Environmental Writer
Climate Change/Energy / Food / Health / Sustainable Practices
by Marina Schauffler · Published December 27, 2015 · Last modified June 12, 2016
Lose weight. Exercise daily. Save more. It’s that time of year when holiday to-do lists morph into new year’s resolutions. Self-improvement goals are worthy, but it’s time to think bigger. Fortunately, there’s a resolution...
Education/Family / Food / Sustainable Practices
by Marina Schauffler · Published September 7, 2015 · Last modified June 12, 2016
In many places around the globe, the injunction to “eat real food” would be met with quizzical looks. What else would or could a person eat? But in America, the menu of synthetic options...
Food / Pollution/Waste / Sustainable Practices / Uncategorized
by Marina Schauffler · Published May 3, 2015 · Last modified June 12, 2016
Only in a land of plenty like ours could this staggering statistic be true: 40 percent of food goes uneaten—most of it tossed in landfills or torched in incinerators. The social and ecological costs...
In the documentary “Fed Up,” Katie Couric and Laurie David depict America’s sugar-saturated food system in ways that are at once startling and all too familiar. It reveals why Americans have such a hard...
Ecological Values / Economics / Food / Pollution/Waste / Sustainable Practices
by Marina Schauffler · Published November 30, 2014 · Last modified June 12, 2016
With Black Friday behind us, we are now officially in the annual biathlon of spending and overeating – a feeding frenzy not for the faint of heart or light of wallet. Economists see the...
Ecological Values / Food / Health / Housing / Pollution/Waste / Sustainable Practices
by Marina Schauffler · Published June 1, 2014 · Last modified June 12, 2016
See your yard as habitat, not lawn. Landscape planners encourage us to visualize the area around our homes in terms of rooms that act as external living spaces. If we extend this idea, going...
