Regardless of terminology, one point is writ clear: the most technologically and economically advanced cultures in the world have the highest rates of food waste on the planet...
What haunts me every day, and no doubt will for the rest of my days, is what I will reply to my grandchildren when they ask me what I did during the time when climate change could have been brought under some sort of control...
It is time to talk about important things. Why have we come so close to the brink of extinction so carelessly and casually?
With no prior experience in grassroots organizing, Deal orchestrated a campaign against fracking in South Africa to protect the Karoo, a semi-desert region of the eastern Cape that he had come to know and love.
Data sometimes hurts, especially when it hits home. Just when it seemed like we could blame the farmer, the processor, and the distributor for our food energy woes, lo and behold, our constant culinary vacillations between hot and cold have conspired to put the American kitchen in the crosshairs of our food energy hunt.
Regardless of terminology, one point is writ clear: the most technologically and economically advanced cultures in the world have the highest rates of food waste on the planet >>
In November 2006, I sat at the back of the Barn Cinema, Dartington, and watched ‘An Inconvenient Truth‘. It had such an impact on me that by the time it … >>
A new phrase, “supply shock,” entered the lexicon of the global oil business this week when the International Energy Agency (IEA) reported that unexpectedly … >>
As soon as we step out of our homes in pursuit of food, we cross an energy threshold that is worth considering. >>
It is time to talk about important things. Why have we come so close to the brink of extinction so carelessly and casually? >>
Anti-fracking activist Jonathan Deal, winner of a 2013 Goldman Environmental Prize, discusses strategy to save the Karoo region of his native South Africa from gas … >>
Post Carbon Fellow Michael Shuman and his book Local … >>
Post Carbon Fellow David Hughes' recent presentation to an … >>
Rebuilding the Foodshed, the latest Post Carbon Resilience … >>
The Sharing Solution and the Center for a New … >>
From Richard's speech at The New Economics Institute … >>
We live at a time of transition: when factory-farmed food … >>
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