{"id":181,"date":"2009-03-26T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-03-26T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.elca.org\/hungerrumblings\/2009\/03\/26\/lester-brown-on-climate-change-economics-and-poverty\/"},"modified":"2009-03-26T09:00:00","modified_gmt":"2009-03-26T14:00:00","slug":"lester-brown-on-climate-change-economics-and-poverty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.elca.org\/worldhunger\/lester-brown-on-climate-change-economics-and-poverty\/","title":{"rendered":"Lester Brown on climate change, economics, and poverty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.greenfestivals.org\/\">Green Festival<\/a> web site today (looking up the dates that it will be in Chicago &#8211; May 16-17) when I discovered Green Festival TV. In browsing the video clips, I ran across the following interview with Lester Brown. In 15 minutes, he does a nice job of explaining how things like climate change, food production, economics, and poverty are related, and why everyone&#8217;s urgent action is needed. I encourage you to take the time to watch the clip:<\/p>\n<p>And if you happen to live in Seattle, Denver, Chicago, Washington DC, or San Francisco, you might also want to attend the Green Festival in your city. Seattle&#8217;s is this weekend! If you don&#8217;t live in those places, some of the highlights and lots of information are still available at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.greenfestivals.org\/\">Green Festival<\/a> web site, as well as the sites of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.globalexchange.org\/\">Global Exchange<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.coopamerica.org\/\">Green America<\/a> (formerly Co-op America), who put on the festivals.<\/p>\n<p>If you happen to be a person who plans events of any size, the video clip called &#8220;Greening the Green Festival&#8221; about how they minimize landfill garbage at the Green Festivals is pretty interesting and inspiring, too.<\/p>\n<div align=\"right\">-Nancy Michaelis<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was on the Green Festival web site today (looking up the dates that it will be in Chicago &#8211; May 16-17) when I discovered Green Festival TV. In browsing the video clips, I ran across the following interview with Lester Brown. 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