hunger

A world record was broken on July 4th at the inaugural ROTHBURY music festival in Michigan. And no, the record had nothing to do with the world’s stinkiest hippie, or the world’s longest guitar solo.

Simple proof of what’s wrong with the world and how to save it. (WARNING: this post contains images some readers may find shocking.)

World leaders are to meet next week for urgent talks aimed at preventing tens of millions of the world's poor dying of hunger as a result of soaring food prices. The Rome summit is the first of a series of high-level meetings aimed at tackling what many leaders now see as a much bigger threat to international stability than terrorism.

So I know there has been allot of talk about grain shortage and rising food cost in the news lately so I thought today would be a great day to talk about how your diet can help the environment. World Vision is having an extreme shortage of food due to rising cost and will have cut 1.5 million people from their roster of 7.5 million they fed last year, one-third of them are children who rely on the organization’s aid to survive. Quite a startling statistic!

We're not eating mud, but price gouging and rice rationing have arrived in the U.S. What does this mean? Got any room in the backyard for a garden?

A discussion of the New York Times article about the world-wide food vs. fuel crisis that is haunting Western politicians and their favorite biofuels policies. Alternatives to biofuels are discussed, and support is given to biodiesel made from waste (not food products), as long as liquid fuels are needed.

This university has a special program, called the Nelson Mandela extranet. In this program, Students go back to their communities and teach them about HIV/AIDS , bio-intensive farming, and money management.

How to Boil a Frog's FrogBlog takes us back to the 1940's for a comedic lesson in how we can change our lives now and actually enjoy it.

Food prices are up 40% this year, leading the UN to warn that the world may face unprecendented food shortages in 2008, due to a combination of bad weather, a rise in meat eating, and the large-scale growth of biofuels. As many parts of the world experience rationing or rioting, can we possibly subsidise maize for our cars?

Genetically engineered grains for someone who can't afford anything but plain rice is like trying to sell night vision to someone who can't afford a candle. Biotechnology has yet to prove that it has any answers to the real issues around world hunger.

"If you start to fuel cars with crops," says Ed Matthew of Friends of the Earth, "you are instantly putting the world's one billion starving people in competition with the world's one billion motorists. It's as simple as that." Strong stuff.

Each day 34,000 children under the age of five die from hunger and the diseases that hunger brings. At any given moment, almost 800 million people in the world are going hungry. Why? Is there enough food to go around? Would feeding everybody in the developing world mean increasing hunger in the West?

The World Food Program's "FEED" bag is to be used in place of plastic bags. It's great for the environment, feeds a child for an entire year, looks very cool and isn't expensive. I'd love to see everyone walking around with one of these! Saving the planet isn't hard, sometimes it's as simple as ordering a $59 bag!