'Locally Abundant' – Sustainable Food Documentary (full)

* Website – * Summary: “In the summer of 2011, two young Maritimers, Justin Cantafio and Ryan Oickle, departed on a journey that would take them across Canada and back in just under four months. We left from Halifax, Nova Scotia, and traveled as far as the Discovery Islands Archipelago of British Columbia, before heading […]

Marketing food to children | Anna Lappe | TEDxManhattan

Author, activist, and Project Director of the Food MythBusters, Anna Lappe takes on the billion-dollar business of marketing junk food, soda, and fast food to children and teens. With diet-related related illnesses alarmingly on the rise, pervasive marketing of junk food to kids is downright dangerous. The food industry says its up to parents to […]

A recipe for cutting food waste | Peter Lehner | TEDxManhattan

According to a report by the Natural Resources Defense Council, Americans are tossing up to 40 percent of the food supply each year, along with all the resources used to produce food that never gets eaten. Food waste occurs at home, on the farm, and in supermarkets. In this TED Talk, NRDC’s executive director Peter […]

Food waste is the world’s dumbest problem

Eat your peas! It’s the easiest way to fight climate change. This is the fourth episode of Climate Lab, a six-part series produced by the University of California in partnership with Vox. Hosted by Emmy-nominated conservation scientist Dr. M. Sanjayan, the videos explore the surprising elements of our lives that contribute to climate change and […]

DIY furniture minus the splinters

0 With Modify Furniture, designing your own furniture is easier than you think. You design it. We make it. That’s it. Likes: 0 Viewed: 32

CARDBOARD FURNITURE AND PROJECTS, SPOT

5 Cardboard Furniture and Projects. Ecofriendly Folding Furniture. A new concept of cardboard design. Inicio Likes: 5 Viewed: 848

Against obsolescence

218 Planned obsolescence is the design and manufacture of products that are deliberately intended to have a limited useful life. The result is that you are forced into an everlasting cycle of replacing, repurchasing and repeating. For 50 years we have stood by our common sense approach of living better, with less, that lasts longer. […]