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100% farm to table fresh brunch – burrata, pesto and heirloom tomatoes on toast.
Itinerary

A Gastro Obscura Guide to Los Cabos

If you’re looking for an abundance of farm-to-table dining and a culinary scene committed to sustainability, Los Cabos delivers.
Mercantile elevates hearty, flavorful dishes with fresh seasonal ingredients and a farm-to-table ethos.
restaurants

Gastro Obscura’s Guide to Sustainable Denver Dining

Prioritize the planet and pamper your taste buds at these eco-friendly eateries.
Can the famous greenhouse get greener?
botanical gardens

Kew Gardens Is Undergoing a Big, Steamy Change

Fitted PJs, new glasses, and a good drilling will keep this Victorian icon hot.
Daniel Shailer February 20, 2024
In the American West, preventing wildfires is becoming all the more crucial. Meet one of the helpers.
nasa

Why NASA Is Watching Where Idaho’s Parachuting Beavers Landed

The mini-paratroopers have a new role to play today.
Danielle Hallock January 25, 2024
Coffee flour makes for decadent pancakes.
food

Fight Food Waste With Unusual Flours

Add something extra to your baking.
Andrew Coletti January 15, 2024
Frivolity is the mother of invention.
trees

Toilet Brushes Are Partly to Thank for Artificial Christmas Trees

And other strange evergreen decor evolutions, from retro-kitsch to glow-in-the-dark.
Kathy Adams December 19, 2023
Manatí, Puerto Rico

Frutos del Guacabo

This sustainable, family-run farm just outside of San Juan makes for a dreamy daytrip.
Manchester, England

Tower of Light

When the city of Manchester built a new centralized heating network, they did it with style.
Wisconsin's Wolf River, which flows through the Menominee Indian Reservation, where Indigenous traditions guide sustainable forestry.
forests

In Wisconsin, the Menominee Tribe's Sustainable Forestry Is Visible From Space

The Menominee Tribe's tradition of doing "what's best for the forest" has become a global model for sustainability.
Fred Pearce September 11, 2023
abandoned

Haunted Stays and Autumn Days in Colorado

There’s so much to love about fall in Colorado, some people never leave.
An asiatic subspecies of cheetah once roamed India. Efforts to reintroduce the animal there threaten the traditional sustainable harvest of salai trees.
forests

India's Cheetah Reintroduction Threatens an Indigenous Tradition

Behind the headlines of the animals' rocky return, a displaced community struggles to access trees they have tended for generations.
Tanvi Dutta Gupta August 3, 2023
Chef John Fleer at Old North Acres
restaurants

How Community Makes Appalachian Cuisine Shine in Asheville

It takes a village—or in this case, a chef and a bevy of passionate farmers and producers.
The interior of the shop is crammed with sustainably sourced chocolates.
Lima, Peru

El Cacaotal

Visit Lima’s one-stop-shop for sustainably sourced and produced Peruvian chocolate.
AGU Building with the planet display beginning on the corner of Florida Ave & 20th St.
Washington, D.C.

American Geophysical Union Sidewalk Planet Display

A brass and marble scale model of the solar system embedded in the concrete.
Hotel WHY is constructed from recycled materials
Kamikatsu, Japan

Zero-Waste Hotel WHY

In a rural Japanese town that has committed to sustainable practices, even the hotel is made from recycled materials.
A lobster caught off Prince Edward Island, where Bait Masters is located.
food

The Race to Make Alternative Lobster Bait

As the fishing industry grapples with declining herring and mackerel, could sausage be their savior?
Moira Donovan December 6, 2022
Jellyfish have been touted as a food source of the future, but finding an appetizing way to prepare them is a challenge—one that some Italian chefs are embracing.
food

The Quest to Make Jellyfish Delicious

Italian chefs are teaming up with scientists to fry, sauté, and pickle the creatures into the food of the future.
Agostino Petroni November 15, 2022
The warm glow of the Sólheimar Bakery/Café in October
Grímsnes og Grafningshreppur, Iceland

Sólheimar Ecovillage

This educational and eco-friendly community is Iceland's "home of the sun."