fábulas sustentáveis

In June 2014 there were  released news from a six-month investigation about slave labour to fish prawns for supermarkets in US and UK . It was revealed that large numbers of men are being bought and sold like animals and held against their will on fishing boats off Thailand to work in the production of prawns (commonly called shrimp in the US) sold in leading supermarkets around the world. The news raise the discussion about seafood traceability and retailers as Carrefour took action in dissociating their supermarkets from a human exploitation and lack of human rights production source. At this time the discussion was about prawns, an expensive and high value seafood product, but more is needed to discuss when it comes to Thai seafood industry for low quality standard as pet food: The USA is the biggest customer of Thai fish, and pet food is among the fastest growing wxports from Thailand, more than doubling since 2009 and last year totaling more than $190 milion. The a...

If you are a fish consumer, it is almost certain that you eat seafood produced in aquaculture such as salmon, sea-bream, sea-bass, turbot and mussels. On average every person in European Union (EU) consumes 5.5 kg of seafood from aquaculture production per year  [1] . Mussels are the most produced species in the EU followed by trout, salmon and oysters; but the total output of European aquaculture represents only 1.5% of the global production. Given that 57% of farmed fish consumed in the Europe is imported, the European Commission (EC) now wants to encourage the growth of aquaculture production in all member states and aquaculture appears as one of the five strategic areas in the "Blue Growth" designed by the EC, which includes also the development of coastal tourism, biotechnology, mining seabed and ocean energy  [2] . Decisions relating to aquaculture, even if they are made through the reform of the Common Fisheries Policy (CFP), unlike as it happens with fis...

It is sad to assist the last days of something but even more sad when it is something big, unvaluable, timeless and with no material heritage. It is there now and will never be there again. It will change forever a river, ecosystems, vineyards, a railway, landscape, people's life! There will be no way to come back after this is done. We should enjoy the last days. Please, take action and find more about the issue  here . Moreover we should be able to decide where the energy that we pay comes from. I do not want to pay energy that comes from this dam and I do not want my taxes being used to fund the construction of a dam like this, which in the end will be used by a private company. What do you want?

Listen as your day unfolds, challenge what the future holds Try and keep your head up to the sky Lovers, they may cause you tears Go ahead release your fears, stand up and be counted Don't be ashamed to cry You gotta be You gotta be bad, you gotta be bold, you gotta be wiser You gotta be hard, you gotta be tough, you gotta be stronger You gotta be cool, you gotta be calm, you gotta stay together All I know, all I know, love will save the day Herald what your mother said Reading the books your father read Try to solve the puzzles in your own sweet time Some may have more cash than you Others take a different view, my oh my, heh, hey You gotta be bad, you gotta be bold, you gotta be wiser You gotta be hard, you gotta be tough, you gotta be stronger You gotta be cool, you gotta be calm, you gotta stay together All I know, all I know, love will save the day Life asks no questions, it goes on without you Leaving you behind if you can't stand the pace The ...

If it is need to find arguments why we should eat less meat, here there are two good ones: Firstly, current rates of meat consumption in wealthy countries – particularly red meat – are unsustainable under any circumstances, and must be reduced due to the burgeoning health and environmental impacts.  Secondly, industrial feedlot production yields too many negative outcomes on too many fronts to be justifiable. These systems require large quantities of imported feed crops, thereby displacing potential food production: an area the size of France is required for the EU to import its feed requirements. Meanwhile, they depend on extensive use of antibiotics, entail major GHG emissions (both in the production area and in the shipping of inputs and outputs to far-off locations), cause localized environmental degradation due to the huge waste they produce, and often subject animals to stressful and inhumane conditions. Industrial feedlots cannot conceivably be part of the sustainable fo...

I'm amazed how the speech in the first person can make the message so much easier to understand and to encourage other people to do the same. When I talk about my work during the PhD, we often end up talking about recipes. It seems silly to go from a scientific thesis, with so much data and reading put on, to such an ordinarily everydays life issue :) Buy, cook and eat...or decide and plan before each step. I think about this issue also because I usually tend to personalize the examples that I give, which can only be seen as my point of view, of course, and my generalizing conception of reality. But the point is: it makes the theory turn to real. Bea Johnson has this approach as "do it sustainable by yourself" in her life mode. Being part of an experiment about changing consumption habits is better than any graphic or numbers that one can use. She can explains everything very clear and with passion and it is an easier way to spread the message because it is shown...

...a rotina embacia-nos, torna-nos indefinidos, desfocados, fantasmas, máquinas, ao mesmo tempo que nos solidifica em estátuas de sal. A consciência da morte é o que nos desperta dessa morte em que vivemos, que nos diz o que deveríamos ter feito, o que deixámos de fazer, a morte é um despertador, um despetador que nos acorda para a inevitabilidade dos nossos erros. Morreremos em breve, temos de agir, de resistir. Não desistiremos. A solução seria termos todos uma caveira na mesinha-de-cabeceira, como fazem os monges cartuxos, para nos servir de despertador e todos os dias sabermos que temos de acordar, não para viver a rotina fatal do quotidiano, mas a vida apaixonada de alguém que ainda sabe que existem nuvens, céu e beijos. ... Porque viver não tem nada a ver com isso que as pessoas fazem todos os dias, viver é precisamente o oposto, é aquilo que não fazemos todos os dias. in Flores, Afonso Cruz