George McGraw and his foundation DIGDEEP are working to ensure all Americans have access to clean water resources.
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Some tasty ideas for utilizing this fresh Spring vegetable.
Read MoreWhen people think of Harlem, agriculture may not be the first thing that comes to mind, but that’s changing.
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Good food never goes to waste under our watch! We wanted to share an idea for how to use some items lying around your kitchen to create a new dish for lunch or dinner, along with our friend Pat the Spatula.
Read MoreMost of us love delicious food, good company, a nice stroll through the park. These are some of the magical elements of life. Yet each year, such simple luxuries are altered dramatically by climate change, and for some of our nation’s communities, the impacts are deep.
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If anyone knows how to Replate, it’s this remarkable leader. Mother, entrepreneur, minister and activist, Mama Shu hails from Detroit, Michigan, where she’s spent the past decade rebuilding her neighborhood in Highland Park.
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As COVID-19 continues to exacerbate and illuminate systemic inequities, we’re seeing more clearly than ever how increased unemployment quickly leads to greater food insecurity. But our national hunger crisis didn’t start with the pandemic. 35.2 million people lived in food-insecure households in 2019, and that’s the lowest number we’ve seen in eight years.
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We often villainize carbon dioxide, thinking of it as the enemy in our fight against climate change. But in doing so, we forget the essential role it plays in our ecosystem. Plants need CO2 to photosynthesize, and almost all other organisms depend on the energy from this process to live. If you look at anything living or once living—from a tree branch, to a celery stalk, to your own body—you are looking at something that is storing lots of carbon.
Pete Ternes, one of the owners of Middlebrow Beer Co. in Chicago, ran his business with an eye toward social justice well before the start of COVID-19. Now that the heart of his work—gathering community around craft beer and good food—is physically inoperable, he’s doubled down on his mission to create a restaurant that nourishes the people who grow and prepare its food as much as it nourishes its customers.
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Originally this was intended to be a profile of a stellar small business doing meaningful work and the woman behind it all - and that it still is, but now it is also a call for you to support those businesses in your community that need your patronage now more than ever as we contend with the economic consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic
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It’s no secret that the world is uncharted territory right now. Replate has been hard at work to ensure the continued fulfillment of two top priorities:
Continue to provide food to the clients of our recipient organizations.
Continue to utilize our fee-for-service model to pay our contracted Food Rescuers fair, living wages.
There is so much that we can all do right now to support others in our community. Working with Replate during this time allows you to have three powerful impacts: you’re keeping our food rescuers wages intact, you’re supporting local restaurants, and you’re providing meals for the most vulnerable among us.
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Recycling: it’s the answer to all of our waste problems…right? While the push for recycling in recent decades has been rampant, the industry of recycling has had major struggles with the resale market (or lack thereof), consumer behavior, and where to go next.
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What is composting and why should we do it? The invisible menace of the food we waste is what happens when it gets to landfill.
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