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Restaurants' climate fight faces fresh uncertainties

 By Joe Guszkowski on Feb. 19, 2025

The Trump administration has put funding for climate-friendly farming projects in limbo. Advocates are urging restaurants to speak up.

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Starbucks joins U.S. Food Waste Pact

 By Lisa Jennings on Feb. 03, 2025

The coffeehouse chain is the second restaurant company to sign on to the voluntary agreement designed to reduce the amount of greenhouse-gas-producing waste sent to landfills. Chick-fil-A was the first restaurant chain to join the pact last year.

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How restaurants are working to kick their energy habit

By Joe Guszkowski on Nov. 15, 2024

Restaurants use more energy per square foot than any other commercial business. Reversing that trend will be challenging, but there are signs of progress.

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A hotter planet puts the restaurant supply chain at risk

By Jonathan Maze on Nov. 15, 2024

Raising animals and crops to supply restaurants and grocers is both a contributor to climate change and a casualty of it. Drought and disasters are only making matters worse.

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Reducing food waste is key in battle against climate change

By Lisa Jennings on Nov. 14, 2024

Food rotting in landfills creates a "super pollutant." How can restaurants create less waste and mitigate the damage?

Financing

Insurance rates are proving the hard cost of climate change

By Peter Romeo on Nov. 13, 2024

Restaurants are getting hit with big upswings in their premiums, even if they’re not in the paths of destruction.

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Working to slow climate change through regenerative agriculture, one field at a time

By Patricia Cobe on Nov. 12, 2024

Farmers in New York State’s Hudson Valley are using techniques that return carbon to the earth and restore soil health. Restaurants are beginning to embrace the movement as the next step in local sourcing, but is it a silver bullet for the climate crisis?

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Climate change is an existential threat to the restaurant industry

By Heather Lalley on Nov. 11, 2024

Operators and many industry experts agree that rising temperatures, increasing weather-related disasters and other looming environmental concerns pose huge risks to restaurants. Here’s what they’re doing about it.