How to Eat Sustainably
How to Eat Sustainably
Tips for making wise food choices, for your health and for the environment.
- Simple Steps to Eating Sustainably
- 50 Ways to Eat Green
- Why Buy Organic?
- Organic foods from A-Z (Short video clips)
- Why Buy Local?
- Directory of local farmer's markets, restaurants with local food, farms, and co-ops
- Triad Buying Co-op
- Join or start a community garden in your area
Make sustainable seafood and coffee choices too.
- Top 5 Indicators of Sustainable Coffee. Courtesy of Julie Craves, Coffee & Conservation.
- Smithsonian Migratory Bird Center's "Bird Friendly" coffee seal
Don't stop there! More lifestyle choices dedicated to eating sustainably.
- Can and preserve your fruits and vegetables
- Consider caring for a flock of backyard chickens
- Home composting how-to
- Everything you need to know about composting
Additional Reading:
- Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life. By Barbara Kingsolver with Steven Hopp & Camille Kingsolver
- In Defense of Food. By Michael Pollan
- Cook Food: A Manualfesto for Easy Healthy Local Eating. By Lisa Jervis
- The Backyard Homestead. Carleen Madigan (ed.)
- The Organic Food Shopper's Guide. By Jeff Cox
- Organic, Inc. By Samuel Fromartz
- Keeping Chickens. By Ashley English
- Ball Blue Book of Preserving