Wanna walk your plant-based talk? Consider a vegan certification.
If you run or want to run a vegan business, check out certification standards. The growing number of plant-based companies, including meat/protein alternatives, means that there are more options for consumers to move away from animal-derived products and toward...
Vegan Staples: Kale & Tempeh Salad with Maple Tahini Dressing
The best recipes taste gourmet and are easy to make. And this is one of them! Thanks to my Vancouver Mural Festival colleague Angela who hosted a board meeting at her place last year, I got to try In Pursuit of More's Kale & Tempeh Salad and discovered that tempeh...
Ten Plant-Based Food Trends We’ll See in 2020-2021
Warning: This post will make you hungry for vegan food. I really should have created this post at the beginning of the year, but even though I'm about four months late, we can consider at least half of 2020 a "break" due to the Candyman crisis, so I expect these vegan...
The Ultimate Guide to Cruelty-Free Fashion in Canada
You REALLY gonna go out with that fur coat and leather shoes? Oh, how times have changed just in a year. Thanks to COVID-19 (or what I like to call "Candyman" online), the world is waking up to the reality of what happens when we capture and consume animals. As I...
It’s not all about diet: Allies for the vegan cause
Veganism is so much more than the food. Someday, it's going to be really easy to eat vegan. The industry's already well on its way in major North American cities and others around the world. The point I want to make in this blog post is that there are SO MANY...
An Umami-inspired vegan quinoa bowl
I'm officially a vegan recipe developer. And you can be the judge of that! At the recent From the Ground Up trade show produced by Good to Grow, I had the opportunity to meet the lovely duo behind an Okanagan-based company, Umami Crave the Fifth. Umami was one of the...
My silver-medal worthy vegan banana bread recipe
Let's not eff around: Erin Ireland makes the best damn banana bread in the world. I could try and replicate hers, but she puts Callebaut chocolate and macadamia nuts on top ($$$), and while her slices are immaculate, I do find her loaf a bit on the oily side. So I...
Six vegan transformation stories
Sometimes it takes other people to motivate us to change, and that's why I went searching for the coolest vegan transformation stories out there. This is only a cross-section of well-known American figures, but I know that there are many more individuals out there who...
Ten Epic Talks by Vegans
They're not just plant-based eaters; they're damn good speakers too. Let me be clear: These are not all talks on veganism. These are epic talks by people who happen to be vegan. I've watched every video here, and vouch that you will learn either: at least one new...
Review: Net Zero Company
Review of Net Zero Company's zero waste-friendly products Santa really came through last month! After writing a blog in 2019 on how bad the microplastic situation is, I've been thinking about how I can go more zero waste. Enter Ethical Influencers and Net Zero...
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