Food

Orange colored fruit smoothie being poured into small edible cups on a white table in a restaurant's kitchen. 2023 Holiday Edition

Just in time for Festivity, here’s the 2023 Holiday Edition of swrm’s NYC sustainable restaurant guide. We’ve listed our Top 5 suggestions. Dig in!

Close up shot of very dry, cracked dirt.

One of the biggest impacts we have on this planet, which also happens to have one of the quickest wins associated with appropriate solutions, is land management. Let’s discuss it!

We’re exploring land degradation today – what it is, what can cause it, what the impacts are, and most importantly, what we can do to prevent it!

The soil beneath our feet is valuable in so many ways. And we need to treat it as such. So join us as we discuss this pressing issue facing our beautiful planet.

Soil is as necessary for human life as oxygen. It’s absolutely vital for food security and carbon sequestration. Come explore this undervalued and important resource with us.

There’s some pretty well-known facts about the ocean and the impacts it will experience on account of the climate crisis. But additionally, there are some really interesting lesser known stats around the way our warming planet will affect ocean health, that of the creatures living within it, and indeed our human health, too.

With an anticipated 10 billion people expected to inhabit the planet by 2050, the demand for animal protein will increase by 52 percent making sustainable and healthy approaches to feeding the world more critical than ever before.

One of the most challenging changes to make in our lives is removing plastic. But the thing is, it’s also one of the most impactful changes you can make!

Last week we discussed some of the problems with industrial agriculture. As the name implies, it’s all about doing things on a bigger scale, to obtain more of the thing we need: food. On the other hand, sustainable farming draws on a variety of different techniques, and its goal is to produce long-term crops while having minimal effects on the environment, and using resources more efficiently. But there’s a step even further, which is, arguably, what we should be aiming for, and that’s regenerative agriculture.

Today is part one in a 2 part mini-series on agriculture. We’ll be exploring the old and industrial methods versus the new and regenerative methods of food production, to see which route we should be taking into the future. So come with us down to the farm and learn about these different approaches aiming for the same outcome – food production and profit.

Today, we’re talking about sustainability and the vegan diet: Is excluding all animal products, from both land and sea, truly sustainable? The answer is a little more complex than just a simple yes or no.

Eat out in NYC…but make it sustainable! 2023 Holiday Edition

Good land management is vital to avoid worsening land degradation

Land degradation is more dangerous to our future than you might think

Soil: an undervalued and important resource on Earth

Quick Fire Stats from the Depths of the Ocean

Are there really plenty of fish in the sea?

8 Places You’d Be Surprised To Find Plastic…But It’s There!

Farming Part 2: Sustainable and Regenerative Agriculture

Farming: The Good and the Bad Part 1

Sustainable Living, Carbon Footprint, and the Vegan Diet