A small change at UC Santa Barbara cut food waste in half.
How a trayless dining hall can benefit the environment
CRISPR may cure all genetic disease — one day
UC Berkeley's Jennifer Doudna reflects on how her gene editing tool may alter the world as we know it.
There's probably a salad's worth of greens on your block
UC Berkeley professor Philip Stark leads a project that researches and maps the availability of edible weeds throughout the Bay Area.
Techies and tractors: Silicon Valley’s next big thing is saving water
Alumna works with the UC Cooperative Extension to bring new solutions to California growers.
An edible education
In its sixth year, Edible Education 101 is hosted in partnership with the UC Berkeley Food Institute and Haas School of Business and is currently taught by Alice Waters and Will Rosenzweig.
The California model: Make polluters pay
Even when climate change is a top priority for lawmakers, progress is challenging. It often comes down to money: We have plenty of expensive problems right now, so expensive problems down the road take a backseat.
This solar greenhouse could change the way we eat
Pink is the new green, thanks to technology developed at UC Santa Cruz.
How your diet affects climate change
You are what you eat, as the saying goes, and while good dietary choices boost your own health, they also could improve the health care system and even benefit the planet. Healthier people mean not only less disease but also reduced greenhouse gas emissions from health care.
Young tech entrepreneurs take bite out of hunger
How can 50 million Americans not know where their next meal is coming from while 40 percent of food gets wasted?
California boosts efforts to stamp out hunger on campus
UC now works with Code for America to streamline the online CalFresh application process.
UC Riverside's planned greenhouse grows food and produces solar energy
The technology — developed at UC Santa Cruz — could help change the way we eat.
The vegetable technology gap
The produce industry doesn't want to be subsidized; it wants help with infrastructure to do its job better, UC ANR Vice President Glenda Humiston said.