Posted in Activism, Articles, Video on August 2, 2013| Leave a Comment »
After debating Canadian Kevin O’Leary on television, 14 yeah old Rachel O’Leary has become anti GMO food activist celebrity. Disregarding her age, Rachel hold her own and defends some of the movements main points.
The Future of Food director Deborah Koons Garcia got a chance to meet Rachel back in February during the Canadian Organic Growers’ Conference and the two hit it off.
Posted in Activism, Climate Change, Environment, Farm Issues, Genetic Engineering, Geoengineering, Government, Health Issues, Herbicides, Nanotechnology, Organic Foods, Pesticides, Sustainable Agriculture, Video on February 20, 2013| Leave a Comment »
A wonderful informative satire by Infomatic Films.
Posted in Environment, Farm Issues, Health Issues, Herbicides, Organic Foods, Sustainable Agriculture, Video on January 20, 2011| Leave a Comment »
“Paul Hawken: The High Cost of Che…” from blip.tv: Excerpted from the Monterey Bay Aquarium’s, Cooking For Solutions 2010 media conference, Paul Hawken eloquently explains how the price of food is divorced from its true costs, and what this really means for society at large.
Posted in Environment, Farm Issues, Genetic Engineering, Health Issues, Organic Foods, Sustainable Agriculture, Uncategorized, Video on January 20, 2011| Leave a Comment »
THE TRUE COST OF FOOD video is part of the Sierra Club True Cost of Food campaign which is spreading the word about hidden costs in mass-produced food and about alternatives that are kinder to the planet and better for us.
Posted in Climate Change, Environment, Farm Issues, Health Issues, Organic Foods, Video on January 6, 2011| Leave a Comment »
In the January 5th post below, Eliot Coleman, the Maine farmer, educator and author of seminal books on organic farming, gave this parting advice: “Vote with your dollars.” He firmly believes that the entire agricultural cycle begins with individuals deciding what they will and won’t eat. “You’re in charge.”
Here’s an organization that is taking this to a new level:
Carrotmob asks businesses to compete: Who will make the biggest change to their business in order to improve the world? The winner gets a reward: Our network will show up and spend money to support them. We can entice businesses to make social and environmental improvements if we give them a financial benefit for doing what we want. It’s the opposite of a boycott. Today we do community campaigns, and when enough people join we’ll have the power to change the largest companies in the world.
Learn more by watching Carrot Mob’s two videos.
Posted in Climate Change, Environment, Farm Issues, Peak Oil, Video on January 5, 2011| Leave a Comment »
The scientific community has long agreed that our dependence on fossil fuels inflicts massive damage on the environment and our health, while warming the globe in the process. But beyond the damage these fuels cause to us now, what will happen when the world’s supply of oil runs out?
Peak Oil is the point at which petroleum production reaches its greatest rate just before going into perpetual decline. In “Peak Oil and a Changing Climate,” a new video series from The Nation and On The Earth productions, radio host Thom Hartmann explains that the world will reach peak oil within the next year if it hasn’t already. As a nation, the United States reached peak oil in 1974, after which it became a net oil importer.
Bill McKibben, Noam Chomsky, Nicole Foss, Richard Heinberg and the other scientists, researchers and writers interviewed throughout “Peak Oil and a Changing Climate” describe the diminishing returns our world can expect as it deals with the consequences of peak oil even as it continues to pretend it doesn’t exist. These experts predict substantially increased transportation costs, decreased industrial production, unemployment, hunger and social chaos as the supplies of the fuels on which we rely dwindle and eventually disappear.
Read the rest of the article and see the video.
Posted in Agroecology, Articles, Environment, Farm Issues, Health Issues, Organic Foods, Sustainable Agriculture, Video on January 3, 2011| Leave a Comment »
We live in a world of monoculture crops, slim farmer margins, and consumers suffering from obesity and other diet-related health problems. But reviving traditional food cultures based on diverse and locally available foods can help both the farmers, consumers, and the environment.
Two co-operatives in the Begnas and Rupa lake watersheds in Kaski, Nepal are demonstrating how small farmers can reclaim important links in the food value chain, while also continuing to produce local and traditional foods, make money and protect biodiversity and improve nutrition and health.
Posted in Climate Change, Environment, Video on December 9, 2010| Leave a Comment »
While the U.N. climate talks in Cancún are reaching a critical stage, many delegates have begun looking toward the 2011 U.N. climate summit scheduled to take place in Durban, South Africa. Democracy Now!’s Mike Burke speaks with one of the leading South African climate change activists, Kumi Naidoo of Greenpeace International.
Posted in Agroecology, Environment, Farm Issues, Sustainable Agriculture, Video on December 7, 2010| Leave a Comment »
The Toledo Ecotourism Association (TEA) is a group of Mayan and Garifuna villages located in the rainforest and other endangered eco-systems in the southern part of Belize. The mission of the TEA is to create jobs in the villages, keep tourism to a manageable level, and educate visitors about the beauty and value of the indigeous cultures and the environment that the native people inhabit. To meet these goals, the TEA has several programs, one of which is Sustainable Agriculture — finding and practicing alternatives to slash and burn. There is a video which tells more about TEA.
Posted in Climate Change, Environment, Sustainable Agriculture, Video on December 6, 2010| Leave a Comment »
Amy Goodman on Democracy Now interviews Claudia Salerno,Venezuela’s lead climate change negotiator, comments on the media’s lack of coverage of the talks, interviews small farmers at the alternative Global Forum for LIfe and Environmental and Social Justice, and talks to Bolivia’s ambassador to the United Nations, Pablo Solon about the secret diplomatic cables released by WikiLeaks that reveal new details about how the United States manipulated last year’s climate talks in Copenhagen. Former Irish President Mary Robinson talks about the need for a global climate fund that will help poor people protect themselves from the growing threats of global warming.
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