G.A.I.A., formally known as green club, is a club that promotes awareness in green and environment issues, such as saving and preserving utilities (water, electricity). We also encourage other students to be environmentally friendly and not only at school but also at home and in public. Our green club also take journeys to let the students experience wildlife nature, which is now mostly quite rare. We also make them aware of what is happening around them, for example: global warming and high temperature increase. Rapid sea ice loss is depriving polar bears of their habitat, since they depend on the ice to hunt prey. Global warming is impacting polar bears, their habitat and food. The chief threat to the polar bear is the loss of its sea ice habitat due to global warming. Now G.A.I.A. intends to encourage students to take a closer look into nature and discover how it is terribly in danger.

                                                                                                                                     

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G.A.I.A.  formally known as Green Club. It is a club that is about Mother Earth. A lot of animals are dying because of global warming. Just like the polar bears, their homes are being destroyed because of global warming. Animals are also dying beacause of rubbish. Some people are throwing rubbish on the floor and some animals come and eat it.  We should stop littering so that the animals won’t die. Also we should not waste water. Water is very precious to everyone. Imagine if the world without water. We won’t be able to do a lot of things.  �C��m�I5

This video examines the truth about our Nation's food supply. The food we buy today is the product of a business who's more concerned about their own profits than their customers health and the government regulators are looking out for the interests of the businesses rather than the American people's well being. The complete script for this video, as well as all the links to the articles, websites and videos in this presentation are available here: http://www.ancient-hebrew.org/jeffben...

 Hector Lalalala3 weeks agoOrganic is very expensiveReply1  

 Vickie Novak3 weeks agoIf you just buy 1 item organic each time you shop it would make a huge difference to farmers bottom line and THAT will begin to bring down the prices. But we ALL need to start by buying that one item...then 2!Reply1  

 Hector Lalalala3 weeks agoi live in a big city now, and im trying to move to a small town in Colorado. I wish I could grow my own veggies Reply  

 Vickie Novak3 weeks agocheck out "growing your own food" ideas on Pinterest. You can do vertical bottle planters In windows or a plastic tub planter or grow spinach or lettuce in flower pots on balcony or window seals. Just an idea....Reply  

 trentnorman222 weeks agowatch the first 2 minutes again. people can't afford buying even one item.Reply  

 Kap pa2 weeks agoPeople who say organic is better makes me laugh.  Companies know so many loop holes that even if it says organic or free range the only difference between is the price/ label.  I've worked on a farm for 5 years and yea only difference between the common stuff and the 'organic' is that we picked the 'organic' stuff by hand.Reply2  

 rudy markel2 weeks ago+Vickie Novak OOO yeah...all Organic labeled food is really just that huh....and never genetically modified previously before becoming "organic" and they have special ORGANIC only trucks and storage bins so that NO pesticides or food treated ever comes in contact with NONORGANIC food or chemicals huh... and no animal dung has ever had a hormone or other chemicals near or around the animals that provide the "natural" fertilizerRead moreReply1  

 Dillon Spellman6 days agodo you eat kale, broccoli, or cauliflower?Reply1  

 KILLKING1102 days ago+Vickie Novak you stop eating meat you lose out on key muscle building proteins so buy locally raised meat that has no GMO's, hormone free, etcReply  

 Vickie Novak2 days agoThere are plenty of greens like spinach, and kale among others that have plenty of protein to keep up your muscles. Rice and black beans are a complete protein. "Jake Mace the Vegan athlete" is a Kung fu master....he has been vegan for years and grows his own food in his yard..check out his youtube channel.Reply  

 Peter Kennedy. Irish to a Fault.2 days ago (edited)+Vickie Novak There is a method of growing potatoes that can produce a huge amount in a very small space, it was used in Britain during the second world war in a very dark time when the U boats were being very successful in the North Atlantic, sinking supply ships sending a lot of food to the bottom of the ocean. 
The grow method used was called 'a barrel of spuds' literally using large bottomless barrels placed over the sprouting potato plant and covering the sprout with fresh soil every time it shows through, until the plant reaches the top of the barrel where it will flower and in time die off, at that time the barrel is harvested, this method can produce a lot of organic spuds, and it doesn't have to be an actual barrel, any tubular device could be used. also there are hundreds if not thousands of fine healthful potato varieties out there even though most people have only ever seen the commercial Russet and the Eyefull red variety, in Ireland practically every townland or parish has its own different variety of the spud, so check out Heritage seed sites for really great food seeds.
On the Potato, it is a fact that up until the Irish Potato Famine 1840 - 1850 millions of Irish peasants survived on potatoes alone with a little butter and salt, that was their entire diet, and they thrived, I just cannot see that happening eating the modern Russet.Read moreReply  

 Vickie Novak1 day agowow, Peter Kennedy. Thanks for sharing. I have seen similar potato growing methods here on you tube and Pinterest. I will have to give it a try and see what happens. I always say something is better then nothing...we all need to take our health in our own hands and not rely on pills to fix our problems...they are part of the problem! have a great day!Read moreReply  

 Peter Kennedy. Irish to a Fault.1 day ago+Vickie Novak  Thanx for the reply Vickie, you're a Star.

 analisa quiroz7 months ago+Fenniche Imene Exactly! Very well made connection, these corps & industries definitely synergize off one another. That is why it is so difficult to differentiate the truth from liesReply5  

 Stacy Elam3 weeks ago+Raven Spies In California they put stickers on the produce that contain a set of 4 or 5 numbers.  If a sticker starts with a 9 XXXX it is organic.  If it starts with a 4 XXXX it is conventionally grown using pesticides, etc., If it starts with an 8XXXX it is GMO from a GMO seed.   So, there is a way to check but that doesn't mean all growers are honest conscientious people who are incapable of telling the truth, however.Show lessReply  

 Flames Burn3 weeks ago+Stacy Elam ...if that's true, ill be keeping my eyes open on those label x'sReply1  

 Stacy Elam3 weeks ago+Flames Burn Also, I don't know if you are aware of the "Non-GMO Certified" and "USDA Organic" labels.  The first one is a green label and the second one is a black label.  Both labels are about the size of nickel and appear on the pkg. of the item.  These labels are reputed to be accurate in whether a product is using GMO.Reply  

 Flames Burn3 weeks ago+Stacy Elam .. yes I am, I just wasnt aware of the # code of 8 referring to GMO product... thanks.Reply1  

 saladlamp3 weeks agoUnfortunately, that's not true. Contrary to what most people believe, "organic" does not automatically mean "pesticide-free" or "chemical-free".  In fact, under the laws of most states, organic farmers are allowed to use a wide variety of chemical sprays and powders on their crops. But they are limited as to which ones they can use and still claim their product is organic. 

Google "organic food and pesticides".

Organic does mean non-GMO though.Show lessReply  

 intigfx1 month ago+Maggic And if the virus is already there, what do you suggest they do? Just cross their arms?Reply2  

 Carlo Delos Santos1 day ago+Maggic when did sexism come to this?Reply1  

 just L.1 month ago (edited)GMO never was the problem, artificial pesticide and artificial fertilizers are. insects generate resistance to pesticides and chemicals gets inside our food.resistant insects can kill big portion of our farm which will cause massive famine for years. until scientist find better pesticide to kill those insects too. then again insects will adapt to that chemicals and those chemicals are getting in our food.Show lessReply2  

 Pete Floyd3 months agoI do not know much about this. If GMO's technology is not deployed to the world's food supply would we have enough food to feed everyone. Has anyone done the math? Also, do GMO benefits out weigh the risks of not having them? Thanks to anyone who can answer.Reply  

http://www.TheRawfoodfamily.com

I can imagine that you do not like this information, because it is uncomfortable.
But, hey:
Didn't say that it would be easy to be in charge of all the food you eat.
But at least is it possible!

As I have quite some distrust for labels on the food, I want to know FOR SURE that my food is GMO free and organic.
All companies who want to sell their products can be accidentally or even consciously mistaken by labeling their food as "GMO-Free" or "organic".
This video is giving some real good tips on how to identify REAL GMO-Free food without having to trust the labels on packages.

I love how we can take the power back using the simple tips I am giving here in this video.
We do NOT have to buy GMO foods, but can make our own decisions getting the GMO-free foods on our table.
This is so important, as most of the "designed" or "hybrid" foods are trained to have less seeds and much sugar, which does decrease the natural force and nutrient content.
And I am not even talking about pesticides or hormones here.
Just the simple quality and nutrient content is much lower in GMO produced food.
This is why it is so important to have the wild foods and the old types of our raw foods on our table.
Did you know that ancient apples just had the size of cherries and were really sour?
Those apples did contain 50 times more nutrients than our modern-timers.
We need the old, wild sorts.
Those are the foods that also have more life force and are better prepared to survive in nature without our protection.
it is almost ironic, that most of the raw foods today wouldnt even be able to survive by themselves.
they need us to protect, shelter and nurture them.
We get so much more life force and nutrients out of the wild , old types of foods that are GMO-free.

I hope you find some good tips in the video, and remain with all my wild food love
Love KA


Website: http://www.TheRawfoodfamily.com

The Canadian food system is in trouble. This short film explains what's happening to Canada's local food system and why we should all care. Watch to find out more, and join The Real Food Movement.

Short animations aimed at educating a primary audience about local food. Created by the young people of Worth Valley Young Farmers as ITV Fixers. www.worthvalley.org.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xS1SKiypHME 

Field to Fork - Episode 1 "Where does food comes from?" 1min
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7IRdS48yuf0

Field to Fork - Episode 2 "Food miles"

Brought to you by http://www.feedingninebillion.com
By 2050 there will be 9 billion people on the planet - but will there be enough food for everyone? Food security expert Dr Evan Fraser guides you through a whiteboard presentation of his solution to the Global Food Crisis focusing in this video on the role of the local food system.

New single 'You Are What You Eat' out Jan 22 from: http://music.formidablevegetable.com.au
Written by Formidable Vegetable Sound System in celebration of the UN's International Year of Soils.
Animated by Bigfish: http://www.bigfish.tv

Song written by Charlie Mgee, Mal Webb & Kylie Morrigan
Recorded by Michael Barker at Twisty Pole Studios - Rotorua, New Zealand.
Produced, mixed & mastered by Spoonbill.
Copyright © 2016 ORiGiN Music Publishing.

The song has been recorded by Paul Stookey of Peter, Paul and Mary, John Denver, Pete Seeger, Fred Penner, David LaMotte, Makem and Clancy, and Arlo Guthrie, as well as the Muppets.[1][2] The version of "Garden Song" covered by John Denver made the national charts.[3] The song also inspired a book called Inch by Inch by Leo Lionni in 1995.

Animation created in Flash and After Effects looking at mans relationship with the natural world.

Music: In the Hall of the Mountain King by Edvard Grieg.
"Hall of the Mountain King" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)

Published on Aug 20, 2015 The Sad Truth About Today’s World Illustrated By Steve Cutts 
Art isn’t all fairytale photoshoots and landscape shots – it can also act as catalyst of change. And Steve Cutts thinks that many things in the world should be different. Work shouldn’t be a grinding, soul-crushing rat race for the almighty dollar. Consumerism shouldn’t hold a vice-like grip on our lives. And social media, well, we need to throw-off the shackles we so eagerly put on ourselves. Wouldn’t life be better then?

Steve Cutts is an illustrator and animator from London. Faced with the choice of working at McDonalds or studying Fine Arts, he chose the latter. He worked at Glueisobar as the main storyboard concept artist before making the leap to freelance work. Cutts makes videos and images that criticize modern life – he states that insanity of humanity is an endless pool of inspiration.

More Info:
www.stevecutts.com

Starbucks will stop using a red food dye made from bugs, its president recently wrote in a blog post.Despite the attention Starbucks has received for using the insect-based dye in some of its products, the coffee purveyor is far from the only user of this additive. Anytime you see an ingredients list that includes carmine, cochineal extract or  natural red 4, you can be sure that there's a little powdered bug therein.R

The idea that any business would try to feed insects to a largely bug-averse populace may seem remarkable, but consider the alternatives: if it doesn't come from a bug, it may come from something worse. [No Creepy Crawlies Here: Gallery of the Cutest Bugs]

Cochineal extract is extracted from the cochineal, specifically the female, a species of insect that belongs to the order entomologists refer to as the "true bugs." (Don't trust any account that calls this bug a beetle — it's not).When Europeans descended on South America in the 1500s, they discovered that the Aztecs were producing vibrant, cochineal-dyed fabrics that retained their color for an incredibly long time. Soon, dried cochineal became a major trade good. Today, cochineals are harvested mainly in Peru and the Canary Islands on plantations of prickly pear cacti, the bugs' preferred host. There, the insects are sun-dried, crushed, and dunked in an acidic alcohol solution to produce carminic acid, the pigment that eventually becomes carmine or cochineal extract, depending on processing. About 70,000 insects are needed to produce a pound of dye.Until 2009, cochineal was one of many dyes that fell under the umbrella term "natural color" on ingredients lists. But because cochineal provokes severe allergic reactions in some people, the Food and Drug Administration requires carmine and cochineal extract to be explicitly identified in ingredients lists.Aside from its role as an allergen, cochineal has no known health risks, although those who keep kosher or choose not to eat animal products will want to keep their distance. In addition to food, cochineal is used as a dye in cosmetics products, including lipstick, and at least one person has reported a severe allergic reaction to a cochineal dye used in a pill coating. [9 Weirdest Allergies]Cochineal may be made from bugs, but other synthetic red dyes such asRed No. 2 and Red No. 40, which carry far greater health risks, are derived from either coal or petroleum byproducts. Compared with these sources, bugs might sound positively appetizing.

Pass it on: Unless you're allergic to it, cochineal extract probably isn't a health concern.

GWEN PEARSON SCIENCE 
DATE OF PUBLICATION: 09.10.15.

 TIME OF PUBLICATION: 12:57 PM.

 

THERE ARE BUGS IN your food and makeup. Some of them are there on purpose.

One of the best known is cochineal, a red color additive derived from a scale insect called, appropriately, the cochineal scale (Dactylopius coccus). Cochineal is a naturally occurring compound that’s been used by humans for hundreds of years, and provides an important source of cash for a lot of rural Central and South American people.

Cochineal goes by different names on food and cosmetic labels: cochineal, carmine, carminic acid, Natural Red 4, or E120. You may be surprised where you find it—it provides color to sausage and artificial crab, as well as pink pastries. Many yogurts and juices use cochineal, and it’s common in lipsticks and blushes. It’s remarkably stable during cooking, freezing, or in an acid environment, making it perfect for manufacturing.

Unfortunately, an ‘OMGBUGZ’ reaction from consumers has caused many companies to drop this ingredient. Campari’s beautiful reddish-pink color no longer comes from cochineal; neither does the Strawberries & Creme Frappuccino at Starbucks. Beeswax—a compound secreted by glands in the butt-end of a honey bee—is used by humans for all sorts of lip balms and unguents. And yet, when I explain that some foods contain tiny amounts of cochineal, that freaks people out.

They Aren’t Beetles, and Other Errors

Scale insects are strange, tiny animals, often with no visible legs or antennae. They kind of look like plant pimples. Cochineal scales live on prickly pear, and cover their wee bodies in a white, fluffy wax. Why are these little insects so red under all that fluff? Carminic acid (their red dye) repels ants. Their pigment evolved as a chemical weapon against predation.

News reports like to dwell upon phrases like “smashed up wings and finely ground legs,” but the stuff we call cochineal is a chemical extract from squished female cochineal scales. The insects are crushed and the pigment is extracted. No actual bug “parts” are left in the dye; it’s literally bug juice. (Also, the dye-producing female insects don’t have wings.)

And since I’m being pedantic, there is a common misconception that cochineal is made from beetles. Nope. That’s a huge error, and I don’t just say that because I’m an anal-retentive entomologist who insists that my obscure disciplinary taxonomic rules be recognized by all. (Ok, maybe a little of that. But not only that.)

Beetles and scale insects last shared a common ancestor over 350 million years ago.  More than 350 million years ago, the ancestral animals that eventually became frogs and humans split and evolved away from one another too. If I replaced photos of humans with frogs with the excuse “Eh, it’s all animals with four appendages anyway,” people would notice. And that is why entomologists sigh heavily and roll their eyes when a scale insect is called a beetle.

It’s also not true that Cleopatra used cochineal to make lipstick. Cochineal was unknown outside of South America until the 1500’s. Cleo might have been using a different scale insect native to the Middle East, though: Oak-Kermes scale insects, Kermes vermilio. Like cochineal, these scale insects were harvested and crushed to extract a red pigment.

Is Cochineal Safe?

Cochineal isn’t kosher, and it isn’t vegan. But other than that, it’s pretty benign. A few individuals are allergic to the compounds produced by these insects, and clear labeling is now required. The FDA reached this conclusion in 2009 when it ruled that all products containing cochineal need to say so, rather than just using the vague phrase “natural colors.” From the FDA ruling:

Let me restate that: the FDA *estimated* the scope of the problem based on three allergic reactions in 10 years. Cochineal has proved non-toxic in lab tests. For the majority of the population, cochineal is a safe and naturally derived food coloring.

There Are Bugs In Your Food. Deal With It.

There are lots of actual bug parts in your food, and the FDA knows and approves of it. Insects happen. It’s part of living on Earth, and we just can’t get things completely sterile, no matter how much we try.

Here is a giant list of all the bugs in your food allowed by the FDA. Americans live in a world of highly processed foods and products. I happily eat the allowed “up to 60 or more insect fragments per 100 grams” of chocolate that is allowed as manufacturing contaminants. Because, CHOCOLATE, y’all.

Nearly all the insect contaminants allowed in your food (coffee: 10 percent infestation of beans allowed) are considered “aesthetic” defects. It’s not unsafe, it just freaks people out. Are convenience, perfection, and sterility really the most important things to think about when choosing foods? What about how it was grown, or how many resources are used to package and ship it? What about the welfare of the people who produced and manufactured it?

Check your labels, but maybe let go of the worry about a tiny amount of bug-derived compounds in your food. I mean, come on. You have mites on your face.

our plastic dependency...

from "5 WAYS TO REDUCE YOUR FOOD FOOTPRINT"

by Bernadette ( December 2, 2012)
http://www.alittlechange.com.au/2012/12/02/5-ways-to-reduce-your-food-footprint/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BnHYHjchn6w
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It's been 25 years since the first PC virus (Brain A) hit the net, and what was once an annoyance has become a sophisticated tool for crime and espionage. Computer security expert Mikko Hyppönen tells us how we can stop these new viruses from threatening the internet as we know it.