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

"Every cup of java brewed creates a conundrum: what to do with the coffee pod that produced it"

19.12.2024 3

Salon

Frida Garza

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

This story was originally published by Grist and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. There’s a Keurig machine in...

19.12.2024 6

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

“We have to be smarter about what we grow, and we can be smarter about how we grow what we're growing”

21.10.2024 10

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 comes...

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. A...

25.09.2024 4

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 ending...

17.09.2024 4

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 5

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 7

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 3

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, they'd...

25.07.2024 7

Salon

Frida Garza

No Parm, no problem: How modern chefs are veganizing the Caesar salad

Every Fourth of July, Americans fire up the grill and gather to watch fireworks in celebration of the nation's birthday, the anniversary of the...

08.07.2024 4

Salon

Frida Garza

The world is farming more seafood than it catches. Is that a good thing?

A new report from the United Nations' Food and Agriculture Organization, or FAO, has found that more fish were farmed worldwide in 2022 than harvested...

17.06.2024 8

Salon

Frida Garza

“The Whole Building Becomes This Big Brick Oven”

Mike Rodriguez/Grist This story was originally published by Grist and is reproduced here as part of the  Climate Desk collaboration. Last...

12.06.2024 4

Mother Jones

Frida Garza

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