Tag: environment
…An Environment No Longer Supporting Life
Dangerous toxins are pouring into waterways around the world, exacerbating massive, harmful algae blooms that create oxygen-deprived stretches of the ocean. Hundreds of aquatic dead zones exist throughout the world, covering nearly 100,000 square miles of sea and causing the relocation or death of nearly 10 million tons of biomass annually. Once filled with life, these ecosystems are left barren, causing unprecedented pressure on the private sector and federal governments to increase restoration and cut this pollution at its source.
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration announced that this year’s dead zone in the Gulf of Mexico is the largest ever recorded.…
Ours is the Era of the Planetary Household
Throughout the 20th century, the global economic system has prioritized one performance indicator above all else – growth in gross domestic product. In recent decades that focus has propelled the global economy to almost unimaginable heights, pushing inequality to unprecedented levels and intensifying the pressure placed on the world’s most essential resources. The current system, characterized by excessive resource extraction and consumption supported by years of quantitative easing and highly leveraged balanced sheets, risks both economic and ecological collapse. The make, use and lose philosophy for human development and prosperity is clearly unsustainable and demands a fresh strategy that meets the needs of mankind within the means of Planet Earth.…
Supplying High Demand for Organic Foods
Increasingly popular for consumers, highly profitable for producers and extremely beneficial to our health and environment, organics are making their way to the mainstream.
Our current food production habits, although integral to saving one billion people from starvation during the Green Revolution, are unsustainable in the face of depleting energy and water supplies as well as the drastic effect these practices have on global health and our environment. Organic food production, the sustainable alternative, prohibits the use of synthetic pesticide, fertilizers, antibiotics or growth hormones for the development of crops or animal produce. Relying on natural strategies such as the use of biological pest control, nutrition and crop rotation, organic farming is safer for the environment due to its beneficial impact to natural habitats.…