Carbon fasting for the holidays; faith-based environmental action
Fyi. This information was forwarded to me from a colleague at Duke U's Nicholas School of the Environment and Earth Sciences... Best, ruba -- Forwarded message -- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Feb 13, 2007 12:36 PM Subject: [Profstudents] Tired of missing your favorite foods? Try carbon fasting for Lent!!! To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Heard about this from Alice Lloyd of the NC Interfaith Coalition on Climate Change. Consider carbon fasting this Lent as an alternative to giving up fried foods or sugar. Help youself and the Earth this Lint, make a larger impact with your faith and your environmentalism! Learn more from the Monthly Eco-Justice bulletin below from the NC Interfaith Coalition. Monthly Eco-Justice Bulletin February Edition 2007 To help people of faith and their communities address the causes and consequences of global climate change through education and public policy advocacy. NC Interfaith Power Light: A program of the North Carolina Council of Churches Formerly Climate Connection www.ncipl.org, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Go on a Low Carbon Diet! Two resources Caring for Creation: A Prayer/Action Guide for a Lenten Fast from Carbon. Traditionally Lent, the 40 days before Easter, has been a time of self-evaluation, repentance, and renewal. Typical spiritual practices include prayer, almsgiving, and fasting. This year, NC Interfaith Power and Light invites you to fast from carbon, that is, to reduce the amount of carbon dioxide you put into the atmosphere. http://www.nccouncilofchurches.org/areasofwork/committees/climate_connection/resources.htm Low Carbon Diet, A 30 Day Program to Lose 5000 Pounds is an illustrated workbook that offers much more than a list of eco-friendly actions. It walks you through every step of the process, from calculating your current CO2 footprint to tracking your progress. It's publisher the Empowerment Institute calls it a fun, accessible, easy to use guide that will show you, step-by-step, how to dramatically reduce your CO2 output in just a month's time. Visit www.empowermentinstitute.net and also read this Christian Science Monitor article which profiles both Low Carbon Diet and Interfaith Power and Light. http://www.csmonitor.com/2006/1228/p14s01-sten.html Want to learn about carbon offsets? The Tufts Climate Initiative recently issued a thorough study about purchasing voluntary carbon offsets to offset air travel emissions. You can find all the information at http://www.tufts.edu/tci/carbonoffsets Download the full report as well as the consumer handout. Few guidelines are available for consumers on how to choose the best offset company, but Interfaith Power Light's national website offers links to three. http://www.interfaithpowerandlight.org/ ___ Profstudents mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.nicholas.duke.edu/mailman/listinfo/profstudents - End forwarded message - ___ Profstudents mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.nicholas.duke.edu/mailman/listinfo/profstudents
RE: Vegan and Environmental Impact
Hi, Apologies for the delay in picking up this thread... I'm very interested in Kai's observation: In Ghana a year ago, I saw billboards advertising rice grown in Texas and California, whose low prices (counting transportation across the seas) had decimated the poor farms of the west African interior. I know that US (also Canadian) agricultural exports have increased substantially since the 1960s. Does anyone know of any sources that document the impact of agricultural imports on small producers. I'm particularly interested in finding sources that could provide more of an overview of this as a global trend, as opposed to single case studies. I know Mike Davis talks about this in Planet of Slums, as a factor pushing rapid urbanization in the global South, but I can't think of any others... Cheers, Andrew Andrew Biro Dept. of Political Science Acadia University Wolfville, NS B4P 2R6 (902)585-1925 [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
international trade small ag producers
Andrew, I do not know of recent document of the kind you request. The longer historical perspective (through the mid-20th century) is taken up in Tucker, Richard P. 2000. Insatiable Appetite. The United States and the ecological degradation of the tropical world. Berkeley: University of California Press. HD1417 .T83 2000 Cheers, Kai Kai N. Lee, Rosenburg Professor of environmental studies, Center for Environmental Studies, Williams College, Kellogg House, 41 Mission Park Drive, Williamstown MA 01267 USA. Voice voicemail: 01 +413-597-2358; fax: 01+413-597-3489. http://www.williams.edu/ces/ces/people/klee/klee.htm Begin forwarded message: From: Andrew Biro [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: February 13, 2007 3:08:19 PM EST To: Kai N. Lee [EMAIL PROTECTED], gep- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Vegan and Environmental Impact I know that US (also Canadian) agricultural exports have increased substantially since the 1960s. Does anyone know of any sources that document the impact of agricultural imports on small producers. I’m particularly interested in finding sources that could provide more of an overview of this as a global trend, as opposed to single case studies. I know Mike Davis talks about this in Planet of Slums, as a factor pushing rapid urbanization in the global South, but I can’t think of any others...
ozone regime
is there a single, good, up to date article on the ozone regime that someone could suggest? thanks, dale ** Dale Jamieson Director of Environmental Studies Professor of Environmental Studies and Philosophy Affiliated Professor of Law New York University http://www.esig.ucar.edu/HP_dale.html Contact information: Steinhardt School, HMSS 246 Greene Street, Suite 300 New York NY 10003-6677 212-998-5429 (voice) 212-995-4832 (fax) Knowing what we know now, that you could vote against the war and still be elected president, I would never have pretended to support it.--Hilary Clinton parody on Saturday Night Live
RE: Vegan and Environmental Impact
World Hunger: Twelve Myths, revised edition from Food First! takes this up in a popular treatment, but with scholarly sources cited. On specific cases, there is considerable literature out on the effect of corn exports to Mexico as a result of lowering restrictions under NAFTA. Angus Wright Professor Emeritus of Environmental Studies California State University, Sacramento -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Andrew Biro Sent: Tue 2/13/2007 12:08 PM To: Kai N. Lee; gep-ed@listserve1.allegheny.edu Subject: RE: Vegan and Environmental Impact Hi, Apologies for the delay in picking up this thread... I'm very interested in Kai's observation: In Ghana a year ago, I saw billboards advertising rice grown in Texas and California, whose low prices (counting transportation across the seas) had decimated the poor farms of the west African interior. I know that US (also Canadian) agricultural exports have increased substantially since the 1960s. Does anyone know of any sources that document the impact of agricultural imports on small producers. I'm particularly interested in finding sources that could provide more of an overview of this as a global trend, as opposed to single case studies. I know Mike Davis talks about this in Planet of Slums, as a factor pushing rapid urbanization in the global South, but I can't think of any others... Cheers, Andrew Andrew Biro Dept. of Political Science Acadia University Wolfville, NS B4P 2R6 (902)585-1925 [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
