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The United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) has released their latest Global Environmental Assessment, titled A Future We Choose. It was written by 287 experts – from 82 countries with deep knowledge of the natural, social, behavioral and cultural sciences; over 800…
The scientific community is sounding the alarm, and they’re doing it LOUDLY! Sadly, still, most of us are not paying attention. But if we did pay attention – and start to act appropriately – we can turn this around!
In the last few months, four major scientific reports on…
On October 29th, this year’s State of the Climate Report (1) was published. It’s a must read. Our situation is dire, but we can do something about it. Opening with these words, “We are hurtling toward climate chaos. The planet’s vital signs are flashing red. The consequences of…
Our cities still measure climate progress through frameworks that overlook how food choices and land use interact. That blind spot keeps solutions fragmented and weak. PBCM exists to challenge and update those rules — showing that municipal policies can link what we eat, how we use public land, and how we…
It’s getting scary. The global warming crisis is looking more serious than we thought even just a few years ago. Worse, it appears that it may be about to accelerate. Ominously, a big part of the reason for that is that the Earth’s terrestrial carbon sink – the net absorption of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere…
To better understand how universities are evolving toward more sustainable, plant-based meals, the Canadian University Initiative surveyed dining leaders at the 30 largest…
Every May, tens of thousands of people around the world embark on a brave and often transformative journey to explore a meat-free lifestyle with No Meat May.
What started as a grassroots movement has…
Despite the direct correlation between food and health, as highlighted in various medical and scientific studies worldwide, our universal health care system has been slow to put this…
It may surprise you, but the prices we pay at checkout for our foods are often quite different from the actual prices we pay for them as a society. Some of those costs are paid by governments in the form of subsidies for commodity crops or animal feed…