Home Depot’s Jay Harris shares his ideas for great-looking, environmentally friendly window treatments that won’t bust your budget.
Green Window Treatments: Eco-friendly, Economical and Easy on the Eyes
March 25, 2013 by Leave a Comment
Baby Busts and Ponzi Demography: The Costs of Population Growth
March 21, 2013 by 11 Comments
Worried about the “baby bust” under discussion in some media outlets? John Seager of Population Connection argues that there’s no shortage of people in the developed world (nor will there be), and that the “Ponzi demography” represented by such thinking is unsustainable.
Harvesting Justice #6: The Consumer’s Got to Change the System – Farmer Ben Burkett on Racisim & Corporate Control of Agriculture
March 19, 2013 by Leave a Comment
Other Worlds’ Tory Field and Beverly Bell discuss issues of sustainability and agriculture with Mississippi farmer and member of Via Campesina’s food sovereignty commission Ben Burkett.
Harvesting Justice #5: Uprooting Racism in the Food System – African Americans Organize
March 12, 2013 by Leave a Comment
A shovel overturned can flip so much more than soil, worms, and weeds. Structural racism – the ways in which social systems and institutions promote and perpetuate the oppression of people of color – manifests at all points in the food system. It emerges as barriers to land ownership and credit access for farmers of color, as wage discrimination and poor working conditions for food and farmworkers of color, and as lack of healthy food in neighborhoods of color. It shows up as discrimination in housing, employment, redlining, and other elements which impact food access and food justice.
Harvesting Justice #4: Women’s Work – Gender and the Global Food System
March 4, 2013 by Leave a Comment
Women produce 60 to 80 percent of all food, both as subsistence farmers and as agricultural wage laborers. They are the primary providers for the majority of the world’s 925 million hungry people, obtaining food, collecting firewood and water, and cooking. And yet they have less access to land and the resources necessary to grow on it than their male counterparts. Inequitable distribution of land, labor, and resources leaves farming women triply burdened by work: in the fields, in the home, and in society.
