6 Reasons Organics Can Feed the World

6 Reasons Organics Can Feed the World

Here are a couple of good sound bites to throw back the next time friends, family members, or even strangers tell you we need super-chemicals and GMOs to feed the world: Chemical farming isn’t “feeding the world” now. Despite more than 70 years of...

theeconomist: Daily chart: which country consumes the most trees? The average American uses the paper equivalent of almost six 40-foot (12-metre) trees a year. In Belgium paper consumption is pushed up by the EU bureaucracy in...

unconsumption: poptech: The Ocean Conservancy, which organizes an annual International Coastal Clean-Up, has published its results in the 2012 Trash Index. You’re not imagining it: as the global population swells, tankers continue to leak oil, and plastic water...
Social Enterprise Is Here to Stay. Embrace It.

Social Enterprise Is Here to Stay. Embrace It.

Social enterprise is on fire today. Ambitious young guns all over the globe are leaving their cushy corporate jobs and shunning traditional career paths for a new kind of business: one that achieves both financial and public benefit. The idea of making a profit and a...