Climate Change
Dinner, With a Side of Climate Preaching
Restaurants hoping to make a positive impact on the climate face an enduring challenge: selling their ambitious goals to diners simply looking to have a good time
For Restaurants Cutting Their Carbon Footprint, Composting Food Scraps Is Just the Beginning
Cooking, refrigeration, air conditioning, water use, and packaging contribute to greenhouse gas emissions too. These restaurants try to tackle them all.
If You Can’t Stand the Heat, Work to Change the Kitchen
As climate change drives temperatures up, restaurant staff face uncomfortable, even unsafe, conditions without heat regulations to keep them from harm. Now, some workers are taking matters into their own hands.
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For Restaurant Owners, Climate Disruptions Mean Even More Uncertainty
When supply infrastructure falters due to climate change, chefs and restaurant owners need to get creative
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What’s Next After Farm-to-Table?
Just because food is grown locally doesn’t mean it’s climate-friendly. But for chefs looking to emphasize the latter, it still starts at the source.
The People Who Feed America Are Going Hungry
Climate change is escalating a national food crisis, leaving farmworkers with empty plates and mounting costs
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Storm-Walloped Portland Restaurants Served Family Meal to a City in Need
When diners couldn’t make it to dinner, Portland cooks fed the food insecure instead
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Portland Restaurant Owners Shoulder Tens of Thousands of Dollars in Losses Following the Storm
The combination of slow days, lost product, and property damage has been disastrous for the city’s restaurant industry
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‘You Could See Your Breath in the Bar’: What It’s Like Working at a Restaurant During an Ice Storm
Despite sheets of ice on the road, fallen trees, power outages, and burst pipes, Portland restaurant workers made it in to boil pasta and pour cocktails
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A Tale of Two Portland Food Carts and a Stifling Heat Wave
As temperatures climbed above 100 degrees again on Sunday, two food cart owners on opposite sides of the Willamette adapted to stay open
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Climate Chaos Finds Its Way Into the Bakery
How a dry season led to dry flour and a disastrous batch of croissants
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Rising Temperatures Are Putting Portland’s Food Cart Scene in Danger
In the midst of yet another heat wave, food cart owners are shutting down their carts to protect their employees. But the combination of COVID-19 stress, product shortages, and weather-related closures are putting them in an increasingly perilous position.
