By Lori Selke

01 Jul

Sustainable Seafood: Bamboo Sushi Eco Friendly Restaurant

The restaurant takes pride in its impeccably sourced fish. Bamboo Sushi works in partnership with the Monterey Bay Aquarium and the Marine Stewardship Council to serve not only fish that is certified sustainable, but often locally caught. The menu changes seasonally, as fish is a seasonal food.

10 Nov

Locally Sourced Gourmet Winter Menus

Chef Clayton Chapman provides ample inspiration for creating local, sustainable, handcrafted food in the dead of the Nebraska winter.

04 Nov

Regional, Seasonal Texas Holiday At Dai Due

Dai Due, based in Austin, Texas, has a lot of figurative irons in the fire. They’re a farmer’s market stand. They’re an educational organization. They’re a butcher shop. And sometimes, they’re a supper club.

26 Oct

Local, Sustainable Chicago Holiday Menu

When it comes to its holiday menu, co-owner Helen Cameron is careful to emphasize that it’s really business as usual in the kitchen. “That’s actually the mission of our restaurant,” she says “that year round, we source as much as we can locally.”

06 Aug

Petaluma Bounty Hunters Gleaning Food For The Poor

The Bounty Hunters glean fresh food that might otherwise go to waste—from back yard fruit trees and gardens, from local orchards and farms. The organization then redistributes their bounty to food banks and senior centers.

05 Aug

New Orleans Food Network Creates Community Support For Urban Farms

In a city ravaged by natural disaster, one organization works to create a solid community food network to support New Orleans urban farms, public awareness and food justice.

04 Aug

Chicago Sustainable Restaurant: Uncommon Ground

Uncommon Ground is simply a comfortable neighborhood joint—one where an ethos of sustainability is woven into every aspect. Imagine a world where every corner tavern had a rooftop garden and you’ll be picturing the world that Uncommon Ground hopes to comfortably inhabit someday soon.

04 Aug

Guerrilla Grafters

Urban landscape grows fruitful—literally—thanks to Guerrilla Grafters In San Francisco, it happens to be illegal to have fruit trees along sidewalks. Fallen fruit is considered a public health hazard, liable to get squashed, trampled and slipped on as well as attracting rats and other vermin. Which means that Guerrilla Grafters aren’t just posing as rogue…

22 Jul

Philly Food Forests And Occupy Vacant Lots

Vacant lots in Philadelphia are getting a makeover. They are being turned into self sustaining urban edible food forests.

01 Jun

ECO City Farms

Eco City Farms not only brings food back to the urban landscape of Maryland, but also works to educate a new generation about eating well and urban farming.

05 Apr

Serving Up Integrity In Sydney: Billy Kwong

Kylie’s bijoux restaurant is located in the Surry Hills neighborhood of Sydney, a once down-and-out corner of the city that has been reborn as a hipster paradise full of art galleries, cafes and bistros. Billy Kwong’s food focuses on modern interpretations of the Cantonese cuisine the fifth-generation Chinese-Australian chef grew up cooking and eating.

20 Mar

Lapin Kulta Solar Kitchen Restaurant

Forget natural gas, electricity or even solar panels: one roving restaurant uses solar ovens to cook up some thought provoking fare.

16 Mar

Farm To Fork: Blue Hill at Stone Barns

At Blue Hill at Stone Barns, “farm to table” means that the land you see outside the restaurant window is the land where the food on your fork was grown. Located in the Pocantico Hills in New York’s Hudson Valley region, Stone Barns Center occupies 80 acres filled with pasture, a greenhouse and even a bee colony.

12 Mar

Sustainable Restaurants: Mixt Greens

Mixt is at the forefront of a new trend—eco-conscious chain restaurants. With casual lunch joints like Mixt embracing sustainable practices, green dining is no longer confined to upscale establishments. Now even weekly takeout lunches in bustling business districts can be both eco-friendly and delicious.

24 Feb

Forage Restaurant

What sets Forage apart is its ingredients – or more specifically, their sources. Dedicated advocates of ultra-local, Forage leads the way in inspired community sourcing, serving food that includs home-grown produce from neighborhood gardeners.

15 Feb

L’Etoile Restaurant Madison

Long before it was fashionable to do so, Piper cultivated strong ties with small regional farmers and their products, from heirloom vegetables and sustainably raised meats to local cheeses, nuts and other artisan products.