Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
Taking a class, joining a tribe (Master Gardeners)
Sharon Astyk:
Vegeculture: Further rethinking how we eat
Taste, nutrients decline as size of crops grows
Can China clean up its food by going organic?
Farm runoff feeds dead zone
Is eating local the best choice?
Russia’s demographic crisis
Russian ‘sex day’ to boost births
Child mortality at record low; further drop seen
Birth control sticker shock
Mediterranean’s rich marine life under threat
FAO warns climate change could be major threat to food security
Britain’s mosquito explosion
Lack of play hurting children’s mental health
Turning the ride to school into a walk
Is it normal to let your kids get eaten by a bear?
Warming may be hurting gray whales’ recovery
Warming is seen as wiping out most polar bears
As Brazil’s rain forest burns, planet heats up
What a lake says about climate change
Climate change and global disease
Global warming may pose threat to heart
Rate of global warming predicted 35 years ago
Greek forest fires could be CO2 threat
Climate change brings ticks ever closer
Al Gore, James Hansen, and civil disobedience
NASA scientists challenge security rules- claim agency may be trying to silence them about global warming
The city as massive gym: Living longer by walking more
More people, more concrete, and lots more heat in Phoenix
Biden on energy and the environment
Heat stressing California’s grid
‘Immigrant paradox’: Come to the U.S., die younger
Porter ties withdrawal from Iraq to $9 gas
Monetary policy and weaseling out of debt
The power of produce (health claims)
Farming the concrete jungle
Study links CO2 to demise of grazing lands
Zimbabwe: Give fertilizer sector priority on power
Useful mutants, bred with radiation
WHO says sex, farming, growing population gives diseases breeding ground
Pollution causes 40 percent of deaths worldwide, study finds
Sea rise outpacing forecasts due To Antarctica
Queensland fast-tracks emergency water supply for worst case scenario
WHO predicts more global epidemics, blames air travel
TIME: Does flying harm the planet?
Oil Depletion and the Brisbane airport expansion
Sicko‘s success represents a modern day muckraking triumph. Yet it is critical to examine the shortcomings of Moore’s views of health care reform in the context of energy, ecology and sustainability.
