If we are ever to see these fisheries recover, protecting rockweed will be an important foundation for the effort.
Category: sustainability
Crowd-sourcing the environment
We will find it increasingly difficult to feed and shelter increasing numbers of humans across our planet
Food Miles
Some types of food can be grown more efficiently overseas and shipped to the point of use, with less overall energy use.
Beef: It’s What’s for Dinner
Short of eating endangered species, eating beef is probably the worst choice you can make vis-à-vis sustainability of the human enterprise on the planet
Bill Schlesinger
conservation, environmental economics, faculty, marine studies, population growth, sustainability
conservation, environmental economics, faculty, marine studies, population growth, sustainability
Sustainability—–not
As long as the human population on Earth is growing, nothing we are doing is particularly sustainable
Divest Now!
Let’s hear calls to those who manage college and university endowments, not to divest from the fossil fuel industry, but to invest in alternatives.
A Modest Proposal
At the first Earth Day, our campus slogan was, “Whatever your cause, it’s a lost cause unless we control population.”
High on the Hog
Recent developments in the North Carolina hog industry have opened new doors to the world marketplace for gourmet foods. Near Smithfield, NC, the Ivey brothers, using the best animal science, have significantly helped to expand NC pork exports by creating “silky pork,” that suits the tastes of Japanese customers.