In FoodWISE, I talk about the ethical and moral issues, much less agroecological, in eating meat. But, what about ruminants? Especially, ruminants on grass? Adrian Muller at the annual ag conference at the Gotheanum in Dornach, Switzerland addressed these questions, in relation to climate change, this weekend. Go here for more information: climate change Go…
Tag: climate change
FoodWISE, Twinkies, and coronavirus impacts
Gigi Berardi reads FoodWISE, Our Personal World of Food, more on “convenience.” The story tonight is a discussion of what’s happening with carbon emissions, here (down, then up—linked to transportation usage): what’s up with emissions?
FoodWISE and doing the right thing—climate, universities, farms
Gigi Berardi reads on climate change, and just why banana-production “isn’t that bad.” It’s all about—really—doing the right thing. What is clear is that colleges and universities are not—clear, as here, in the New York Times (colleges and universities opening in the fall?, talking about a hodge-podge of opening strategies in the fall: “But opening…
FoodWISE, climate, universities making bold moves to be online in 2021
Gigi Berardi reads FoodWISE and explains more about climate. It’s time for bold moves—like Cambridge University just made. From The Guardian: Cambridge University moves to online for a year and from The New York Times, we are taking notice
FoodWISE and climate
Gigi Berardi reads FoodWISE and…. What about whole countries opening? Is it time to reopen? In my college world, no. See earlier vlogs. See: Countries open, countries close
FoodWISE, explaining climate change, and coronavirus impacts
Gigi Berardi reads from FoodWISE on what is climate change and what causes it, and how coronavirus weighs in, as here: Coronavirus: Changing travel
Gigi Berardi reads FoodWISE in the age of coronavirus, and asks, “Is this the New Normal?” And what is it—are people hunkering down with junk food or planting tomato starts? Some news can’t make up its mind.
I’m switching gears a bit in my video series, with the title—Gigi Berardi reads FoodWISE, and asks, “Is this the new normal?” The New York Times (and gosh, the newspaper seems to go back and forth between “We-are-all-digging-a-big-hole-and jumping in with a year’s supply of cupcakes and potato chips, read: comfort food” AND everyone’s planting…
A FoodWISE moment: Organics, carbon, climate change, and the future of food
“Is organic food really better for the environment?” That was the title of a recent blog post recent blog by Anuradha Varanasi writing for Columbia University’s Earth Institute. This is a great question, and it refers to a study reported on in Nature in 2018 (See original article). Dozens of commentaries have been published…
So, agriculture and climate change
There is no doubt that environmental and political narratives around climate change and agriculture are going to be considered seriously in 2020. As I write in FoodWISE, One of the biggest threats to agricultural webs is climate change. Current patterns of food production will change around the world as seasonal…