I recently read where there is a Japanese study about the resources needed to grow beef. It is located here. And being all science-y it talks about the energy needed to get a kilo of beef.
I do not usually eat a kilo of beef at a time. I go for either a […]

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It’s hard to think of a more suitable setting for a eco-movie festival than the Amazon region in the north of Brazil. Cinemazônia arrives at its fifth edition in November this year to discuss global warming and is currently accepting submissions of shorts running up to 26 minutes and completed after 2000. Longer films are […]

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It has become part of our vocabulary, but the term ’sustainable development’ wasn’t coined that long ago. It was first used by Gro Harlem Brutland, a Norwegian doctor, politician and diplomat, in the seminal article Our Common Future, written in 1987. The text is a must-read for all those concerned with the environment and the […]

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Inspired by Eco-Chick’s summer reads list, I thought I’d suggest a few nature-inspired films for those on summer vacation and lots of time to kill. So here we go:
1 - Akira Kurosawa’s Derzu Uzala (1975) - One of the Japanese master’s best-known films, Derzu Uzala was based on the memoirs of Russian explorer Vladimir Arseniev. […]

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Believe it or not, a lot of driving time and gas is involved in finding a parking spot in city centers. Dr. Shoup believes that making parking meters more expensive will ease parking. He has seen this done in a few business areas and he suggests that the money collected from those parking […]

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