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Tag Archives: environment
Sitopia: how food can save the world – an interview with Carolyn Steel
In her wide ranging book ‘Sitopia: how food can save the world’ Carolyn Steel aims to provide a tool with which to think – and re-think – the world through food. In this interview, she explains the meaning of the … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Interviews
Tagged Carolyn Steel, culture, environment, food, food policy, food systems, good life, sustainability, wellbeing
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Feeding Britain: our food problems and how to fix them
Tim Lang, professor of Food Policy at City University, London, spends 2 years writing Feeding Britain: our food problems and how to fix them and when it comes out it is in the midst of a global pandemic when feeding … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Interviews
Tagged Britain, COVID-19, environment, food, food policy, food systems, health, labout, poverty, sustainability, UK
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Food or War: is that the question?
Rather foolishly, when I set up my website some years ago, I wrote that I was thinking of writing a book provisionally entitled Food is a Key to Avoiding World War III. Life has intervened and I haven’t been able … Continue reading
Posted in Interviews
Tagged environment, food, food security, food system, Julian Cribb, peace & conflict, technology, war
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Ethics, ecological consciousness and rethinking #agriculture – a lot to digest at Turkish Agricultural and #Food #Ethics Association’s 2nd International Congress
A wide range of issues across food and farming were discussed at the 2nd International Agricultural and Food Ethics Congress organised by the Turkish Agricultural and Food Ethics Association. The congress was held on 24-25 October 2019 in Izmir, Turkey, … Continue reading
Posted in Reports
Tagged Agriculture, ecology, environment, ethics, Farming, food, political institutions, technology, Turkey
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We can, but don’t, feed everyone on Earth and there’s #NoPlanetB to go to, says Mike Berners-Lee
We live in the anthropocene age. It’s a time when what people do changes how the Earth works – and whether it will be comfortable for us all to live on it or not. Today, humanity needs to wake up … Continue reading
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Tagged anthropocene, business, climate change, economics, energy, environment, food, fossil fuels, growth, inequality, money, transport, travel, truth, values, work
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Future #Food #Sustainability and research needs for the UK and EU facing #Brexit?
I was at an horizon scanning workshop organised by the Nuffield Council on Bioethics last week to discuss the future of food sustainability in the UK. It was run under the Chatham House rule, which means you can say things … Continue reading
Soil structure, weeds in GM crops, building diversity, recycling waste and more
I’m in Columbia, Missouri visiting various folk at the University here. Today, I was out at the Bradford farm, one of the University farms, talking to Tim Reinbott. You can hear him here talking about how the soil structure has … Continue reading
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Tagged building diversity, climate, environment, gm crops, rainout shelter, recycling waste, science, soil profiles, Soil structure, weeds in GM crops
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It’s time to turn swords into ploughshares, bombs into bread, and soldiers into good Samaritans*
It is blatantly obvious that there is no military response that can defeat the COVID-19 virus. It should be equally obvious that military spending can’t deal with the other two great long-term, slower-acting pandemics – climate change and biodiversity loss. … Continue reading →