Trash Becomes Energy at a Small New York Landfill
It’s time to think differently about garbage. The United States produces 390 billion pounds of garbage every year, and finding places to dispose of it is a serious environmental and economic challenge. We…
The Nicest Place on the Internet
Even though most of us are far better connected these days than we’ve ever been before, thanks to social networks, email and video calling, we tend to see less actual people (online shopping…
Set The Table, It’s Food Day
Today, October 24, is the first National Food Day, a day of celebration that will occur every year on this same date. The Food Day initiative “seeks to bring together Americans from all…
The Lexicon of Sustainability
No matter how educated we are in various areas of sustainability, it’s easy to sometimes get stuck in the terminology of it all, especially since so much good stuff is going on. This…
Zimride – Community-powered Ridesharing
We all have somewhere to go, the question is: how do we get there? Services like Zipcar are becoming more popular every day, but how can we utilize all the cars that are…
Mainstream Green: Moving Sustainability from Niche to Normal
If you are a reader of this site, chances are you’re already a “green” person, or at least trying to be. As someone who lives and breathes this sustainability stuff, I am constantly…
Earth Day – Does the Grass Still Have Roots?
To many, April 22, 1970, marks the beginning of the modern environmental movement. The first Earth Day celebration brought somewhere around 20 million Americans together to demonstrate against environmental degradation. Protests had been…
Hacking For Social Good – Using Open Data to Make Sense of our Food System
It was 8:00 a.m. on a Saturday morning in Soho, the streets lay quiet and Broadway was not yet filled with shopping tourists. Though one floor above, at co-working space Soho Haven, there…
The Wisdom Project
Inspired by the idea that one of the greatest gifts one generation can pass on to another is the wisdom it has gained from experience, award-winning photographer and filmmaker Andrew Zuckerman started the…
Play Report: Children prefer playing with their parents over watching TV.
What would kids rather do — watch TV or play with their friends or parents? The results were overwhelming; nine out of ten children preferred playing socially. Children aged 7-12 were asked a…
Change Connections — Crowdsourcing Social Innovation
This past week, Nokia and The Feast launched a very interesting collaborative project called Change Connections. The goal of the project is “to contribute to strengthening innovation ecosystems and our understanding of the…
Diet for a Hot Planet: The Climate Crisis at the End of Your Fork and What You Can Do About It
We’ve all heard that the one thing we should all do (besides switch to energy-efficient lightbulbs) to fight climate change is fly less. What if that wasn’t true? What if what we really…
Earth Days: A History of the Modern Environmental Movement
Everyone and everything seems to be “Going Green” these days, and it’s hard to imagine a time when environmental issues were nowhere near the top of most people’s agendas. Forty years ago today,…
The Art of Eating In… and Finding Yourself
The saying goes that New York apartments no longer need kitchens because nobody cooks anymore. Although that may not actually be the case, it is not too far from the truth. If you’ve…












