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In season now: what to eat during May
Amy Halls
30th April, 2012
Slow Food UK CEO, Cat Gazzoli, dips into the UK's forgotten flavours to bring us her gastronomic pick for May more...
Globalisation use it or lose it?
George, Helena,
1st September, 2004
In the past 50 years the global economy has grown by over 500 per cent... the richest fifth of the world now earn 86 per cent of global income… the poorest fifth earn just 1.3 per cent… life expectancy in the world’s most ‘developed’ countries is 79 years… in the least ‘developed’ it is still just 42… we consume 22 million tonnes of oil every day… chop down 1 per cent of the world’s forests every year… and have killed 90 per cent of the world’s big fish. Has the time come to give up on globalisation? more...
Ecologist questionnaire: how much do you know about where you live?
The Ecologist
1st May, 2004
‘If we could think locally, we would take far better care of things than we do now. The right local questions and answers will be the right global ones. The Amish question, "What will this do for our community?" tends toward the right answer for the world.’ Wendell Berry more...
Bigger But Not Better
Andrew Kimbrell
1st April, 2003
Myth Number 5: INDUSTRIAL AGRICULTURE IS EFFICIENT more...
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