(German) The sustainable basket of goods Der Nachhaltige Warenkorb - Einfach besser einkaufen Tag für Tag tun wir jede Menge Dinge, die mit darüber entscheiden, ob das Klima geschützt, knappe Ressourcen geschont oder Menschenrechte geachtet werden: Das fängt beim morgendlichen Frühstücksei an, geht weiter mit der Wahl des Verkehrsmittels für dem Weg zur Arbeit und endet noch lange nicht, wenn wir abends im Katalog blättern, um herauszufinden, welcher neue Kühlschrank in Frage kommt. Konsumentinnen und Konsumenten haben Macht, denn mit ihren Konsum- und Lebensgewohnheiten können sie das Angebot beeinflussen und ganze Branchen umkrempeln. Der Nachhaltige Warenkorb – macht das Leben leichter Der neue Nachhaltige Warenkorb, den die imug Beratungsgesellschaft für sozial-ökologische Innovationen mbH im Auftrag des Rates für Nachhaltige Entwicklung (RNE) erarbeitet hat, setzt im Alltag an: Die Broschüre (PDF, 3,7MB) differenziert nach häufigen und seltenen Einkäufen und großen, noch selteneren Anschaffungen bzw. Der tägliche Einkauf
Organic Consumers Association Appropedia What is sustainable nutrition/ ecology of nutrition? Artikel zu Nachhaltiger Ernährung bzw. Ernährungsökologie Hinweis zum Betrachten der .pdf-Dateien "Nachhaltige Ernährung" setzt das gesellschaftliche Leitbild einer "Nachhaltigen Entwicklung" für den Ernährungsbereich um. Näheres dazu folgt weiter unten auf dieser Seite. Die Betrachtungen zum Fach Nachhaltige Ernährung gehen auf das Wissenschaftsgebiet der Ernährungsökologie (Definition der Ernährungsökologie) zurück. Daraus wurden sieben Grundsätze für eine nachhaltige Ernährung entwickelt. Eine praktische Umsetzung der Betrachtungen zu Nachhaltigkeit im Ernährungsbereich bzw. zur Umsetzung der Ernährungsökologie ist die Vollwert-Ernährung (Definition der Vollwert-Ernährung). Empfehlungen für die Auswahl von Lebensmitteln Literatur zu Nachhaltiger Ernährung, Ernährungsökologie und Vollwert-Ernährung Die Ernährungsökologie ist ein relativ neues Fachgebiet innerhalb der Ökotrophologie bzw. der Ernährungswissenschaft. Ökologische Dimension Ökonomische Dimension Von den 6,3 Mrd.
The Millions Against Monsanto Campaign New: OCA's Millions Against Monsanto and Factory Farms Truth-in-Labeling Campaign Stop Monsanto's New Frankencrops Don't Let the USDA Approve Monsanto's RoundUp Ready Alfalfa! Stop Monsanto's Frankensugar! Recent legal victories won by the Center for Food Safetyhave given sustainable agriculture activists an opportunity to stop two new Frankencrops, genetically engineered sugar beets and alfalfa. Monsanto's alfafa and sugar beets are spliced with manipulated foreign genes that allow them to withstand massive doses of Monsanto's RoundUp herbicide. The courts have ruled that the USDA (under President George W. genetically engineered alfalfa and sugar beets without first looking at their potential environmental impacts, like whether Monsanto's crops could permanently contaminate the supply of normal alfalfa and sugar beet seeds with their Frankengenes. Now, the ball is in the USDA's court (under President Barack Obama). The Case Against Monsanto Johal, G.S. and D.M. Read More... Read More...
NeighborGoods Blog → TASTE THE WASTE Community Alliance with Family Farmers Amnesty International Amnesty International is a global movement of more than 3 million supporters, members and activists in over 150 countries and territories who campaign to end grave abuses of human rights. Our vision is for every person to enjoy all the rights enshrined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and other international human rights standards. We are independent of any government, political ideology, economic interest or religion, and are funded mainly by our membership and public donations. After more than 50 years of groundbreaking achievements, Amnesty International is now embarking on a major process of evolution, to adapt to the dramatic changes in the world we operate in, and to increase the impact of our human rights work. We are introducing a new, global way of working -- with a distributed centre and Regional Hubs of research, campaigns and communications -- because we owe it to the people we work for to be the most effective force for freedom and justice that we can, globally.
(German) Codecheck: independent product information Welcome! Local Harvest / Farmers Markets / Family Farms / CSA / Organic Food Leaked Cable: Hike Food Prices To Boost GM Crop Approval In Europe In a January 2008 meeting, US and Spain trade officials strategized how to increase acceptance of genetically modified foods in Europe, including inflating food prices on the commodities market, according to a leaked US diplomatic cable released by WikiLeaks. During the meeting, Secretary of State for International Trade, Pedro Mejia, and Secretary General, Alfredo Bonet “noted that commodity price hikes might spur greater liberalization on biotech imports.” It seems Wall Street traders got the word. By June 2008, food prices had spiked so severely that “The Economist announced that the real price of food had reached its highest level since 1845, the year the magazine first calculated the number,” reports Fred Kaufman in The Food Bubble: How Wall Street starved millions and got away with it. All to boost acceptance of GM foods, and done via a trading scheme on which Wall Street speculators profited enormously. Mass food riots in several nations ensued, as did an investigation by the U.S.
Food Emergency: Millions of Americans Are Heading to Foodbanks for the First Time in Their Lives | Food December 27, 2010 | Like this article? Join our email list: Stay up to date with the latest headlines via email. The good news is there's no reason anyone should ever starve to death in America. Emergency Food: More and More It's What's for Dinner Val Traore, the radiant and gregarious CEO of the Food Bank of South Jersey (FBSJ), wanted to make one thing perfectly clear in our discussion of hunger in America today. So what is happening here? "We're seeing a large number of families that have never needed food assistance before," reports Traore. Who are the hungry and why can't they afford to feed themselves and their families? Food Lines: The Growing Reality Based Social Network December 18, 2010 - Burlington County, NJ: Especially since the airing of television shows like "The Sopranos" and "Jersey Shore" most of the nation probably sees New Jersey as some cultural aberration. Depression soup lines have nothing on this sucker. Food Bank Volunteers Unload Bags of Rice by Chaz Valenza