September 2007 photo of summer ice breaking up in the Northwest Passage. Courtesy New York Times
The security concerns around the Arctic are quickly becoming hot topics in Washington but it was still a little jarring to hear Dr. Robert Huebert, a professor at the University of Calgary in Canada, speak so bluntly about the military [...]
Everywhere I travel in Africa, there’s increasing acknowledgement about the importance of nutrition when it comes to treating HIV/AIDS. Many retroviral and HIV/AIDS drugs don’t work if patients aren’t getting enough vitamins and nutrients in their diets or accumulating enough body fat.
According to Dr. Rosa Costa, Director of the Kyeema Foundation in Mozambique, many farmers are [...]
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Re-posted from Transforming Cultures
If you’re carrying around Potomacs in your wallet or purse, let it be known that you can spend them here. Here at the Worldwatch office, that is. Yep, one copy of State of the World 2010 will cost you twenty Potomacs. Come by the office and we’ll exchange you a [...]
Via La Vida Locavore, check out thenew guidelines from the Monterey Bay Aquarium’s Seafood Watch on which seafood is the best/most sustainable. For more information, check out Worldwatch’s work on sustainable seafood.
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Sylvia Banda, founder of Sylva Professional Catering Services, with her husband (Photo: Business Week).
Sylvia Banda was tired of seeing traditional Zambian meals, such as chibwabwa (pumpkin leaves) and impwa (dry garden egg plant) snubbed for Western-style foods in her country. As a result, she founded Sylva Professional Catering Services in 1986 and in its success, [...]
Chef, and food-statesman, Dan Barber with some of the poultry that will supply his restaurant Blue Hill at Stone Barns. Photograph: By Andrew Hetherington
As the local food movement sweeps across America—and into its school cafeterias, hospitals, and supermarkets—what locavore wisdom might be gleaned for poor and hungry communities in the developing world?
The answer came this [...]
Today, farmers and breeders alike have a greater respect for Mozambique’s indigenous seed varieties. (Photo by Jose Gonzalez de Tanago)
Jessica Milgroom isn’t your typical graduate student. Rather than spending her days in the library of Wageningen University in the Netherlands, her research is done in the field—literally. Since 2006, Jessica has been working with [...]
Looking back on the October Revolution in 1917, Lenin famously remarked, “We found power lying in the streets and simply picked it up.” Just replace “power” with “a newfound abundance of domestic energy,” and you get the kind of gushing we’ve been hearing from the gas industry and policy makers since the United States’ so-called [...]
Danielle (right) with Dr. Rosa Costa, Kyeema’s director in Mozambique. (Photo credit: Bernard Pollack)
This is the first in a two-part series about my visit to the Kyeema Foundation in Maputo, Mozambique
Although avian influenza and H1N1 have dominated the news for the last few years, many other serious diseases can ravage livestock and rural communities. Newcastle [...]
Methane gas produced by livestock accounts for an estimated 4 percent of the U.K.'s total carbon emissions. (Photo credit: FAO)
McDonald’s is hoping to change the way consumers view fast food. In partnership with the E-CO2 Project, an independent U.K. consulting firm, the company is launching a three-year study to assess methane production from beef cows [...]
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