Earth Overshoot Day: A terrifying milestone
Earth Overshoot Day will mark the day when we begin to exceed our annual consumption of the earth’s replenishable resources. One of the most significant milestones we pass each year generally goes completely unnoticed, and unacknowledged. This year it occurred on July...
G20 countries failing on food sustainability, according to index
According to a newly published index G20 countries are lagging far behind when it comes to issues of food sustainability. The index, published on July 14 was compiled by the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) and the Barilla Center for Food and Nutrition (BCFN). It...
North Carolina has a huge and growing factory farming problem
Growing poultry and pig consumption in America is leading to a boom in factory farming for the state causing a devastating environmental catastrophe. Business is booming for factory farmers in North Carolina. Across the state, there are some 6,800 hog and poultry...
Men contribute 18{85424e366b324f7465dc80d56c21055464082cc00b76c51558805a981c8fcd63} more to climate change compared to women
A new study published in the Journal of Industrial Ecology found that single men contribute more to climate change than single women on average. A new study, published in the Journal of Industrial Ecology on 19 July, compared the carbon footprint of both single men...
How does green-washing the meat industry harm the cause to end climate change?
The meat industry has continued to make false claims that animal agriculture can be good for climate change, despite mounting evidence to the contrary. In February last year, the head of a leading global meat industry body gave a “pep talk” to his colleagues at an...
