by JoAnne Lehrfeld | Dec 3, 2024 | Environmental
“School meal schemes are about more than just food: For kids facing hunger, cheap, nutritious meals can be transformative.” This article from reasons to be cheerful explains how Food4Education is producing 10,000 to 60,000 meals a day in Nairobi alone,...
by JoAnne Lehrfeld | Oct 22, 2024 | Environmental
Fundamentally altering how food is grown is not easy. The state of Sikkim took the slow and pragmatic route — and it has paid off. Read this article from Geetanjali Krishna at reasons to be cheerful, and learn about how Pelling, Western Sikkim went 100 percent organic...
by JoAnne Lehrfeld | Mar 19, 2024 | Environmental
In this article, Adam Weymouth of Ink Cap Journal discusses a Bronze Age crop that is helping modern farmers adapt to climate change and resist depopulation.
by JoAnne Lehrfeld | Nov 28, 2023 | Environmental
At David Byrne’s “Reasons to be Cheerful”, Klaus Sieg discusses the EU ban on microplastics, explaining what they are, how they are harmful, and how companies have been using them in their products.