Day: November 25, 2011

Here comes the miracle rice

Wednesday, November 23, 2011 / Sustainable development / Leave a Comment

I don’t talk about food often here. However, with so many starving people around the world, I should talk more about agricultural advances as feeding nine billion people by 2050 will be the biggest challenge ever faced. To Ecogeek : ” A new type of rice (from) the University of Agricultural Sciences in Bangalore, India …

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Annie Leonard’s latest : The Story of Broke

Wednesday, November 23, 2011 / Sustainable development / 2 Comments

Do you remember Annie Leonard’s great documentaries The Story of Stuff and the Story of Cosmetics ? Well, she did a few other more, including the latest : The Story of Broke. In this eight-minute animated clip, she tackles the huge problem of subsidies of all kinds that are given to what she calls ” …

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