Endocrine emergency: New UN study reveals our chemical folly
The alarming impacts of endocrine disrupting chemicals on human health and environment warrant extensive research efforts.
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Climate
Considerable benefits of decarbonizing urban transport
Multi-criteria assessment of social costs and benefits must be added to cost–benefit analysis of climate change mitigation.
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Food
Small islands, big food concerns
While imported food is bringing lifestyle diseases to many small islands, it has reduced hunger and may be necessary for climate change adaptation.
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Why your health is bigger than your body
New research explains how the interrelationship between politics, economics and ecology can help or hurt our bodies.
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Food
Debate 2.0: Should junk food be illegal?
Heavy corporate marketing of “unhealthy commodities” like soda pop helps spread health problems worldwide. But are anti-junk food laws intrusive?
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Food
Monoculture mania must and can be overcome
Agriculture should be practised sustainably and with human nutrition (not profits for corporations) foremost in our thinking.
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Does economic growth make us happy?
The first World Happiness Report shows us that, although economic growth can’t make us happy on its own, it does help a bit.
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Food
Alarm as corporate giants target developing countries
As affluent markets reach saturation, multinational food and drink firms are opening up new frontiers among people living on $2 a day.
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Food
Home-grown food in schools for a green economy
Brazil is linking public sector food procurement to local family-based small-scale agriculture.
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Food
Hard to stomach: Two billion now overweight
Hunger, food prices, high ecological impact diets — in a world of so many complex food issues, the era of overweight is probably only just beginning.
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Food
A story of food in Australia
Author Rebecca Huntley takes an in-depth look at the good, bad and ugly eating habits of people in Australia.
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Food
The shame of concentrated animal feedlots
The CAFO Reader compiles 30 writers in a chorus of outrage against a system they view as unjust and unhealthy to animals, humans and, in fact, all living creatures.
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Food
UN warns corporate lobbying blocking food reforms
Large agri-business and food producers are stifling efforts to improve global and environmental health.
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Food
Tokyo drifts from seafood to meat eating
Japan’s food self-sufficiency challenge is also critical to the countries bearing the environmental burden of supplying the nation's growing appetite for meat.
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Food
How things work: Food energy
With obesity and diabetes becoming ever more common, it seems many people don’t understand the basics of nutrients and metabolism. Do you?
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Climate
Bicycles: a love story
People ride bicycles for many different reasons, resulting in financial, health, environmental and social benefits to individuals and broader society.
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