In typical commercial kitchens, chefs plan detailed menus way ahead of time, and their food deliveries fulfill those specific menus’ needs. But one Pittsburgh-area kitchen is flipping that system, ...

The kitchen is one of the biggest obstacles to zero waste because so much garbage comes from the kitchen. Some of this is food waste, which we can tackle with composting. And lots of this is food ...

Those crinkly plastic cartons are so much more than just a single-use receptacle for storing your favorite fruit.

How to say goodbye to paper towels, ziploc bags, and the other plastic and single-use items that you didn’t think you could live without. Rejecting the unbridled thrust of plastic into our lives is ...

If you’ve been wondering how to maintain a kitchen that produces no waste whatsoever, take a look at this project. Designed by Austria-based furniture designer Ivana Steiner, this modern zero-waste ...

How does climate change affect where and how we live? The energy used to operate buildings results in more than a fourth of global carbon dioxide pollution. And climate change threatens communities ...

Sustainability. Social Responsibility. Climate Action. Buzzwords come and go. But when it comes to being socially responsible and reducing your carbon footprint, actions speak louder than words. The ...

I recently decided to test out one of those Instagram-advertised boxes of grass-fed meat, and modern shipping delays rendered it all defrosted by the time the meat arrived on my Manhattan doorstep. So ...

Too much food can be a good problem to have, but it does pose challenges. Just ask the folks who run 412 Food Rescue’s Good Food Project, a kitchen in Millvale that accepts and processes food that ...

“Closed-loop cooking” is a phrase that is gaining more traction in the culinary spheres, and it is essentially another way to say “zero-waste cooking.” While many of our parents, grandparents, and ...

Read on for how I quit buying these seven unneccessary kitchen items, and what I now use instead.