EarthTalk® From the Editors of E/The Environmental Magazine
Dear EarthTalk: I know that local food has health and environmental benefits, but my local grocer only carries a few items. Is there a push for bigger supermarkets to carry locally produced food? Maria Fine, Somerville, MA
By eating locally sourced foods, we strengthen the bond between local farmers [...]
Excerpt from article published 11.11.09 by Huffington Post
…I wonder if more of the difficulty doesn’t come from the ways that we talk and think about change. When it comes to meat, change is almost always cast as an absolute. You are a vegetarian or you are not. It’s a strange formulation, and it’s distracting. (Those [...]
Tags: animal welfare, biodiversity, change, environmentalist, global warming, Jonathon Safran Foer, meat, quitting meat, vegetarianEU: City of Ghent Goes Veg One Day A Week To Lose Weight and Save The Planet
Day of the Lentil Burgers: Ian Traynor, Guardian, UK, May 14 2009
On the eve of what is being touted as an unprecedented exercise, the biggest queue in the Flemish university town of 200,000 yesterday was for signatures – [...]
Tags: cruelty to animals, Ghent, global warming, healthy living, meat-free eating, obesity, sustainable, vegetarian, veggie dayYou’d think that anybody who’s paying attention couldn’t possibly miss what’s going on in the world, but sometimes we can’t see the deforestation for the trees.
Yesterday I read three articles which helped me connect the dots: Capitalist greed, leading to planetary destruction and global suffering – pandemics, drought, extreme poverty, starvation, mass migrations, and [...]
Two articles grabbed my attention in Common Dreams today.
Bill McKibben is the author of ’Deep Economy: The Wealth of Communities and the Durable Future’, scholar in residence at Middlebury College, and cofounder of 350.org. In his article, he shoots down a half dozen common delusions about global warming:
Scientists Are Divided
We Have Time
Climate Change Will Help [...]
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