Good Food is First Food. It is not junk food. It is the food that connects nature and nutrition with livelihoods. This food is good for our health; it comes from the rich biodiversity of our regions; it provides employment to people. Most importantly, cooking and eating give us pleasure. …
Many countries devote substantial public resources to research and development (R&D;) for energy-efficient technologies. Energy efficiency, however, depends on both these technologies and the choices of the user. Policies to affect these choices focus on price changes (e.g., subsidies for energy-efficient goods) and information disclosure (e.g., mandated energy-use labels on …
Europe's food safety watchdog on 25 February issued a scientific mass-verdict on more than 400 so-called health claims, the promises that food producers make on their labels and in advertisements, rejecting purported health benefits of a raft of substances. The decisions are the latest installment in a gargantuan and controversial …
RASHME SEHGAL NEW DELHI Dina Kruger, director, Climate Change Division of the US Environ- mental Protection Agency, felt the Copenhagen Accord was a major breakthrough for both the US and India. "We worked very hard to reach an agreement. A huge amount of work went into it and I hope …
Narayan Lakshman Washington: U.S. President Barack Obama on Tuesday announced a new multi-pronged policy to reduce the United States' dependence on oil consumption and create new jobs after the worst recession in a generation. Speaking at a training facility at Savannah Technical College, Georgia, Mr. Obama described the policy, called …
The Mexico Office of the State Engineer (NMOSE) is charged with administering the state's water resources. The State Engineer has power over the supervision, measurement, appropriation and distribution of all surface and groundwater in New Mexico.
There will soon be new options for consumers who want to save money by using energy more efficiently. Companies are coming up with dozens of computer-based devices that monitor electricity costs, outlet by outlet, inside a home. Intel has created a prototype for a home energy monitor that gathers information …
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. It soom became evident that a number …
The strong interaction of the steel industry and the environment is related to the large volumes of matter that are handled by the Steel Industry. The steel plant is a huge logistical hub, where iron is not the major stream in terms of mass. Water, carbon dioxide (CO2) and steam …
TAKING the lead in working out an equitable system for sharing the limited carbon space, India is planning to hold an international conference of experts in June. The goal of the conference will be to outline ways in which equity in burden sharing can be operationalised in a manner that …
While US clean energy and climate advocates rarely display any real swing time mode when looking at the Copenhagen Climate Talks and beyond into 2010, they definitely also do not play the blues. Quite to the contrary: The lack of any concrete international outcome at that point in time might …
California - the top wind producer in the US since the 1980s lost its lead in 2008 in the face of intense competition from other states. But backed by strong financial and political support from the government, California's wind energy sector is slowly making a comeback.
Following one of the worst years in economic history, signs of hope have begun to emerge for the clean-tech sector, with clean energy becoming a driving force for global economic recovery from Beijing to Seoul, and Washington D.C. to Brussels. The Clean Energy Trends report includes growth projections for the …
There is a growing possibility that the U.S. will pass no climate change legislation in this session of Congress: the uphill climb is at least as steep, and probably steeper, as it is for health care legislation. President Barack Obama cannot presume to hold his own party in line on …
Production and use of polybrominated diphenyl ether (PBDE) flame retardants has been reduced or eliminated because of concerns about health effects of these environmentally persistent compounds, but hexabromocyclododecane (HBCD) flame retardants are still in wide use. Schecter et al. measured concentrations of 24 PBDE congeners and total HBCD in composite …
Urinary excretion of estrogens, including endogenously produced estrogens, estrogens from dietary sources, and estrogens from prescription medications and veterinary pharmaceuticals, can result in surface water contamination and subsequent human exposure via contaminated drinking water. Caldwell et al. predicted average estrogen exposures through drinking water based on estimated levels of per …
In this 2010 State of the Birds report, consider one of the greatest environmental challenges of our time, climate change. How will the impacts of climate change influence our bird populations and their habitats? Accelerated climate change as a result of human activities is altering the natural world as know …
Reduced heart rate variability (HRV) has been associated with myocardial infarction and mortality in heart failure patients, and acute decreases in HRV have been reported to precede ischemic events and paroxysmal atrial fibrillation. Associations of particulate matter (PM) and traffic-related air pollution with myocardial infarction and cardiac mortality may be …
The petroleum sector, which includes the production, import, processing, transportation, and distribution of crude oil and refined products such as gasoline, heating oil, diesel, propane, and jet fuel, is a significant source of U.S. greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Recent GHG cap-and-trade proposals have covered petroleum-related emissions by placing the point …
