Garlic may radically reduce one of the main causes of greenhouse gas emissions and global warming.
As cows ruminate, they produce about 500 litres a day each of methane, the greenhouse gas 20 times more potent than carbon dioxide.
Animals are thought to be responsible for 20% of the world’s greenhouse gas emissions. The richer the world gets, the greater the demand for meat and diary products. And hence the greater cows’ contribution to global warming.
Hilary Benn, the UK‘s Environment Minister has obviously been reading Tristram Stuart’s book, “Waste..The Global Scandal Uncovered” and food production as a cause of global warming.
Mr Benn has been talking about the UK’s food production and consumption with the release of the Department of the Environment, Farming and Rural Affair’s first ever food security assessment.
Mr Benn called for Britons to wake up to global affects of food production and supply:
Global warming is in the dock again. Glaciers in North America have been melting at an alarming rate since 1958, according to the US Geological Survey. And it’s due to global warming.
The USGS studied three glaciers: the Wolverine and Gulkana glaciers in Alaska and the South Cascade Glacier in washington State.
They were used as ‘benchmarks’ as their differing elevations and climates are representative of glaciers across North America.
Wolverine and Gulkana have both lost about fifteen per cent of their mass in the last fifty years. Even more worrying, the South Cascade has lost nearly 25% of its mass.
In Berlin, there’s a novel new scheme to help combat global warming and climate change.
The Maison D’Envie brothel is offering a discount to punters turning up on a bicycle or who can prove that they arrived by public transport.
Five euros is knocked off the normal price of seventy euros for a forty-five minute session.
Apparently, it’s proving popular. The owner, Thomas Goetz, says that the brothel is getting three to five new clients a day.
He said, “The recession has hit our industry hard. Obviously we hope that the discount will attract more people. It’s good for business, it’s good for the environment and it’s good for the girls”.
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Mum didn’t know about global warming. To her, not wasting food was just common sense and nothing to do with climate change.
When I was growing up food just wasn’t wasted in our house. If I wouldn’t eat a meal, it would be served up at the next mealtime. She’d had a hard time growing up during the Second World War when food was rationed and variety limited. Bananas and oranges were unimaginably rare. Mum appreciated the value of food and made sure we did. I’ve always hated wasting food.
Here’s an interesting video on why it’s important to reduce your carbon footprint and reduce global warming.
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