Julie Guthman

Nov 4, 2024 | aliciakennedy.news | Julie Guthman |Alicia Kennedy

While we were putting together the final cut of these interviews with small business owners in Puerto Rico, it started to rain. The lights flickered, and the water went out. One block in Old San Juan, at least, lost power. As a household, this is an annoyance: no washing our faces before bed; the sink filled with the dishes of dinner, unable to be cleaned. For small businesses, these infrastructure issues mean lost revenue, lost ingredients, and lost hours of work.

Oct 10, 2024 | devicedaily.com | Julie Guthman

Fake meat’s false promise: Why Silicon Valley can’t hack the future of food  August 07, 2024 In an excerpt from her new book, author Julie Guthman explores whether alternative protein can actually deliver on its promise of being better for the environment.

Aug 22, 2024 | organicconsumers.org | Organic Bytes |Julie Guthman |Timothy A. Wise |Edie Horstman

What amounts to our “Fast Food Nation,” through everyday food production practices and food choices, is rapidly degrading our planet’s life-support systems. It’s time to disrupt and take down our suicide economy and our degenerate agricultural and food system. A good starting point is to join the growing consumer movement to boycott all meat, dairy and poultry products produced by the industrial factory farm system—not just at the grocery store, but also in restaurants.

Aug 7, 2024 | fastcompany.com | Julie Guthman

Solutions are the bread and butter of the tech sector, and Silicon Valley has led the way in making our everyday transactions faster, cheaper and more convenient. Recently, though, techies have set their sights on problems far more intractable, complex, and political than data and communications technology, namely the world of food and agriculture. And they have made this foray without genuinely engaging how past introductions of technology in food and agriculture have gone down.