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The Hidden Giant #1: "Food"— Vegetarianism
It is one of the least discussed issues when we discuss solutions to the environmental crisis. It is not whether or not the food is organic or sprayed with synthetic chemicals, or whether or not it is...
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'Millennium Goal' to End World Hunger Will Not Be Met
The UN's Millennium Development Goal of ending global under-nourishment by 2015 will not be met, but a new set of "mega" initiatives are being implemented to achieve more efficient delivery of...
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U.S. Wastes More Food Energy than Gained from Gulf Oil & Gas
Wasted food energy in the U.S. totals some 2150 trillion kilojoules per year--more than the U.S. could produce in ethanol (grain) biofuels. Further, an article in the New Scientist asserts that this...
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Increasing Demand for Fish + Failing Fisheries = Huge Problems
Rome, Italy: The conflict between increasing demand for fish and failing fisheries has enormous implications for world food security and the state of our oceans, lakes and rivers, WWF said today. The...
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Environmental, Global Warming, and Animal News
Some of the top climate change and environmental stories of the last day or so: Climate Science Graph of the Day: Greenland Ice Sheet Mass Changes Good info and graphs on the page above, but thought...
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Global Warming Politics, Environment, and Animal Stories of the Day
Some top global warming and environmental news from the last day or so: Global Warming & Environmental Politics Time to Put People Ahead of Polluters Over on ecopolitology, Sierra Club’s Michael...
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One Quarter of World's Agricultural Land 'Highly Degraded', UN Report Concludes
Consequently, the UN report, ‘State of the World’s Land and Water Resources for Food and Agriculture’ calls for “sustainable intensification” of agricultural productivity on existing farmland. In a...
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Do You Know the Cause of 51% or More of Humanity's Greenhouse Gas Emissions?
Update January 19, 2012: title of and link to newly published article added in third paragraph. If you answered ‘animal agriculture’ or ‘livestock production’ (essentially, meat and dairy production)...
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Wicked Fires of Climate Change Inflame The West (photo-essay)
There are the good wildfires, and there are the bad. Unfortunately, the latter often overwhelm the beneficial ones. We’ll go on with stories from San Diego in a minute—it’s a long story of an actually...
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