How is Australia Developing Sustainable Dairy Production? 30 June 2015 ANALYSIS – Consumers and the community want to know more about the products that agriculture and dairy farmers are producing. According to Helen Dornom, manager of sustainability at Dairy Australia they want to know how the products are produced, how people in the supply chain […]
Category: Sustainability
Hauraki Gulf Mussel Reef Restoration
Taking the Long View ~~~ Gord Stewart Thirty eight million litres of cleaned water every year for a one-time $25 donation. Now that’s what I call good value. That’s the calculated cost-benefit of reseeding the Hauraki Gulf seabed with our native green-lipped mussels. Oysters and other bivalves have been used overseas to filter and improve […]
Addressing climate change
Taking the Long View ~~~ Gord Stewart Will the Government do what’s necessary? Submissions to the Government’s climate change consultation closed Wednesday 3 June. Here is what I wrote … To: the Prime Minister, Minister of Climate Change Issues, Minister of Energy and Resources/Associate Minister of Climate Change Issues, National Party Caucus, and coalition partners […]
Growing knowledge through collaboration
LU-Mg Growing You.jpg: Workshop participants. Dr Charles Merfield jpg: Dr Charles Merfield addresses the workshop. Photo credits: David Hollander. A collaborative workshop to help food producers gain specialist knowledge and skills was held at Lincoln University yesterday. Entitled “Growing You”, it is part of a series covering topics such as sustainable weed management and sustainable […]
Taking the long view
Taking the Long View ~~~ Gord Stewart Climate Change Consultation – Have your say What do Victoria University of Wellington, Syracuse University and the University of London have in common? Dunedin did it. Why not others? Also Dunedin City Council, Minneapolis, Paris and Lismore City Council in New South Wales? And the Church of England […]
Corporate subversion
Sustainable Ways to Feed the World Are Subverted by Corporations By Ruben Rosenberg ColorniNEWS JUNKIE POST Humans’ relationship to food is one of the most fundamentally shaping aspects of our societies. The sole fact that the majority of the world’s population now lives in urban centers is the direct result of a process that began […]
Urban food forests
Urban Food Forests Make Fruit Free For The Picking May 21, 201511:57 AM ET Alastair Bland Phil Forsyth, executive director of the Philadelphia Orchard Project, leads a fruit tree planting at Bartram’s Garden in West Philadelphia. Courtesy of Philadelphia Orchard Project To discover the new frontier of urban farming, you’ll have to look up — […]
Taking the Long View with Gord Stewart
Biodiversity and nature conservation in New Zealand Biodiversity hotspots. These are regions containing significant reservoirs of biodiversity threatened with destruction by humans. By definition, they are areas with a high portion of plant and animal species found nowhere else and having lost at least 70 percent of original habitat. There are twenty-eight such hot […]