Food and Agriculture

With Real Food Calculator, students take Prop 37 into their own hands

College students can use the calculator's results to challenge their schools to commit to more just and sustainable purchasing.

Hannah Wolfe & Katie Blanchard Food and Agriculture

2012 has been the hottest year ever in the United States

So far in 2012, the average temperature has been 3.4 degrees above average, and 1.1 degrees above the previous warmest year ever. Also, the drought continues.

Philip Bump Climate & Energy

Climate change and overfishing hurt our cutest, tiniest fish

Sardines and other forage fish are struggling. Is it climate change, plankton decline, overfishing -- or all of the above?

Susie Cagle Climate & Energy

What we can learn from California’s attempt to label GMOs

The odds of success were long. California's flawed initiative process certainly didn't help.

Tom Laskawy Food and Agriculture

Out of the cage and onto the grass: Helping pastured eggs go mainstream

Austin's Vital Farms helps egg producers who want to transition to a pasture-based model, then markets and distributes their eggs around the country. Now it's using crowdfunding to help get more chickens out on pasture.

Claire Thompson Food and Agriculture

Don’t worry: The drought will not destroy your peanut party

Turns out this year's weather was great for the little nuts which are also peas.

Philip Bump Climate & Energy

GMO labeling fight is out of the polls and into the stores

California's GMO labeling measure may have failed, but the food movement fights on with direct grocery action.

Susie Cagle Food and Agriculture

Beyond Obama: Here are green ballot measures that won and lost

Two big ballot initiatives backed by enviros -- on GMO labeling in California and clean power in Michigan -- lost on Tuesday. But other green measures won.

Lisa Hymas Cities

GMO labeling or no, a movement comes of age

If California's Prop 37 doesn't pass, it won't be for lack of a solid effort by food reformers.

Twilight Greenaway Food and Agriculture

As support for California GMO labeling wanes, campaign grows desperate

Fighting Monsanto's dirty money, Proposition 37 campaign has been getting weirder as time runs out before the election.