Robin Shreeves Blog

San Francisco's Orchard Hotel has small sustainable touches and impressive sustainable practices
This California hotel that our food blogger stayed goes beyond LEED certification in its sustainability initiatives. It also opened her eyes to some of the contrasts between how sustainability is thought of in different regions of the country.
'Mr. Zee’s Apple Factory' teaches children about processed foods
Bettina Seigel’s illustrated story helps kids become a little savvier about the media messages they encounter.
Buycott app helps you vote with your dollars
A new app scans grocery barcodes and more for information about the brand’s parent companies and where those companies spend their money.
Book Collections app organizes Kindle cookbooks
After amassing a collection of cookbooks and other book on her Kindle, our food blogger tries out the Book Collections app to organize them.
'The First Taste' cutely records kids' reactions to new foods
What does a child do when he first tastes anchovy or olive? A short film captures kids’ first tastes in slow motion.
If the wild animals living in your yard harm your neighbor's garden, are you responsible?
If wild, furry creatures set up home in your pesticide-free yard, should you be responsible if they ruin your neighbor’s garden?
Laboratory-grown meat is one step closer to reality
The first lab-produced burger, valued at $325K and made from in-vitro meat, may be ready to make its debut. Is it something that we should be terrified or excited about?
Join the March Against Monsanto on May 25
All over the world, people who want changes to the way genetically modified foods are grown and used will rally and march to protect our food supply.
Your unlimited caffeine consumption might be in jeopardy
The FDA is investigating potentially regulating added caffeine.
Vermont is halfway there on GMO labeling
The Vermont House of Representatives overwhelmingly voted to require labeling of genetically engineered foods. If the Senate approves their version of the bill, Vermont will be the first state to require such labeling.

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