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UK Retailers Urge Government To Ensure Food Supplies As French Border Shut
UK Retailers Urge Government To Ensure Food Supplies As French Border Shut British retailers have urged the government to make an urgent effort to prevent prolonged suspension of cross-Channel transport, which they say would disrupt supplies of fresh produce to UK consumers. To prevent the spread of a new, more transmissible variant of the CCP (Chinese Communist […]
New Covid Mutation Is ‘Out of Control’ in the UK
New Covid Mutation Is ‘Out of Control’ in the UK Belgium and the Netherlands suspend travel from the UK as authorities assess impact of fast-spreading new virus variant. Out of Control U.K. Health Secretary Matt Hancock warns a new strain of the coronavirus is “Out of Control”. More than 16 million Britons are now required to […]
After Sustainability: Missives from the Next Stage of the Climate Crisis
After Sustainability: Missives from the Next Stage of the Climate Crisis Three excerpts from ‘Concrete,’ ‘A Book of Ecological Virtues’ and ‘Uncertain Harvest.’ Enter to win today. This article is part of a Tyee Presents initiative. Tyee Presents is the special sponsored content section within The Tyee where we highlight contests, events and other initiatives […]
Mobility is NOT a business: Why the pandemic-induced collapse of mass transit should concern us all
Mobility is NOT a business: Why the pandemic-induced collapse of mass transit should concern us all People have always needed to get from here to there whether by foot, by horse, by ship, by train, by car, by bus or by plane. Civilization DEPENDS on the mobility of humans and the produce they cultivate and […]
‘Food for Thought’: Reflections on an organic life
‘Food for Thought’: Reflections on an organic life Phil Haughton is old friend of mine, best known as the founder of three Bristol food shops flying under the banner of The Better Food Company. I wanted to say a few words about his book, Food for Thought, which ‘celebrat[es] the joy of eating well and living better’. I […]
Meatpacking Plants Idled, Workers Sent Home As Pandemic Rages In North America
Meatpacking Plants Idled, Workers Sent Home As Pandemic Rages In North America In the last five days, the US reported over one million new COVID-19 cases with total virus-related deaths swelling over 311k. The resurgence of coronavirus cases is now affecting meatpacking plants. According to Bloomberg, Cargill Inc. was forced to idle one of its plants […]
Why Site C Construction Should Stop Today
Why Site C Construction Should Stop Today The BC government has failed in its oversight role, say a former BC Hydro CEO and a veteran dam engineer. Construction on the Site C powerhouse continues despite known geotechnical risks. Photo: BC Hydro. Site C is the most expensive publicly funded infrastructure project in British Columbia’s history and […]
Our Distance from Dirt
Our Distance from Dirt Many of us on the African continent clutch our unethically sourced pearls and briefly confront the ugly truths about our consumption, writes Takondwa Semphere. But then we forget. 2012: Children gold mining in the eastern DRC. (Sasha Lezhnev/Enough Project, Flickr, CC BY-NC-ND 2.0) It seems that every other month, a different […]
Musk: Electric Cars Will Require a Lot More Electric Power Than We Currently Have
Musk: Electric Cars Will Require a Lot More Electric Power Than We Currently Have AP Feed Tesla CEO Elon Musk says we’ll need more electricity to power cars like his. A lot more. Tesla Chief Executive Elon Musk said on Tuesday that electricity consumption will double if the world’s car fleets are electrified, increasing the need […]
One Little Problem with the “All-Electric” Auto Fleet: What Do We Do with all the “Waste” Gasoline?
One Little Problem with the “All-Electric” Auto Fleet: What Do We Do with all the “Waste” Gasoline? Regardless of what happens with vaccines and Covid-19, debt and energy–inextricably bound as debt funds consumption– will destabilize the global economy in a self-reinforcing feedback. Back in the early days of the oil industry (1880s and 1890s), the […]
Kinder Morgan Pipeline Spills up to 42,000 Gallons of Gasoline Into California Drainage Canal
Kinder Morgan Pipeline Spills up to 42,000 Gallons of Gasoline Into California Drainage Canal A pipeline leaked tens of thousands of gallons of gasoline into a waterway in Walnut Creek, California. California Office of Spill Prevention and Response / Facebook A Kinder Morgan pipeline leaked tens of thousands of gallons of gasoline into a waterway in Walnut Creek, California, prompting […]
The Dark Side of Solar Power
THE DARK SIDE OF SOLAR POWER Everybody loves solar power, right? It’s nice, clean, renewable energy that’s available pretty much everywhere the sun shines. If only the panels weren’t so expensive. Even better, solar is now the cheapest form of electricity for companies to build, according to the International Energy Agency. But solar isn’t all apples […]
UNEP: Net-zero pledges provide an ‘opening’ to close growing emissions ‘gap’
UNEP: Net-zero pledges provide an ‘opening’ to close growing emissions ‘gap’ The recent net-zero pledges by major emitting countries and the potential for a “green recovery” from the Covid-19 pandemic “presents the opening” for the world to close the growing “gap” between existing commitments and what is needed to limit global warming to meet the […]
Who eats local food?
Who eats local food? The question of who eats local food is a tricky one to pin down. There is first the question of what constitutes ‘local food’ – if you’re a farmer raising grass-fed beef or lamb in Wales that you then sell across country, most people would say that’s local enough; but what […]
