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Skeletons dancing, dressed to the nines, bright tissue paper cut outs shivering in the breeze, colorfully decorated sugar skulls... It's nearing the end of October and this scene is about to burst onto the streets. Halloween you might guess? No way, Jose. This is the Day of the Dead.
Sustainable food advocates are still watching with baited breath to see whether the FDA will really approve AquAdvantage, a transgenic (read: genetically engineered) salmon for human consumption. Although industry – and the FDA, apparently – would have you think it’s all good to tamper with t[...]
Americans have invented a lot of green technologies, but we’ve also failed to embrace them. Is it a cultural thing?
Next Stop, USDA?: Birke Baehr, 11 Year Old Sustainable Food Advocate
Birke Baehr, and 11 year old future organic farmer, is making waves throughout the sustainable food movement. Already a YouTube sensation, Birke hopes to use his fame to change the future of our food system.
Fish vs. People?
There’s no question: getting people to care about fish eggs and larvae is a tough gig. A far easier sell in today’s politically-charged atmosphere is to convince people that environmentalists are more concerned about a bunch of fish eggs than people. So what issue could possibly create such an[...]
As he has clarified in several interviews, Lomborg doesn’t disagree with climate science (he’s with Al Gore on that one), he disagrees with the approach to dealing with climate change. He says that the 18 years spent working on a Kyoto-style approach to global warming hasn’t worked to reduce c[...]
Public health advocates contend the obesity epidemic is costing the U.S. hundreds of billions of dollars per year in increased health care costs, and sugar sweetened drinks are a major factor. They correctly note that low income persons tend to have higher rates of diet related diseases than the g[...]
Bayer behind the curtain on latest CCD claims?
Last week’s New York Times article, “Scientists and Soldiers Solve a Bee Mystery,” has set CCD observers abuzz, and prompted at least one counter from a journalist for CNN Money. Colony Collapse Disorder, or CCD, is the name given to the mysterious decline of honeybee populations around the wo[...]
Blog Action Day – A Flood of Posts About Water
Those of us at EcoCentric are excited to write about this year’s topic – water – because it’s one of our main issues. The blogging started on Tuesday and continued all week.
Water neutrality, or “net-zero” water use, is problematic because it is inherently incoherent. Water neutral – even by its own definition – doesn’t mean that the water footprint is zero.
