Sustain Our Earth
58
News that effects the sustainability of life on Earth
Follow
Rescooped by SustainOurEarth from Yan's Earth onto Sustain Our Earth
Scoop.it!

The Agrovoltaic system

The Agrovoltaic system | Sustain Our Earth | Scoop.it

The entire structure fully integrates with the surrounding landscape and the visual impact on the agriculture environment is almost null, thanks to both the “structural lightness” and the reduced size of panels, which makes them similar to the foliage of a very rarefied  pergola. For these reasons, all the plants were excluded from the Environmental Impact Assessment


Via Roberto Bogge, Ian Lin
No comment yet.
Discover Topics SustainOurEarth is following
Coffee Party News Content Curation World Science News The Bottom Line Vulbus Incognita Magazine Innovación y desarrollo sostenible
and 103 others
Your new post is loading...
Scooped by SustainOurEarth
Scoop.it!

What caused the obesity crisis in the West?

What caused the obesity crisis in the West? | Sustain Our Earth | Scoop.it

When and why did food became an addiction? And is fat consumption or sugar consumption the greater culprit? Jacques Peretti (pictured above) investigates.

 

"Genetically, human beings haven't changed, but our environment, our access to cheap food has," says Professor Jimmy Bell, obesity specialist at Imperial College, London.

 

"We're being bombarded every day by the food industry to consume more and more food."

 

One of the biggest changes in our modern diet stems back to the 1970s when US agriculture embarked on the mass-production of corn and of high-fructose corn syrup, commonly used as a sweetener in processed foods. . . .

No comment yet.