When I saw that headline on a story in The Guardian, it was like I’d been waiting for it. It struck me as both amusing, in its implication that vegetarianism would be a tough fate even though we’d likely be healthier for it, and also as an inevitability, with which I’d already come to terms.
But the story itself is not funny.
Here was the lead paragraph:
Tags: · animal agriculture, BarbaraKesslerBlog, Food Shortages, Hunger, plant-based diet, vegetarianism, water scarcity, water shortage, water use
I have a bumper sticker on my car provided by the American Farmland Institute. I like it because it’s (so very) succinct.
No Farms. No Food.
We have another slogan in the making here in Texas this summer.
No Water. No Energy.
With more than half of the state gripped by a severe drought. (See this drought map), questions are surfacing about how wise it is to pump millions of gallons of water laced with lubricants and toxic chemicals into the earth to extract natural gas, a practice known as hydraulic fracturing.
Tags: · BarbaraKesslerBlog, Barnett Shale gas drilling, Duke University finds methane in water wells, fracking, greenrightnow.com, Marcellus Shale gas drilling, natural gas drilling, natural gas water contamination, Solar Power, water for energy, water use, water wars, Wind Power
By Melissa Segrest
Green Right Now
The world’s water supply needs protection on all sides. Industrial pollution and human waste contaminate water supplies across the globe, while chemical- and pharmaceutical-laden runoff compromised the water re-supplying our streams and aquifers.
Water: It's limited.
Deforestation and development have drained wetlands, half of which disappeared in the last century.
Tags: · Climate Change, Earth Day, Energy Star, Energy Star appliances, freshwater, Water Conservation, water efficiency, Water Pollution, water runoff, water supply, water use, world's water supply
Barbara Kessler
Andrew Winston
Danielle Nierenberg
Anthony Swift