{"id":786,"date":"2011-10-12T19:27:45","date_gmt":"2011-10-12T19:27:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/earthsayers.tv\/sustainabilityadvocate\/?p=786"},"modified":"2011-10-12T19:27:48","modified_gmt":"2011-10-12T19:27:48","slug":"sustainability-and-the-other-inconvenient-truth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/earthsayers.tv\/sustainabilityadvocate\/?p=786","title":{"rendered":"Sustainability and the other inconvenient Truth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Sustainability and Jonathan Foley\" href=\"http:\/\/www.earthsayers.com\/special_collection\/The_Other_Inconvenient_Truth_by_Jonathan_Foley\/32\/21106\" target=\"_blank\">Jonathan Foley<\/a> in TEDx speech on the &#8220;other inconvenient truth&#8221; at the intersection of land, food, <a rel=\"attachment wp-att-789\" href=\"https:\/\/earthsayers.tv\/sustainabilityadvocate\/?attachment_id=789\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-789\" title=\"nightview\" src=\"https:\/\/earthsayers.tv\/sustainabilityadvocate\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/nightview.png\" alt=\"nightview\" width=\"100\" height=\"69\" \/><\/a>and the environment and how much of our resources we use for agriculture.\u00a0 The images presented in this video are extremely informative, worth a thousand words each.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-787\" href=\"https:\/\/earthsayers.tv\/sustainabilityadvocate\/?attachment_id=787\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-787\" title=\"river1950\" src=\"https:\/\/earthsayers.tv\/sustainabilityadvocate\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/river1950.png\" alt=\"river1950\" width=\"200\" height=\"153\" \/><\/a>Colorado River Photos<\/p>\n<p>Jonathan Foley is director of the <a href=\"http:\/\/environment.umn.edu\/index.html\">Institute on the Environment<\/a> (IonE) at the University of the Minnesota and leader of\u00a0 the IonE\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/environment.umn.edu\/gli\/index.html\">Global Landscapes Initiative<\/a>. Foley\u2019s work focuses on complex global environmental systems and their interactions with human societies.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-788\" href=\"https:\/\/earthsayers.tv\/sustainabilityadvocate\/?attachment_id=788\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-788\" title=\"rivernow\" src=\"https:\/\/earthsayers.tv\/sustainabilityadvocate\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/rivernow.png\" alt=\"rivernow\" width=\"200\" height=\"149\" \/><\/a>We typically think of climate change as the biggest environmental issue  we face today. But maybe it&#8217;s not? In this presentation, <a title=\"Jon Foley\" href=\"http:\/\/environment.umn.edu\/about\/ione_bios\/jon_foley.html\" target=\"_blank\">Jonathan Foley<\/a> shows how agriculture and land use are maybe a bigger culprit in the   global environment, and could grow even larger as we look to feed over 9  billion people in the future.\u00a0 We need to move towards the concept of Terra Culture.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jonathan Foley on the other inconvenient truth at the intersection of land use, food, and environment.  Images presented are eye-opening. A major challenge of sustainability equal to and part of climate change.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[361,5],"tags":[370,70,372,371,374,373],"class_list":["post-786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-and-consciousness","category-sustainability","tag-agriculture","tag-climate-change","tag-food-production","tag-jonathan-foley","tag-terra-culture","tag-truth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/earthsayers.tv\/sustainabilityadvocate\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/786","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/earthsayers.tv\/sustainabilityadvocate\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/earthsayers.tv\/sustainabilityadvocate\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earthsayers.tv\/sustainabilityadvocate\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earthsayers.tv\/sustainabilityadvocate\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=786"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/earthsayers.tv\/sustainabilityadvocate\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/786\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":793,"href":"https:\/\/earthsayers.tv\/sustainabilityadvocate\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/786\/revisions\/793"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/earthsayers.tv\/sustainabilityadvocate\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earthsayers.tv\/sustainabilityadvocate\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earthsayers.tv\/sustainabilityadvocate\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}