Most supermarkets now carry bent bananas, angular avocados and contorted carrots. Sold as ugly produce, they are a significant change in product. But are they really helping cut down food waste? Or just another profit channel?
A Meaty Issue
Turning Pineapples into T-Shirts: An Agri-Waste Solution
Crocodile Rice: Food for Thought
Sustainable Farming: Is Local the Answer?
Most developed countries import a massive amount of food – especially animal feed. Under any circumstances, this is unsustainable. But a new report from a French research body asserts that if we take just a few simple steps, most developed regions could easily locally sustain their populations’ projected future food requirements – and in an organic way too.
NITROUS OXIDE: A GREEN SOLUTION?
Soiled Undies: How to Measure Soil Quality
Seaweed: The Answer to Cow Gas
Cows are bad for the environment. They constantly parp and belch out greenhouse gases as they munch on grass, and contributed the equivalent of a staggering 6,000 million tonnes of CO2 to the atmosphere. But scientists in the US have discovered that a seaweed diet can help reduce bovine flatulence by a significant degree.
Looking Up: Thailand’s Massive City Farm
Food: Our Biggest Climate Problem?
Agriculture: New Tourism Innovation
Compost Cotton: Worms Make the Difference
The cotton industry has seen a lot of bad press; depleting water supplies, poisoning water tables with pesticide – and producing tons and tons of cotton-bud leftovers that blight the landscape around processing plants. In rural NSW, Australia, one man has woven a profitable business out of cotton waste, using worms.
Convergent Risks: Coronavirus and Climate Change
Cheap Food? Cheap Life
All living things must eat – and must eat each other. Food is the great connector. Its influence over our lives and world is almost too big to see – which may explain why we fail to value it. Yet if we can learn to value food it has the potential to transform our lives and create better cities and a better world.
Natural Pest Control to Counter Harmful Pesticides
Wherever there are people, there will be pests that thrive off the human population. Over the centuries, researchers have developed many different ways of dealing with insects, rodents, and weeds. People are beginning to realize that taking a heavy approach to preventing pests can have negative effects on their health and the environment as a whole.