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POPSSustainabili-Tea This project won University of BC students $25,000 in the recent TD Friends of the Environment 2010 "Go Green" Challenge
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POPSHow To Reforest Our Planet Amazingly insightful video shows how we can reforest our planet, affecting the climate, air quality, wildlife and give local people food and make it all completely self sustainable! Somebody email this to the President!
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POPSUrban farming buzz feeds more egos than hungry people You don't have to do the numbers to realize that no amount of urban gardens, today, can green America or feed people in need of good food. It can make people feel good and take attention away from: working to grow the economy so people in need of food have better paying jobs and improving city living enough to encourage people to live there instead of the suburbs - thus reducing the number of people who have to drive to do anything. And by the way, the suburbs, for the most part, used to be America's truck garden and ready source of good, cheap and fresh food instead of a place to grow sprawl and all the waste that goes with it. That said - go ahead and plant a garden for yourself, it's good exercise and the food is good but you can't feed the world with it.
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POPSShrimp's Dirty Secret Upon arrival in the U.S., few if any, are inspected by the FDA, and when researchers have examined imported ready-to-eat shrimp, they found 162 separate species of bacteria with resistance to 10 different antibiotics. And yet, as of 2008, Americans are eating 4.1 pounds of shrimp apiece each year -- significantly more than the 2.8 pounds per year we each ate of the second most popular seafood, canned tuna. But what are we actually eating without knowing it? And is it worth the price -- both to our health and the environment?
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POPSSustainable Consumption: An Idea Whose Time Has Come? Why has this issue come out of the shadows now? After all, the UN has been working on this issue for almost a decade, through the Marrakech Process, which aims to develop guidelines for production and consumption. The answer may well lie in the pre-recession events of 2008. Before the financial crisis hit late last year, we experienced a mash-up of food/fuel/water-security problems. All the graphs and charts that predicted a disconnect between the supply and demand of basic commodities came to life in the form of shortages and price shocks in the months before Lehman Brothers collapsed. This meant higher prices for companies, and higher prices for consumers, who saw their food and energy bills rise.
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POPSBiomimicry - "Innovation Inspired By Nature" Another oldie but goody unearthed during my review, clipped in May 2008. The value of knowledge does not decrease with time because we keep forgetting more than we know. It is becoming ever more pertinent, too, so perhaps its value increases with time -- like wine.
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POPSPETA vs. Warmists. Who will win this war? Wow. Most of my dear friends who believe in the disastrous human impact on our global climate are also devoted pet-lovers (and very good people). How will they reconcile their love for the planet and their love for Spot and Fluffy? Guess they'll be eating lots of veggies and walking to work.
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POPSWhat is Food Sovereignty? Localization has become the mantra of many people who are concerned about issues like peak oil and climate change. It's a matter of self-reliance. How can we develop communities that can better serve our needs: our need to clothe ourselves, our need to move around, our need to eat, our need to have health care. The list goes on and on. The need for food sovereignty is often bandied about.
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POPSThe Value of Nothing Patel argues that the larger failure beneath the food, climate and economic crises is a political one. If economics is about choices, Patel writes, it isn’t often said who gets to make them. The Value of Nothing offers a fresh and accessible way to think about economics and the choices we will all need to make in order to create a sustainable economy and society.
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POPSa link to a thing about 'Frankenfood' so ya have to go there to be able to view the video.............am going there as soon as i post this................so- am hoping this was worth passing on..............
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POPSBill and Melinda Gates pledge 120 million to boost African, Indian farmers Oh noez. Corporate America, Bill Gates, is dropping 120 million to help Africa and India. So liberals, this must horrify you right? Because corporations are "evil" in your nightmares or did you confuse it with an episode of "Fringe". Moan for me libs. Moan about America and whine because Americans, Bill and Melinda Gates, just blew your mind. Where's that fatty Michael Moore-on anyway? Probably sitting in Krispy Kreme or Dominoes Pizza stuffing his fat face. I know this news isn't as important as the Christians eating fried chicken at the Baptist Church, but who could compete with a horror show like that. Waaaaahhhhhh corporations......waaaaahhhhhh Christians........wahhhhhhh Rush Limbaugh.......waaaaaahhhhhhhhhh. Boohoo. Cry me a river.
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POPSEast Bay poverty rates show 1 in 10 below federal poverty line
More: in real terms — adjusted for inflation — East Bay incomes have been flat for two years. East Bay residents make about $3,500 less than they did in 2000 if their incomes are adjusted for inflation, said Jennifer Lin, a researcher for the East Bay Alliance for a Sustainable Economy. Lin points out that averages can also disguise the growing inequality the census numbers reveal. There are fewer East Bay households now making the middle incomes of from $75,000 to $150,000, and more people—especially Latinos and African-Americans working in low-wage service industries—are having a harder time making enough money to get by without public help.… Homeownership declined in both counties, which was no surprise to a region hard-hit by the foreclosure crisis… For homeowners with a mortgage, the median monthly cost last year was $2,755 in Alameda County and $2,842 in Contra Costa County. For renters, the median monthly rent was $1,192 in Alameda County and $1,254 in Contra C
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