Today is Blog Action Day 2010. This annual event, organized by change.org, is held every October 15 to unite the world’s bloggers in posting about the same issue on the same day with the aim of sparking a global discussion and driving collective action. This year’s topic is water. Today thousands of bloggers from over 125 …
Sep
09
Why Our Agricultural Empire Will Fall
In the midst of an obesity epidemic, surrounded by super-sized meals, and backed by half a century of agricultural overabundance, it’s hard to imagine the possibility of a food shortage. But while the US continues to overindulge, the rest of the world is facing a global food crisis. The United Nations (UN) Food and Agriculture …
Aug
11
The Good Life Doesn’t Have to Cost the Planet
I’m still working on getting into a daily rhythm here in Austin. It’s been just over a week since I moved here, so between starting a new job, trying to unpack, and struggling to run in 100 degree heat, you’ll have to bear with me as I slowly ramp back up on the blogging habit. …
May
28
Movie Review: The Future Of Food
This documentary about genetically engineered food is really eye-opening. Eye opener #1: Much of the US public probably does not even know that we’re eating genetically modified food. Lots of it. Genetically modified corn, soybeans, canola, and cotton (which were non-existent in the 1980s) are now so commonplace that approximately 95% of American soybeans are …
Mar
09
Why Are Vegetarians So Depressing?
by Martha Flumenbaum, from The Huffington Post Animal agriculture is a bigger cause of global warming than cars. You’d be better off driving a Hummer than eating a steak. Eating too much meat can cause heart disease and cancer. Factory farms cause pollution and the people who live near them are getting asthma. Animals on …
Oct
27
Ending World Hunger
Food expert Francis Moore Lappe, author of Diet for a Small Planet, once said that we should look at a piece of steak like it is a Cadillac. “What I mean,” she explains, “is that we in America are hooked on gas-guzzling automobiles because of the illusion of cheap petroleum. Likewise,we got hooked on a …
