Two recent finds online worth sharing.
First, a video which came through the TED Talks video feed in Miro. It’s not actually from TED but from EG, which is a similar conference in Monterey focused on innovative ideas and wealthy audiences.
It’s Mark Bittman, a food critic for the New York Times (and author of How to [...]

Just came across an excellent post from Jamais Cascio on the Carbon Footprint of the Cheeseburger
In summary, he concludes:
To make it clear, then: the greenhouse gas emissions arising every year from the production and consumption of cheeseburgers is roughly the amount emitted by 6.5 million to 19.6 million SUVs. There are now approximately 16 [...]

As previously reported here, last year’s report from the UN International Panel on Climate Change was pretty clear, if subtle, about the idea that livestock production was a major factor in production of greenhouse gasses, and that reducing or eliminating your consumption of such products was one of the best ways you can contribute to [...]

I’m often asked whether I’m a vegetarian because of ethical concerns about the treatment of animals (i.e., that we kill them) or for health reasons (because, I suppose you could argue, the animals humans eat kill us).
The easy answer is yes. And also for environmental reasons. That’s the one people don’t even think to ask [...]