Green Revolution

Can We Feed 9 Billion People?

Reuters | Laurie Goering | Posted 05.02.2012

Read More: Population, Video, Food Revolution, Green Earth Day, Climate Change Food, Food Crisis, Overpopulation, Reuters, Climate Change, Green Revolution, Green Bullet, Population Food, Global Warming, Green News

By Laurie Goering LONDON, May 2 (AlertNet) - In flood-hit fields in the Philippines, farmers are testing a hardy new variety of rice th...

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Who Grows Our Food: Theresa Podoll, Prairie Road Organic Farm

Ellen Kanner | Posted 04.21.2012

Read More: Department of Agriculture, Genetic Modification, Usda, Organic Farming Research Foundation, Family Farmer Seed Cooperative, Turkish, Green Revolution, Theresa Podoll, Millet, Prairie Road Organic Seed, Green News

Seeds are where it all begins. They promise the start of things. They're "the very basis of our food and agriculture," says Theresa Podoll of Prairie Road Organic Farm.

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Whitney Houston and a Mine Sweeper In Iran

Maryam Zar | Posted 04.18.2012

Read More: Iran Sanctions, Politics, Iran, Uranium Enrichment, Foreign Policy, War, Iran Public Opinion, Iranian People, Green Revolution, World News

Iran's masses showed the world their disdain for their current rulers in 2009 when they took to the streets in droves to protest. They were met with very little global support, and were brutally quelled by a regime that refuses to relinquish power.

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U.N. Warns 25 Percent Of Land Highly Degraded, Trend Must Reverse To Feed Population

AP | By NICOLE WINFIELD | Posted 11.28.2011

Read More: Un Food Report, U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization, Video, Agriculture Report, Food Report, U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization Report, Climate-Change, Un Climate Conference Durban, Green Revolution, Agriculture, Green News

ROME -- The United Nations has completed the first-ever global assessment of the state of the planet's land resources, finding in a report Monday that...

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Plug-In 2011: Rising Tide for Electric Cars

Michael Carmichael | Posted 09.20.2011

Read More: Plugless Power, Nissan Leaf, Mitsubishi I, Plug-in Hybrid Cars, Ge, Environmental Pollution, Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicles, Green Revolution, Tesla, Chevrolet Volt, Plug-in Cars, Green Car, Early Adopters, Electric Poer Research Institute, Fisker, Ford Focus Electric, Toyota Prius, Electric Car, Environment, Plug-in 2011, Clean Technology, Plug-in Hybrids, Raleigh, Raleigh Convention Center, Epri, Global Warming, North Carolina, Eaton, Siemans, Green News

Even in the midst of the worst recession since the 1930s, the trend to electric cars and plug-in hybrid is growing stronger. While the market is not yet flooded with plug-in electric cars, manufacturers are accelerating their design, development and production.

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Green Revolution Can Provide Food and Fuel

Stephan B. Tanda | Posted 08.02.2011

Read More: Population, Industrial Revolution, Biofuels, Industrial Biotechnology, Dsm, Biochemistry, Green Revolution, Bric, Stephan Tanda, Biomass, Fossil Fuels, Green Industrial Revolution, Environment, Oil, Sustainability, Food, Climate Change, Green News

The human race will be around in a hundred years, even if oil won't -- in a big way at least. We will have long gone back to living off the land by that point, just as we did before the modern industrial revolution changed life seemingly irrevocably.

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Iran Vows To Unplug The Internet

Wall Street Journal | CHRISTOPHER RHOADS and FARNAZ FASSIHI | Posted 07.28.2011

Read More: Iran Revolution, Iran Internet, Iran, Arab Revolutions, Arab Uprisings, Iran Unplug Internet, Green Revolution, World News

Iran is taking steps toward an aggressive new form of censorship: a so-called national Internet that could, in effect, disconnect Iranian cyberspace f...

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Start the Green Revolution Without U.S.

Bill Chameides | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Wind Power, Energy, Thomas Friedman, Mass Transit, Florida, Energy-Efficient Lighting, Energy-Efficient Light Bulbs, Research, Economics, Economy, George W. Bush, Wind, Renewable Energy, Greg Wetstone, Bill Gates, Green Revolution, New York, Barack Obama, Transportation, Rick Scott, Energy Efficiency, Bicycles, U.S. Congress, Environment, Renewables, American Wind Energy Association, Green Energy, Environmental Protection Agency, Ieee, Green News

Not that long ago, it seemed Americans had decided, for economic, national security, and environmental reasons, we were going to be enthusiastic participants in the green revolution. But the pendulum has clearly swung in the other direction.

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So You Say You Want a Revolution?

MP Nunan | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Egypt Protests, John McCain, Yemen, Alexandria, Social Networking, US State Department, Twitter, Democracy, Tunisia Riots, Dictatorship, Facebook, Green Revolution, Suez, Tunisia Protests, Cairo, Egypt, Saffron Revolution, Cnn, Saudi Arabia, Iran Protests, Protest, Beatles, Mubarak, Breaking Politics News, Rose Revolution, Current Affairs, Orange Revolution, Comedy News

Take a look at this handy chart covering a smattering of recent revolutions, militant movements, terror groups and insurgencies to see how others have tried to topple a government!

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Shirin Neshat: Artist of the Decade

G. Roger Denson | Posted 05.25.2011

More than any other artist I can call to mind, the impact of Neshat's work far transcends the realms of art in reflecting the most vital and far-reaching struggle to assert human rights.

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Red Lenses on a Rainbow of Revolutions

Cynthia Boaz | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Cognitive Policy Works, Color Revolutions, Media, Journalistic Integrity, Journalism, Iran, Democracy Movements, Reporters, Civil Resistance, Repression, Cognitive Psychology, Framing, Frames, Bbc, Media Techniques, George Lakoff, Democracy, Green Revolution, Democracy Struggle, Nonviolent Struggle, Metaphor, Reporting, Journalism Norms, Aung San Suu Kyi, W. Lance Bennett, Nonviolence, Cnn, Media Framing, Burma, Saffron Revolution, Nonviolent Action, Media Bias, Investigative Reporting, Media News

Reposted from OpenDemocracy.net, series on Civil Resistance and the New Global Ferment Given continued strikes in Iran and the freeing of Aung San S...

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Food -- The American Midwest at the Cusp of an Economic Renaissance

Raymond J. Learsy | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Russia, New York Times, Food Shortages, Green Revolution, American Midwest, Brazil, David Brooks, Po;itics, Food Grains, Politics, Saudi Arabia, Oil, Business News

In the coming food shortages, the American Midwest will become the most crucial provider of food grains to the world, building on an already leading, but barely heralded position of leadership.

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Africa must feed itself

The MDG Advocates | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Mdgs, Food-Security, Developing Countries, Africa, Sustainable Agriculture, Green Revolution, Development, World Food Day, Politics News

Africa Must Feed Itself BY DR. AKIN ADESINA, DR. WANGARI MAATHAI AND DR. GRAÇA MACHEL Africa is rising. The 2010 Ibrahim Index of African Governan...

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The Limits of Internet Organizing

Mark Engler | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Malcolm Gladwell, Internet Organizing, Green Revolution, Facebook, Facebook Organizing, Social Movements, Nonprofit Organizing, Twitter Organizing, Technology News

Facebook activism succeeds not by motivating people to make a real sacrifice, but by motivating them to do the things that people do when they are not motivated enough.

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Spinning The Pedal-Powered Gym

Dar Williams | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Green Microgym, River Gym, Douglas Joachim, Re:Source Fitness, Roots Festival, Green Revolution, Mitchell Joachim, Rerev, Nysc, Green News

Maybe someday, I'll jump in my Nerf car and drive to a floating gym, but real pedal-powered technology is available right now, and I fantasize about you using it. It can be done. It can be spun.

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One Year Later: The Green Movement Goes On

Cynthia Boaz | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Green Movement, Civil Resistance, Repression, Mideast, Violence, Iran, Democracy, Green Revolution, Iranian Election, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Democracy Movements, Nonviolence, Global Politics, Middle East, Nonviolent Action, Democracy Promotion, Iranian Islamic Republic, World News

I was one of millions around the world who watched last summer's Green Revolution unfolding on the streets of Iran with high hopes for a swift and blo...

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US Senate, Bill Gates Give Planet a Middle Finger for Earth Day

Jill Richardson | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Bill Gates, Green Revolution, Senator Dick Lugar, Senate Foreign Relations Committee, World Bank, Politics News

Mother Nature does not work like a market: simply put, the world cannot shift to diets based on grain-fed meat.

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The Green Movement: The Day It All Started 40 Years Ago

McClatchy | Rocky Barker | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Environment, Green Movement History, Earth-Day-40th-Anniversay, Sen. Gaylord Nelson, Green Movement, Earth Day History, Earth Day, Green Revolution, Environmental Movement, Green News

BOISE, Idaho -- One U.S. senator and a core of young organizers turned April 22, 1970 , into the day the environmental movement was born. On that day...

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Iran's Presidential Election One Year Later -- Why the Greens Failed

Ismael Hossein-zadeh | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Stolen Election, Mousavi, Rafsanjani, Green Revolution, Iran Election, Ahmadinejad, Politics News

One year after his feverishly contested reelection as the president of Iran, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad seems to be standing on firmer political ground than ...

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Low-Cost Thrills in Millennium Village Data

John W. McArthur | Posted 10.24.2011

Read More: Foreign Aid, Jeffrey Sachs, Poverty, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon, Millennium Promise, G8 Summit, Malawi, United Nations, Malaria, Millennium Villages Project, Sustainable Development, Green Revolution, g20, G20 Summit, Mdgs, Sub-Saharan Africa, Millennium Development Goals, G8, Millennium Villages, Safe Drinking Water, Earth Institute, Global Poverty, Fighting Malaria, Poverty Alleviation, MDG Summit, Impact News

Yesterday, May 30, the United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon visited the Millennium Villages project (MVP) in Mwandama, Malawi. While there he ...

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2010: Ushering in the Decade of Food and Agriculture

Steve Ettlinger | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Michelle Obama, Decade of Food, Childhood Obesity, Food Decade, Sustainability, Michelle Obama and Childhood Obesity, Green Revolution, Farm Bill, Processed Foods, Health Care Bill, Green News

In 2010, it looks like we might see governments and citizens around the world actually start making better choices so that we can all live longer and healthier lives.

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The Evolution Will be ooVood

Mark Levine | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Iran, Fela Kuti, Music, Green Revolution, Neda Agha Soltan, Skype, Electronica, Technology, Censorship, Oovoo, Freemuse, Technology News

With governments still largely in control of the streets and able to monitor or block access to sites like YouTube, Myspace and Facebook, what technologies are left to overcome connect people in meaningful ways?

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Reports of the Green Movement's Demise Have Been Greatly Understated

Flynt and Hillary Mann Leverett | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Tehran, Iran, Green Movement, Green Revolution, Islamic Republic, World News

Compared to what the Iranian government is capable of doing, its response to the protests surrounding the June 2009 presidential election has been comparatively restrained.

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Thomas Friedman's "Perfect Storm"

Frank Sesno | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Carbon Legislation, Friedman Nyt, Green Revolution, Carbon Tax, Thomas Friedman, Climate Change, Green News

Thomas Friedman came to the Planet Forward studios to talk to us about climate change and what he thinks needs to be done to solve it.

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Malawi's Real 'Miracle'

Danielle Nierenberg | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Permaculture, Subsidies, Africa, State of the World 2011, Malawi, Farmers, Education, Fertilizer, Agriculture, Green Revolution, Nutrition, Hunger, Biodiversity, Food Security, World News

Most Malawians think of foods, such as amaranth and African eggplant, as poor people foods grown by "bad" farmers. But these crops may hold the key for solving hunger, malnutrition and poverty in Malawi.

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