Category Archives: Food & Agriculture

Funding for bees finally announced.

Posted on April 22, 2009 by

Article On 21 April, the UK government announced that £10m will be spent on research for pollinators – bees, butterflies and other insects – to see if the decline in UK populations can be halted. The government is contributing £2m … Continue reading →

Posted in Food & Agriculture, Funding, Nature & Conservation, UK | Tagged | 2 Comments

Regrowing the Rainforests?

Posted on March 12, 2009 by

Willie Smits has found a way of regrowing rainforests that have been cleared. He tells us about it in the excellent, informative and inspiring video above.  The audience begins to applaud when he announces that he has over 1000 rescued … Continue reading →

Posted in Biodiversity, Brazil, Business, Community Initiatives, Community Projects, Development, Education, Food & Agriculture, Forests, General, Nature & Conservation, People, Sustainablity, Thinking outside the box, Wildlife | 8 Comments

Breathingearth.net; track population & CO2 data

Posted on March 8, 2009 by

Visit breathingearth.net There you will find an interactive map showing a simulation of world and country population figures, as well as CO2 emissions. The population figures adjust all the time for birth and death rates for each country, adjusting the global … Continue reading →

Posted in Carbon footprint, Climate change, Development, Economics, Education, Energy, Extreme weather, Food & Agriculture, Information portal, Population, Poverty, Sustainablity, UN | Tagged | 2 Comments

‘Salty vegetables with your fish sir?’

Posted on December 6, 2008 by

image: sea kale Article Around the world, many agricultural areas are becoming less productive as salt levels in water supplies increase. Only 1% of the Earth’s water is freshwater. “Salinisation is irreversible,” says Professor Jelte Rozema from the department of … Continue reading →

Posted in Academia, Biodiversity, Climate change, Desertification, EU, Food & Agriculture, Oceans, Sustainablity, Thinking outside the box, Water | Tagged , , | 2 Comments

A UN Parliamentary Assembly – democratizing globalization by globalizing democracy.

Posted on November 30, 2008 by

On November 5th, the Senate of the Republic of Argentina became the first national parliament in the world to adopt a declaration unconditionally calling for the establishment of a United Nations Parliamentary Assembly (UNPA) “in order to strengthen the effectiveness, … Continue reading →

Posted in Biodiversity, Campaigns, Climate change, Desertification, Development, Economics, Education, Energy, EU, Food & Agriculture, Forests, Politics, Sustainablity, Thinking outside the box, UN, Water, Wildlife, Youth | Tagged , | 4 Comments

Massive cull of UK deer called for by farmers.

Posted on November 20, 2008 by

image: Brian Stone If you come from a country like South Africa or Australia you could be forgiven for being a little perplexed as to why people make such a fuss over the UK’s Autumn & Springwatch TV programmes. There is … Continue reading →

Posted in Business, Food & Agriculture, Nature & Conservation, Sport, Sustainablity, UK, Wildlife | Tagged , | 7 Comments

An introduction to the Convention on Migratory Species.

Posted on November 5, 2008 by

The Convention on the Conservation of Migratory Species of Wild Animals (also known as CMS or Bonn Convention) aims to conserve terrestrial, marine and avian migratory species throughout their range. It is an intergovernmental treaty, concluded under the aegis of … Continue reading →

Posted in Campaigns, Climate change, Disease, Education, Food & Agriculture, Nature & Conservation, Sustainablity, UN, Wildlife | Tagged | 3 Comments

Beekeeper’s Downing St protest over the death of honey bees; more research urgently needed.

Posted on November 2, 2008 by

Approximately 90,000 of the 274,000 hives in the UK, each containing around 20,000 bees and worth some £600 a year to the economy, did not survive last year’s winter. Yes that’s a third of UK hives. Beekeepers Demonstration and Mass Lobby … Continue reading →

Posted in Business, Disease, Food & Agriculture, London, Nature & Conservation, Politics, Protest, Rural communities, Sustainablity, UK, Wildlife | Tagged , , | 2 Comments

Bio-packaging from sugar cane waste

Posted on September 19, 2008 by

Article In Brazil they are looking to utilize bagasse, or sugar cane waste for biodegradable packaging. Bagasse is currently burned by farmers but soon this practice will be banned. Three firms (Viveiro Flora Brasil, Lótus Soluções Ambientais, Floema Nutrição Vegetal … Continue reading →

Posted in Biotech news, Brazil, Business, Food & Agriculture, Recycling, Technology, Waste | Tagged , | 5 Comments

Verticrop – growing crops downtown

Posted on August 18, 2008 by

The above image shows you the future in more ways than one. Firstly, what you see is algae being grown in a factory farming environment. Algae has great potential as eco-energy because it grows rapidly and up to 50% of … Continue reading →

Posted in 'Green' investments, Biofuels, Biotech news, Business, Carbon footprint, Economics, Energy, Food & Agriculture, Funding, Thinking outside the box, UK, US, Water | Tagged , , , | 7 Comments