How bad is the food waste problem?   It is becoming common knowledge that the global situation regarding food waste is bad…..really bad. So bad in fact that the latest estimates from the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations...

Definition of the circular economy In the natural world most systems function in a circular model. A plant grows using energy from the sun, water and nutrients from the soil, this plant is consumed by an animal, which in turn is consumed by another animal and...

A couple autumns ago, I moved back to my suburban hometown in Massachusetts after working in the Sierra Nevada for six months as an ecology field technician. I had been involved in a project studying the effects of forest treatment on tree mortality that took me as...

  Biodiversity refers to the variation across all different organisms from the smallest bacteria to the largest plants and animals. It is this variety that has allowed life to thrive in all types of different habitats for millions of years on this planet....

  The number of people now living in cities across the globe is as high as it has ever been. With the UN predicting this figure will rise from it’s current level of 55% to almost 70% in the coming decades. This increase in human density in these areas brings with...