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 [...]
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 [...]
Perhaps you’ve heard of the ‘No Impact Man,’ Colin Beavan, who, in 2006, with his wife and daughter, went off the grid in New York City to minimize their negative impact on the environment.
This incredible experiment, which inspired a blog, a book and a movie, has now inspired a challenge to which more than 2000 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
From the U.S. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced [July 7] the launch of the Web-based Environmental Public Health Tracking Network, a surveillance tool that scientists, health professionals, and – for the first time – members of the public can use to track environmental exposures and chronic [...]
“It doesn’t matter if it’s contaminated, you have to eat,” says a 40-year old day laborer from Ecuador in a New York Daily News piece about fishing in the waters surrounding New York City.
In tough economic times, people will do whatever it takes to keep their families from going hungry, and for those particularly cash-strapped, [...]
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 [...]
Sarychev Peak Volcanic Eruption as Seen from the ISS
This stunning photograph was taken by astronauts aboard the International Space Station on June 12 as the Sarychev Volcano in the Kuril Islands northeast of Japan began spewing steam and ash into the atmosphere. Within three days, ash from the volcano was detected 2,407 kilometers ESE and [...]
Harnessing the Power of the Jet Stream
Researchers have compiled the first global survey of wind energy at high altitudes, where currents blow more steadily and 10 times faster than near-surface winds. If the energy of the jet stream energy could be harnessed using tethered, generator-kites, it could provide a major source of electricity for cities [...]
Clean Water Out of Thin Air
The EcoloBlue Atmospheric Water Generator (AWG) does just that, producing up to 7 gallons per day.
Military Embraces Green Energy
Solar panels, wind turbines, plug-in vehicles, energy-efficient tents and more are being tested at Ft. Irvin, California in an effort to reduce the military’s voracious appetite for energy — as well as [...]
