The blue economy
We need a new economy that encourages entrepreneurs to bring to the market innovations inspired by the way ecosystems work and modelled on blue earth, says Gunter Pauli.
Resurgence
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Planned obsolescence
Consumers need to wise up, slow down, stop shopping and start living, because that's the only way manufacturers will stop making shoddy, short-lived goods.
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Power to producers
Fairtrade covers the costs of sustainable production, plus a premium for the farmers to invest in tackling poverty and promoting sustainable development. In other words it's win-win.
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Eat like it matters
In 2009, the European Parliament sought to set ambitious targets for greenhouse-gas reductions in industrialised countries: up to 40% below 1990 levels by 2020. Whilst acknowledging the "substantial" greenhouse-gas emissions from the production of meat, the Parliament deleted from its report a call for a cut in worldwide meat consumption, particularly in industrialised nations.
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The true cost of cheap food
The globalisation of the food market has made food cheap, but who is benefiting.
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The true cost of cheap food
The globalisation of the food market has made food cheap, but who is benefiting.
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Water wisdom
Since 1966 - and as a consequence of the introduction of the Green Revolution model of water intensive, chemical farming - India has over-exploited her groundwater, creating a water famine.
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Emissions trading? I beg your indulgence
The cap and trade of CO2 emissions to combat climate change would put the Church's medieval indulgence scheme to shame.
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A new food future?
In recent years, something happened on the way to the corporate planned industrialised food future; something agribusiness did not see coming. Despite untold billions spent in advertising and disinformation campaigns, people started making the connections between industrial food and ecological and social destruction.
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Food rights and wrongs
Food sovereignty encompasses many of the measures that are needed for women to achieve their full human rights, including the right to food.