Posts tagged as: food

Christmas Gardening

By Michael Smit in Gardens, Living on 20 December 2012

christmas-garden-harvestChristmas is almost here, a time of giving and receiving, a time of spirit and for most of us a time of coming together and sharing. All of these themes come to life, it seems to me, in a community garden. Community gardens are used by volunteer groups in the community with permission from the owners

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20
DEC
2012

Tuna: who CAN you trust?

By Luke Gibbons in Eco-products, Living, Videos on 3 October 2012

Tuna-fishCanned tuna. It’s convenient, relatively healthy and oh so diverse – from wraps and sandwiches to mornay and pasta bakes. Tuna is also relatively cheap when you consider the journey that little fishy takes to get from the deep blue sea to your plate, not to mention the energy and resources required to make the packaging.

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3
OCT
2012

Food scarcity

By Luke Gibbons in Our planet on 30 May 2011

image - water for feeding the nationI was listening to to a Living Planet podcast recently and was astonished to hear that in October this year our planet will reach a population of 7 billion people. If that doesn’t sound like much, it’s a 7 followed by 9 zeros, it looks like 7,000,000,000. Ok so you get my point that’s a lot of people, and a lot of people to feed, which begs the question: can our planet really sustain so many people?

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30
MAY
2011