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Do Employees Work Harder for Green Businesses?

It's easier to get people to shovel manure if they think it's for the good of the environment.READ MORE

Honey Gets Sexy in New Book on Global, Exotic Industry

Author Grace Pundyk spills the beans behind her new book.READ MORE

The Wal-Mart Blog: Day Two

Twice since November, Wal-Mart has made significant announcements about how it buys seafood. Wal-Mart is changing how it buys shrimp, and how it buys the wild-caught fish that it sells in grocery stores across North America (Wal-Mart ...READ MORE

First Sustainable Fishing Loan Program in the U.S. Launches at Google HQ

It's hard to keep that New Year's resolution to eat sustainable seafood with so many tasty endangered species on restaurant menus. But the Environmental Defense Fund's (EDF) California Fisheries Fund (CFF) could be the push that ...READ MORE

World Dairy Expo

The quickest way to sour the mood at this five-day fete-à-feta in Madison, Wisconsin? Mention a nondairy milk. In April, the National Milk Producers Federation sent a letter to the FDA, urging it to crack down on the misuse of ...READ MORE

A Taste of the Honey Business

The bees of America have been working hard all summer: To make a pound of honey, they have to fly the equivalent of eight roundtrips between New York and Paris. Now it's time to enjoy the fructose of their labor. Have a taste of the facts and figures on honey.READ MORE

Aquaculture 2010

If fish had origin stickers, there's a good chance dinner would read "made in China." "Almost 50% of the fish we eat now is farmed," says Simon Wilkinson of the Network of Aquaculture Centers in Asia-Pacific -- and China produces ...READ MORE

Beefonomics: Cargill Meat Solutions Turns Trash to Cash

How Cargill Meat Solutions is winning over grocers, consumers, and its employees -- and driving growth -- with its first entry into the branded beef business.READ MORE

Target Steps Up for Sustainable Seafood

Greenpeace's Carting Away the Oceans seafood sustainability scorecard has lauded Target in the past for its green seafood policies. Now the chain is getting even more kudos for its announcement that it replace farmed salmon with the ...READ MORE

Cattle Industry Annual Convention and Trade Show

Beef lovers, take note: The 6,000 ranchers at this bovine confab may not look like power brokers, but they're ultimately in charge of a $76 billion industry -- and the products that land on your plates. Lately, they worry, too little ...READ MORE

Eat-onomics With Paul Willis of Niman Ranch

Niman Ranch began in 1970 as a small, eleven-acre farm raising humanely treated animals using all-natural feeds. Forty years later, it's grown into the largest network of independent American farmers, producing antibiotic-free meat products.READ MORE

A Day in the Life of Work: Udder Artistry

In her 44 years as the butter sculptress at the Iowa State Fair, Norma Lyon has churned out statues of everything from cows to Elvis to the Last Supper.READ MORE

Greenpeace Ranks Sustainable Seafood in Grocery Stores, Wegmans Tops List

Greenpeace's third edition of the Carting Away the Oceans seafood sustainability scorecard brings some heartening news: over half of the leading U.S. supermarket chains have made progress in seafood sustainability. Many have ...READ MORE

Solarix Sustainer: A Biodiesel Conversion System for the Survivalist

European biodiesel company Solarix has created what may be a sustainable powerhouse for rural areas: the Sustainer, a "power box" in a 20-foot container frame that converts oil-bearing crops and seeds into edible oil ...READ MORE

Trader Joe's Takes on Sustainable Seafood

Chalk up another victory for Greenpeace's trademark tactic of shaming companies into submission. This time around, Trader Joe's has agreed to source all of its seafood from sustainable sources by 2012. The move comes after a long ...READ MORE

CowDetect RFID Tags Ensure That Dairy Cows Are Healthy, Productive

It doesn't prevent industrial dairy cows from being packed into small quarters, but the CowDetect RFID tracking system at least allows farmers to keep track of animal health and schedule milking and fertilization for maximum ...READ MORE

World Fisheries Congress

Clams, shrimp, spicy-tuna rolls: Yum! Global seafood consumption has tripled during the past 50 years. At the fifth World Fisheries Congress (October 20 -- 24) in Yokohama, Japan, sustainability -- of the $155 billion industry and the animals it depends on -- will be the big concern. Here are seven species on the menu.READ MORE

"What Does She Buy?" Lean, Tasteless Pork.

The latest in a series of visionary tales inspired by the great corporate marketing films of the last century.READ MORE

Dutch Design Masters, in Their Own Words

A delicious video archive for anyone interested in Dutch design, featuring studio visits with Philips, MVRDV, and 15 others.READ MORE

Can Robotic Cages Save Fish Farming?

Fish populations are dwindling rapidly due to widespread overfishing, and it's not likely to stop any time soon--the UN thinks that world seafood demand will grow 40% by 2030. And your beloved sushi restaurant might not exist for much ...READ MORE

The Char Mark Conspiracy

"Would you like that chicken breast cooked in our restaurant, or in a factory in Arkansas?"READ MORE

Have You Forgiven JetBlue?

Recently, I sat down with David Neeleman, JetBlue's CEO, to hear about the aftereffects of its high-profile meltdown in February and his strategy for leading through crisis. Before the piece hit the presses, we sent an advance copy ...READ MORE

Fishermen Score Restraining Order Against BP

Commercial fishermen may lose their livelihoods to the Gulf oil spill, but it's the little things that count, right? The United Commercial Fisherman’s Association (UCFA) scored a temporary restraining order against BP this week, ...READ MORE

Bad News Bearers

Knowing how to deliver bad news can be the difference between brand meltdown and more-loyal customers.READ MORE

Greenpeace Launches Aggressive Campaign Against Costco

Greenpeace gets a lot of flack for its aggressive, embarrassing campaigns against corporations, but the simple truth is that they often work. That's why we have some hope that the organization's most recent campaign, which derides ...READ MORE