Surprise! Eating local and organic isn't all that climate helpful
The CBC reports on two new studies that examine the effects of organic vs. conventional agriculture, and purchasing food from local vs. non-local vendors. They come to some disappointing conclusions on their impact on your carbon footprint. So while there are lots of good reasons to buy local or eat organic, mitigating climate change isn't necessarily […]
The Uninhabitable Earth
According to David Wallace-Wells in New York Mag, we're all going to die (I read between the lines, but you could drive a truck through them). Does that sound uncomfortably alarmist? Perhaps it's beyond time we stopped coddling ourselves into thinking we've got everything more or less under control. In his well-researched "The Uninhabitable Earth", […]
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