This is an article from the Journal of Hunger and Environmental Nutrition. It speaks about the growing concerns that our world faces today regarding the industrial food system. These concerns are addressed by the European Union, comprised of 27 nations. There is a call for major changes in policy regulations and some of the changes needed are with product manufacturing and regulation. There is an urgent need for sustainable food systems and the EU is addressing these social, economic and health concerns on a global level. There are 4 parameters to consider here and those are the physical world, the physiological world, the social world, and the cognitive world.

This article talks about the advances in technology and development of using cane sugar to produce ethanol and diesel. Over half of Brazil uses renewable energy resources and farmers must reserves 20 percent of their land for biodiversity fuel. Awesome!

This is a very interesting article from the USDA which describes ways in which farmers can help reduce GH gases. Things such as changing the feed for farm stock and capturing the methane produced from the manure and converting it into electricity..

This is new information for me. I did not realize the great strides China has been making towards a cleaner environment using renewable resources. They are utilizing wind, solar, hydropower and more and have become one of the fastest countries to instill change. This is interesting, considering the largest amount of energy consumed currently is through the use of coal. Since 2005 they have reduced the percentage of GH gases by 750 million tons..

This article talks about using seaweed as an alternative energy source to ethanol. Arguments for using seaweed are 1.) does not effect the ecosystem 2.) can be grown much more quickly 3.) could possibly be beneficial to the environment and sea life 4.) does not need fresh water to grow 5.) will not effect production of food grown from land The biggest breakthrough is scientists have developed a new form of E.Coli which breaks down the sugars in the seaweed - which has been the main problem with why seaweed hasn't been used as a biofuel (besides being expensive)

This article talks about alternative energy resources. Things like making oil from turkey waste - 1 ton of turkey poop can make 600 pounds of petroleum!! Ocean thermal energy conversion is another idea talked about - if we can harness this energy effectively it can be an alternative power source..harnessing the power of the waves and tides, bioremediation - utilizing bacteria and microbes to clean up waste..

I forgot to add the link!! http://www.livescience.com/11334-top-10-emerging-environmental-technologies.html

Einstein said that we can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking used when we created them. "No significant human endeavour has ever been accomplished without passion. Science and technology by themselves aren't enough. We need to turn to the arts in order to infuse passion into the pursuit of sustainability and get real results that will heal the planet," Paul Shrivastava, director of the David O'Brien Centre for Sustainable Enterprise at Concordia University's John Molson School of Business (JMSB)