Danielle Nierenberg's Blog Posts Tagged 'Environment' (3)

Crossposted from the Worldwatch Institute's Nourishing the Planet.

Many of us are thinking about the changes we want to make this year. For some, these changes will be financial; for others, physical or spiritual. But for all of us, there are important resolutions we can make to “green” our lives. Although this is often a subject focused on by industrialized nations, people in…

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Crossposted from the Worldwatch Institute's Nourishing the Planet.



We know that trees can help mitigate climate change by sequestering carbon dioxide from the earth’s atmosphere. But what is less widely understood is how many of these trees can also help to bring an end to hunger and poverty.







Today, Nourishing the Planet takes a look at five varieties of tree… Continue

Cross posted from Worldwatch Institute’s Nourishing the Planet.

“The idea was to bring a lot of expertise from the corporate world to help young social start ups,” says Fred

Rose when asked…

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