Teaching World Food Day: rolling live-blog
From features to stats, trends and teaching activities, what are the headlines to explore with learners this World Food Day?
From features to stats, trends and teaching activities, what are the headlines to explore with learners this World Food Day?
Join us on Thurs 11th February for an open discussion with Olive Towey and Sophie Healy-Thow to find out what’s happening at the summit and how you can play a role in transforming how we produce and consume food, and meeting the challenges of climate change.
4 facts and 4 graphics about the state of food in the world today
From the 2019 Trinity College Dublin Development Issues Series Final Five, Emma Beatty dresses for success with her Sustainable Development Goals shopping skills and takes on fast fashion.
The hyper-consumption phenomenon, Black Friday, now takes place beyond the US and is growing. Toni Pyke reports on Black Friday from an afternoon in late
It took just less than 90 seconds to graphically reveal the horrific underbelly of globalisation and of ‘modern’ consumerism and business. Five years ago, in
Written by Cillian Molloy, Sárán Fogarty and Niall Groves of Presentation College Bray in County Wicklow. ……………………………………………………………………………………………… “It is not the strongest of the species
With just 1 more sleep and more importantly only 1 shopping day (!!!) left (keep track of your sleeps and shopping days), “It’s beginning to
Lynda Kelly’s blog was the overall 2015 winner of the Trinity College Dublin and developmenteducation.ie Development Issues blog series. The shortlist of blogs will be
Photo: World Fairtrade Day by John Sargent. Flickr/CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 Anyone who buys, sells or stocks goods that have achieved Fairtrade certification are not engaging
I love coffee. I love good coffee, and have come to the conclusion that I am a coffee snob. I am so addicted – to
Celebrities doing their bit for the planet? As brought to you by British satirical comic, the Viz. MORE: blog on the main arguments for and
By Rebecca Ferrante I am from a small country situated in the middle of the Mediterranean Sea, Malta, which is rich in history and unique
I can’t find my iPod. I can’t find it anywhere. Did I put it somewhere safe and now can’t remember? Perhaps someone has ‘taken’ it?!
Cartoon of the month for August 2014. Visit the cartoons library or visit our sections on consumption and ethical consumption.
I recently came across an intriguing article in the BBC on-line magazine entitled: ‘The Indian Sanitary Pad Revolutionary’. It tells the ‘real life’ story of
A date before August 20th 2014 will mark Earth Overshoot Day, the approximate date on which our resource consumption for this year will exceed the
Tom Roche makes the case that all of us – student groups, teachers, woodwork folk, parents and professionals – should be making online submissions to the
[View the story “Teaching resources: it’s Fairtrade Fortnight!” on Storify]
What’s the first thing that comes to mind when you hear the word ‘development’? Progress?…the gold rush?… land grabs?…jobs and the economy?…heavy industry at work?
Using multimedia can be a great method for raising debate and discussion around a particular set of issues. Whether you are running a workshop, teaching
Information is powerful. Think Africa is a short video that collects the opinions of festival goers from the 2013 Electric Picnic in Stradbally as they
Are we inevitably heading for disaster given current (over)consumption trends? What can be done and who needs to do it? 9 Billion 86% 32:1 72
No better time to consider what’s on and off our plate than in the wake of the European horsemeat scandal. Had you ever, prior to
Having lived for years in African countries and loving the wonderful sunny climates there, I became very negative towards Ireland’s natural environment and was very
“The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough
Can shopping save the world? The Story of Change is a new short movie that urges viewers to put down their credit cards and start
Another brilliant infographic has gone online from GOOD Magazine, this time in partnership with Oxfam Australia and directed at the global food system. Consumption is
Those familiar with this website will not be surprised by the topic of our new animation – on consumption. It accompanies the ethical consumption and
Adidas, the US$16bn a year profit German owned sports clothing giant, has been tasked with the job of kitting out the UK Olympic team for