The most recent versions of the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals include cutting global food waste in half by 2030. Can we do this?
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Solar Power as a Tool of Radical Feminism – Who Knew? [Video]
Solar power can support gender equality & opportunity in developing countries where women are marginalized – here are examples from Bangladesh.
Sustainable Energy for All: How to Get There by 2030 [Infographic]
The World Bank’s Sustainable Energy for All initiative focuses on how to get “modern energy” to the entire global population efficiently, effectively, and with the lowest environmental and health impacts.
Harvesting Justice #4: Women’s Work – Gender and the Global Food System
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 worldβs 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.
We Are Losing the Most Vital Commodity of All: Farmland
With each passing year, we learn more and more about our impact on the environment and the depletion of many of our vital resources. As we learn more, individuals are looking to do what they can to reduce their impact and lessen their burden on our planet.
Growing Water Deficit Threatening Grain Harvests
By Lester R. Brown Many countries are facing dangerous water shortages. As world demand for food has soared, millions of farmers have drilled too many irrigation wells in efforts [ … ]
Earth Policy Institute: Increasing Equality by Educating Every Child
By Lester R. Brown The social and economic gap between the worldβs richest 1 billion people and its poorest 1 billion has no historical precedent. Not only is this gap [ … ]