A wonderfully inspiring movie on how the world could look like if we acted in time.

In response to the last movie we showed to you, here a movie that looks at the climate crisis with a more optimistic eye. The movie was made before the election of president Obama.

You can watch the 5-minute Video here. It is absolutely worth your time, I promise!

Maiken Winter

Reprinted with permission by Peter Montague

Global food prices have risen 83% in the last 3 years. This spring, as prices rose steeply, food riots broke out in Haiti, Egypt, Cameroon, Ivory Coast, Mauritania, Ethiopia, Uzbekistan, Yemen, the Philippines, Thailand, Indonesia and Italy, among other places. Because U.S. energy policy subsidizes farmers to grow corn to make ethanol (alcohol that can supplement gasoline), the U.S. is being accused of feeding its sport utility vehicles (SUVs) instead of feeding people. There is some truth to this charge, but it’s more complicated than that.[1]

The global food crisis has been created by a combination of things (MW: also see Foto Galery by Time Magazine from which the foto above is reproduced), among them: (more…)