There are many factors that must be confronted to change our destructive industrial food system. Perhaps the most difficult is the political arena, where billions of lobbying dollars have prevented or stalled public policy.

In today’s precarious employment market, there are careers that entrepreneurial individuals would be keen to have. Three men in their twenties took a different route to help others live conscious and healthy lives.

An expert chicken farmer, beekeeper and sustainable-food advocate, who has been interviewed by NPR, the Huffington Post and numerous others, Orren Fox has one unusual attribute: he is only fourteen years old.

Food deserts exist in many cities and rural areas—places where fresh, healthy food is simply not available. Two enterprising grad students from Seattle have come up with an innovative solution—a store that can be installed inside a cargo container and placed virtually anywhere.

Chef, cooking instructor and award-winning cookbook author Peter Berley has taken his passion for locally sourced and seasonal cooking and has decided to pass it on through the unique classroom environment he has created at North Fork Kitchen.

Many documentaries have shown us the sorry state of our industrial food system. With this new film, many industrial farmers are beginning to realize the economic benefits of going sustainable.

Sarah Wu was an even-tempered elementary school teacher, who one day forgot her lunch and decided to eat in her school’s cafeteria. At the sight of the food she discovered her students were eating daily, she became outraged....

Bottled water has become a billion-dollar industry that, through the enormous quantity of waste in plastic bottles, has brought severe harm to the environment. The good news is, there is a great solution that comes at a fraction of the cost and totally eliminates its environmental harm.

It is rare to find an industrial farmer who has made the remarkable journey to becoming organic and sustainable—but Eric Herm, West Texas farmer and author of Son of a Farmer, Child of the Earth, is doing exactly that. 

Three university students in Germany had an idea to help reduce traffic congestion and greatly enable carpooling for everyone. Today their innovation, Carpooling.com, has several million registered users and has helped create 24 million carpools since its inception.