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In response to a VT story, "Can Dogs and Cats Go Vegetarian?"

The designers showcased here are all committed to making practical-yet-chic accessories with no animal products.

Food trucks are making way for bicycles as a nimbler, greener vehicle for mobile meal service. Employing souped-up bikes—and even trikes—food entrepreneurs are delivering culinary pleasures to peckish pedestrians. Here’s a tasty selection.

Here’s a surprising ally in clean living: activated charcoal, a natural ingredient turning up everywhere from bar soaps to toothbrushes. Here's why you should give the trend a try.

One of the greenest things you 
can do in your kitchen is to invest in good-quality cookware and tools 
and then maintain them with care 
so that they last a long time. Here’s 
how to keep your cooking equipment sparkling clean and in tip-top condition—without using harsh chemicals.

We're pretty proud over here at VT headquarters: our September 2014 article "The Gleaners" was just nominated for a Nook Readers' Choice Newsstand Award. Not sure what gleaning is? Read the story here to learn more about this food-waste-fighting movement—then vote for us!

A round-up of VT editors’ favorite newsworthy links: Turns out, wrinkly dried plums are good for more than just staying regular. New research finds that eating prunes helps you lose weight (by making you feel full).

Bring on the beans, cabbage, kale, and broccoli! Turns out, eating gas-producing foods may help your gut get the nutrients it needs.

Here's round-up of VT editors’ favorite newsworthy links. It's US VegWeek! Need convincing to take the veg pledge? Read our top 15 reasons to go veg.

Love NYC's Cinnamon Snail? The super-popular lunch truck, which we highlighted a few years ago in a roundup of all-veg carts, trucks, and stands, just launched a Kickstarter campaign to build a new food truck—raising more than $28,000 of their $82,000 goal in just four days.

Bring on the beans! A new study finds that eating one serving a day of beans, peas, chickpeas, or lentils could significantly reduce cholesterol (the "bad" LDL kind).