Welcome to YouChoose, a blog where we explore ways of living sustainably. I am sharing here a recent article that appeared in the IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society newsletter. You can view the the article by copying and pasting the link below in your browser.
https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/148781/smoky-skies-in-the-western-amazon
The article shows a satellite view of deforestation in South America linked to clearing for cattle and soy plantations (for feeding cattle). From the satellites it is also possible to follow the evolution in time of the rate of deforestation.
In North America environmental destruction is also causing large scale decline in biodiversity and extinction of species due to pesticides used in large scale farming. Below here is an interesting article from the BBC about California’s endangered butterflies and what we can do.
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20211013-the-race-to-save-californias-endangered-butterflies
I hope you enjoy the readings!
The YouChoose app provides several links and information on global food issues and lists of sustainable and unsustainable foods including fish and vegetables, hopefully the information is useful to get started.
In this blog there is a recipe section where I share meat-free recipes to help out. If you want to share your sustainable recipes to help others, I’ll be glad to post them in this blog.
Do you want to share your progress on eliminating meat from your diet? Send me an email at info@choosesustainable.org and I’ll add it to this blog.
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