Michael Pollan, author, journalist and activist, talks with GristTV in a short interview about the food industry’s relationship to energy, greenhouse gas emissions, and health.
Pollan is a professor of journalism at the University of California, Berkeley. and a former executive editor for Harper’s Magazine whose books include:
In Defense of Food: An Eater’s Manifesto (2008)
The Omnivore’s [...]
(Third in a series of three posts).
This weekend, Friday Night at the Movies features a special, 6-part presentation on space-based agricultural sensing and the role it plays in understanding global food production, land and water use, food security, agricultural economics, and monitoring impacts of climate change on growing patterns.
Episodes 5 and 6 of NASA’s, Science [...]
(Second in a series of three posts).
This weekend, Friday Night at the Movies features a special, 6-part presentation on space-based agricultural sensing and the role it plays in understanding global food production, land and water use, food security, agricultural economics, and monitoring impacts of climate change on growing patterns.
Episodes 3 and 4 of NASA’s, Science [...]
This weekend, Friday Night at the Movies features a special, 6-part presentation on space-based agricultural sensing and the role it plays in understanding global food production, land and water use, food security, agricultural economics, and monitoring impacts of climate change on growing patterns.
Produced by NASA, Science for A Hungry World explores the application of science [...]
A vegan is one who tries to live a life free of animal products. Vegans eat a plant-based diet, with no components from animals: no meat, dairy, eggs or honey. A vegan lifestyle also avoids leather, wool, silk and other animal products for clothing or other merchandise, and animal tested products.
The Vegan Society, founded in [...]
Are Coral Reefs Beyond Saving?
BBC News reports that prospects of saving the world’s coral reefs now appear so bleak that scientists have recommended freezing samples in liquid nitrogen to preserve them for the future so that, should global temperatures be stabilized, corals could be reintroduced.
If you’re wondering whether the situation is really that bad, read [...]
Demand for water has never been as great as it is today, and it will only increase due to population growth and mobility, rising living standards, changes in food consumption, and increased energy production, especially biofuels. Access to basic water-related services (safe drinking water, sanitation and food production) remains inadequate in much of the developing [...]
Shifting seasons are destroying harvests and causing widespread hunger, and that is just one of the multiple climate change impacts taking their toll on the world’s poorest people, according to a recent report from Oxfam International. Oxfam is a U.K.-based confederation of 14 like-minded organizations working together and with partners and allies around the world [...]
A New Epoch in Earth’s Geophysical History: The Anthropocene Period
Einstein is often quoted as saying, “We can’t solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.†Perhaps this is the kind of paradigm shift he had in mind…
Just as changes to the Earth’s orbit, volcanic eruptions and asteroid [...]
Summer is the perfect time to get acquainted with local produce. Local gives “fresh” new meaning – providing food with far more flavor, nutrition and connection to the local landscape than supermarket fare. Purchasing produce close to where it is grown insures that it is in its peak form. Supermarket shipping and processing can put [...]
In the year 2000, The Millenium Seed Bank Project was launched as an international effort to preserve the biodiversity of Earth’s plant life by collecting, cataloging, and storing seeds from around the world.
The motivation was simple. All animal life depends upon plants, and plants depend upon seeds. so the Project serves as something of an [...]
Honey, Someone Shrunk the Sheep!
Sheep on Soay Island off the west coast of Scotland are getting smaller, defying the evolutionary advantage that typically accrues to larger animals when food becomes scarce during cold weather. Increasingly warmer winters have shortened the season of scarcity, enabling smaller sheep to survive — and give birth to more small [...]
