Agriculture
Rooftop Farm in New York Supplies Restaurants
A rooftop farm in Brooklyn, N.Y., is commercially growing fruits and vegetables. Area restaurants are flocking to the farm, which cost $60,000 to build, Reuters ...
McDonald’s Testing 10 ‘Green’ Restaurant Models
In an effort to test various energy saving and waste-reducing methods, McDonald's is evaluating 10 prototype "green" restaurant locations. The restaurant is treating the 10 locations as ...
How Fair Trade Relates to Sustainability
Teresa Fabian, Director of Sustainability and Climate Change for PricewaterhouseCoopers, speaks at the Fairtrade Foundation Commercial Conference.
UK Food Label Would Show Items’ Environmental Impact
The UK may implement a food labeling scheme that details elements such as the number of miles from the source to the UK - a.k.a. food ...
UN Approves Ag Carbon Offset Methodology to Cut CO2 Emissions
The United Nations recently approved the broad application of the first agricultural methodology, or biological approach, for Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) projects to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. The ...
Groups Lobby for ‘Water Footprint’ on Food/Bev Items
Food and beverage items deserve a special label that indicates their "water footprint," two food and health groups in the UK say. The Food Ethics Council ...
Oregon Ag Firm Adopts Biogas Generation
A biogas unit will generate twice as much electricity as is needed to run the operations at Stahlbush Island Farms in Oregon. The $10 million plant, ...
Whole Foods U.S. Supermarkets Earn Organic Certification
Whole Foods Market has announced that each of its 273 U.S. stores has been individually certified organic by CCOF, a non-profit, USDA-accredited third-party organic certifier. Whole ...
Hall Wines Site Gets 35% of Energy from Solar
The St. Helena location of Hall Wines is getting 35 percent of its electricity from on-site solar arrays. With that, and other sustainable features, the ...
Gill Farms – From Onions to Energy
Gills Onions is using onion juice from its processing plant to power a 600 kilowatt fuel cell electricity generation unit that will slice $700,000 in energy ...
Wal-Mart Taps CDP for Emissions Reporting in Sustainability Index
As Wal-Mart goes, so goes the world. When it comes to carbon emissions reporting, the $406 billion retailer appears to be suggesting that suppliers go through ...
Chipotle Aligns Itself with ‘Food, Inc.’ Movie
To bolster its sustainability image, Chipotle Mexican Grill is sponsoring various aspects of the widely hailed "Food, Inc." documentary, which is critical of corporate food chains ...
Produce Greenhouse Goes Carbon-Neutral
Houweling's Hot House, a British Columbia-based greenhouse tomato and cucumber grower, has put into place what it calls the world's first carbon-neutral commercial greenhouse for ...
Oil Refiners and Farmers Lobby for Climate Change Concessions
It's a tough road ahead for the U.S. climate bill in the Senate. So far, oil refiners and farmers as well as a leading trade group are expressing their dissatisfaction with the climate legislation recently ...
G8 Summit Roundup: Climate Progress Hastens
The G8 Summit in Italy has resulted in a flurry of developments on climate change, including a pledge to cut global emissions 50 percent by 2050, ...
Agribusiness Works to Define Sustainable Agriculture
The Leonardo Academy is working on an American National Standard for Sustainable Agriculture (SCS-001), under the rules of the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) ...
By Far, Organic Seen as Top Food Trend for Next Decade
Organic is the food trend that 41 percent of respondents of a national survey expect to grow the most during the next decade, according to ...
Reuse of RFID Tags Adds Supply Chain Efficiency
A study from the Reusable Packaging Association has found that radio frequency identification (RFID) tags designed for single use actually are able to withstand multiple ...
Silver Mountain Vineyards Goes to 100% Solar Energy
Silver Mountain Vineyards, a certified organic vineyard and winery in the Santa Cruz Mountains has joined the small but growing ranks of California growers ...
SAB Miller Targets 25% Reduction in Water Used in Brewing
By 2015, SAB Miller, which markets more than 200 brands of beer and is the world's largest bottler of Coca-Cola products, hopes to reduce by 25 percent the amount of water used to brew ...
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