Monthly Archives: January 2009
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The Cancun Declaration
Veg Climate Alliance has recently compiled a declaration, supported by thousands of people in the groups listed below. There are also translations of the declaration listed at the end. Declaration on Meat Consumption and Climate Change A call from people … Continue reading
Science News: “It’s the Meat, not the Miles”
Excerpts from the Science News report: The analysis finds that transporting food to the consumer accounts for only 4 percent of food-associated greenhouse gas emissions, while production contributes a hefty 83 percent. . . . Crunching the numbers revealed that … Continue reading
Scientific American: How Meat Contributes to Global Warming
From the article entitled “How Meat Contributes to Global Warming” In 1999 Susan Subak, an ecological economist then at the University of East Anglia in England, found that, depending on the production method, cows emit between 2.5 and 4.7 ounces … Continue reading
Guardian: German Environment Agency Advises Less Meat for World and Health
Fantastic, isn’t it? From the article “Hospitals will take meat off menus in bid to cut carbon” Dr David Pencheon, director of the NHS sustainable development unit, said the amount of NHS emissions meant it had to act to make … Continue reading
The Guardian: Glaciers Soon to Go
An article by Juliette Jowit entitled “Many glaciers will disappear by middle of century and add to rising sea levels, expert warns“, hilights one effect of climate change that will change water supplies to vast regions of the planet. Most … Continue reading
