to provide us with a pigeon-holed approach to any global crisis…
Obese blamed for the world’s ills
The world’s obese population is rising
Obese people are contributing to the world food crisis and climate change, experts say.
The London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine calculated the obese consume 18% more calories than average.
They are also responsible [...]
The following news media clip offers agro-industries the option of chopping down miles of serene boreal ecosystems to support the rising global demand for food production. Having ridden a train across Siberia some years ago, I can say that what I saw was more development than I expected, though I was comforted by the fact [...]
I just started volunteering at the Brooklyn Free School to help them beautify their outdoor yard space. I was lead there by Paolo, John and Andrew in different ways. I have been wanting to feel what it was like to be in a learning/living environment that was absolutely free and truly democratic. Even after just [...]
Shortages Threaten Farmers’ Key Tool: FertilizerÂ
By KEITH BRADSHER and ANDREW MARTIN
Published: April 30, 2008
Population growth, shrinking world grain stocks and a growing appetite for meat, particularly in the developing world, has collided with a shortage of fertilizer.
(Read article…)
…a shortage of fertilizer?! Now the global food markets are telling us there’s not enough shit floating around to [...]
One very comprehensive way to think about degrees of ecological self-sufficiency is this “three shades of green” system introduced to me by my friend Adam Brock. The green cred of a car company would be the “lite” shade of green. And I like to think about it as a gradient towards an ultra-balanced forest green [...]
This is a reaction to book writte in response to Susan Jacoby’s book: Age of American Unreason
(This entry was inspired by her appearance on the Colbert Report last night and this article in the NY Times)
Come on, guys. Western Education always has been a colonially structured institution who’s very organization marginalizes and pigeonholes our youth [...]
Just came across this article in New York Magazine, written a few weeks ago by Lisa Chamberlain.
When I took a glimpse of the image above, I saw a valiant attempt at an organic system packaged and marketed to fit the “profitable development” aesthetic. The funny thing is that urban farming can be even simpler than [...]
…in a world where you are what you eat, so there is no telling of who you are.
Often at parties, when I don’t have anything better to talk about, I touch upon this primal fantasy of throwing a spear into a river and scoring a lively fish, which I would then bite into alive. I [...]
