fábulas sustentáveis

"Fighting the most devastating myths by building a fact-based world view that everyone understands." Gapminder is a non-profit venture – a modern “museum” on the Internet – promoting sustainable global development and achievement of the United Nations Millennium Development Goals. Gapminder was founded in Stockholm by Ola Rosling, Anna Rosling Rönnlund and Hans Rosling on February 25, 2005.  It is an operating foundation that provides sevices as defined by the board, sometimes as collaborative projects with universities, UN organisations, public agencies and non-governmental organisations.

No Inverno há pouca luz, os dias são pequenos e as cores são ténues. A vida está encolhida, recolhida, fechada.  Tudo é delicado. A luz é suave e os raios invadem os espaços. O Sol aparece baixinho no horizonte e desaparece suavemente. A solidão não incomoda. E um há silêncio constante. Mas apetece rir, cantar, dançar, gritar, libertar a luz que está cá dentro.  Ou encontrar a luz de uma vela e ficar no conforto, aproveitar o momento e esperar pelo próximo. Foi um domingo sorridente ! Tack J.

Algumas curiosidades que fazem da Suécia um país exemplar em termos de protecção ambiental: Sweden has along tradition of ambitious environmental initiatives and policies. The environmental debate in the beginning of the1960s led to a fourfold increase in membership of environmental organizations, a gradual integration of environmental protection in to the programs of the political parties and the creation of state administrative units responsible for natural resources and natural protection. Sweden was the first country in the world to establish a national environment protection agency (1967), and Sweden’s Environmental Protection Act (created in1969) was the most encompassing environmental legislation in the world at that time. In 1981, the Green Party was established and seven years later became represented in the Riksdag. In the 1990s Sweden was the first country in Europe to implement economic reforms designed to exchange environmental and energy-related taxes and fees

Some people have told me that when they were abroad Portugal, living for some time in other countries, they loved to buy sardines. I have found them! Sardines, here up in the North! In my daily supermarket. Now I feel at home...good fish, from the sea and made in Portugal. It has also the MSC certification. I was curious when I saw that almost 45% (data from 2009) of the total landed sardine in Portugal goes to process for can or frozen. And from that, the frozen sardines part represents around 20% (3467 ton). But almost all frozen sardines go to exportation (3190 ton). Probably just because Portuguese people around the world miss sardines! Since they can't afford to have them fresh, frozen could be the more similar way to eat them. This strange Portuguese feeling of Saudade, never let us go: Saudade is a unique Portuguese word that has no immediate translation in English. Saudade describes a deep emotional state of nostalgic longing for something or someone that one loves and whi

The growing influence of non-governmental organisations (NGOs) in the seafood industry means that they now play a central role in setting standards for sustainable fisheries. In a new study , researchers used the Dutch Good Fish Guide to illustrate how NGOs can efficiently engage consumers, industry, fishermen and government. in de Vos, B. I. & Bush, S. (2011). Far more then market-based: Rethinking the impact of the Dutch Viswijzer (Good fish guide) on fisheries’ governance. Sociologia Ruralis. 51(3) .

The GMO salmon discussion keeps going. The pressure to the authorities is big since they take the decision to allow this fish to be sold as ordinary food to people. Until now FDA - Food and Drug Administration ( the agency within the U.S.A. Department of Health and Human Services responsible for protecting the public health by assuring the safety, efficacy and security of human and veterinary drugs, biological products, medical devices, our nation’s food supply, cosmetics, and products that emit radiation ) still continue their negative answer. But we never now when this will turns out. Here are some interesting facts about the discussion: As we’ve noted before, agribusiness loves to tout the ostensible economic benefits of industrial food production, perpetually falling back on the old it’s-the-only-way-to-feed-the-growing-population-without-inducing-global-starvation-and-economic-catastrophe argument. Of course, as I find myself pointing out ad nauseam, these economic benefits are