by Deborah Phelan | Jul 5, 2016 | Climate Change, COP21, Food Security, Hunger, Ideas, Live Your Life, mitigation, Our Blog, Take Action, Youth and Climate Change
What are the heroic actions that can save the planet from climate chaos? Solar panels? Electric cars? COP climate talks? All these heroes have been celebrated for decades – whilst the damage from climate instability continues to worsen mercilessly. We urgently...
by Deborah Phelan | Jun 21, 2016 | Climate Change, Food Security
A USDA research team investigating the ancient soil amendment biochar to address food security is suggesting that, with its potential to store one gigaton of carbon per year by 2050, biochar could be a “game changer” in addressing global warming. In field and lab...
by Deborah Phelan | May 2, 2016 | Climate Change, Food Security
THE PHOSPHORUS TAX As efforts to feed an estimated 2050 global population of 9.7 billion swing into overdrive, the global breadbasket tropics from Africa to the Amazon are the primary target for “agricultural intensification.” Industrializing food security places the...
by Deborah Phelan | Jul 13, 2015 | Climate Change, Food Security, Global Health, Hunger, UN SDGs, Youth and Climate Change
London. July 13, 2015.(College of the Atlantic) Representatives of climate-impacted communities and social movements in the global South are collaborating with international faith, labour, development, and environment NGOs to issue a clear “litmus test” of...
by Deborah Phelan | Jun 8, 2015 | Climate Change, Food Security, Global Health, mitigation
A new analysis released today at the G7 summit provides a ‘bread and butter’ overview of how national climate action plans will benefit everyday citizens in terms of better jobs, longer lives and a cleaner atmosphere. The report was issued hours before G7...
by Deborah Phelan | May 28, 2015 | Climate Change, Food Security, mitigation
As thousands die and roads melt in India’s sweltering heat wave and reports file in predicting the imminent collapse of Antarctica’s 12,000 year-old Larson B Icesheet, the Bonn Talks commence next Monday. Unfortunately, they begin with scientists weighing...
