by Doreen Hosking | 18, Mar, 2024 | Blog
Do We Really Want to Lose This? Spring snowpack is critical for delivering a steady supply of drinking and irrigation water to billions of people, with bigger and earlier melts causing problems.: Or This? African lions could be completely extinct by 2050. Are we...
by Doreen Hosking | 5, Mar, 2024 | Blog
War has been with us for a very long time. There is a debate among anthropologists as to whether making war is an innate human characteristic. This article suggests that it is not, but “it is a social and cultural development that emerged at different times around the...
by Doreen Hosking | 2, Feb, 2024 | Blog
Even after 65 years, my grandmother’s words ring loudly in my ears. My grandparents were schoolteachers, so they weren’t poor. But they were thrifty. My grandmother prided herself on her lack of food waste. I am sure living through two wars contributed to that desire...
by Doreen Hosking | 15, Jan, 2024 | Blog
Many of us are fearful about the changes in the climate or worry about the future of life on Earth. We fret about our children’s well-being or how our lives will be affected in future. That distress makes us apathetic and stops us acting. I would like to suggest, not...
by Doreen Hosking | 17, Dec, 2023 | Blog
After COP 28, Dubai Fossil Fuels and other Items COP 28 The Final Agreement There was a great deal of concern from the world community over what would happen in Dubai during COP 28. The world needs a rapid phase out of fossil fuels and the President of the Conference...
by Doreen Hosking | 25, Nov, 2023 | Blog
Fossil Fuels at COP28 Dubai 30 November to 12 December 2023 Dubai Harbour – photo by Doreen Hosking What is COP28? “COP stands for ‘Conference of the Parties’. In International Relations-speak it means a committee created after an international treaty is signed,...
by Doreen Hosking | 1, Nov, 2023 | Blog
Why Empathy? Empathy is the ability to see the world through another person’s eyes and to feel what they are feeling. It is the capacity to see a situation from another perspective. We might, for example, judge somebody harshly if they steal food, but it softens our...
by Doreen Hosking | 2, Oct, 2023 | Blog
Where are we heading? There is no plan. We must choose our future – Consider what we want – Decide what is most important. And Act. Nobody will do it for us. As a recent Tweet put it: “The cavalry is not coming over the hill.” So we must choose how we want our lives...
by Doreen Hosking | 14, Sep, 2023 | Blog
Our food system creates about a third of all greenhouse gas emissions. As we all eat and make food choices this is an area where each of us can make a difference to our own health and that of our families. We can also help to make the whole system more...
by Doreen Hosking | 23, Aug, 2023 | Blog
A Short Introduction to the Global Food System What is it? The Global Food System includes the production, processing, transport, and consumption of the food required to feed our growing population. We are now at 8 billion people with a forecast of over 10 billion by...
