Fried cabbage. It's a dish Andrea Dawson never thought she'd be able to eat again. "Fried cabbage was something that my mother would prepare for us," Andrea explained, standing in the kitchen of her food truck. "And you start off with like a slab of bacon...
Sponsored Post - from the Sustainable Food Center Written by Alex Canepa, SFC Farmers' Market and Advocacy Manager Local farmers and ranchers are heading into the 2019 Texas Legislative Session with a hot hand. After winning key victories in the 2018 Farm Bill, we are setting our sights...
Take a moment. Think. What is it you're passionate about? What keeps you up at night? What gets you up early, excited to go out there and go do? Which news stories make your blood boil? Now's your chance to make a difference...
740,000 pounds. That's how much food Keep Austin Fed helped keep out of the landfill in 2018. The local nonprofit organization deploys an army of volunteers each day to grocery stores, restaurants, and bakeries around town, collecting their surplus food and distributing it to people...
Sponsored Post - from Austin Resource Recovery Written by Natalie Betts In the Zero Waste world, we often talk about used items that are about to be tossed into a bin. Making sure that as many of these items as possible go into a bin other than...
Maybe you had seen them around town. Riding along in those funny-looking bikes with the big trash cans in the back. Except they weren't carrying trash. They were making our planet a little bit better, one bike ride at a time. They were the Compost Pedallers, one of...
Sponsored Post - from Austin Resource Recovery Written by Ashley Pace We’ve made it through another trip around the sun, and now it’s time to think about what we can do in the next year to help live a more Zero Waste lifestyle. Here are some habits...
Sponsored Post - from the City of Austin Office of Sustainability It’s that magical time of year when we take stock of what we’ve accomplished and make a list of New Year’s Resolutions to (hopefully) keep in 2019. If the idea of a more sustainable lifestyle...
The new year is officially here! But before we dive head first into all of our resolutions, plans, and goals we wanted to take a moment to reflect. 2018 was a year so full of big elections, important court cases, and extreme weather events that...
Sponsored Post - from the City of Austin Office of Sustainability Austin is green and we all want to keep it that way! As a community, we’re committed to reaching the target of Net-Zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050, which will ensure a safe, healthy, vibrant Austin...