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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 »

The Days, Years After: Recovering from Bigger, Badder Disasters

Posted on August 31, 2011 by J.A. Ginsburg

Link suite overview: on recovering from disasters; the lessons of Irene, Joplin, Fukushima, Pakistan flood, Queensland flood, Christchurch quakes, Haiti quakes, Katrina; collateral damage and eco-smart design as insurance It has been a banner year for disasters in the US with a record-breaking 10 “billion-dollar-plus” knock-out punches, and still four months to go. So far: [...]

Filed under: Diaster relief, earthquake, energy, famine, floods, Haiti, hurricanes, maps, philanthropy, social networks, technology, TrackerBlog, TrackerNews, Uncategorized, water | Tagged: Christchurch earthquakes, economics, Fukushima, green energy, Haiti earthquakes, hurricane irene, hurricane katrina, Joplin tornado, Pakistan floods, Queensland floods, resilience | 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 »

It’s Melting! It’s Melting!: Linking Weather to Climate, Food to Revolution and a Rare Ray of Win-Win Hope

Posted on February 18, 2011 by J.A. Ginsburg

On making predictions: Groundhogs and weather, distributed computing and climate, commodity markets and poverty and why a better way to keep things cool may help cool off the planet It is hard to quibble with climate change when the freaky weather is freaky good. Less than three weeks after the Great Blizzard of 2011 stopped [...]

Filed under: agriculture, climate change, drought, famine, floods, food, population, TrackerBlog, TrackerNews | Tagged: Chicago Blizzard of 2011, climate change, climateprediction.net, commodity prices, Consumer Goods Forum, cotton, distributed computing, editor's blog, Egypt, extreme weather, floods and climate models, food prices, food riots, Greenpeace Solution, groundhog day, North African protests, the journal Nature, trackerblog, weatherathome, World Bank | Leave a Comment »

Cry Me a River…and Pass Me a Shovel: On Rain, Snow, Sleet and Ice, Atmospheric Rivers and a World Gone Soggy

Posted on February 1, 2011 by J.A. Ginsburg

The opening rounds of a potentially record-shattering blizzard swirl outside my office window. It is one thing to report on extreme weather around the globe and quite another to literally be in the howling midst of the story. It is a storm the likes of which has not been seen, at least in the hundred-some [...]

Filed under: agriculture, climate change, Diaster relief, floods, food, TrackerBlog, TrackerNews, water, water pollution | Tagged: ARk storms, atmosphereic rivers, australia, blizzard of 2011, Brazil, Chicago, climate change, commodiity prices, commodity prices, Cyclone Yasi, floods, food prices, Jim Cantore, mudslides, Queensland, the weather channel, thundersnow | 3 Comments »

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Cry Me a River…and Pass Me a Shovel: On Rain, Snow, Sleet and Ice, Atmospheric Rivers and a World Gone Soggy

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