The Sustainable Future

10 reasons to eat less meat

How many of your daily calories come from meat? If it's a lot (or, as some see it, if it's any at all), you might want to reconsider how much you consume. Why? Because calorie for calorie, the planet takes a much bigger hit with meat than fruits, vegetables, and grains. 

For a good primer of some of the reasons to downshift your meat consumption, here's an overview of 10 reasons to eat less meat.

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How to build a thriving sustainable local economy

As I look at events over the last couple of years (the financial crisis, etc.), it seems more obvious than ever that the status quo isn't working. It also seems like one potential silver lining to all of this economic implosion is that it might just force people to start looking seriously at alternatives to "the way things are" that most of us have known our entire lives.

One question keeps looping through my mind. What does a sustainable economy look like? While surfing online and exploring the answer to that question, I ran across these community plans on the Alliance for a Post-Petroleum Local Economy site.

While they focus on the question, "How do we thrive in a post-petroleum world," they might just as well be answering, "How do we create a sustainable economy?"

They're lengthy, but worth reading if you have the time.

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