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February is a brilliant month: New Year’s resolutions are really put to the test, 4/2 World Cancer Day, 6-12/2 International Development Week, 14/2 St Valentine’s Day, 20/2 World Day of Social Justice, 22/2 World Thinking Day, and 27/2 World NGO Day, among others… They all highlight an attitude desperately needed at this time. Harmony at […]

According to Plato, “the root and stem of all evil is ignorance.” So here’s some info about where our food money goes to: “farm2fork” in reverse.[mfn]How can I act sustainably if my body-mind isn’t thinking&self-caring sustainably too: What You Believe Is WYSIWYG…[/mfn] From the below report’s foreword: “… Our work shows there would be little […]

“Classical” businesses are starting to talk more about the opportunity profit in “culture” over that of “cost accounting”. 2blogs ago we looked at the idea of “true cost” calculation.[mfn]https://parkecovillagetrust.co.uk/2022/08/nuts-and-fruitcakes/[/mfn] Even the Park Ecovillage at Findhorn is studying the possibilities of larger scale food&energy production, in line with their enlightened “0carbon30” goal. I came across a […]

Did you know 20 June was world refugee day? Major factors leading to refugee migrations are war, economic & climate conflict, government persecution or there being a significant risk of these. Topical, yes! But we have an even bigger problem: fast rising utilities&food prices at home, abroad and planet-wide. End 02/22, authors Lukas Kornher und […]

Fyi some tasty links harvested from our “food” blog category.[vertical-spacer]   # Food’s environmental impacts are created by millions of diverse producers. To identify solutions that are effective under this heterogeneity, the below report consolidated data covering five environmental indicators; 38,700 farms; and 1600 processors, packaging types, and retailers. Impact can vary 50-fold among producers […]

“Happy” COP26! Everybody. Buying local produce (20-50km radius) is carbon emission decreasing, it’s keeping disposable income within our local economy, it’s investing in our own county. Is this new thinking? No. It was pre-industrial UK reality, and M.K. Gandhi successfully advocated the social, economic and political advantages of manufacturing & consuming only local products[mfn]what HE […]

The Heli-view in our food series… As more go hungry and malnutrition persists, achieving Zero Hunger by 2030 in doubt, UN May 2020 report warns. More people are going hungry, an annual study by the Food & Agriculture Organisation has found.  Tens of millions have joined the ranks of the chronically undernourished over the past five […]

As lockdown is being loosened and we refill the social and economic[mfn]or is it economic and social[/mfn] vacuum, here’s some food for thought on going back to our (new?) normal routines and choices. There is plenty of evidence that climate change is already affecting our food system. Imports of avocados, coffee and courgettes have already […]

This report forms part of the ‘Food and Diets’ research done by the Zero Carbon Britain project through 2012-13. This work concentrates on low carbon diets in the UK today. About the Zero Carbon Britain project An initiative from the Centre for Alternative Technology (CAT). Its aim is to demonstrate that integrated and technically feasible […]

Food is something that is universally experienced. We all eat. And therefore, by linking climate change to food, you come to it already with more understanding and so the topic is made more accessible. ~ Karen Brown, Center for ECOliteracy   Click on the link above for a short 13m48s video overview, and below for […]