Sacred Cow: The Case for (Better) Meat – Review
By Edward D'Amato, Resilience.org
Sacred Cow: The Case for (Better) Meat by Diana Rodgers and Robb Wolf is a book (and forthcoming film) challenging what has become conventional wisdom: that regardless of how it is raised, beef is bad for the planet.
Passenger Trains Can Move More Than People in a Sustainable Transportation System
By Edward D'Amato, Resilience.org
Today, it takes a more energy intensive combination of automobiles, trucks and airplanes to do what a single passenger train was able to do in 1950. Furthermore, we lost a level of convenience in our lives that is in some ways unmatched today, and we lost a sense of community that our passenger rail system helped build and hold together