green

Recipes

• Apple Martini
  An apple a day...
• Argentinean Chimichurri Sauce
  This zesty green sauce is great with grilled meat
• Artichokes à la Grecque
  Artichokes cooked with olive oil and lemon
• Asparagus and Cilantro Soup
  Asparagus pairs with fresh cilantro
• Green Beans with Shallots
  Quick and tasty
• Roasted Asparagus with Poached Eggs and Miso Butter
  A simple, refined preparation

Grinders

• The Daily Grind and Shred
  Produce extractors can help supermarkets keep unsold produce out of the landfill—and help out gardeners in the process.
• Food, Wine, Makeup, and Furniture?
  Food mags are peppering their pages with green pieces more than ever before—and sometimes it just feels like a stretch.
• The Northwoods Go Green
  An environmentally certified supper club may shift the way Upper Midwesterners view the green movement.
• Get Your Earth Day
  Act now and buy next year's for this year's price.
• The International Food Crisis, Abbreviated
  A digest of reporting on the high prices and crop shortages.
• No Mangroves, No Mollusks
  An imperiled, remarkable community of clam diggers on the Colombian coast.
• But There's Plenty of Margarine
  Japan is running out of butter.
• If That Don't Beet All
  Get ready for Roundup Ready sugar beets—the latest GMO crop.
• Your King Salmon or Your Life
  There's no good news from the West Coast this salmon season, including the cost.
• Melons for Middlesbrough
  A postindustrial English town goes big for urban farming.
• Keeping the Fish Cold
  Arctic ice melts and the fishing boats move in.
• Also, Only Robots Can Pick the Produce
  Small Polish farmers are crushed by the EU's modernize-or-else bureaucracy.
• You Got Your Corporation in My Organic!
  Corporations and small organic companies: an unholy alliance, or the free market's gift to food-lovers?
• Happiness (and Food) Is Where You Find It
  British forager Fergus Drennan goes 100-mile dieters one better.
• Farming Closer to the Sun
  A few nifty designs for proposed vertical farms.
• Barnyard Yarn
  Crochet yourself a scarf made of crabs, or socks of soy, with new ecoyarns.
• Everyone's Crabby but the Crabs
  The decline—and fall?—of the Chesapeake blue crab.
• Get Your Tractor Running
  Time goes long on biofuels.
• Watch This
  Are you curious about how the sustainability mavens at Monterey Bay Aquarium decide how to rate fish for their influential Seafood Watch list?
• Your Silent Banana
  Pesticide use in Latin America is killing songbirds.
• Ferry Plaza Farmers Market Getting Greener
  Waste Wise program aims at reducing environmental impact.
• Cow Hormone Tipping Point
  Wal-Mart decides to ban rBST, and Monsanto's cries of foul grow fainter.
• One Polyface Burrito, Please
  Chipotle starts sourcing locally.
• Puerto Rico Takes Root in New England
  The Atlantic on a remarkable urban agriculture project in Massachusetts.
• Is Your Refrigerator Running?
  Rather than trash a giant appliance, learn to redesign the facade of an ugly fridge.
• The Greening of Coke
  A story on how Coca-Cola is celebrating Earth Day.
• Shark Soup, Hold the Fins
  The United States mandates that all sharks be landed whole, cutting down on the shark-fin trade.
• Don't Back Over the Farm
  Returning to the (suburban) land in Boulder.
• Seattle: Where People Prefer Eating
  Local Food Action Initiative focuses on city food supply security.
• Gardening: Just for Yuppies and Econerds?
  Salon challenges Michael Pollan's stance on gardening for a better world.
• Green Beer
  Vermont brewery brewing up an ecobeer.
• The Red Devils Invade
  Jumbo squid! Jumbo squid! Swim!
• "Monsanto Is Big. You Can't Win."
  Your one-stop roundup of Monsanto news.
• Threshing the Yard
  A BYOW (bring your own wheat) bakery.
• A To-Not-Do List
  A calendar tells Hawaiians when not to fish.
• The Chesapeake Bay Blue Crab: An Update
  Officials petition the federal government to declare the Chesapeake Bay blue crab fishery a disaster.
• Why Fish Need Oxygen Masks, Too
  Scientists say that lethal low-oxygen zones are expanding in the oceans.
• Take Back the Loaf
  Sara Lee marches on Washington.

Picks

• Prather Ranch Beef Sticks
  Better than beef jerky.

Stories

• Counter Measures
  Ten ways to green your kitchen
• Perfect Picnic
  All you need to go alfresco
• How Green Is Your Takeaway Container?
  Common carriers rated for eco-friendliness
• Spring Greening
  Ecofriendly cleaning products
• Your Meat Is Green
  Tips for responsible carnivores
• How to Make an Ecofriendly Surface Cleaner
  Simple ingredients are all you need
• Building the Ultimate Green Kitchen
  CHOW’s ecoconscious remodel guide
• Environmentally Friendly Picnic Supplies
  Enjoy the outdoors without trashing it
• Drunk on Recycling
  Can you ask guests to bring their own cups?