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It’s been known for years that insects are an excellent source of protein, the supply is plentiful, and insects can be farmed – but nothing ever happens. Will we ever get over feeling “icky” about adding insects to our diet? There are lots of reasons to eat insects. Will we ever overcome the ‘yuck’ factor?…
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Forage fish — anchovies, sardines, menhaden, capelin, herrings, menhaden and krill — offer numerous benefits for our diets and the planet. They’re easy to find in the canned meat section of your local grocery store, and they are inexpensive, have a long shelf life, are just as nutritious and safe as fresh fish, and enhance dietary…
What essentially was a 14-year pilot program shows that when kids of all incomes get healthy breakfasts and lunches for free at school, it’s a win-win for everyone. Kids get healthier and make better grades. Local school officials are relieved of the administrative burden. Parents benefit because they are relieved of the financial burden and…
Ever since the pandemic in 2020, Americans have been staying home in record numbers, and the result, says U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy, is an “epidemic of loneliness and isolation.” But, thanks to initiatives like All One Thing, Project Gather, and the documentary Join or Die, that epidemic may be ending. Welcome to the Human Doom…
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An aerial piping system in Nairobi is providing clean, affordable water to a poverty-stricken neighborhood where waterborne illness is common. Diarrheal illnesses have been cut by more than 30 percent. In Kenya, One Solution to Contaminated Water Comes From Above https://undark.org/2024/08/13/kenya-clean-water-aerial-piping-system/ Related Reading
The largest-ever study of its kind confirms that eating less meat and more plants — but, crucially, not excluding animal-sourced products — benefits both health and the environment. People who follow such a diet cut both their mortality risk and the climate impact of their food by a third. Confirmed. Most robust evidence yet that…
Until recently, areas contaminated by industrial operations were either left alone or bulldozed with the contaminated material hauled off to a landfill. But the former was wasteful and the latter was expensive and dangerous, so a California ecologist found an inexpensive way to turn those areas into flowering meadows – by planting mushrooms Mushrooms Help…
It has been proven that having more cyclists on our cities’ streets makes the streets safer for everyone. Here are five simple ways your city can create a bike-friendly environment. 5 Steps to Building a Bike-Friendly City https://sustainableamerica.org/blog/five-steps-to-building-a-bike-friendly-city/ Related Reading
The United States has one of the highest death rates of any wealthy nation for infants and new mothers both, so Oregon is rolling out a new program to change that. The program offers any family with a new baby a no-cost home visit with a trained nurse. Babies don’t come with instructions. But in Oregon, they now come…
Mexico’s new General Law on Adequate and Sustainable Nutrition emphasizes everyone’s right to food and is designed to make food available to everyone, but what does the law actually say? The USDA Foreign Agricultural Service studied it, and here’s what it found. Mexico’s bold new law on adequate and sustainable nutrition. https://www.foodpolitics.com/2024/08/what-im-reading-mexicos-new-nutrition-law/ Related Reading