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A New Generation of Pioneers Blazes the Trail from Consumerism to Sustainability

State of the World 2010 – Transforming Cultures is released, bringing together the most important components of sustainable living to help create a new generation of “cultural pioneers” that will be needed to forge the trail to sustainable [...]

Meat the Truth Meets Copenhagen

Meat the Truth, a 2007 Dutch documentary that identifies livestock production as one of the most important causes of climate change, was shown at people’s climate summit, Klimaforum09 in [...]

UK SDC Recommends Reduction of Meat and Dairy Consumption

The Sustainable Development Commission (SDC) lists reducing consumption of meat and dairy as one of three changes likely to have the most significant and immediate impact on making our diets more [...]

Copenhagen Climate Conference Leads off a Big Week for the Environment

The largest summit on climate change in history opened Monday in Copenhagen, Denmark, with 15,000 participants from 192 nations. [...]

GFN 2009 Data – Humanity Now Demanding 1.5 Earths

The Global Footprint Network is today releasing data showing that it would take nearly one and a half Earths to generate all the resources humanity currently consumes and absorb all our CO2 emissions. [...]

Day 4 of NRDC No Impact Week Focuses on Food

NRDC Simple Steps has been hosting an 8 day no impact week as a simplified version of Low Impact Man Colin Brevan’s year long experiment in no impact living. The program aims to bring awareness to which modern conveniences contribute to quality of life and which are suboptimal uses of time and money. [...]

Our Choice Includes Food Choices

Al Gore’s new book “Our Choice – A Plan to Solve the Climate Crisis,” hit the stores today and includes mention of the role of food and agriculture in solutions for global [...]

Celebrate 350 Day with a Plant-based Meal

Scientists agree that 350 parts per million is the sustainable limit to concentrations of CO2 on earth to maintain [...]

Calories from Water?

As we chug that sparkling clear bottle of water that just dropped out of the machine, most of us are aware of its importance in replenishing vital body fluids and cleansing us of the impurities that build up in our systems. After all, the human body is approximately 60% water. How many of us stop [...]

Dietary Choices Impact Footprint

The most effective means to reduce your footprint on the planet is through the choice of a plant based, vegetarian [...]