“Ethical Markets is happy to see our colleague, Dennis Bushnell, presenting the case for expanding our food supply from its perilous dependence on the planet’s 3% of fresh water, by incorporating all the nutritious halophyte foods… still the best way to capture ambient CO2 and stay within the IPCC window! …
Can You Fight Climate Change With What You Eat?
“Ethical Markets highly recommends this newsletter, with all the correct information we also find on how to eat better and for the planet, as our Advisory Board member, Frances Moore Lappe taught us all in her “Diet for A Small Planet“, see her recent interviews celebrating its 50th anniversary edition! We …
Food Experts’ Expectations for Global Food Systems Transformation
“Ethical Markets recommends all this news from IPS on needed reforms to our global food system. Still missing is the key issue: all our current global foods are grown on the planet’s 3% dwindling freshwater, which is the real impending crisis! We find that overlooking the other half of our planet’s …
RESHAPE GLOBAL FINANCE TO SUPPORT INEVITABLE TRANSITION TO SUSTAINABLE FOOD SYSTEM
“Ethical Markets welcomes this progression of policy at Finance for Biodiversity, which conforms with our own research on the importance on transforming the unhealthy, polluting global food system in our Green Transition Scoreboard ® reports “Capturing CO2 While Improving Human Nutrition and Health” (2018) and “Transitioning to Science-Based Investing” (2019-2020). …
Reduce methane or face climate catastrophe, scientists warn
Headlines Reduce methane or face climate catastrophe, scientists warn Exclusive / Reduce methane or face climate catastrophe, scientists warn Exclusive: IPCC says gas, produced by farming, shale gas and oil extraction, playing ever-greater role in overheating planet The A-Team / April Ross and Alix Klineman return US to sand-court glory Curtis …
Kelp news just gets better
Last you heard from us, we had recently arrived in Australia and we’re still getting our footing. As some of you know, the housing market here is a bit constrained right now and we now have a home for another 6 months. With that out of the way, and …
Embargoed: A New Global Framework for Managing Nature Through 2030: 1st Detailed Draft Agreement to Debut Monday July 12
Embargo Monday July 12, 2021 10:00 US EDT (check local times here) “The 1st Draft Of The Post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework” is available for media preview at https://bit.ly/3hFgz2e Elizabeth Maruma Mrema, CBD Executive Secretary, Basile van Havre and Francis Ogwal, co-chairs of the Open-Ended Working Group on the Post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework, …
Spider-Inspired Silk Company, Spintex, Awarded $100,000 Ray of Hope Prize
Spiders Inspired This Year’s Ray of Hope Prize Recipient The Biomimicry Institute is proud to announce the 2021 Ray of Hope Prize award recipient is Spintex Engineering. Spintex is a University of Oxford spin-out company that manufactures biodegradable textile fibers for use in fashion and high-performance material applications. As the 2021 Ray of Hope …
3rd Meeting of the CBD Subsidiary Body on Implementation (SBI-3)
Tuesday, 18 May 2021 Daily Report 3rd Meeting of the Subsidiary Body on Implementation (SBI-3) On the second day of its online session, participants addressed issues related to means of implementation, including resource mobilization, the financial mechanism, and capacity development. Read Forward to a colleague The Earth Negotiations …
Meeting the meat needs of the future
March 2, 2021 Institute of Industrial Science, The University of Tokyo Researchers have succeeded in culturing meat in the laboratory in the form of millimeter-scale slabs of contractile bovine muscle. This innovative tissue culture process, arrayed in stackable hydrogel modules, uses electrical pulses to align myotubules thus mimicking the …