{"id":732,"date":"2010-06-14T08:29:21","date_gmt":"2010-06-14T15:29:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sparkledesign.net\/fidget\/?p=732"},"modified":"2010-06-14T08:29:21","modified_gmt":"2010-06-14T15:29:21","slug":"brown-revolution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sparkledesign.net\/fidget\/2010\/06\/14\/brown-revolution\/","title":{"rendered":"Brown Revolution?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I happened across this <a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/8239427\">video lecture<\/a> last night, and am glad I took the time to watch it. If you have an hour and are interested in the environment\/climate change &#8211; and are ready for a new perspective on the whole thing &#8211; check this out. BN has been reading <em>Collapse<\/em> by Jared Diamond, about the rise and fall of civilizations through history with regard to environmental and social factors. He&#8217;s shared tidbits from it with me here and there, and it&#8217;s raised my awareness of problems such as deforestation, desertification and soil erosion. This video has a lot to say on that.<\/p>\n<p>As a side note, it came to mind that a while ago there was this big shift in nutrition &#8211; it&#8217;s not fat that&#8217;s making us fat, it&#8217;s all the sugar. (The low-carb craze.) This is kind of that level of paradigm shift, except in environmental health, not individual human health&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I happened across this video lecture last night, and am glad I took the time to watch it. If you <span class=\"more-text\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sparkledesign.net\/fidget\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/732"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sparkledesign.net\/fidget\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sparkledesign.net\/fidget\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sparkledesign.net\/fidget\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sparkledesign.net\/fidget\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=732"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.sparkledesign.net\/fidget\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/732\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":733,"href":"https:\/\/www.sparkledesign.net\/fidget\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/732\/revisions\/733"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sparkledesign.net\/fidget\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sparkledesign.net\/fidget\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sparkledesign.net\/fidget\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}