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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 »

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 »

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 »

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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