Are you aware that the textile industry is one of the top users and polluters of water? Fiber for one cotton t-shirt requires 713 gallons of water. And traditional wet-dye [ … ]
Tag: China
Iowa Eclipses Canada in Grain Production, Challenges China in Soybean Production
By Lester R. Brown The U.S. state of Iowa is an agricultural superpower, simultaneously eclipsing Canada in grain production and challenging China in soybean production. No, these are not mathematical [ … ]
Cancer Now Leading Cause of Death in China
By Janet Larsen Cancer is now the leading cause of death in China. Chinese Ministry of Health data implicate cancer in close to a quarter of all deaths countrywide. As [ … ]
Whistleblower Casts Doubt On The Integrity Of Organic Certification
Mischa Popoff is a hard core Organic farming advocate. He grew up on an Organic farm in Saskatchewan and went on to become a licensed, independent Organic inspector. He still [ … ]
Can the United States Feed China?
By Lester R. Brown In 1994, I wrote an article in World Watch magazine entitled “Who Will Feed China?” that was later expanded into a book of the same title. [ … ]
Rising Temperatures Raise Food Prices
By Lester Brown Around midnight on Wednesday, August 11th, a group of commodity analysts will gather at a meeting site in the massive South Building of the U.S. Department of [ … ]
Green Business Blog Carnival #9 at the Matter Network
Yep, the dog days are here, and everyone’s moving a little slowly… including me! Fortunately, David Ferris at the Matter Network was on top of his game on Friday, and [ … ]
Raising Appliance Efficiency: A Big Win for Consumers and the Climate
By Lester R. Brown There are enormous opportunities to use energy more efficiently. Investing in energy efficiency is often far cheaper than expanding the energy supply to meet growing demand. [ … ]
Green Business Blog Carnival #7 at Calfinder’s Solar Blog
It’s almost the weekend, and here at sustainablog, that means giving some love to the weekly host of the Green Business Blog Carnival! This week was the biggest yet, and [ … ]
The Population-Poverty Connection
By Lester R. Brown The 21st century began on an inspiring note: the United Nations set a goal of reducing the share of the world’s population living in extreme poverty [ … ]
Wind Power Soared Past 150,000 Megawatts in 2009
By J. Matthew Roney Even in the face of a worldwide economic downturn, the global wind industry posted another record year in 2009 as cumulative installed wind power capacity grew [ … ]
An 700 Year-old Example of Technological Innovation in Agriculture
[social_buttons] Around 1300 c.e. the Yao and Zhuang people of Guangdong Province in Southern China faced a serious problem. In the Longsheng area there was a growing population, but their [ … ]
Rethinking Food Production for a World of Eight Billion
by Lester R. Brown In April 2005, the World Food Programme and the Chinese government jointly announced that food aid shipments to China would stop at the end of the [ … ]