Environmental Geography

Meridith Kohut for The New York Times Chocolate and coffee taste great together -- I like a roasted coffee bean covered in dark chocolate, ...

Yesterday we were enjoying a visit to the small Vermont Folklife Center in Middlebury, Vermont. I was pleasantly surprised to see that in ad...

The Cardinals baseball team found an economical, convenient, and environmentally-friendly way to get from Washington to Philadelphia: Amtrak...

Thanks to my colleague Henry Lucas for finding this article about efforts to make the Philippines self-sufficient in coffee. The Philippine ...

Official Food, Inc. Movie Site - Hungry For Change? We saw this film Saturday at Coolidge Corner in Brookline. It is a great piece of enviro...

Looking for an image of nopales for yesterday's post , I was fortunate to find this amazing sculpture by Susan Shelton . Explore the re...

Food is an important way that people identify with place. This is why it is best to avoid chain restaurants when traveling! This story abo...

This is a great example of "sense of place" -- ways that people create or express identity with a place. Playing off a stale joke ...

This is a great example of environmental geography -- understanding the connections between natural systems and the activities of humans. I ...

Fair Trade in Media, Pennsylvania -- just outside Philadelphia. This is a perfect example of thinking globally and acting locally.