Food is a problem. Food is the solution. Many urban areas suffering from depression of the economy suffer from the lack of whole food, good foods. A liquor store and a vacant lot are alright. However, try to plant green gardens, so you donât have to drive 45 minutes to buy something besides fast food
Editorâs Note: Livestock production is actually estimated to account for about 51% of global greenhouse gas emissions from humans. A staggering amount. So, the theory promoted by Allan Savory that grazing livestock is a potential solution to global warming is a bit absurd. A wonderful post on the blog comfortablyunaware goes into this topic in much more detail,
Someone shared this video with me awhile back. Thanks to it being a catchup Sunday, I just got around to watching it. It makes the case for vegetarianism using the heart in an excellent way. Check it out: http://youtu.be/_s-3CogRDCk If youâd like a more sophisticated, intellectual case for going veggie, watch this one below from
 Some more key quotes from top NASA climate scientist, head of the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, Dr. James Hansen from the video posted below: âIt would be immoral to leave these young people with a climate system spiraling out of control.â âGlobal warming is already affecting people.â As covered here on Planetsave
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has joined forces with TED and with this partnership Melinda Gates shares her hope that âTEDxChange will serve as a catalyst for our continued conversations about the future we will make together.â She asks âWhat does the future hold for global health and development? And how can we all
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/v/7gouSXt2zE4&hl=en_US&fs=1] . Carl Safina, author of five books and over 100 scientific and popular publications on ecology and the oceans (including featured work in National Geographic and The New York Times), is about as expert as it gets when we talk about the oceans. In an excellent recent TED talk, Safina discusses the BP oil
