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Restaurant food-ordering application Blue Cart launched the Zero Waste Kitchen initiative, which challenges chefs and restaurants around the world to limit waste and improve their sustainability. To ...

In the homey dining room at West Oakland’s Brown Sugar Kitchen, servers glide between tables offering refills on coffee while line cooks work in the open kitchen, frying chicken in front of a row of ...

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, ...

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 ...

The kitchen of the future will be healthier for our planet and improve our family ties through food. That’s the vision behind The Future Kitchen, a proposal by New York-based architect Marc Thorpe and ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...