And how does the festival stack up against its peers on the sustainability front?
Tag: sustainability
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Inside the hidden world of a fish distributor
Behind the scenes with the beneath-the-sea items that pass through Fortune Fish & Gourmet in Bensenville.
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Local Root sandwich shop attempts to save the world
Streeterville’s Local Root: local and seasonal, so what’s with the tomatoes?
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Invasive species, while supplies last!
At Taste of Chicago, Dirk’s Fish Shop teams up with the Department of Natural Resources to give out free Asian carp sliders. Yum?
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This Week’s Food and Drink Events
A candy lecture, a seafood dinner, a mezcal tasting, and more.
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This Week’s Food and Drink Events
Berry dinners, garden tours, wine classes, and more.
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New Bags at African Sanctuary
Checking in with African Sanctuary, a vendor of accessories and home accents by African artisans and designers.
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The Big Green Apple
A review of David Owen’s book Green Metropolis, which makes a case for urban living as a model of sustainability.
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75 Years of Gefilte Fish
Robert Schuffler has 75 years’ worth of opinions on how his fish customers have changed
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Back Soon: sustainable arctic char from the Nunavut territory
Arctic char from a remote Inuit fishing village in northern Canada’s Nunavut territory started turning up last month on the menus of half the trendy restaurants in Chicago. And if you’d looked in the right places on the Internet, you could have followed it each step of the way. CleanFish’s Alisha Lumea talks about Nunavut […]
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Low Energy Chicago
Excerpts from “Crash Course,” Chris Martenson’s video series on environmental and economic sustainability, screen tonight at the Bucktown-Wicker Park Library.
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Make Friends With Brown
Nance Klehm wants humans to reconnect with the soil—in part by composting their own bodily waste.
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Is your school sustainable?
Northwestern whips the University of Illinois, the University of Chicago, and Notre Dame when it comes to planet saving.