Mrs. Q, as she’s called on her blog Fed Up With Lunch: The School Lunch Project, is a middle school teacher who’s spending 2010 eating lunch from her school’s cafeteria every day. Whatever the kids are served, she will eat—and take pictures of. Even a quick scroll through is pretty disturbing: nothing is fresh and

Blerg. At least we were on the right side on this one. For yet another take on the world’s ongoing over-fishing catastrophe, check out this article in The New Republic entitled…wait for it…”Aquacalypse Now.” Via Grist. 

The title above is mildly misleading—I am actually obsessed with this yogurt. It’s made in Ronks, a small town in Lancaster County, using milk from grass fed jersey cows, plus rainbows. It’s thick and tangy and ludicrously creamy. The vanilla is a touch sweet for me, and the plain (which will be lovely once that

Last Monday, the Grid team had the extreme pleasure of attending Fair Food‘s Local Buyer Local Seller event at the Reading Terminal Market. LBLS offers local producers (farmers, cheese makers, bakers, ect.) the chance to interact with restaurateurs, market owners and other wholesalers. Albert Yee, who does some great work for Grid, took some beautiful pictures at

Gerry Mak, one of the folks profiled in the recent Salon piece, "Hipsters on Foodstamps" (an article I discussed yesterday), has written a short response on the site. He makes some good points:

While organic and local foods seem like luxury items to many, it's important to understand that cheap food is the result of government

Moore College of Art and Design has been quite the green goddess of enviro-consciousness lately! This year, Moore is hosting the National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts (NCECA) Invitational “Earth Matters.”
The NCECA Invitational is a themed, curated exhibition that brings together both reputable artists (via invitation) and young, emerging artists (via submission) for

Grid‘s upcoming May cover story focuses on green building and design, so I’ve got it on the brain. Grist has a post up today that features a conversation with Pam Worner, a woman who runs a business near Seattle that helps home builders adopt “green” building practices. She argues that for all the talk of high-tech

The Atlantic has a story today on the rise of Asian silver carp in the Mississippi River. Turns out too many fish can be just as big a problem as too few. Apparently these non-native fish jump into boats, decimate ecosystems and engage in all sorts of general mischief:

"I've been hit hard," said Duane Chapman,

Salon launched a real flame-war bomb today with a story entitled "Hipsters on Food Stamps." Here is the subhed: "They're young, they're broke, and they pay for organic salmon with government subsidies. Got a problem with that?"
The story discusses the rising number of young, (usually) single, urban people who are eligible and taking advantage of the

This morning, Grist.org has a story up on the perks of electric bikes. It’s an interesting read: Brynnen [Ford] uses her Madsen “as a minivan alternative.” She drives carpool with it, hauling kids to and from elementary school over the steep hills of Seattle’s central area. Before she electrified her cargo bike with an eZee motor and battery