C40 World Mayors Summit 2019: Vandana Shiva
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“Poison-free, Fossil fuel-free Food & Farming Communities: 2030” – Panel at Heirloom Expo
Photo courtesy of California Guild The highlight of this year’s edition of the National Heirloom Expo (Santa Rosa, California, 10-12 September 2019) was a panel presentation on the health of the planet, chaired by Mary Jacob, President of Friends...
Opinion | Agroecology as Innovation
By Timothy A. Wise – Triple Crisis, 17 July 2019 | Source Recently, the High Level Panel of Experts of the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) released its much-anticipated report on agroecology. The report signals the continuing shift...
Federal Judge Finds Hawai‘i Agribusiness Development Corporation Is Unlawfully Contaminating Kauaʻi’s Shores
Earth Justice, 10 July 2019 | Source Honolulu, HI — Hawai‘i’s Agribusiness Development Corporation (ADC) has violated the federal Clean Water Act by polluting ocean waters along Kauaʻi’s West Side without a permit, a federal court ruled yesterday. Community...
Column: Gen Z must carry on to protect planet
By Mackenzie Kamalei Feldman – The Star Advertiser, 10 July 2019 | Source In the last two weeks of June, Lee Johnson, the Bay Area school groundskeeper who made history by taking on Monsanto/Bayer and winning in court, was...
Herbicides banned on Hawaii public school campuses, superintendent says
By Susan Essoyan – The Honolulu Star-Advertiser, 27 June 2019 | Source HONOLULU — Superintendent Christina Kishimoto, after hearing that Roundup was being used on some campuses, sent a memo Tuesday to all principals stressing that herbicides are banned...
Fake Food, Fake Meat: Big Food’s Desperate Attempt to Further the Industrialisation of Food
By Dr Vandana Shiva – Independent Science News, 18 June 2019 | Source The ontology and ecology of food Food is not a commodity, it is not “stuff” put together mechanically and artificially in labs and factories. Food is...
Oikonomia: Bringing the economy back to the Earth
By Dr Vandana Shiva – Jivad – The Organic Way, Vandana Shiva’s Blog | Source My message on World Environment Day, 5th June 2019 – Economy: From Care and Management of “oikos” to a Money Machine at War with the...
Interview with Vandana Shiva
By Dario Ruggiero – Long Term Economy, 2 June 2019 | Source “SEEDS OF LIFE“ It’s 1 pm! It’s time to sit at the eating table and eat our preferred dish made of pasta, rice, vegetables or meat/diary-based products....
Food and Health, a Manifesto for a better living
Interview with Vandana Shiva – By Manlio Masucci, Navdanya International Is there a connection between the food we consume on a daily basis, the industrial food production system, environmental pollution and the chronic diseases afflicting the world’s population? According...