Category: Climate Emergency
Reports of climate impacts around the world.
We, the consumers in the richest nations of the world have now become conditioned and accustomed to a nearly constant availability of fruits and vegetables from all corners of the globe. Yet, with this apparent abundance, in 2018, an estimated 1 in 9 Americans were food insecure, equating to over 37 million Americans, including more than 11 […]
Intensive industrialized farming means thinking of nature as a factory. If once agriculture treated the soil as a generous friend, intensive farming has gradually turned it into a chemical junkie. Pouring excess synthetic nitrogen fertilizers on fields has detrimental effects on the long-term vitality of the soil and on its capability to retain carbon. This […]
There is sound evidence that the water-use efficiency of bamboo is twice that of other trees. This makes bamboo far more capable in handling harsh weather conditions such as drought, flood, and high temperatures. If we compare bamboo to cotton which is a very thirsty crop – requiring up to 20,000 liters of water to […]
The answer to internal displacement has long been known to provide short term or emergency assistance. However, in the years past, with numerous internally displaced populations, humanitarian organizations have rapidly noticed the need to empower those displaced populations to excel towards greater self-reliance. Consequently, in 2016 the United Nations along with the government of Somalia […]
BIOMASS COOKSTOVES and OPEN FIRE COOKING According to the International Energy Agency, 2.7 billion people lack access to clean cooking facilities, of which 1.9 billion are based in Asia, 657 million in Africa, and 85 million in Latin America. These people still depend on biomass as their main source of energy and are forced to […]
Tokamak. This is a new word to most of the people on the planet but it has been in use by scientists of every kind for over 60 years! This strange device is what contains the heat of the fusion reaction and the resulting plasma energy. The toroidal design is what makes containment and energy […]
See more at www.storyofstuff.org What is the Story of Stuff? “The Story of Stuff is a 20-minute, fast-paced, fact-filled look at the underside of our production and consumption patterns. The Story of Stuff exposes the connections between a huge number of environmental and social issues, and calls us together to create a more sustainable and […]
Methane emissions are individually the largest source of greenhouse gases in beef and dairy, also they are a major contributor to anthropogenic methane (CH4) emissions across the globe. In 2019, the Advanced Research Projects Agency Energy (ARPAE), the Foundation for Food and Agriculture Research (FFAR), and World Wildlife Fund (WWF) gathered numerous stakeholders advocating for […]
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Bio-Fuel Myths
Biofuels invoke an image of renewable abundance that allows industry, politicians, the World Bank, the United Nations and even the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change to present fuel from corn, sugarcane, soy and other crops as replacement for oil that will bring about a smooth transition to a renewable economy.