Caroline is a Brooklyn-based strategy and ops leader and sustainable food writer. She's the Managing Director of The SUNN Post, America's first nationwide student newspaper, which empowers high school and college-aged journalists to participate in journalistic writing as a form of 'lived civics' education. As a writer, she has bylines in The Guardian, Grist, SAVEUR, one5c, Table Magazine, Hothouse, and Bluedot Living, and her work has been syndicated in Popular Science, Salon, WIRED, and Sentient Media and featured on NPR. As a strategy and ops nerd, she previously was Chief of Staff at Grist and Deputy Director of Strategic Planning at Earth Alliance. Her passion for the future of media, food, and the climate have taken her to Le Cordon Bleu Paris, where she earned a pastry degree; to ranches in Eastern Washington and Central Pennsylvania while she was writing a book on regenerative ranching; and back to her alma mater, Vanderbilt University, where she co-developed two science journalism courses.
Recipes, tips, and stories about climate-friendly dessert
Dishing up sustainability: A conversation with food writer Caroline Saunders (Helping Families Be Happy Podcast)
Dish it out: Can dessert help the climate? (Green Builder Media)
Can we bake our way out of oblivion? w/ Caroline Saunders, baker and writer of Pale Blue Tart (Reversing Climate Change Podcast)
How to give your home baking a climate-friendly makeover (Fix)
Will dessert survive the climate crisis? With Caroline Saunders of The Sustainable Baker (Reveresing Climate Change Podcast)
Projects
This snack company is trying to change the way you think about chocolate (Grist)
Vegan cheese that tastes like cheese? These startups may have cracked the code (Grist)
Can there be delish desserts with less sugar? Absolutely, say these chefs (The Guardian)
A storm is brewing for Madagascar vanilla (SAVEUR, also in print)
Should you avoid palm oil? (one5c)
7 can't-miss NYC bakeries (one5c)
A taste of the Midwest (Bluedot Living)
Regenerative farming may help preserve the "Queen of Spices." (Bluedot Living)
Saving the world is a piece of cake (Bluedot Living)
What does climate change mean for maple syrup? (Bluedot Living)
What I found — and ate — foraging in New York City (Bluedot Living)
This ancient grain could help the Plains adapt to a drier future (Bluedot Living)
5 cant-miss Paris bakeries (Table Magazine)
Climate-friendly restaurants across the globe (Table Magazine)
7 Can't-miss NYC bakeries (Table Magazine)
How to make holiday cooking more sustainable (Hothouse)
The season is now for America's yummiest native fruit (Coolbeans)