Conscious Consumption

Tech nerds, artists, designers and, increasingly, food lovers all have reasons to gather in Berlin.

To regulate cinnamon, the European Union might have to pry beloved kanelsnegels — or cinnamon swirls — from the dead, sticky hands of Danish bakers.

A rubber-booted farmer and a sharply-suited city worker may appear to inhabit two different worlds. In Japan, however, the gap is inching closed due to the rise of "virtual farmers...

If it were possible to give every square foot of the farm exactly what it needs, when it needs it, two things would happen: Farmers would get a bigger crop yield, and use less input ”“ water, fertilizer, fungicide, pesticide, etc. This means less cost to both farmers and to the environment.

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Since 1970, cheese consumption and availability has tripled. Market researchers cheerfully explain the cheese explosion as the natural result of American eating habits. Home cooks ...

The innovation that could produce the same amount of maple syrup from 50 acres of arable land as 500 acres of forest.

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For over 150 years, Tidmarsh Farm, a 577-acre cranberry bog near Boston, has been in operation, but when the cranberry industry began veering towards a new kind of berry, Tidmarsh owners began considering abandoning much of their land to a federally-funded restoration project.