Climate change, pesticides, and habitat loss put pollinators – and our food supply – at risk. Here’s how you can help protect pollinators.
Tag: Climate Change
Fight Drought with Diet – What’s the Water Footprint of your Food?
This billboard about how to fight drought with diet appeared in my neighborhood and brightened my day!
Climate Change Threatens Coffee Production
According to a new report, climate change threatens coffee production. Not just at some far-off date in the future. This is happening now.
Study: Expect 500,000 food-related deaths due to climate change by 2050.
A chilling study has found that climate change could kill more than 500,000 adults in 2050 around the globe.
Is bacon worse than lettuce? Not so fast.
Is lettuce worse than bacon? Let’s look at the math.
Calm down. Vegetarians are not killing the planet.
Vegetarians are not killing the planet, and a Carnegie Mellon press release suggesting that they are gets it wrong.
One Cause Of Global Warming That Gets Overlooked: Food Waste
What are the biggest threats posed by the amount of food we waste? Decreasing landfill space? Hunger? Water and energy waste? Yes, all of these are important considerations. But another one we tend to overlook: food waste is a cause of global warming.
How Climate Change is Impacting Wine Production
Climate change and wine production are so delicately intertwined. What is the future of the wine industry in a warming world?
Hipster Ice: Dressing Up Craft Cocktails and Speeding Up Global Warming
Okay, hipsters, you got us. Here’s something we didn’t expect to see in your fancy craft cocktails: really expensive environmentally irresponsible artisanal ice.
How to Eat Less for the Climate (and Your Health)
We all know how to eat less and why it’s better for our health. It’s as simple as not taking another bite of cake. Or twenty. But even though we know how to eat less, we don’t often do it, especially this time of year when sweets and treats abound. But eating less is not just an issue about our preserving our waistline and reducing our risks of becoming obese or developing diabetes. It may also help reduce our impact on climate change and food waste.
The Biggest Contributor to Climate Change is Meat-Eating, Not Cars
If you’re not concerned about climate change, you’re not well enough informed. Part of the reason its impact can be hard to understand is because modern humans have never faced a threat like this before.
It’s Official: Climate Education Inspires Action
Could climate education help kids make food choices that are healthier for them and for the planet?
There’s More Wasted Food in U.S. Landfills than Pretty Much All Other Trash
Think letting that banana rot is no big deal? New stats on wasting food will have you rethinking wasting even a crumb of bread. Seriously.