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Amy's Kitchen produces delicious, nourishing frozen meals for health-conscious people too busy to cook. Amy's food tastes so good because it's made from the kind of real food ingredients that people use in their own kitchens...no MSG, no additives, no preservatives, no GMO's and no trans fats.
Branch is an online store featuring the best in sustainable design for your home. Founded by a designer with a deep commitment to sustainability, Branch is your source for beautiful and thoughtfully made housewares, gifts, furnishings, and biodegradable tableware, including the WASARA collection.
Equator Coffees and Teas is a women-owned specialty coffee and tea company with a deep commitment to environmental and social responsibility. Equator's empowered supply chain extends from crop to cup, and is backed by longstanding relationships with farmers, chefs and consumers who are passionate about quality.
Greenfeet
Greenfeet.com is an established e-tailer of thousands of eco-friendly goods for home, garden and self, which is committed to providing quality, affordable goods designed to help simplify and green your life -- all with a humorous slant. Green living does not have to be expensive or boring -- we'll show you how.
In 2001, HarperCollins Press published The New York Times bestseller Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal by Eric Schlosser, a groundbreaking work of investigation and cultural history that has changed the way America thinks about the way it eats.
Magnolia Pictures is the theatrical and home entertainment distribution arm of the Wagner/Cuban Companies, a vertically-integrated group of media properties co-owned by Todd Wagner and Mark Cuban that also includes the Landmark Theatres chain, the production company 2929 Productions, and the high definition cable network HDNet. Magnolia's recent releases include such critically acclaimed films as the Oscar nominated documentary Food, Inc., Oscar winner Man on Wire, James Gray's Two Lovers, Stephen Soderbergh's The Girlfriend Expereince, Bong Joon-Ho's Mother, and Conor McPherson's The Eclipse. Upcoming releases include Luca Guadagnino's I Am Love, Bob Pulcini and Shari Berman's The Extra Man, Oscar-winner Alex Gibney's Casino Jack and the United States of Money, Neil Jordan's Ondine, Dagur Kari's The Good Heart, the hard hitting nuclear weapons documentary Countdown to Zero and many more.
Numi Organic Tea was founded in 1999 by brother-sister duo Ahmed and Reem Rahim to bring unique, high-quality Organic and Fair Trade Certified teas to consumers around the world. To create the purest tea on the planet, Numi is committed to sourcing directly from farmers only the highest quality, premium full-leaf teas and real fruits, flowers, herbs and spices without the added oils or flavorings ( including "natural flavorings") common to the market. Numi is a pioneer in sustainable business practices such as ethical sourcing, ecological packaging, carbon offsetting, and social enterprise.
Participant Media is a Los Angeles-based entertainment company that focuses on socially relevant, commercially viable feature films, documentaries and television, as well as publishing and digital media. Participant Media is headed by CEO Jim Berk and was founded in 2004 by philanthropist Jeff Skoll, who serves as Chairman. Ricky Strauss is President. Participant exists to tell compelling, entertaining stories that bring to the forefront real issues that shape our lives. For each of its projects, Participant creates extensive social action and advocacy programs which provide ideas and tools to transform the impact of the media experience into individual and community action. Participant's films include The Kite Runner, Charlie Wilson's War, Darfur Now, An Inconvenient Truth, Good Night and Good Luck, Syriana, Standard Operating Procedure, The Visitor, The Soloist, Food, Inc., The Informant! and The Crazies.
In 2006, Penguin Press published The Omnivore's Dilemma, The New York Times bestseller that has changed the way readers view the ecology of eating, this revolutionary book by award winner Michael Pollan asks the seemingly simple question: What should we have for dinner? Tracing from source to table each of the food chains that sustain us -- whether industrial or organic, alternative or processed -- he develops a portrait of the American way of eating. The result is a sweeping, surprising exploration of the hungers that have shaped our evolution, and of the profound implications our food choices have for the health of our species and the future of our planet.
Stonyfield Farm, celebrating its 27th year, is the world's leading organic yogurt company. Its all natural and certified organic yogurt, smoothies, milk, cultured soy, frozen yogurt and ice cream are distributed nationally. The company advocates that healthy food can only come from a healthy planet. Its organic ingredient purchases keep over 100,000 farm acres free of toxic, persistent pesticides and chemical fertilizers that can contaminate soil, rivers and drinking water. Stonyfield also donates 10% of its profits to efforts that help protect and restore the Earth.