By Lenore Newman I finally started to feel like myself again. Newly up and about, I returned to the Granville Island Public Market, eager to enjoy the best of both the regional and global food systems. There was still fresh local fruit, including the last of the berries. There were blackberries and the first apples of the […]
Hunger rising due to extreme weather
Progress made in the past decade has been reversed, with climate extremes such as droughts and floods identified as a main cause Global hunger has reverted to levels last seen a decade ago, wiping out progress on improving people’s access to food and leaving one in nine people undernourished last year, with extreme weather a […]
How Much – What is Value?
Minutes of Minimum-Wage-Work to buy a Big Mac How many minutes a minimum-wage-worker would have to work to earn enough money to buy a Big Mac? How do we relate the value of work, food etc.? Why do Indians or Indonesians look to other fast or street food. Country Big Mac price Monthly minimum wage […]
Rural Futures- Shock or Solutions
Future Shock in the Countryside Earth’s rural areas are being transformed by climate change and technology. PMCARRENO / Shutterstock In the opening scene of Blade Runner 2049, a flying craft navigates California over an endless expanse of solar farms and tessellated plastic fields on its way to a desolate farmstead. Watching it, I was struck by the dazzling futuristic […]
My CACOR Carbon pledge
Gordon Kubanek, Board of Directors, developed a Carbon Pledge. My CACOR Carbon pledge This pledge is a part of CACOR’s new pathways project announced at our Oct 17th lunch. This carbon pledge is only the beginning of your OWN, self-made carbon pledge: in other words, it is only to give you some ideas. Its intent […]