For the first time, the most innovative food policy solutions in the Nordic Region have been brought together in a single document. The Solutions Menu includes 24 policies that aim to change food consumption and intends to inspire new and robust policy responses to the societal and environmental challenges caused by our current food systems. The Solutions Menu is produced by the Nordic Food Policy Lab, one of six flagship projects under the Nordic prime ministers’ Nordic Solutions to Global Challenges initiative.
Interestingly, some relief from today's woes may come from ancient human practices. While current agri-food production models rely on abundant supplies of water, energy, and arable land and generate significant greenhouse gas emissions in addition to forest and biodiversity loss, past practices point toward more affordable and sustainable paths. Different forms of insect farming and soilless crop farming, or hydroponics, have existed for centuries. In this report the authors make a persuasive case that frontier agriculture, particularly insect and hydroponic farming, can complement conventional agriculture. Both technologies reuse society's agricultural and organic industrial waste to produce nutritious food and animal feed without continuing to deplete the planet's land and water resources, thereby converting the world's wasteful linear food economy into a sustainable, circular food economy. As the report shows, insect and hydroponic farming can create jobs, diversify livelihoods, improve nutrition, and provide many other benefits in African and fragile, conflict-affected countries. Together with other investments in climate-smart agriculture, such as trees on farms, alternate wetting and drying rice systems, conservation agriculture, and sustainable livestock, these technologies are part of a promising menu of solutions that can help countries move their land, food, water, and agriculture systems toward greater sustainability and reduced emissions. This is a key consideration as the World Bank renews its commitment to support countries' climate action plans. This book is the Bank's first attempt to look at insect and hydroponic farming as possible solutions to the world's climate and food and nutrition security crisis and may represent a new chapter in the Bank's evolving efforts to help feed and sustain the planet.
Build a plan to reclaim your life with this easy-to-follow program designed by a leading pain expert. This indispensable guide explores the key role that your brain plays in processing pain and how small, simple actions can make profound changes in how you experience chronic pain. Chronic Pain Reset will help you evaluate your pain and its triggers, offering straightforward and often fun strategies to improve it. Using the principles of cognitive-behavioral therapy, you’ll try one new evidence-based strategy each day for 30 days, from paced breathing and healthy sleep hacks to mindful walking and acts of kindness. The accessible strategies require as little as 15 minutes a day and apply to all fitness levels. Step-by-step instructions guide you with humor and compassion to make learning and practicing the strategies more engaging. The ones that work best and that you like most will go into your Thriving Plan, a personalized pain-management tool kit that you design to help you lead a life with less pain, greater purpose, and more joy.
The world of classic films is rich and overwhelming. HOLLYWOOD PICKS THE CLASSICS focuses on the movies of the Golden Age from 1930 to 1960; breaks down the movies into categories such as Film Noir, Romance, Good Guys/Bad Guys, and Damsels and Dames; and gives the must-sees in each category. Also included is a yearbook of the stars and directors from the movies described.HOLLYWOOD PICKS THE CLASSICS includes plot synopses, casts and crews, famous quotes, trivia, facts about the stars and awards, and behind-the-scenes gossip. But what makes this book unique are the dozens of personal top-ten favorite lists from Hollywood stars, directors, and writers. Lavishly illustrated with hundreds of pictures, many of which have never been seen, jam-packed with information, and with an introduction by screen legend Esther Williams, HOLLYWOOD PICKS THE CLASSICS is an entertaining and visually exciting guide for the film novice as well as the film buff.
No one grows up saying, "I think I'll get sick," and spends the rest of their life trying to survive a constant battle between life and death. Instead, we grow up believing we're invincible. We believe nothing bad could ever happen to us because we have hopes and dreams to fulfill. There's never a good time to have poor health. In 2002, my husband, Juan, contracted valley fever which disseminated into fungal meningitis, causing irreparable scarring on his brain. For nine years, our time was primarily focused on my husband's illness and disability. Our three children lived with the uncertainty of their father's mortality. As a family, we learned to live as if each day was the last, but to have hope for the future. We made memories and made plans. There were times we didn't know if we could survive, but as a family we found the strength in God to stay together. We were blessed with many tender mercies from the Lord as we traveled what appeared to be an endless road. We understood that even though our trials seemed long, they were merely a short segment of mortality, and that our lives will continue to exist beyond the grave. Most importantly, we learned that love heals all and serving one another is truly a blessing for ourselves. As a married couple, Juan and I witnessed countless miracles touch our lives as we exercised faith for enduring the end.
Warts and All is a collection of short stories from the childhood experiences of Afton Lovell, a small-town girl with a big imagination. The youngest of eight children growing up during the great depression, Afton found a rich collection of early life experiences through friends, family and the wide open spaces of central Utah. She later went onto marry and raise a family of her own in the suburbs of Salt Lake City but she never forgot those special memories from her childhood and now shares her favorite ones with you! Stories that will both warm the heart and tickle the soul. Stories of a simpler time and place that we all long for in a busy world.
The Flower You Once Held is a collection of poetry full of the emotions that have taken Afton Zabala-Jordan through the painful experiences of her life. From the pain of lost love to the terrible stirrings of suicide, the searing emotions embedded in each of these poems will take the reader on a non-stop rollercoaster. Writing these poems helped her to move beyond the pain and hurt of these experiences; to find a more balanced life. Tears Fall Colliding together are my emotions of failure saddening me. Shaking with fear, I cry. I let my tears fall at night, I try to keep them at bay during the sunlit hours, my mind is blurred with pain. Sorrow sinks into my mind, and my body. Tears fall as I hope, I pray, and I dream that my own life will be born in due time. Hoping this sadness will end, and this pain I feel will heal. God, I plead to you while my tears fall, save me from this hurt, this pain that ceases to end. Save me from this after effect of the collision
Roark Archer’s Lamar Canyon Pack in Yellowstone has been decimated by ranchers and hunters. Although the Tao pack in Los Lobos, South Dakota, has offered to assimilate it, he cannot give up his heritage so easily. At least not until he gets revenge against whoever killed his best friend, Jared, three years ago. Recluse Carrie Myers lives on the Wyoming cattle ranch her late father left her. One fateful night changes her life forever, leaving her questioning her sanity. She knows what she saw…or does she? Regardless, she’ll do anything to protect the awful secret that has haunted her for the past three years. When fate brings Roark to Carrie’s doorstep, the connection between them is undeniable. Determined to avoid commitment, they agree to give in to their unexplainable attraction for one night. Will hatred consume this hell-raising shifter, or can he learn love and forgiveness in the enemy’s arms?
Women treasure the support, loyalty, and laughter found in their friendships--especially when they face the storms of life. Whether purchased as a gift or for oneself, Storm Sisters is a delightful journey on what it means to be a friend in all seasons of life.
The Paladíns face a hidden new threat to their lives, their loves, and their ancestral home. With the bombing of Pearl Harbor, the Paladín family throws itselt whole into the great national effort of World War II. But each of them has a hidden worry—even if life returns to normal once the conflict ends, will the regular home life they all long for ever return to their beloved home? Now running the Barony and its many enterprises, Heath spreads himself thin providing the military with beef while the draft decimates the ranch’s supply of manpower. Byron, meanwhile, is forced to deal with the dangers of critical accidents and espionage as he works on a secret new project to develop atomic weapons at the remote Los Alamos research center. Darcy, a pacifist, is nevertheless doing his patriotic part and gives his film studio over to the U.S. Signal Corps to support the war effort with propaganda. Hollywood at large, though, is less than happy with his choices, and his profits are tanking. The struggles, however, do not end even with Allied victory over the Axis Powers. World War II rolls right into a new confrontation with Russia known as the Cold War. As a showdown over Cuba threatens the world with extinction, Aubrey follows the breadcrumbs of security leaks that suggest the Russians have achieved the ultimate goal of every spymaster—a mole positioned high within America’s very government. But the Paladíns face their own ticking time bomb: a power-driven politician determined to claim not only the White House, but The Barony, as well. In the final volume of New York Times bestselling author Parris Afton Bonds’ enthralling Texicans series, the Paladín progeny find themselves center stage in the great military, political, and social tumult of the mid-twentieth century. Amidst this backdrop, Bonds proves once again to be a master of her genre, weaving a tender and multi-layered tale of love, loss, loyalty, and survival into a single captivating narrative while bringing her epic saga to a satisfying close. Win or lose, The Banshees is a triumph.
Ruzena, an aged ex-vaudeville actress, sees and accuses thirteen-year-old Muggs of shoplifting. After learning that she lives alone on the first floor of her three-story home, Muggs, while pursued by a cop, slips into her house, sneaks upstairs, and takes refuge as a secret squatter. Disaster strikes when he discovers the murdered body of the cleaning lady, Aurelia, in the attic. Ruzena and Muggs, now both suspects, become bonded in friendship as they struggle to prove their innocence.
Alan Shifflett left Florida’s Moonlight pack due to an inherited mutation that makes him a violent freak. He lives a dull life farther north, suppressing his shifts, but when his father can no longer run Moonlight Diner due to failing health, Alan is compelled to return and face his weakness. Shelley Fields, once a spoiled high school beauty queen, has dedicated her life to helping her pack. In public, she ridiculed Alan because of peer pressure, but secretly, she longed for her mate. When he returns, she confesses her true feelings, but Alan has no intention of staying where he doesn’t belong. Meanwhile, Curtis—his rival—has a score to settle, and threats from a rival pack are standing everyone’s fur on end. Terrified of the beast inside, Alan is desperate to return to his safe life, but is leaving his mate, kin, and pack in danger worth the price?
Available online: https://pub.norden.org/nord2020-048/ This cookbook of strategies for change is about the role that a strong public innovation system plays along the pathways towards sustainable food systems. We demonstrate this through a mission approach for deliberate food system transformation that can support people, planet and society. This strategy cookbook will provide the ingredients – templates for developing interventions, guides for how to get started and examples of cross-cutting projects – that you can use to create your own recipes for change. We offer a new, emergent way to work with complex and dynamic systems. The cookbook is intended primarily for national and regional innovation agencies, as the government has both a mandate and more authority than any other entity to lead the change needed to achieve sustainable food systems. However, because innovation ecosystems include a variety of different actors, this strategy cookbook also provides valuable insights into the roles that entrepreneurs and civil society and research organisations can play to cultivate change from the bottom-up.
His Lost Sheep is a guide for the beginner Christian. This book was written from personal struggles with not understanding the basics of diving deep into God’s Word and the feeling of embarrassment and lost because of it. The purpose of the book is, so no one has to endure the feeling like they don’t have a simple, straightforward reference to teach them the basics of reading the Bible. Others may think some explanations are apparent, yet a lot of people don’t understand some of the smallest details. The goal of the author is to reach out and have the opportunity to save those who otherwise wouldn’t have the opportunity to hear the Good News because they weren’t given the chance of a proper explanation.
Online publication: https://pub.norden.org/nord2020-038/ Abstract [en] While the Nordic Region has strong foundations of resilience, the COVID-19 pandemic has shed light on some of the vulnerabilities in Nordic food systems. A crisis can provide new opportunities to recognise what is not working in our food system and provide the context needed to build new systems, collaborations, and resilience. This think piece is intended to stimulate a discussion around the vulnerabilities of the Nordic food system and to highlight the importance of developing a systems-based resilience strategy to ensure that the Nordic Region can bounce forward after future shocks. It uses the context of the COVID-19 pandemic as an example in order to focus the analysis and ends with reflections on what is needed going forward to fully assess the state of Nordic food systems.
Please help with a DONATION at www.anupstandingindividual.com OR at www.freedomfi ghters/facebook.com AN Upstanding INDIVIDUAL My book is about my outlook on life and society. I talk about how there are good people and bad people in this world and how things should be run in a society. I talk about how a human being can be pushed to steal food just to eat. My idea is based on “What is the Meaning of Life?” and thoughts about “The Injustice of Good People and what we should leave behind for future generations?” My inspirations for my writings are John F. Kennedy, Martin Luther King, Jr., Albert Einstein, Winston Churchill, Stephen Hawking, Dalai Lama, Mother Teresa, and many more minds that are creative alike. I vow to spend my life providing new leadership for the human civil rights movement. My ideas are based from my beliefs in Christianity. I appear wherever there is injustice, to protest and set in action, plans for World Peace! This will catch the attention of the entire world, providing what I call an inspiring “coalition of conscience”... my “Voice of Reason”.
Young Dr. Mary Margulies has no desire to make any lasting attachments in the desolate little town where she is assigned to work off her government loan. She waits only for the day when she can establish a profitable practice elsewhere. Then she meets Rafe Anaya, and despite her well-laid plans, Mary's heart begins to dictate her choices. From the award-winning author of Sweet Enchantress.
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