__________________________________________ “Desertification is a fancy word for land that is turning to desert,” begins Allan Savory in this quietly powerful talk. And it’s happening to about two-thirds of the…
Western countries throw out nearly half of their food, not because it’s inedible — but because it doesn’t look appealing. Tristram Stuart delves into the shocking data of wasted food,…
Environmentalism and sustainability are some of my key concerns within politics, and a large part of what is talked about in those fields has to do with food production and…
With the global economic downturn, vital programs to protect us from the destructive effects of climate change are being cut down in many countries. This is not the liberal fantasy so…
Here, a haunting collection of images meant to provoke some deep thinking about the global food system, and especially the wastefulness of the industrialized north. From Klaus Pichler, via NPR: Revealing…
From a recent opinion piece out of The Week, an article close to my environmentally minded political roots on the worrisome amount of waste produced by the wildly inefficient global…
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