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Fighting Noise Pollution in Paris
Paris, it was discovered, is the noisiest city in Europe. It has 5.5 million people, while London or Berlin are much smaller, and this contributes to the noise level having become a public health issue. It interferes with people’s sleeping and in some cases with ordinary living such as talking or listening to music. As…
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Animals With Legal Rights
In Ecuador individual wild animals now have legal rights. It’s the first country in the world to do so. And it follows because in 2008 Ecuador became the first country to recognize that nature or Pachamama, was an entity deserving rights. That law became part of the country’s constitution and yet it wasn’t clear whether…
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Vertical Agriculture
Control environment agriculture often called vertical agriculture is a form of urban farming that takes place in warehouses, not warehouses instead of acreage and fields, but warehouses full of drawers with plants and seedlings, stacked up to 30 feet or more. It’s a great answer to the environmental concerns of traditional agriculture but it is…
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