Food – are we facing a Crisis or an Opportunity?
This post shares four things. The one that takes up the most space is about those two little words “food crisis” that are starting to make headlines. There’s a reason they’re making headlines, and it might not be the reason you think.
The other items in this post are two tips for ethical buying/browsing choices, and a little piece of wisdom about the language we use.
Ethical internet searching
Ecosia.org is an internet search engine (like Google) that plants trees (unlike Google).
They do a lot of other things unlike Google, too. In their words:
“We dedicate all our profits to the regeneration of the planet. We even signed a legal contract binding us to our not-for-profit purpose forever. Ecosia can’t be sold … and we can’t take money out of the company.”
Also in their words:
“… if everyone switched from Google to Ecosia, we could plant 300 billion trees — every year.”
Google offers so many free tools in addition to its search engine that it’s hard to go past them for sheer convenience. That’s one of the reasons they’re so influential and powerful.
What might a company like Ecosia achieve in the next 10, the next 20, 30 years… if enough people supported them to enable them to start offering other services the same way Google did?
You can read their manifesto here.
Ethical undies
Do you wear socks or undies? Me too. And the other day I finally found a socks ‘n’ jocks company that I feel good about buying from. I was so excited, my kids rolled their eyes. What’s Mum on about now.
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