/PRNewswire/ Friends and family of natural products pioneer and plant-based visionary Greg Steltenpohl are announcing the launch of an annual $100,000 grant.
By Rob Brown2019-09-25T15:06:00+01:00 The dairy industry has a problem: the 270 million dairy cows on earth burp too much. About 6% of methane emissions from human activity come from cows’ belches and other releases (sometimes the gas goes the other way), says the UN. With evidence of the damage mankind is wreaking on the planet mounting (see the Amazonian wildfires and fast-disappearing glaciers in Greenland), more and more Brits are dodging dairy and switching to plant-based. Twenty-three per cent now buy milk alternatives, up from 19% a year ago [Mintel]. Yet while environmental concerns are driving dietary changes, milk made from soyabeans - the crop described by Greenpeace as a ‘leading cause of deforestation’ - is Britain’s bestselling alternative.
Beverage pioneer Greg Steltenpohl, founder of Odwalla and Califia Farms, has died FacebookTwitterEmail 1of2 Greg Steltenpohl at Villa La Angostura, Argentina, in December 2019.Jose Pereyra Lucena IIShow MoreShow Less 2of2 Odwalla founder Greg Steltenpohl is seen with a bottle of Future Shake, a new product at the time. Odwalla was one of the first companies to bring premium, fresh juice to grocery store shelves.Jerry Telfer / The Chronicle 1997Show MoreShow Less Greg Steltenpohl, the founder of juice giant Odwalla and nut-milk maker Califia Farms who was a leader in the national beverage industry for decades, died Thursday from complications from a liver transplant. A longtime Bay Area resident, he was 67.