This time last year I was just starting a week-long intensive MBA course on Global Sustainability.
The class – which covered everything from green technology innovation to social entrepreneurship – really focused on three distinct environmental challenges: Food, Water and Energy.
If there was one major takeaway from that week of class, it’s that these three issues are inextricably linked. [...]

How many of you have heard of Fair Trade? I’d imagine many of you have.
But how many could actually define it, or discuss it, or even promote it? My guess is not as many.
That was the case for me until recently. Recognizing that I’d heard a lot about Fair Trade but that I couldn’t actually [...]

I’ve written before on The Changebase about my own journey to find sustainable, local food – including this post on defining what local food really is.
The big conclusion I reached after trying to define “local” was that what I really meant was eating seasonal.
By eating seasonally, we get a couple of benefits:

Food tastes better: Anyone [...]

Anyone who knows me knows that food is a big part of my life – learning about it, talking about it, and especially eating it!
I’ve written about my interest in food in past posts, and today I came across a recent TED talk about food that I thought was worth sharing.
First, for those of you [...]

Since it’s still early in 2010, I thought I’d throw my hat in the ring and share my New Year’s Resolution.
My family and friends know that one thing I love to talk about is food.
Between my husband Dan studying to become a chef and my own studies of sustainability and the environment, the topic of [...]

A couple of weeks ago, the folks I follow on Twitter (a terrific bunch of CSR and social enterprise experts) were all abuzz about a New York Times article that told the story of a young woman from Minnesota. What was all the fuss?
Well, it turns out that this woman, 22 year-old Stephanie Smith, ate [...]

Do You Know Where Your Food Comes From?

As I’ve started to learn more and more about our food and agriculture systems in the U.S., I’ve noticed the word “local” popping up a lot. Have you noticed it too? In truth, I think you’d have to be living under a rock not to notice the fact [...]

Last winter, my husband Dan and I noticed we were beginning to struggle in our quest for fresh, local food. As a Californian learning to endure my first Boston winter, I wanted more variety in our produce. At the same time Dan, a culinary school student, was learning more and more about the role of [...]