Food for Thought
“Conservation is a great moral issue, for it involves the patriotic duty of insuring the safety and continuance of the nation.”
Theodore Roosevelt
Tag Archives: health
Fast food: on the fast track to environmental ruin
Where does your food come from? This is a question central to the Gordian knot of issues tangling together public health, environmental health, energy markets, and geopolitics. It is increasingly on the lips of “localvores” seeking to enhance both their … Continue reading
Biodiversity loss is sickening — literally
The degrading global environment has raised concern, even alarm, for many reasons, but one of the most important involves the issue of how loss of species may influence nature’s ability to continue providing life support to us — “ecosystem services” … Continue reading
Arise patriots: Leave no child inside!
Alright, all you people who have been fondly recalling your idyllic childhoods lying in old fields, catching lightning bugs, plunging into the swimming hole, and chucking rotten apples at each other in the old orchard, and lamenting that kids nowadays … Continue reading
Posted in Biodiversity, Biophilia, Education, Politics, Sustainability
Tagged health, kids
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Got dirt?
[Editor's note: This just in -- and in time for Earth Day (barely). I reprint below an extract from the new, second edition of Richard Louv's classic and inspirational book, Last Child in the Woods. The new edition is expanded … Continue reading
Posted in Biodiversity, Biophilia, Books and media, Education, Natural Patriots, Sustainability
Tagged happiness, health, kids, soul
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Can we afford to save the world?
The environmental problems the world faces are daunting. One often hears that the economic costs involved in resource conservation, reforestation, transition to a new energy regime, and so forth are so high that solving them is simply too expensive. But this … Continue reading
Posted in Politics, Sustainability
Tagged climate, economics, energy, food, happiness, health, natural capital, population, restoration
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