DIY Raised Garden Beds
It certainly feels like an Australian tradition to go to Bunnings on a weekend. It’s always packed full of people and rightly so, it’s an awesome place! So if you have a green thumb then you can’t go...
View ArticleNew Estimates for Agriculture Greenhouse Gas Emissions
Agriculture might appear green by definition but farming accounts for a very large amount of greenhouse gas emissions when the entire food production system is taken into account. Commonly mentioned...
View ArticleBeef Production in the Amazon is Causing Droughts in Brazil
Table of Contents ▼▲ How Eating Meat is Destroying BiodiversityClimate ChangeChina, Africa and India’s Growing ImpactThe StudyWhat Can We Do? Agriculture expansion and the resulting deforestation in...
View ArticleNew Environmental Dietary Guidelines: USDA Backtracks
In news that rocked the meat industry and left them crying foul, the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) is preparing to release the latest version of the government’s influential dietary guidelines...
View ArticleAmazon Trees Dying, Absorption of Carbon Dioxide Declines
Amazon tree death is accelerating and now the Amazon is losing its capacity to absorb carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. The fall in amount of carbon dioxide absorbed by rainforest means even greater...
View Article2015 Dietary Guidelines to Include Sustainable Diets?
About half of American adults—117 million people—have one or more preventable chronic diseases such as cardiovascular disease, hypertension, type 2 diabetes and diet-related cancers. Plant based diets...
View ArticleHow the Decline of Bees Will Create More Disease
Table of Contents ▼▲ How Eating Meat is Destroying BiodiversityClimate ChangeChina, Africa and India’s Growing ImpactThe StudyWhat Can We Do? Of the 100 crop species that provide 90% of the world’s...
View ArticleWho Has the Lowest Daily Carbon Footprint?
For the first time, a UK based study published in Climatic Change has demonstrated the greenhouse gas emission differences and resulting daily carbon footprint in real self-selected diets of omnivores,...
View ArticleMeat or Vege: Which Food Waste has Largest Environmental Impact?
Roughly one third of the food produced in the world for human consumption every year—approximately 1.3 billion tons—gets lost or wasted, according to the Food and Agriculture Organisation. Australia...
View ArticleHow Your Meat Eating Habit is Destroying Biodiversity
Table of Contents ▼▲ How Eating Meat is Destroying BiodiversityClimate ChangeChina, Africa and India’s Growing ImpactThe StudyWhat Can We Do? Around the world for decades, the agriculture industry has...
View ArticleHow to Save the World? James Cameron says Go Vegan
Oscar-winning director James Cameron is promoting the best way to fight climate change—eliminating animal meat and dairy from one’s diet. James Cameron is a famed director, a well-known climate change...
View ArticleDoes “Cowspiracy: The Sustainability Secret” Apply to Australia?
Australia’s cattle and sheep industry have hit back at makers of the Cowspiracy: The Sustainability Secret documentary saying that the environmental damage highlighted in the film does not apply to...
View ArticleObama Administration Ignores Expert Dietary Guidelines Advice
The results are in. The Obama Administration has buckled under pressure from meat-loving Republicans and backed down from allowing the inclusion of the DGAC’s environmentally sustainable diets...
View ArticleHow Plastic is Killing the Ocean, Marine Life and Eventually Us
Table of Contents ▼▲ The PlasticsMarine EcosystemsHow Plastic is Impacting the Marine EcosystemsWhat Can We Do? Plastic is absolutely everywhere. From bottle caps to computers, the plastics revolution...
View ArticleWorld Health Chiefs to Declare Bacon Causes Cancer
The United Nations public health arm, the World Health Organisation, is reportedly planning to declare next Monday that the consumption of processed meats cause cancer in humans. Fresh red meat is also...
View ArticleAnimal Agriculture off the UN Climate Change Agenda Again
Experts will soon gather in Paris for the annual UN Climate Change Conference to discuss how to cut carbon emissions and halt temperature rises, but the principal contributor is likely to be left off...
View ArticleHalf of the Amazon Tree Species at Risk of Extinction
Table of Contents ▼▲ As Amazon Tree Species Die, so Will Entire EcosystemsCattle Ranching and FeedCarbon SinksWhat Can We Do? If the mass deforestation of the world’s largest tropical rainforest...
View ArticleWhat Are Ocean Dead Zones?
Ocean dead zones are areas in the ocean of such low oxygen concentration that animal life suffocate and die, or they leave the area entirely. Habitats that would normally be teeming with life...
View ArticleVertical Farming is the New Agriculture
Urban agriculture as we know it has been undergoing a facelift where the modern idea of cultivating plant life within skyscraper greenhouses or other vertically inclined surfaces is booming across the...
View ArticleClimate Change Threshold to be Breached in a Decade
Planet Earth will likely pass a key terrifying climate change threshold target of the world temperature rise in approximately a single decade, which will prompt the accelerated loss of glaciers,...
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