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On Cities, Food, History, and Future

October 15, 2009 by Tim Berry with 486 views

In honor of Blog Action Day, the video here is a 15-minute TED talk by Carolyn Steel, author and architect. Among the startling things she says here: We lose about 47 million acres of rainforest every year. And at the same time, we lose about 50 million acres of farm land to salinization and erosion. Half the food produced in the USA... [read more]

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