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Ingredient of the Month: Unlocking L-carnitine

L-carnitine: The Fuel for Your Fitness Engine

L-carnitine has many benefits including enhancing athletic performance. (rawpixel)

Larry Plesent

L-carnitine. It’s not just another supplement with a name that sounds like it was plucked from a science fiction novel. This nutrient plays an important role in human health, and has a growing […]

Air Fryers Offer Least Polluting Cooking Method, Researchers Find

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Cristen Hemingway Jaynes, edited by Chris McDermott

If you are looking to keep your indoor air cleaner, a new study has found that air fryers emit just a small portion of the indoor air pollutants produced by some other cooking methods like pan and deep frying.

Electric Vehicle Association Announces 2024 EV Champion of the Year: Steven St Peter Jr.

Steven St Peter Jr. (Courtesy image)

The Electric Vehicle Association is proud to announce that the 2024 EV Champion of the Year award will be presented to Steven St Peter Jr. of the Electrify Bucksport, Maine organization at our annual meeting in Schenectady, New York on Saturday May 3rd, 2025. This award recognizes […]

Shopping Bags: Few Sustainable Options?

Part of one family’s ever-growing collection of reusable shopping bags. (David Conwell)

David Conwell

These days New Englanders often see shoppers hauling their purchases in reusable bags. Some of us have voluntarily ditched single-use plastic bags because producing them wastes resources, recycling opportunities are limited, and they often end up as […]

Innovation Grants Yield New Cheese Packaging

Cabot Creamery’s sustainable cheese packaging. (Monika M. Wahi/Wikimedia Common). Cabot Creamery Vermont Sharp. (Courtesy of Agri-Mark/Cabot Creamery Cooperative)

Jessie Haas

Some 2023 grants from the Northeast Dairy Business Innovation Center (NE-DBIC) (https://nedairyinnovation.com/) are yielding benefits for the environment this year.

NE-DBIC awarded five dairy packaging innovation grants in 2023; three recipients are certified […]

October is Co-op Month!

Suzette Snow-Cobb

This October, food co-ops across the Northeast are joining over 65,000 co-operatives and credit unions across the United States in celebrating Co-op Month, observed nationally since 1964. The theme for 2024, “The Future is Cooperative,” was chosen by the National Cooperative Business Association (NCBA CLUSA) as an opportunity to engage co-op […]

Everything is Glittering in the Autumn

Watercolor Painting by Joyce Dutka

David Fried

The stream has its leaves all along it, floating on top and lying below. The sky is so blue you can almost hear the hawk playing harmonica as it goes by. Every plant and tree is going through changes. Changes that we can see […]

CSWD Now Recycling Pizza Boxes – What About Your District?

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Just in from Chittenden Solid Waste District (CSWD): Kat Moody, CSWD’s Community Outreach Coordinator noted “One item I get asked about a lot is the ever-so-common pizza box. This is a tricky item as people are often unclear on how clean it has to be in order to be accepted […]

To Mow or Not to Mow is the Question!

Robotic Mowing — an Eco-conscious Solution

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Seth Deere

Robotic mowing, a topic that has only gained and will continue to gain popularity as time goes on. How many of you were aware of them two years, five years, 20 years ago? Yes, 20 years. […]

Nine Everyday Household Products That Keep Bugs Away

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Bugs are the household annoyance that you can never seem to conquer. While there are many insect-repelling products on the market, some of the best products to rid your home of these pests are already in your kitchen cabinets. From basil and hot sauce to dish soap and WD-40, check […]