For the first breakout session of the day, I had the opportunity to attend the “Food Security and Sustainable Agriculture” session, with speakers Mark Bomford, Director of the Yale Sustainable Food Project, and Amy Kalafa, Independent Filmmaker and Author (including her work on the broken school food system in America with “Two Angry Moms” Fifteen or so graduate students, undergraduate […]
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Blogging the 2012 U.S./Canada Citizens’ Summit for Sustainable Development
Follow along in real time as 180 scientists, leaders, advocates and entrepreneurs gather to lay the groundwork for the 2012 United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development in Rio de Janeiro.
That was Then. This is Now.
The newly opened Center for PostNatural History in Pittsburgh is the first museum that seeks to catalog man-made biological organisms. The man behind the museum is not a scientist, but an artist, one member of a growing DIY community that is exploring–and making–a new meaning of life as we know it.
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Citizens’ Summit to Address Sustainability
A major summit to transform the prospects for sustainability in the United States and Canada will take place on March 24 and 25 at the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies. The US/Canada Citizens’ Summit for Sustainable Development will host 180 diverse experts, leaders, advocates, entrepreneurs and decision-makers from the United States and Canada for two days of discussions […]
Multimedia: Take a Tour of the Center for PostNatural History
Watch a series of audio slideshows accompanying Jonathan Minard’s story on The Center for PostNatural History.
No Easy Task: Bringing Solar to the Bottom of the Pyramid
Look at a satellite photo of the Earth at night. Some parts of the planet blaze with light, but much of the globe–home to more than a third of the world’s population–is still in the dark. Ainsley Lloyd reports from Ghana on the challenges entrepreneurs are facing as they try to ensure energy access for all.
How the Next Farm Bill Will Hurt Sustainable Agriculture – and Help Industrial Farms
Patrick Baron looks under the hood of the next US Farm Bill. What’s inside? More hidden subsidies for industrial farm animal production in the guise of crop subsidies. How the next Farm Bill will undermine sustainable agriculture.
Op-ed: Local Climate Solutions as Christian Calling
think you have to love something before you’ll fight for it. At least that’s been my experience growing up in Minnesota. My friends and I built snow castles in the winter, chased rabbits in the spring and marveled at the sun-kissed summer leaves, years before we learned the biochemistry of photosynthesis. I yearned for the lakes, woods and prairies before […]
Sage Briefs: Energy Mapping the Masses
An ambitious project to map the energy consumption of every building in New York City shows off the limitless potential of energy mapping for future planning and development.
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Deadly Dish – How Our Food System Is Creating The Next Superbug
How the widespread use of antibiotics in our food production system is creating, and spreading, a new breed of serious diseases.