Environment

Please see below selected recent space-related change.

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• What's New? - Space

Space isn't remote at all. It's only an hour's drive away if your car could go straight up - Fred Hoyle

June 2019

Please see below selected recent wellbeing-related change.

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• What's New? - Wellbeing
• What's Changing? - Health

June 2019

Please see below selected recent food-related change.

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• What's New? - Food
• What's Changing? - Water

June 2019

• Research by academics at the University of Oxford, published in 2016, found that if everyone became vegetarian, food-related emissions would drop by 63 per cent by 2050. And if they went vegan, the drop would be nearer 70 per cent.

May 2019

Halcyon curates the most significant environment-related content from carefully selected sources. Please contact us if you'd like our help with environment-related challenges.

Our current meat-heavy system of food production seems to many unsustainable, a waste of resources and a source of pollution in the form of pesticides and hormones as well as methane gas from livestock manure.

Please see below key Sustainable Development Goal (SDG)-related developments during June 2017:

Visiting Luc Schuiten's Vegetal City exhibition in Brussels back in 2009 served as an eye-opening introduction to the potential that biomimicry might play in helping us design a sustainable future.

Many projects are already underway; some young architects are designing structures made completely out of living trees, while others are imagining how our great cities might return to their more natural state.

A related website tried to organise all biological information by function and asked the question - what we can we learn from this organism (e.g. any inventor, anywhere, at the moment of creation, could ask "how does nature remove salt from water?")

Aurora Borealis glows in the sky above the Achavanich Stones in Caithness, Scotland, on the 9th January 2014.