Archive for December, 2010

• Eating Meat and Climate Change

  When you eat a hamburger, you aren’t just causing a cow to suffer; you are also supporting an industry that is rapidly destroying our water, air, soil, and forests. It takes an estimated 4.8 pounds of grain, 390 gallons of …

• The dangerous link between climate and conflict

  Rebecca Sargent at a piece of conflict has been reading CLIMATE CHANGE, CONFLICT AND FRAGILITY – Understanding the linkages, shaping effective responses (pdf), a report by Dan Smith and Janani Vivekananda of International Alert (It’s from November 2009 and a …

• How to Reuse or Repurpose Old Clothes

  What do you do with your old clothes? You can donate them or use them for rags… but if you are like many people who “trash” them – maybe you should consider reusing them. Finding new uses for out-dated clothes …