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Pete Smith @ November 22, 2007 # 5 Comments
I’d like to recommend an excellent CNN article about food and the environment. Here are some highlights:
According to the UK’s Soil Association, 50 percent of the increase in global CO2 emissions between 1850 and 1990 has been tied to changes in land use –mainly because of farming practices.
The Food Climate Research Network estimates that 31% [...]
Pete Smith @ October 28, 2007 # 4 Comments
Presenters Billy Bragg and Mark Viduka show their emotional involvement in the issues
Well I’ve ploughed through the first part of CNN’s much-vaunted eco-documentary ‘Planet In Peril’, and I wasn’t that impressed. A series of episodes filmed around the world, loosely linked by a cobbled-together ‘theme’ of interlinked ecosystems under threat from human exploitation, it kicked [...]
Pete Smith @ September 10, 2007 # 3 Comments
September 14-16: Clean Up the World Weekend 2007
Clean Up the World Weekend is an annual campaign supported by the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP). The campaign encourages individuals and communities to clean up, repair and conserve the environment. Organizers estimate 35 million people from more than 120 countries will take part, in activities ranging [...]
Pete Smith @ August 7, 2007 # 4 Comments
Authorities in Satara district in Maharashtra State, Western India, are offering a second honeymoon to couples who delay the birth of their first child. The offer, called the “Honeymoon Package”, is worth 5000 rupees ($125) for a 2-year delay and 7500 rupees ($190) if the couple can hold off for three years.
Satara has a population [...]
Pete Smith @ July 27, 2007 # 40 Comments
How times change. It seems like only yesterday that anyone who dared to suggest the world’s environmental problems could be fixed by a healthy dose of population control would be accused of racism or imperialism or any other -ism you can think of. This week, the new head of London’s Science Museum says that reducing [...]
Pete Smith @ July 18, 2007 # One Comment
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Pete Smith @ June 24, 2007 # 2 Comments
The Worldwide Fund For Nature (WWF) has published a report on the global adoption of desalination as a means of compensating for shortages of fresh water. In ‘Making Water - Desalination: option or distraction for a thirsty world?’, WWF lays out the down side of desalination. As well as being a highly energy-intensive process, it [...]
Pete Smith @ June 21, 2007 # 5 Comments
Fresh from slagging off the Worldwide Fund For Nature for their hypocritical approach towards waste and recycling, it seemed only fair to give them a bit of credit for some of the good work they do. As part of their ‘One Planet Living‘ campaign, WWF have revived the idea of the ecological footprint, which gives [...]