http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu Wed, 19 Jun 2013 17:31:36 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2011/12/01/rethinking-our-food-system-to-combat-obesity/ http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2011/12/01/rethinking-our-food-system-to-combat-obesity/#comments Thu, 01 Dec 2011 15:09:45 +0000 Renee Cho http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/?p=20348 The Earth Institute’s Urban Design Lab and MIT Collaborative Initiatives joined to investigate the issue of obesity through the prism of design. Their conclusion: “No single effort to curb childhood obesity will be sustainable or effective on a broad scale if the larger food system is not addressed.” ]]> http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2011/12/01/rethinking-our-food-system-to-combat-obesity/feed/ 10 http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2011/04/26/the-middle-east-dries-up%e2%80%94another-case-study-in-the-water-energy-food-nexus/ http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2011/04/26/the-middle-east-dries-up%e2%80%94another-case-study-in-the-water-energy-food-nexus/#comments Tue, 26 Apr 2011 17:05:43 +0000 Lakis Polycarpou http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/?p=13880 As seductive as it is, depleting non-renewable aquifers to grow food is fundamentally unsustainable for the long term, as Saudi Arabia and other nations are finding out. According to a recent article by Lester Brown, in the 1970s the world’s largest oil producer realized it could use oil-drilling technology to tap deep underwater aquifers and—amazingly, [...]]]> http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2011/04/26/the-middle-east-dries-up%e2%80%94another-case-study-in-the-water-energy-food-nexus/feed/ 8 http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2010/05/17/packard-foundation-supports-sustainable-food-production/ http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2010/05/17/packard-foundation-supports-sustainable-food-production/#comments Mon, 17 May 2010 21:41:26 +0000 Megan Winston http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/support/?p=700 ...]]]> http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2010/05/17/packard-foundation-supports-sustainable-food-production/feed/ 0 http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2010/04/09/punjab-farmers-adapt-to-shrinking-water-supply-3/ http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2010/04/09/punjab-farmers-adapt-to-shrinking-water-supply-3/#comments Fri, 09 Apr 2010 17:17:11 +0000 Funding Initiatives Staff http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/support/?p=550 ...]]]> http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2010/04/09/punjab-farmers-adapt-to-shrinking-water-supply-3/feed/ 0 http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2010/02/09/bill-gates-visits-earth-institute-striving-towards-the-millennium-development-goals-in-sub-saharan-africa-with-support-from-the-bmgf/ http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2010/02/09/bill-gates-visits-earth-institute-striving-towards-the-millennium-development-goals-in-sub-saharan-africa-with-support-from-the-bmgf/#comments Tue, 09 Feb 2010 18:17:33 +0000 Funding Initiatives Staff http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/support/?p=362 ...]]]> http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2010/02/09/bill-gates-visits-earth-institute-striving-towards-the-millennium-development-goals-in-sub-saharan-africa-with-support-from-the-bmgf/feed/ 1