Arte documentary: The future of feeding cities

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Here is an Arte documentary on how to feed cities (i.e. most of the world and the rest of the world as well!). For anybody who can view this French/German channel (I think you can get it on Netflix), and who is interested in how on earth we can continue to feed our cities, this would be a very insightful documentary - I think! It's showing again on Tuesday 15th October at 9.45am or pm (I'm not too sure which it is).

The blurb is as follows, according to my quick translation from French/German into English:

Shaping our future

Where are we headed?
Where do we want to go?

Do we have the courage to shape our own future; to create our own salvation?

I have been silent for a long time - consumed by my studies of ethics in any spare time I had and for which I sat my exam this past Monday. So now I feel free again - free to pursue my various (other) trains of thought and action, yet enriched by plunging into the ethical dimensions behind our every day decisions and attitudes. The first thing I took up again was to continue to read the books I had no time for. Here is the first inspiring quote I came across:

 Most of us expect the deterioration of our world to affect our children and future generations but not us. We believe that educational efforts must be focused on young people, because they might somehow solve the problems we created. But [...] who we are today shapes how the future will be. Despite our aspirations or hopes, our children will grow up to be whom they wish to be [...].

It is important that we teach them literacy, responsibility, aesthetics, and morality, and one excellent way to do that is to strive for that knowledge ourselves. We too must change if we want our youth to change. [...]

We concurrently share a moment unprecedented in human history: we have a preview of our own destruction, or our own salvation. The future is shaped only in the present.

This is from the book "The failure of environmental education (and how we can fix it)" by Charles Saylan and Daniel T. Blumstein (2011), London: University of California Press.

BBQ weekend: charcoal and meat

The sun is predicted to be out and the weather to be hot hot hot this weekend here in the UK. So I am already licking my chops in anticipation of a BBQ weekend! And it won't be vegetarian... (though portobello mushrooms will definitely make it on the grill), which is one small dilemma...plus the use of charcoal always weighs heavily on my conscience.

So I just wanted to share this bit of information from the Bulworthy Project website: