Click for full view Courtesy: Throbgoblins Climate change is fuelling conflicts around the world and helping to drive the number of people forced out of their homes to new highs, the head of the UN's refugee agency said yesterday. After a few years of improvement, thanks mainly ... keep reading
Written by Marc Roberts yesterday, about Global Warming, Health, Politics
Here's what I want you to do: Imagine me standing in your kitchen with my fingers in my ears, eyes closed and chanting la la la la la whilst closely resembling a 4 year old on a bad day. What I don't want to hear is that according ... keep reading
Written by Jessica Gottlieb yesterday, about Agriculture & Food, Consumerism, Economics, Health, Water
In North America, the idea of eating insects has generally only been broached during Fear Factor or a light-hearted end-of-the-nightly-news story involving grossed-out American kids and half-naked natives munching maggots. But these days, with our environmental and food crises deepening, the idea of eating the highly nutritious and easy-to-raise crop ... keep reading
Written by Lauren Carter this week, about Agriculture & Food, Consumerism, Environment & Wildlife, Health
Part 1 of 2 from Amy Anaruk on the U.N. Biodiversity ConferenceWhen almost 200 countries met in Bonn, Germany last month to address damage to wildlife, plant populations, and natural resources around the world, they had several goals with one major one: reduce this unprecedented global biodiversity loss ... keep reading
Written by Amy Anaruk this week, about Agriculture & Food, Deforestation, Environment & Wildlife, Health, Politics
We know it takes effort to weed out the green washers, the faux organics and the natural wannabees who don't want to put the time, effort or money into being the real thing. Regulatory laws are slowly proposed and consumers are slowly educated. However, on May 29, California Attorney ... keep reading
Written by Julie Reitz last month, about Consumerism, Health, Industry
According to the New York Times: The White House in December refused to accept the Environmental Protection Agency's conclusion that greenhouse gases are pollutants that must be controlled, telling agency officials that an e-mail message containing the document would not be opened, senior E.P.A. officials said last ... keep reading
Written by Leslie Berliant last month, about Economics, Global Warming, Health, Politics
Editor’s Note: Dr. Dickson Despommier is a Professor in the Department of Environmental Health Sciences at Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health. He has come up with an idea to address the growing food, water and energy crises; the Vertical Farm. Today we run an essay by ... keep reading
Written by Dr. Dickson Despommier last month, about Agriculture & Food, Architecture, Health, Philosophy & Religion, Population, Water
Editor's Note: Gar Smith is editor emeritus of Earth Island Journal and the cofounder of Environmentalists Against War. We greatly appreciate his granting permission to republish this article which first ran on Common Dreams. At the 2007 Gas and Oil Expo in Calgary, two keynote speakers introduced as representatives ... keep reading
Written by Gar Smith last month, about Agriculture & Food, Biofuels, Coal & Oil, Consumerism, Health
On May 21, the US Department of Agriculture, or USDA, announced that it would stop its annual publication on the kinds and amounts of pesticides applied to crops in the U.S. This annual Agricultural Chemical Usage report, begun in 1990, will no longer serve thousands of farmers, agricultural inspectors ... keep reading
Written by Jeanne R. last month, about Agriculture & Food, Genetic Modification, Health, Politics, Weather
Environmental Guru Paul Hawken wrote that we ought to “design a system where...doing good is like falling off a log" (Ecology of Commerce) When it comes to plastic water bottles our current economic and social systems are making doing bad as easy as falling off a log. I'm ... keep reading
Written by Eliav Bitan last month, about Consumerism, Health, Philosophy & Religion, Recycling, Water
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