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Hungry Planet

Posted on November 9, 2011 by J.A. Ginsburg

Link suite overview on malnutrition, blighted futures, dumb food aid, sachets of hopes, micronutrient magic, microbiology and new markets There are now, by recent tally, 7 billion people on planet Earth and at least 2 billion of us are hungry. Malnutrition, either from lack of food or too much of the wrong food is a [...]

Filed under: agriculture, climate change, Diaster relief, famine, food, TrackerBlog, TrackerNews, water, water pollution | Tagged: chickpeas, diarrhea, GAIN, Grameen Danone, hygiene, malnutrition, medicins sans frontieres, micronutrients, MSF, nutrition, peanuts, Pepsico, plumpy'nut, prebiotics, probiotics, Shakti Doi, starved for attention, ultra rice, VitaYeast, wawa mum, WFP, World Food Programme | 1 Comment »

Bite!!! Life in a Warmer, Wetter World

Posted on July 15, 2011 by J.A. Ginsburg

Link suite overview: On vector-borne disease and climate change, connecting the infinitesimal and the invisible, Dopey Does DDT, the need for ecosystems thinking & bugs gone borg It is a midsummer night’s feast and we are on the menu. Nibbled and sipped by winged vampires and blood-sucking squatters, we scratch, swat and fret. But the [...]

Filed under: climate change, disease surveillance, epidemiology, food, TrackerNews, vaccines | Tagged: Amy Stewart, babesia, borrelia, climate change, Disney, ecosytems thinking, fleas, global warming, Hybrid Insect Micro Electromechanical Systems (HI-MEMS), leisthmaniasis, Lyme Disease, malaria, mites, moose, mosquito abatement, mosquitoes, parasites, salmon lice, sand flies, Tara Smith, ticks, typhus, vector-borne disease, Wicked Insects, Winged Scourge, winter ticks | Leave a Comment »

Soggy Spring, Silent Seas (link suite overview)

Posted on May 6, 2011 by J.A. Ginsburg

On storms, floods, food prices and foolish farm policies; Redistributing fertility from where it’s needed to where it’s not; Corn, gullies and the Gulf of Mexico dead zone According to insurance industry consultancy EQECAT, the damage caused by the hundreds of tornadoes that exploded across the southern tier of the US in April rank right [...]

Filed under: agriculture, climate change, floods, food, soil health, water, water pollution | Tagged: Aldo Leopold, Cairo IL, Environmental Working Group, Facebook, FEMA trailers, food prices, Gulf of Mexico, hypoxic dead zone, insurance, levees, Mississippi River, Ohio River, Qaudror, soil erosion, spring planting, Tornadoes, Tuscaloosa | Leave a Comment »

Plastics: Eco-Comedy / Eco-Tragedy

Posted on March 27, 2011 by J.A. Ginsburg

On the power of humor, one farmer’s stand, birds, bottle caps, better bottles, trash-tracking and why corporations need to push politicians toward smarter recycling policy Here at TrackerNews, where our unofficial tagline is “One Damn Thing After Another,” the focus tends to be on the grim. Floods, droughts, plagues, blights, quakes, hurricanes, tsunamis, climate change, [...]

Filed under: eWaste, food, oil, plastic, recycling, water pollution | Tagged: albatross, AshEl Eldridge, Ben Zolno, Chris Jordan, Chris Palmer, closed loop design, cradle to cradle design, eco-comedy video competition, green circle, Green Sangha, Henry Brockman, Henry's Farm, Jenni Perez, Kris Krug, Midway Island, MIT's Senseable City, Pacific Garbage Patch, Pepsi, PET, plastic state of mind, recycling, Scott Walker, single use plastic bag, Terra Brockman, Wisconsin | Leave a Comment »

The Nuke Factor: How to Make Disasters Worse and the Implications for Humanitarian Aid

Posted on March 21, 2011 by J.A. Ginsburg

On 400+ aging nuclear reactors, quake-prone countries, food chains, trade networks and what this means for first responders and social entrepreneurs Let’s get right to the point: What happens the next time a nuclear reactor goes rogue in the wake of a natural disaster? Japan is a worst case scenario in a best case place. [...]

Filed under: agriculture, air pollution, Diaster relief, disease surveillance, earthquake, energy, epidemiology, food, nuclear, soil health, water, water pollution | Tagged: Amory Lovns, Chernobyl, China, food, Fukushima Daiichi nuclear reactor, Iran, Italy, Japan, milk, nuclear contamination, nuclear meltdown, Pakistan, radiation, radioactive, Three Mile Island, Turkey, water | 2 Comments »

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