EN - Imported foods vs local foods: From an environmental perspective, is it better to eat imported foods like tofu, quinoa and sweet potato or beef from the farm a few kilometres up the road? (New Scientist, 2019)
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Hungry Planet (Photographs by Peter Menzel, 2007), about families worldwide and their food.
In Hungry Planet, Peter Menzel and Faith D'Aluisio present a photographic study of families from around the world, revealing what people eat during the course of one week. Each family's profile includes a detailed description of their weekly food purchases; photographs of the family at home, at market, and in their community; and a portrait of the entire family surrounded by a week's worth of groceries. To assemble this remarkable comparison, Menzel and D'Aluisio traveled to twenty-four countries and visited thirty families from Bhutan and Bosnia to Mexico and Mongolia.
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Food: The Globalisation of our Plates (2018, arte.tv)
Mapping the World (13 min), Available from 14/09/2019 to 13/11/2019
EN - How has globalisation changed our eating habits? From Vasco de Gama bringing the Chili pepper to Asia to American fast-food brands dominating the world, an insight into how international trade determines what we eat.
DE - Wo liegen die Ursprünge der "kulinarischen Globalisierung" – und welche Folgen hat diese für Landwirtschaft, Lebensmittelindustrie, Gesundheit und Umwelt? Und hat die Globalisierung dazu beigetragen, dass heute mehr Menschen satt werden?
Hamburger in Abu Dhabi und Sushi in Paris – verschlingt das „Global Food“ die traditionellen regionalen Gerichte? Und hat die Globalisierung dazu beigetragen, dass heute mehr Menschen satt werden? Wo liegen die Ursprünge der „kulinarischen Globalisierung“ – und welche Folgen hat diese für Landwirtschaft, Lebensmittelindustrie, Gesundheit und Umwelt?
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DE - Interview with the Swiss climate scientist Reto Knutti (WOZ Nr. 36/2019 vom 05.09.2019): In an interview he talks about the sense of climate models, thawing methane bubbles and the confounded permafrost.
Im Interview spricht er über den Sinn von Klimamodellen, auftauende Methanblasen und den verflixten Permafrost. (Tip: good translation results by using deepl.com)
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DE - How to calculate our CO2 footprint (abs.ch, 2019): Berechnung-Klima-Fussabdruck.pdf (218.93 kb)
(en) "(...) Most of the environmental pollution is caused by imported goods (...) The arithmetical conclusion: Around three quarters of the environmental pollution caused by our domestic demand is caused abroad, i.e. by imported goods.
The study also shows that the consumption-related biodiversity footprint - i.e. the loss of species - per person living in Switzerland during the period under review, including imported goods, was around 14 percent. The water footprint (...) increased by 40 percent in 2015, in particular through the import of agricultural products from the water-intensive cultivation or from countries in which the water is particularly scarce. This applies in particular to products from the USA, Spain, India, China, Italy and Pakistan. (...)"
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DE - Comment by Marcel Hänggi (WOZ Nr. 40/2019 vom 03.10.2019), co-initiator of the "Glacier Initiative": Commentary on Swiss climate policy "A little bit of everything": Determined to fight global warming? Swiss politicians and the media only deal with it a little. They prefer to move on the meta-level and discuss the media phenomenon Greta Thunberg, for example. (Tip: good translation results by using deepl.com)
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DE - Greener Swiss cities: Cities are not prepared for climate change.
Hot summers are unhealthy for city dwellers. Green spaces and trees are a remedy.
Die_Städte_sind_nicht_für_den_Klimawandel_gewappnet.pdf (864.22 kb) (Saldo 14/2019) =>What about planting fruit trees for greener cities?
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Southern hemisphere: About half of New Zealand's emissions come from the agriculture sector (PDF), New Zealand's Greenhouse Gas Inventory 1990–2017.
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DE - Container shipping (WOZ 24.10.2019) [full article in progress]
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