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Five Surprising Public Health Facts… The Breakthrough Institute

WebFour years ago a large earthquake and tsunami devastated northeast Japan. More than 15,000 people were killed. A subsequent nuclear meltdown added fear to …

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The Ecology of Obesity The Breakthrough Institute

WebConfronting the negative impacts of obesity on low-income Americans means confronting difficult social problems like inter-generational poverty, inadequate access to …

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How to Improve Livestock Health, and Cut… The Breakthrough …

WebThe program provides about $5.5 million in grants per year, with awards ranging from $25,000 to $650,000. Funding for these grants and staff for this program …

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Is Feedlot Beef Better for the… The Breakthrough Institute

WebIt’s tempting to say yes, absolutely, because beef has a high carbon-per-pound emissions rate, but I was just reading a paper which shows that the foods with the …

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What Agency Regulates Biotechnology for Plant Health

WebThe Breakthrough Institute is an environmental research center based in Berkeley, California. Our research focuses on identifying and promoting technological …

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How Genetically-Modified Crops Can Save… The Breakthrough …

WebIt has now been scientifically established that golden rice “is an effective source of vitamin A” (to quote from the title of Tang et al, 2009, Am. J. Clin. Nutr) and …

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What is the Agriculture Advanced… The Breakthrough Institute

WebThe Agriculture Advanced Research and Development Authority (AgARDA) is a pilot effort designed to generate and deploy advanced agricultural technologies, …

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Eliza Barclay The Breakthrough Institute

WebEliza Barclay is the science and health editor at Vox.com. Formerly, she edited the food blog “The Salt”, which was just one of her several roles as a reporter and editor at NPR. …

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Livestock Don’t Contribute 14.5% of… The Breakthrough Institute

WebMar 20, 2023. In 2013, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations estimated that livestock production accounted for 14.5% of global greenhouse gas …

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The Soul of Food Justice The Breakthrough Institute

WebResponse to S. Margot Finn’s “Food Injustice”. Feb 7, 2020. In 2004, Ted Nordhaus and Michael Shellenberger, who would go on to found the Breakthrough …

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Nuclear Saved 1.8 Million Lives The Breakthrough Institute

WebThe authors come up with the striking figure of 1.8 million as the number of lives saved by replacing fossil fuel sources with nuclear. They also estimate the saving of …

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The Environmental Case for Synthetic Fertilizer

WebNitrogen pollution is a pressing problem for ecosystem health and the climate. Large shares of nitrogen applied to farms as synthetic fertilizer or manure wash …

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Food Injustice The Breakthrough Institute

WebA food justice movement that takes seriously the problems of equity, health, and sustainability will need to start asking harder questions about what counts as good …

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Human Deaths from Hot and Cold… The Breakthrough Institute

WebIntroduction. Humans are most comfortable in air temperatures in the low 70°s Fahrenheit or low 20°s Celsius. Significant deviations from these temperatures (in either …

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RELEASE: Letter From the Breakthrough… The Breakthrough …

WebWashington, DC—Earlier this month, the Breakthrough Institute, joined by more than 60 scientific societies, nonprofit organizations, land grant universities, and …

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The Pasture Problem The Breakthrough Institute

WebRecent decades have seen remarkable developments across the pastures of the world. Even as production of meat and dairy from ruminants (grazing animals such …

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Does Capitalism Require Endless Growth

WebConstraining the economy to keep it within a safe margin of ecological limits would only hasten capitalism’s collapse, while allowing capitalism to grow unconstrained …

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Deena Shanker The Breakthrough Institute

WebDeena Shanker reports on food, agriculture and health for Bloomberg, and has written for publications including Quartz, Fortune, BuzzFeed, Salon and The Village Voice. She is a …

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The Problem With Alice Waters and the “Slow Food” Movement

WebDec 3, 2021. Alice Waters, the doyenne of farm-to-table cooking, organic farming, and all things California cuisine, has long been a celebrated figure. Her brand of industry …

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