9° Deforestation
The deforestation problem and how we can help it, in one simple image.
The deforestation problem and how we can help it, in one simple image.
One of the greatest threats to global health today, antibiotic resistance causes 700,000 deaths per year because it is so often prescribed as the effective prevention and treatment of an ever increasing range of infections. However, by exposing livestock to these antibiotics, we create this dangerous problem. Allowed ...
One of the more practical and achievable ways to cleanse our environment and ensure an equitable future is to lock up, or sequester, more carbon from the atmosphere through the simple process of planting more trees worldwide. Neem has a high rate of photosynthesis and liberates more oxygen than many other tree ...
Organic products provide a sustainable solution in feeding an ever increasing population and therefore have drastically increased in popularity over the last few years. The produce has gone mainstream; increasingly popular for consumers while being highly profitable for growers and producers.
The neem tree (Azadirachta Indica) is an evergreen in the Meliaceae (mahogany) family, celebrated for its remarkable healing properties as far back as 5,000BCE by the Harappa and Mohenjo civilizations. Fast-forward to the present day and neem is becoming renowned for its contributions to sustainable agriculture and ...
With mankind’s pervasive use of synthetic and toxic pesticides in agriculture, organic products are urgently needed for their positive environmental impact. Neem is becoming more relevant in the agricultural space because it contains over two hundred biologically active compounds that are effective in crop ...
A synthetic pesticide is a poisonous chemical or mixture that is used to prevent, repel, or kill insects, weeds and fungi. While these synthetic pesticides can aid farmers in preventing the crop losses that can be caused by pests, the negative effects they have on human health and the environment are catastrophic.
One of the greatest threats to global health today, antibiotic resistance causes 700,000 deaths per year by comprising the effective prevention and treatment of an ever increasing range of infections. Allowed to continue unabated, this dangerous phenomenon is expected to cause 50 million deaths per year by 2050 and ...
As synthetic pesticides end up virtually everywhere due to environmental contamination, their pervasive use in agriculture has led to a variety of health problems.
In this infographic, we see the effect that neem biopesticides have on the environment. One of neem’s main active ingredients, azadirachtin, acts as a natural growth regulator and feeding deterrent to over 500 species of insects.
Today, 14% of all humans who have ever existed are currently alive. It took 1800 years for the world’s population to reach one billion. Fast-forward 200 years and the human race had increased to 6 billion, and an additional 12 years for our last billion. Though global fertility rates are falling, a 2014 study by ...
We currently use 1.6x the earth's available resources. Unless moves are made to explore sustainability, living on our planet may mean having to make do with less. Farmland availability is shrinking, much of it to make way for expanding urban populations. Crop yields are no longer expanding and the ‘Green Revolution’ ...
Sustaining the needs of a global population that has tripled in the last century alone is one of the major challenges of modern man. The global population has increased by 45% to 7 billion since the dawn of the new millennium, and is expected to hit at least 9.7 billion by 2050. By 2100, the human population will have ...