Vertical farming: eco-friend or foe? Well, the first thing to say — to invoke Jez from “Peep Show” — is that it is not pyramid selling. No, whatever the name might imply to the suspicious and unacquainted, “vertical farming” isn’t, to its proponents at least, an obtuse money-grabbing scam. What it actually refers to is the growing of…
Etiket: Sürdürülebilir Tarım
Ruhisu Can AL, Seferihisar’da geliştirilen sürdürülebilirlik modelini anlatıyor: “Kalkınmayı sürdürülebilir kılmazsak yaşanabilir bir dünya kalmayacak!”
Ege Bölgesi’nde Seferihisar Belediyesi’nin geliştirdiği Sürdürülebilir Kalkınma Modeli’ne dair kapsamlı bilgiler içeren bu söyleşi, Seferihisar’da yayımlanan “SeferiKeçi Dergisi”nden tam metin olarak alıntılanmıştır. (Bkz: http://seferikeci.com/ruhisu-can-al-ile-surdurulebilir-kalkinma-hedefleri-uzerine-kalkinmayi-surdurulebilir-kilmazsak-yasanabilir-bir-dunya-kalmayacak/) (Erişim Tarihi: 19 Temmuz 2018) Birleşmiş Milletler’in 17 başlıkta topladığı Sürdürülebilir Kalkınma Hedefleri, yerel yönetimleri de sürecin sorumlu ve inisiyatif sahibi bir aktörü olarak tanımlıyor. Seferihisar Belediyesi de bu süreçte yer…
Moving beyond food footprints to sustainable food systems
This article is sponsored by the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association, a contractor with the Beef Checkoff. If you’ve heard that beef has a higher carbon or land footprint than many other foods, you should know that is largely correct. Higher footprints for beef are driven by the biology of cattle — they are large ruminant animals…
Why food nostalgia won’t make us more sustainable
We have a grand challenge ahead in the next three decades. Our global population is projected to increase by 2 billion, yet we will not have an appreciable increase in agricultural land. Our challenge is to nourish a global population of increasing affluence without degrading the earth’s resources or compromising the success of future generations….
Nestlé’s Work to Become a ‘Nutrition, Health and Wellness Company’ (Josh Morton)
Nestlé has been active on a lot of sustainability fronts lately, from water and climate policy to deforestation and workers’ rights, to plant-based protein and plastic packaging reduction. While progress can often be slow for large global companies with complex supply chains, Nestlé has continued to reduce the negative impacts of its operations and the…
Nestlé, Coca-Cola Among 60 Orgs Stepping Up Action to Address Pressures on UK Water
Over 60 organizations including businesses such as Nestlé, Coca-Cola and M&S have signed a Catchment Management Declaration agreeing to step up action to address the increasing pressures to UK water through improved catchment management. The declaration was created by a cross sector of companies with support of the Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership (CISL), The…
The business case for empowering women through climate-resilient supply chains
“For the past three years, the World Economic Forum‘s annual Global Risk Report has ranked climate risks high priority in terms of likelihood and impact. For business, this includes both supply chain risks, like water scarcity, and general physical and operational risks that will require resilience and adaptation solutions. In addition to the economic impacts on…
“Doğaya Emek Ver” (Kadıköy Çevre Festivali)
Geçtiğimiz yıl “Kentte Ekolojik Yaşam” teması altında bir araya geldiğimiz Kadıköy Çevre Festivali 31 Mayıs- 3 Haziran 2018 tarihleri arasında Selamiçeşme Özgürlük Parkı’nda ikinci yılında doğadan yana tüm kurumları ve kişileri yeniden bir araya getiriyor. Doğadan, çevreden yana olan bütün demokratik kitle örgütlerinin, sivil toplum kuruluşlarının, platform ve inisiyatiflerin katılımına açık olan festival, doğayı korumak…
17 organizations feeding the world through regenerative agriculture
Transitioning to more sustainable forms of agriculture remains critical, as many current agriculture practices have serious consequences including deforestation and soil degradation. But despite agriculture’s enormous potential to hurt the environment, it also has enormous potential to heal it. Realizing this, many organizations are promoting regenerative agriculture as a way to not just grow food…
Gassy cows? Facts about beef’s carbon emissions
This article is sponsored by National Cattlemen’s Beef Association, a contractor to the Beef Checkoff. Let’s clear the air on something up front. All those “cow farts” you’ve heard about? It’s actually cow burps. Having spent much of my life around cows and conducting research measuring methane emissions from cattle (I’m sure most readers are…
"Sürdürülebilir Kalkınma Yolculuğu" 