I read about waste and food security in FoodWISE. My go to, for current information on waste and recycling, reuse: sustainable connections (source, thumbnail) Read here, about all the plastic waste—from disposable PPE: coronavirus glove litter And, here, more than a doubling of food insecurity—this is not how food banks were supposed to operate: food…
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FoodWISE, feeding America, and one small island
Gigi Berardi reads FoodWISE, on food security, and highlights the COVID testing and tracking work of colleague Shawn Boeser and other volunteers on Vashon Island (vashonbeprepared.org), including that of chair Dr. Jim Bristow and other physicians.Read here: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/16/health/coronavirus-vashon-washington.html Image: https://vashonbeprepared.org/testing Principles: “Our strategy is founded on three basic principles: 1) that informed patients can self-collect…
FoodWISE, food bank donations, and what are we learning from coronavirus?
Gigi Berardi reads FoodWISE, on food banks and federal assistance, and speculates on what we are learning from coronavirus. These articles would suggest, very little, as some residents simply can’t “wait any longer” to “open up”….”cases on the rise, but we are opening anyway” and “what happens with one of Oregon’s biggest outbreaks.”
FoodWISE, federal food programs, and nutritional assistance at Western Washington University
Gigi Berardi reads FoodWISE on federal nutritional assistance programs. Here is important information for food insecure students at Western Washington University: https://sustain.wwu.edu/feeding-western/
FoodWISE, food insecurity, and India’s reopening during coronavirus
Gigi Berardi reads FoodWISE, on food security. So, food security here, food security worldwide, how will easing coronavirus pandemic restrictions help address food security challenges? Here, India opens (reported by The Guardian), even though the peak of infections has not been reached. Read here for some of the considerations: India reopening
FoodWISE, food security, and coronavirus cases surging
Gigi Berardi reads from FoodWISE, we need food security—more than ever. Worldwide now, it’s not difficult to find articles like these: coronavirus redux. See From The New York Times, “Here’s what you need to know”…. The virus is surging in Latin America, pushing the region ‘to the limit.’ • Widespread problems mar Georgia’s primaries, a test…
FoodWISE, sustainable fish, epidemiology and coronavirus
Gigi reads about WISE, sustainable fisheries, gives a shout-out to Desire Fish Company in Bellingham, and mentions an article that presents a survey of epidimiologists—they’re counting on a vaccine before we return to “normal” again: what’s the deal with the vaccine?
FoodWISE, world fisheries, world poverty
Gigi Berardi reads FoodWISE, on sustainable fisheries, and extends concerns to increasing world poverty and COVID connections. See: coronavirus and poverty Here is an example of the kind of research that needs to be done, and policy that needs to be considered, in fisheries
FoodWISE, fishing, coronavirus cases
Gigi Berardi reads about sustainable fishing in FoodWISE, and discusses the need for information—for fisheries management, but also in looking carefully at coronavirus infections as restrictions are eased, as here: why aren’t cases spiking in Europe/. Image: From https://www.theatlantic.com/video/index/608113/italy-coronavirus/
FoodWISE, sustainable fish, tourism economies
Gigi Berardi reads FoodWISE about sustainable fish, and relates some of those concerns to sustainable tourism—in Europe, no less. Read: Italy for Italians?