Tag Archives: Healthy
Yielding results for local farmers
Here’s some food for thought: We have pledged to sell $1 billion in food sourced from one million small- and medium-sized farmers worldwide. Not only will this allow us to bring locally sourced and fresher produce to our stores in the communities close to where it is grown, but it will also help us improve farmers’ incomes by 10 to 15 percent.
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A lift in efficiency for cat owners
Cat litter is heavy. Heavy as in lifting-a-small-child-into-the-cart heavy. Just ask anyone who’s hoisted those boxes or plastic tubs into a shopping cart, and that person will tell you that lifting litter is as good as lifting weights.
The clay litter is effective but its weight has distinct disadvantages.
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Feeding the nine billion
How will we protect our land and water resources, and simultaneously, feed the world? By 2050, we expect the world’s population to increase by nearly two billion people, to nine billion.
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Would you drop everything to make a difference?
Daryl Foriest will never forget the last thing his brother said to him. He told him to make a difference, and now Daryl does that every day by feeding the growing number of hungry in New York City. Places such as the Food Bank For New York City, where he is a director, can be more sustainable by making better use of resources such as electricity.
Read more ›Protecting the environment across the pond
A Bloomberg story about U.K. retailers using food waste as an alternative fuel got us thinking. Our retailer, Asda, is mentioned specifically for sending expired meat and bread to bioenergy sites that convert the waste into electricity. But diverting food waste is just one of the company’s activities that help reduce costs as well as environmental impact.
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