Mending our Broken Food System

Mending our Broken Food System

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...
Is our Global Food System Broken?

Is our Global Food System Broken?

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...
Accepting the Need for Change

Accepting the Need for Change

Humanity is heading towards a chaotic future fuelled by our lifestyles of acquisition and waste. If our young people are to inherit a planet they can live on we must change course now. However as Carl Jung has said “We cannot change anything unless we accept it.” In...
Saving the Earth for our Children

Saving the Earth for our Children

“We do not inherit the Earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children.” (Native American Proverb) I, for one, would like to leave a liveable world for my children, grandchildren, great grandchildren and all those others to come. I want to leave a world where...
Why don’t we talk about Climate Change?

Why don’t we talk about Climate Change?

We don’t talk to each other about Climate Change! Why not, I wonder? We Live in a Changing World We are faced on a daily basis by the perils of Climate Change. It is clear that most of us worry about it. We also worry about the future for our children. Yet most of us...
Why We Must Care for Nature

Why We Must Care for Nature

The Link Between Biodiversity and Climate Change Nature gifts humanity so much of what we need to live and prosper. It provides us, among other things, with clean air, food, water, a stable climate, medicine, and economic growth. Biodiversity is life on Earth, in all...