A total diet overhaul can be scary, but a Scranton plant-based eating group aims to show how simple – and fun – it can be. Empowered Eating, organized by Scranton Beets founder Jean Hayes, meets at ...

AYOQUEZCO de ALDAMA, Oaxaca — On the edge of this small village not far from Oaxaca”s capital, a gleaming new building greets visitors and gives hope to the locals. Just inaugurated in May, the nopal ...

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Monika Woolsey is on a mission to get Phoenicians to eat more cactus. As the proprietor of Hip Veggies, a business in the process of becoming a nonprofit, she is Arizona’s most vocal nopales advocate, ...

A stalwart of the Mexican landscape is finding a second life powering up buildings in the desert, and it is proving to be an unusually sustainable biofuel. The landscape could be one straight from a ...

Described as the “green gold of Mexico,” the nopal plant – already a staple in Mexican diets, medicine and cosmetics – is pureed and mixed with manure by a clean energy company called Nopalimex.

Described as the “green gold of Mexico,” the nopal plant – already a staple in Mexican diets, medicine and cosmetics – is pureed and mixed with manure by a clean energy company called Nopalimex.