother Jones

Frida Garza

The Senate’s New Farm Bill Would Prioritize Climate. Too Bad It’s Doomed.

Sen. Debbie Stabenow (D-MI) at a US Capitol press conference. Michael Brochstein/Zuma This story was originally published by Grist and is...

30.11.2024 20

Mother Jones

Frida Garza

Water challenges — made worse by rising temperatures — are threatening the world’s crops

A new report finds that one-quarter of the world's crops are grown in places facing high levels of water stress, water unreliability, or both. The...

21.10.2024 2

Salon

Frida Garza

More schools than ever are serving vegan meals in California. Here’s how they did it

Three years ago, Erin Primer had an idea for a new summer program for her school district: She wanted students to learn about where their food...

16.10.2024 20

Salon

Frida Garza

Vegan cheese won’t save the world — but this brand hopes you’ll buy it anyway

A woman wearing what can only be described as rags struggles to push something large, round, and yellow up a mountain. She lets out a primal scream....

25.09.2024 2

Salon

Frida Garza

Food is a huge source of methane emissions. Fixing that is no easy feat.

An international team of researchers found that global emissions of methane, a potent greenhouse gas, rose faster than ever in the three years...

17.09.2024 3

Salon

Frida Garza

NYC’s food delivery workers are sweltering in the heat — and demanding more protection

New York City, the city that never sleeps, is also an incredibly hard place to take a break — if your job is jetting across town on a bike...

03.09.2024 2

Salon

Frida Garza

Here’s how much cropland could be freed up if Americans ate half as much meat

A new report finds that the United States could more efficiently produce food if half the country's protein supply came from plant-based or...

21.08.2024 2

Salon

Frida Garza

How food banks prevented 1.8 million metric tons of carbon emissions last year

The latest annual impact report from the Global Foodbanking Network — a nonprofit that works with regional food banks in more than 50 countries to...

14.08.2024 2

Salon

Frida Garza

Plant-based meat needs government support to scale up, but a culture war stands in the way

Just a few years ago, the alternative protein industry promised to revolutionize the way people eat burgers: They would still sizzle and bleed,...

25.07.2024 2

Salon

Frida Garza