Posts tagged Food
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GGWash Picks of 2023: Premium grocery stores are missing from the region’s high-income Black neighborhoods
In a recent report, Brookings Metro analyzed the locations of premium grocery stores in ten metro areas across the country and found that the absence of high-end grocers from Black-majority neighborhoods is part of a broader trend of divestment. Keep reading…
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Premium grocery stores are missing from the region’s high-income Black neighborhoods
In a recent report, Brookings Metro analyzed the locations of premium grocery stores in ten metro areas across the country and found that the absence of high-end grocers from Black-majority neighborhoods is part of a broader trend of divestment. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: MetroHero app to shut down, WMATA promises similar tracking solution
With MetroHero retiring, WMATA teases tracking website updates of its own. Developers say DC office-to-residential conversions tax abatements aren’t enough. Prince George’s County’s Blue Line corridor revamp not dependent on Commanders status. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: DC Mayor Bowser releases five-year economic development plan
Bowser provides details on downtown development goal, and adds others for increasing Black incomes, grocery access. Federally-funded DC hotel shelter program to end. Structural problems continue at Bethesda’s Rock Creek West Apartments. Keep reading…
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What stores are the best at social distancing? What supplies are residents looking for most?
Are you looking for a store in the region that is observing good social distancing? Chances are MOM’s Organic Market, Wegmans, or Trader Joe’s may be your choice. Are you wondering what supply items are most in-demand? Your suspicions may be right if you guessed toilet paper. Keep reading…
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As the need for healthy food grows, urban gardeners step up
As DC residents cope with the coronavirus and an economy in freefall, urban farmers like Tully could play a role in meeting the fast-growing need for healthy food. Keep reading…
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DC is trying to get food waste out of the landfill and back into the soil
DC is trying to reduce the amount of food waste that ends up in landfills and help residents compost it instead so it can enrich the soil instead of being trapped in a landfill. Food is the most common material found in landfills across the United States, according to the Environmental Protection Agency, and it produces climate change-inducing gases as it decomposes in this type of environment. Keep reading…
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Activists fight food access and health disparities in DC with #Don’tMuteMyHealth
Healthy food is more accessible in whiter and wealthier parts of the District, and low-income communities of color are often targeted with ads for unhealthy food. Residents in affected communities have been working to address these disparities, and they’re continuing the fight for food justice with a campaign called #DontMuteMyHealth. Keep reading…
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Grassroots groups and growers east of the Anacostia defy the ‘food desert’ label
There’s been a lot of discussion about the lack of grocery stores in neighborhoods east of the Anacostia River in DC in the past few years. But it hasn’t always been this way, and there are a lot of people working to ensure their neighborhoods have access to high-quality, affordable food again. Keep reading…
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Events: Join Kojo Nnamdi to learn about entrepreneurship east of the Anacostia
Attend a live taping of “Kojo in Your Community: Entrepreneurship East of the River” from 6 to 8 pm Tuesday, July at the Anacostia Playhouse. Join GGWash and the Urban Land Institute (ULI) for a panel discussion on climate change, Thursday, August 8, 6-8 pm at 700 Pennslyvania Avenue SE. Attend a fun letter writing party for more density at 6:30 pm today (Monday) at the Cleveland Park Library, 3210 Connecticut Ave NW, and more in this week’s events. Keep reading…