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Signs of Life :: Summer 2010
Climate talks end with People's Agreement
Developing nations and social movements left out of December's climate talks in Copenhagen have issued their own call for change.
The People's Agreement—the culmination of the World People's Conference on Climate Change and the Rights of Mother Earth—demands that wealthy nations cut their carbon emissions and pay a "climate debt" to impoverished countries. The April summit in Cochabamba, Bolivia, convened by Bolivian President Evo Morales, drew more than 30,000 people from around the world.
The three days of workshops and discussion groups, which included substantial representation from indigenous groups, yielded a look at climate justice from the perspective of the Global South, as well as the movement's left flank.
"Humanity confronts a great dilemma: to continue on the path of capitalism, depredation, and death, or to choose the path of harmony with nature and respect for life," the agreement declares.
According to the Cochabamba declaration, the climate debt owed to developing nations includes both economic reparations and adaptation payments. The agreement also calls for a new International Tribunal of Conscience to hold wealthy nations accountable.
During last December's talks in Copenhagen, a group of the planet's wealthy nations convened behind closed doors to reach agreement on vague, non-binding goals for reducing carbon emissions, setting the stage for temperature rises well above the 2 degree ceiling needed to avoid climate calamity. Although none of those countries sent their top leaders to Bolivia, cabinet-level representatives of 20 nations attended.
Summit leaders plan to take the People's Summit declaration to the next round of U.N.-hosted climate talks in Cancún, Mexico, later this year.
—Jim Shultz attended the Cochabamba conference. He is executive director of The Democracy Center.
A Climate Summit for the Rest of Us: The Cochabamba climate summit was designed to respect the power and knowledge of world social movements and indigenous peoples.
A new study from the United Nations Environment Programme, Sick Water, encourages using wastewater as fertilizer to minimize water pollution. Because wastewater includes many of the same nutrients as fertilizer, proper management can harness the waste to boost food production, rather than contaminate clean water.
In the United States, the Enivronmental Protection Agency has regulated the use of wastewater as fertilizer as some can contain heavy metals and other toxins.
The UNEP encourages well-planned use of wastewater to ensure crops and groundwater aren't contaminated.
"It's the shot heard 'round the world for American clean energy."
Ian Bowles, secretary of the Massachusetts Executive Office of Environmental Affairs, on the approval of the nation's first offshore wind farm in Nantucket Sound.
Roads aren't just for cars anymore
The Americas have lagged behind Europe in promoting bicycle transportation, but recent government efforts may change that.
In the United States, federal Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood announced in March a new policy encouraging cities and states to include the needs of bicyclists and pedestrians in their transit infrastructure planning.
The Department of Transportation will discourage projects that negatively affect bikers and walkers, LaHood added.
In an interview with The New York Times, LaHood called the policy a "game changer" as the country searches for more sustainable choices.
"It's what Americans want," LaHood said. "It's a game changer because people do want to get out of congestion, they want to get out of their cars, they want to be able to enjoy the outdoors, they want to be able to recreate with their families."
The projects range from accommodating bikes and pedestrian paths on bridges to tracking bike trips and keeping sidewalks and paths free of snow.
Cycling advocates praised the new policy, as it expands the focus of the Department of Transportation beyond motorized vehicles and recognizes that "[t]ransportation programs and facilities should accommodate people of all ages and abilities, including people too young to drive, people who cannot drive, and people who choose not to drive."
Meanwhile, Mexico City officials are piloting a bike-sharing program to reduce congestion and pollution. In a city with 4 million vehicles, only 1 percent of trips are made by bike. The program, still in its early stages, offers more than 1,000 bikes at stations around town. Officials hope to increase trips to 5 percent of the daily traffic.
The Mexican program is modeled after those in Copenhagen and Paris. People who enroll in the program pay an annual fee and get a card they can swipe at any of the stations. Cyclists pay a nominal fee for each hour they ride.
—Jeff Raderstrong is a Washington, D.C., writer who blogs at changecharity.blogspot.comInterested?
- No Car, No Problem: Car-free living not only cuts back on your greenhouse gas emissions. It also builds local community, brings families closer together, and helps support local economies.
- Photo Essay: How to bike commute with small kids.
- YES! Magazine Bikes to Work: Bike commuting tips and stories from our staff.
Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa wants to speed up construction of 12 light rail lines throughout the metropolitan area. Voters in 2008 approved a half-cent sales-tax hike to fund the project over 30 years. According to The Wall Street Journal, Villaraigosa has asked the federal government for $9 billion up front. That way, the mayor said, the project could be complete in 10 years.
In India, fake money is payback
Paying bribes to officials at all levels of government is common in India, but an advocacy group for the poor came up with a way to fight back: Make money worth nothing more than the paper it is printed on.
The organization 5th Pillar distributes the zero rupee "protest note" to low-income citizens who can't afford to pay the daily bribes demanded from them.
The fake currency looks similar to a 50-rupee bill but features a zero for the denomination and the pledge, "I promise to neither accept nor give a bribe." Volunteers give out the bills anywhere an official would be looking for a handout, such as hospitals or railway stations.
According to Britain's Telegraph, more than 1 million zero-rupee notes have been printed in five languages. Soliciting bribes is an imprisonable offense in India, but most citizens comply with the requests to avoid problems. Zero-rupee supporters say the bill is designed to be handed to anyone who asks for a bribe and is a simple way to stand against corruption.
Transparency International's annual report estimates 4 million Indians pay bribes each year for licenses and other basic services, according to the Telegraph.
—Jeff Raderstrong is a Washington, D.C., writer who blogs at changecharity.blogspot.com
More states may create public banks
By 2011, only one state will have escaped the credit crunch that is pushing other states toward insolvency: North Dakota. North Dakota is also the only state that owns its own bank. The state has its own credit machine, making it independent of the Wall Street banking crisis that has infected the rest of the country.
Now, several states are either studying the prospects of a state-owned bank or are considering legislation to make one possible.
Five states have bills pending—Massachusetts, Washington, Illinois, Michigan, and Virginia. In April, documentary filmmaker and Virginia resident Bill Still showed his new award-winning documentary on the topic, The Secret of Oz, to the Missouri House of Representatives. Rep. Allen Icet, a candidate for state auditor, proposed using the Virginia proposal as part of a study on a state bank in Missouri and said he would hold committee hearings this summer.
Also in mid-April, the Hawai'i House approved a resolution asking the state to study the possibility of establishing a state-run bank there. State Rep. Marcus Oshiro, a Democrat who chairs the finance committee, called a state-run bank a "reasonable public option" to spur development and hold state funds.
Other state legislatures entertaining proposals for forming state-owned banks include New Mexico and Vermont. Candidates in eight states are running on a state-owned bank platform: three Democrats, two Greens, two Republicans, and one Independent.
—Ellen Brown is an attorney and the author of 11 books, including Web of Debt, webofdebt.com
Farmworkers rally for higher pay
Workers' rights activists who took on fast-food giants such as McDonald's and Subway are now battling one of the largest supermarket chains in America, Florida-based Publix.
The Coalition of Immokalee Workers (CIW)—a farmworkers rights group from the South Florida town—is demanding that Publix pay a penny more for each pound of tomatoes that workers pick. In April, hundreds of farmworkers joined other supporters in a 22-mile march through Florida, ending in Lakeland, the headquarters of Publix.
The penny-per-pound increase would almost double workers' daily pay—currently about $50 for picking an average of 4,000 pounds of tomatoes per day. Along with demands for higher pay, CIW—which is made up mostly of Mexican, Guatemalan, and Haitian immigrants—has been educating the public on the human-rights abuses migrant workers face. Employers are required by law to pay farmworkers minimum wage, but CIW co-founder Lucas Benitez told WUSF-FM that many growers find ways around the regulation.
The push against Publix is a part of CIW's "Campaign for Fair Food," which started in 2001. Since then, McDonald's, Subway, Burger King, KFC, and others have agreed to the penny-per-pound hike. Publix would be the ninth company to do so.
In an interview with WUSF, a Publix spokeswoman said that farmworkers' complaints should be directed at their employers, not the grocery store.
—Jeff Raderstrong is a Washington, D.C., writer who blogs at changecharity.blogspot.com
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Canada frees up foreign aid
Canadian officials have announced plans to untie foreign aid by 2012–2013.
The practice of "tying" aid is common to many developed nations, including the United States: Most countries insist that a major proportion of their foreign assistance be used to purchase products and services from the donor nation. The United Nations reported in 2004 that tying aid cuts its value by 25 percent to 40 percent, harming local producers and farmers who can't compete with cheap or free imports from the developed world.
After lobbying efforts by Engineers Without Borders, among other organizations, Canada in 2008 decided to take a first step toward effective foreign aid, when the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) announced a complete untying of all food assistance. So development assistance for food projects—CA$230 million in 2008—could pay for food from anywhere, not just Canada. That means food aid destined for one developing country, for example, could come from another country on the same continent, using local infrastructure and labor and boosting that economy, rather than Canada's.
Organizations such as Oxfam America are organizing similar efforts to make U.S. aid accountable to the global poor.
—Jeff Raderstrong is a Washington, D.C., writer who blogs at changecharity.blogspot.com
- oxfamamerica.org/campaigns/aid-reform
- 7 Steps to Solving the Food Crisis: Resistance to the trade and "aid" policies that displace farmers and increase hunger.
"The angst and trepidation in our communities is unprecedented. ...
This is our Selma."
The Rev. Samuel Rodriguez, head of the National Hispanic Christian Leadership Conference, at the March for America immigration rally in Washington, D.C.
Public housing goes green
Congress designated $4 billion in the stimulus bill to increase the energy efficiency of public housing, building on a 2008 announcement from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) that encouraged the use of green technology and green strategies in public housing developments.
Enterprise, a nonprofit working on affordable housing, has laid out a plan to raise another $4 billion for affordable housing by 2014. The organization maintains corporate partnerships and other investments.
On average, public housing agencies spend about 25 percent of their operating costs on utilities, according to HUD.
—Jeff Raderstrong is a Washington, D.C., writer who blogs at


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If like myself you want to relax after breakfast, take a stroll to the library where you can sit and read any of the books or newspapers on offer. At a slow leisurely pace we got ready to leave although we never felt rushed out of the hotel and really felt like we could have stayed on for a few more days!
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The first flyer for the First European Whitefly Symposium will soon be distributed worldwide. This symposium will be held in Sicily (Feb.28th - March 4th 2001) and will be organised by the European Whitefly Studies Network (EWSN) and hosted by the University of Catania. The symposium will cover the following disciplines: Faunistic & Systematics, Virology, Epidemiology, Natural Enemies and Pest Management. Although the symposium will have a European focus, it will also incorporate complimentary work from elsewhere in the world. It is also proposed that a comprehensive poster session is incorporated within the symposium. Flyers will be distributed from the EWSN office at the John Innes Centre, Norwich, UK. If you have not already registered on the EWSN mailing list and have an interest in attending the symposium, please contact Mr. David Oliver (network.ewsn at bbsrc.ac.uk) or myself as soon as possible. Dr Ian D.Bedford Research Entomologist John Innes Centre Colney Lane Norwich NR4 7UH UK tel (0)1603 452571 fax (0)1603 456844


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Kevan is an active and valued member of the Huddersfield cycling community involved in the Huddersfield Cycling Association, Holme Valley Wheelers and Huddersfield CTC which he does alongside other voluntary work for his church, the scouts and hospital radio.
His nomination for this award recognises in particular his work for groups and the promotion of events and rides. He has built up a series of Tuesday evening rides to good levels, riding leading and planning almost every ride, he is an important contributor to the easy rides programme put on by the section and the local authority.
On the publications side he edits the magazine Headset and the DA's events calendar each year.
On top of the formal roles he takes on for the community and cycling he is a tireless ambassador for cycling carrying all his utility journeys by bike, racing, touring, mountain biking and riding audaxes.


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UKBA 'endangers pregnant refugees'
UK border officials have been attacked in a damning report for endangering the health of hundreds of pregnant women and their babies.
Asylum-seeking women in Britain have high-risk pregnancies due to serious health problems, having fled torture, sexual violence or female genital mutilation in their own countries, a joint report from Maternity Action and the Refugee Council said.
The study found pregnant women are being moved by the UK Border Agency (UKBA) to new accommodation multiple times, while others are being moved against medical advice and some are giving birth alone.
Royal College of Midwives general secretary Cathy Warwick said: "Our society is failing these women and their babies. This is not acceptable, particularly when the solutions are so obvious."
The UKBA provides accommodation to asylum-seekers on a "no-choice basis" in a process known as dispersal, the report said, with applicants provided with transport to their new accommodation by housing providers.
Interviews with 20 women and 17 midwives involved in their care found that their health was being put at risk as they are moved to accommodation around the country, removing them from essential healthcare and "leading to isolation".
The report found that many asylum-seeking women are suffering from serious mental health conditions, including severe depression, flashbacks and suicidal thoughts. Refugee Council interim chief executive Shan Nicholas said: "The UKBA must stop sending pregnant women to live in new cities unless all risks have been considered and adequate healthcare arrangements have been made."
The report also found that NHS resources were being wasted, as scans and tests were often repeated in new areas after women were moved.
Maternity Action and the Refugee Council urged the Government to review its policies to ensure pregnant women in the asylum system, and their babies, are no longer at risk.
A UKBA spokesman said: "This report draws conclusions from a small sample of cases and doesn't take into account recent changes we have made. We consider every case individually and, wherever possible, women in the latter stages of pregnancy will not be moved to a different area. Last year we introduced a revised pregnancy dispersal policy which includes a commitment to not move any pregnant woman during the four weeks before or after her due date. Any asylum seeker is only moved to a different area if it is safe and practical to do so and those with severe or complex healthcare needs have their clinicians notified throughout the process."


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Nature shuts down for no shutdown.
As the country headed toward the government shutdown that has now shuttered national parks, tourists visiting one California nature reserve witnessed an unusual and spectacular sight.
Several sharks -- both Great Whites and Blue -- were spotted over the weekend eating a Minke Whale carcass floating in the Santa Barbara Channel between Ventura and the Channel Islands National Park.
Video taken from an Island Packers boat caught the powerful scene on Sunday, Sept. 29.
"This morning's passengers were treated to a rare encounter as three Great Whites and about a dozen Blue Sharks feasted on a dead Minke Whale carcass floating in the SB channel," reads the company's Facebook page.
Island Packers is the longtime transportation company between the mainland and the five Channel Islands that comprise the national park (there are eight Channel Islands in all).
An Island Packers return run on the afternoon of Monday, Sept. 30 also spied a Great White and one or possibly two Blue Sharks circling the carcass. The reason for the Minke's demise is not known.
It's been a major week for nature's rarities in the island chain, which is beloved as a destination for hiking, camping, birding, and snorkeling; Blue-Footed Boobies have been seen in "unprecedented numbers" around the islands, including on Anacapa.
But getting to Anacapa is another matter. Channel Islands National Park is closed as of Tuesday, Oct. 1, along with all of our nation's national parks. Island Packers will continue to make day trips to Prisoners Harbor on Santa Cruz Island as well as non-landing voyages.


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Why does summer seem to erupt so suddenly? This season of bloom and fruit that there's barely time to enjoy is fully upon us, with its gnat swarms and fat worms and fatter robins, with its big blooming roses that there's barely time to grab a whiff of in passing. Last weekend my hailed-on beans and tomatoes were hunched, battered, and this weekend they may suddenly stretch out into summer and relax — and, one can hope, set some blossoms and some fruit before the July heat comes down like a hammer.
How are yours? Did you escape the multiple smackdowns the skies sent, along with all that blessed rain — nearly two inches one night, by my own totally unscientific rain guage? Until recently, the tomatoes at the vegetable plot I share with a friend have been shrinking from the cool nights. But oh, the mint. The lettuce. The broccoli raab. There's almost nothing sweeter than a stalk of broccoli raab plucked fresh from the garden. It's so sweet, so crunchy, with the faintest bitter bite at the end, that I wonder anyone ever bothers with broccoli. And it didn't stop being yummy when the buds flowered.We planted "Zamboni" raab from Reimer's Seeds, and steamed and doused in vinaigrette, it was a dish worth sopping up the moisture from with fresh bread. And it's been ecstatic with our cold, wet spring. I found myself thinking this year that planning a veggie garden is like picking a stock portfolio — you've just got to diversify, diversify, diversify — and I hope I never forget that Zamboni will grow happily when it's just too gloomy out for almost anything else.
Except, of course, weeds. Those are Americauna chickens, happily hunting (we hope for baby grasshoppers) among the mallow at Soil Sister Sharon's, where we've obtained some bindweed moths — yes, MOTHS, not mites — to tackle the biggest bully of the plant kingdom. I'll post more about those soon. But if your garden is only now waking up, like mine, and you need a break from obsessing about it, or just an overall great get-out-of-the-garden, but still garden-related break, take a gander at this event in Northern Colorado, and sign up to pedal and nosh your way through some fantastic food gardens.
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Continue the leisurely journey to four other area farms: Wolf Moon Farm, Grant Family Farm, Colona Community Farm and Happy Heart Farm. Enjoy samples of fresh local food along the way. There'll be music, water stations, games, u-pick berries and cherries, and tech support for the bikes. It's all ages; limited to 500 people, and the cost is $65 — register by July 5 through Rolling Spokes Bike Tours.
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Student in Sustainable International Development Program works in BoliviaRachel Satterlee, a graduate student in Brandeis University's Sustainable International Development Program, is completing a six-month work practicum at the Unidad Académica Campesina-Carmen Pampa (UAC-CP). The UAC-CP is a unique college in rural Bolivia that is dedicated to providing higher education and leadership opportunities for indigenous youth.
Satterlee is developing and implementing a survey for alumni at the Bolivian college. The survey will focus on capturing information about postgraduate work and income, as well as ask graduates about their experience studying at the UAC-CP.
Results of the survey will help the college's Minnesota-based fundraising partner Carmen Pampa Fund effectively measure the impact of the college. Some of Satterlee's work was already featured in an article she wrote for Global South Development Magazine's October 2012 edition, which is available for viewing online.
Saterlee says, "I am grateful to be working on a project that will assess how the college has affected the lives of its graduates and how the college is achieving sustainable development through the empowerment of rural young Bolivians, whose studies are helping to address the most pertinent needs of their communities."
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MILLEDGEVILLE, Ga. – The Georgia College volleyball program and head coach Gretchen Krumdieck had a busy early signing period, adding Haley Ashworth among others for the upcoming inaugural season.
"Haley is very dynamic and will make a huge contribution to this first team," revealed Krumdieck. "She has a strong work ethic and her positive attitude will set a good tone for the Bobcats."
A native of Cumming, Ga., Ashworth played volleyball at West Forsyth High for head coach Jim Orr. Chosen to the All-Region 6AAAAAA Second Team, she played four seasons for the Wolverines. A team MVP and captain, she has twice been picked for the All-County squad as well. Ashworth plays club ball for ProLink Atlanta.
Georgia College added volleyball as its 11th varsity sport last fall, set to begin play in the NCAA Division II Peach Belt Conference (PBC) in fall 2013.
The Georgia College Department of Athletics, two-time winners of the PBC Commissioner's Cup, sponsors 11 varsity athletic programs at the NCAA Division II level. As a Division II program, Bobcat Athletics prides itself on balancing the life of the student-athlete, evidenced by the teams' multiple appearances in post-season competition as well as documented academic success and community-service involvement. Sign up at www.twitter.com/BobcatSports and www.facebook.com/gcbobcats for up-to-the-minute reports, and visit www.GCBobcats.com for more information, and to nominate your favorite former Bobcats and Colonials to the GC Athletics Hall of Fame.


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Hundreds of families received food from the Lighthouse Mission Mobile Food Pantry on Friday. Almost 70 volunteers made the April food pantry a success including a group of students from Osage Beach Elementary.
Hundreds of families received food from the Lighthouse Mission Mobile Food Pantry on Friday. Almost 70 volunteers made the April food pantry a success including a group of students from Osage Beach Elementary.
Fourth grade student Christopher Fincher explained what he and his classmates did at the mobile food pantry, "Just helping the community and helping people."
Students gathered boxes, broke them down and put them in a trailer for recycling.
"I felt pretty good helping others," Fincher said. "One of our habits is being proactive so that would be like teamwork. All my friends here are just helping out. We are all leaders."
The habits Fincher alluded to is a part of the Leader in Me program that is implemented in everyday learning at Osage Beach Elementary. Outings like the one on Friday teaches students how to be leaders by giving back to their community.
"We are helping our community and we are packing boxes so that people can get their food in their cars," fourth grader Izzy Kendrick said. "Because there are so many people out here today and we get to help and it's fun. I'm learning that you can help a lot and you can do other things rather than sitting in your chair at your house."
For Pre-Kindergarten student Andy Heikes, his favorite habit is being proactive which he used when helping at the food pantry.
"It means helping," Heikes said.
The Leader in Me has been fully implemented in Osage Beach Elementary and Hurricane Deck Elementary for two years.
Fincher explains how he feels the program has had a positive impact on his school.
"It's actually helped a lot of people. Everyone is being nice to each other. Everyone is helping each other," he said. "It helps you learn how to help people with other things. We are helping people get food that can't afford it. I count that as learning."
A total of 1,181 individuals were served during the April food pantry with approximately 21,256 pounds of food passed out.


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SANTA CRUZ — A three-judge panel of the state"s 6th District Court of Appeal has reaffirmed an earlier ruling invalidating Santa Cruz"s environmental analysis of a proposed water expansion to UC Santa Cruz.
The decision leaves city leaders with two options: Fix shortcomings in the report or petition the state Supreme Court to hear the case, an option widely seen as a long shot given the high bar for acceptance.
Judges Nathan D. Mihara, Franklin D. Elia and Miguel Márquez changed part of their November ruling to say the city, after all, had adequately described the purpose of the water expansion project in an environmental impact report mandated by state law.
The city successfully argued during a rehearing that it is obligated to seek the extension as part of a 2008 settlement agreement with the university, county and citizen groups that limited the majority of UCSC growth to an undeveloped section of north campus.
The university estimates it will need up to an additional 100 million gallons of water each year if it grows by about 2,000 more students in the next decade. That amount is two-thirds of what UCSC used in all of 2011 but the university has agreed to offset the increase by paying for off-campus conservation.
However, the judges maintained the city still failed to identify alternatives, such as a limited water expansion that would reduce impacts on its drought-prone supply. The panel ordered trial Judge Timothy Volkmann of Santa Cruz County Superior Court, who dismissed a habitat protection group"s challenge of the expansion, to vacate his decision and have the city decertify its environmental impact report and overall approval of the project.
The ruling also means city and university applications filed with the Santa Cruz Local Agency Formation Commission charged with approving the expansion remain on hold. The court also awarded reimbursement of legal fees for the habitat group, but the amount has not been settled.
"We"re disappointed that the court found that there was no evidence to support the city"s view that even a reduced growth or reduced water supply alternative was feasible," said attorney Sabrina Teller, who works with the city"s environmental law firm, Remy Moose Manley of Sacramento. "The city continues to feel strongly that, according to its obligations under the Comprehensive Settlement Agreement, offering up to LAFCO or approving a limited water alternative would conflict with the goals of the CSA."
Until the appellate court rulings, LAFCO had been working on a compromise to allow the expansion but limit the amount of water above which the university would have to pay fees for overuse. The LAFCO commissioner leading that charge, John Leopold, recently was replaced by political appointment of the county Board of Supervisors" Chairman Neal Coonerty, who helped draft the university settlement agreement with his son Ryan Coonerty, a former city official.
Santa Cruz City Attorney John Barisone said he would ask the City Council on Tuesday what the next step should be — filing a petition with the Supreme Court or fixing the environmental report. In December, the council gave authority to challenge the appellate ruling, but Barisone said he wants the new council featuring three members elected in November to weigh in.
If the city decides to change the environmental impact report, it could simply redo the chapter dealing with alternatives but any changes would require further public review.
Don Stevens, a representative of the Habitat and Watershed Caretakers, said he was glad the ultimate outcome of the appellate court"s ruling was unchanged because it forces a greater examination of alternatives. But his group could sue again if they think the revised environmental impact report doesn"t adequately identify other choices.
"In certain ways you can think of it as a new process," he said.
However, Stevens remains concerned about the impacts of the university being allowed to grow on the north campus, as opposed to adding student housing in the main campus or on another site.
"If the north campus is opened for development, there will be no way to contain future UCSC development and the quality of life for us and future generations will be harmed," he said. "UC should expand at other locations and find more innovative and cost-effective ways to deliver education rather than unfairly burdening our community."
City officials argue the university"s inability to build on 240 acres in the north campus, which sit outside the city"s utility service area, is what will pose problems for the university by jeopardizing the settlement agreement. They say that pact has reduced traffic, water use and other impacts of UCSC"s growth on local residents.
The city has enough water to supply the university, its largest customer and other ratepayers during normal years, but in dry years can"t meet current demand, especially in the face of state and federal mandates to leave more river and stream water for fish.
Santa Cruz is considering a $125 million seawater desalination plant to supplement supply in drought periods, which some opponents argue is designed to serve UCSC growth.
Follow Sentinel reporter J.M. Brown on Twitter at Twitter.com/jmbrownreports


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Betreute Unternehmen
agriBORA is a highly localized and context specific Farm Decision Support System (DSS) which provides farm level intelligence based on a vast network of in-situ and remotely sensed geodata. Through the agriBORA system, Financial Service Providers monitor and asses different crop growth indices which inform their credit risk assessments for agricultural lending while smallholder farmers are provided with localised and actionable agronomic advisories to boost their farm productivity.
is developing an application for the users of pedelecs, electric motorcycles and green cars, together with the corresponding connection to the electronic system of the car. The current position, charging state and the area of availability is constantly updated on a map. The driver can quickly decide if he can reach his destination, with his current battery state.
ANLU Navigation GmbH
The ANLU Navigation GmbH is engaged in the development and validation of systems for GNSS based applications, designed for all carriers. The focus of this sector is on the implementation of a "Low Cost Design" for SatNav applications.
awamo GmbH
awamo is a fintech startup based in Frankfurt/Main, Germany and with a subsidiary in Kampala, Uganda. The company offers a mobile one-stop-shop solution for microfinance lenders in Africa which simplifies credit management and features professional grade credit risk management for lenders.
BattSwap GmbH
BattSwap introduces brand new way of energy transfer between the energy grid and electric vehicle. Instead of charging, we change the whole battery. Disruptive process with BattSwap is fully automatic and takes just 30 seconds, at a station, which is 10times cheaper than Supercharger Tesla. No more waiting when charging, no more searching for free charger, no more expensive infrastructure costs. The BattSwap is here.
benjamin GmbH
benjamin GmbH devlops and markets new and efficient logistic and production systems based on electromagnetic fields. With the "fluid logistics"-innovation, the benjamin Company has developed an IT-controlled technology, which allows high adaptive intralogistics and significantly increased performance in storage, handling and manufacturing.
CargoSteps is the first worldwide working real-time track and trace software that allows different logistics companies of every size to easily work together. A standardized communication process across multiple logistic companies can be implemented. CargoSteps optimizes processes and the communication in logistics, but also creates information transparency and ensures data security.
contagt is a spin-off from University Mannheim. The startup was founded in 2013 and specialized in indoor navigation and app development. contagt's founder team consists of Stephan Brandt (CTO), Johannes Britsch (CEO), Niklas Bartz, and Johannes Schudt. Together our mission is to create the smartest way to welcome visitors and manage buildings.
CreAppTec is known for well-founded, inspiring high-end technology solutions in diverse application areas - according to the principle "Thinking out of the box."
Datarella GmbH is a Munich-based mobile technology startup delivering data driven behavior analytics and app development based on data collected on smartphones, wearables, and devices of the Internet of Things.
The need: There are many public areas where people sit and relax without any kind of service such as beverages or food.
The solution: deeliva is a marketplace for local deliveries. It connects users in need with local providers. Users may order products spontaneously from anywhere and are located via GNSS.
Each user is matched with a suitable provider based on distance, who is then guided during the delivery.
Deep Blue Globe
Company Deep Blue Globe is a startup based in Darmstadt (Germany) developing artificial intelligence solutions for the maritime industry based on Earth observation data and satellite services.
"demenzbegleitung.eu" is a german webpage that emerged from the former "woistwer24.de" in 2011.Our company aims to help sufferers of dementiaand their families.Developing "demenzbegleitung.eu" (the namewas chosen to describe the accompanying or supervision of someone suffering from dementia),we concentrated on the most severe limitation,the topographagnosia (disorientation).Our service enables family members to followtheir ward's GPS-position. Thus, vitality andflexibility can much longer be protected.
Dipteron is a young startup which develops an application for detecting Aedes Mosquito risk areas based on a special algorithm (artificial intelligence) that combines satellite data and ground data. It was the winner of SAP-ESA IT Mobile App in 2015, selected to the ESA Earth Observation Entrepreneurship Initiative program and finalist of the Copernicus Master Competition in 2016 and incubated at ESA BIC Darmstadt in 2017.
EM Electronic Maschines
Electronic Machines is a technology start-up based in Messel (World Cultural Heritage), Germany, and focused on skimming prevention for Automatic Teller Machines (ATMs). It is a brand new technology for fraud-prevention in the cashless payment systems. Manipulations of ATMs are increasing: from 2009 to 2010 over 100%. The loss of the financial industries is officially about 100 Million Euro per year but the estimated number of unreported cases is supposed to be significantly higher. At this stage the financial institutions are liable for the loss caused by skimming.
EMTech is a company interested in research and development for embedded systems and software development services focused on the space sector. The company initiated operations in 2008 and within short time proved to be a reliable partner, playing a key role in several small and medium scale projects.
etamax space GmbH (Alumni)
The German company 'etamax space' has developed an innovative mobile flood monitoring system that uses satellite navigation to measure water levels of rivers in near-real time, enabling authorities to react quickly and thus potentially reduce damage.
e.Ray GmbH
The e.Ray is an innovative, simple and environmental friendly hydro power solution for decentralized energy production. The e.Ray converts flow velocity of the river to electrical energy.
Familonet GmbH
Familonet GmbH developed the smartphone application FAMILO, which uses intelligent geolocation features to help families and groups of friends, colleagues, or roommates to improve communication in their daily lives.
feelSpace GmbH
The feelSpace GmbH arose 2015 from the research project of the same name that was conducted since 2005 at the University of Osnabrück. What started as fundamental research on space perception using tactile compass belts is now about to be applied in everyday life. Motivated by the very positive feedback of the study participants on the tactile direction signaling Silke Kärcher, Susan Wache, and Jessika Schwandt founded the feelSpace GmbH to market tactile navigation belts.
Floating Office
Floating Office is the height-adjustable desk for the office of the future. The trick: The work surface has no table legs, instead it is hung with ropes on the ceiling. The work surface can be infinitely adjusted in its height and disappears on request in a few seconds under the ceiling. With the Floating Office, each office receives both a unique and ergonomic workplace and a multifunctional usable area.
flinc AG
flinc is the first Dynamic Ridesharing service that connects smartphones and internet-enabled satellite navigation systems with social communities. Through a real-time analysis of traffic movements, flinc is able to arrange seats in cars within a few seconds. It combines GPS and location-based capabilities with social networking to offer a dynamic, safe and automated service that gets you from A to B.
Free Linked GmbH
Free Linked develops technology-based safety and comfort products. Innovating in bi-directional communication systems underwater on the basis of ultrasonic is their core competence.
Freety UG
freety.guide is your free city tour – always and everywhere. The app shows you the city easily by bus and tram. On the ride, you'll listen to automatic audio guides providing interesting information about the city. Regardless of whether you are – at home or on a city trip: freety.guide leads you through the city of your choice. All you have to do is to enjoy the view and your ride.
frimeo GmbH
Discover the great variety of local food around you and order directly from independent producers and growers with the frimeo app.
GeoMon GbR - Landscape Monitoring
GeoMon uses unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) for data acquisition. These high resolution photographies will be stitched in the post-processing to high quality orthophotos. Specialized computer-vision algorithms derive digital terrain models from the data. Eventually GeoMon provides its clients with the final high quality geodata in a cloud service.
Gestalt Systems GmbH
Gestalt Systems develops and operates the maritime data and application platform Aquaplot (aquaplot.com). Using the web app Aquaplot Explorer, users can perform a myriad of common tasks such as estimating voyage cost or tracking fleets of vessels via AIS (Automatic Identification System).
With Real Trip the company gfnork develops an application that takes user-defined parameters, such as destination, start time, travel duration and personal preferences for attractions – and automatically generates an optimised route based on these input parameters.
GPASS is a software for planning, preparation and realization of flights using the internal GNSS and mobile data technologies of Apple iPad hardware and similar equipped mobile devices.
Graphmasters provides a technology that helps to reduce traffic congestion on streets.
This technology – NUNAV – is essentially a car navigation system which calculates routes in our server cloud and sends these routes back to the navigation device.The navigation system uses GPS to determine the current position and track the car. Because NUNAV calculates routes in a central system, it knows the routes of all participating cars and can thus distribute the traffic optimally
HOSTmi is a standardized online platform and mediates globally, efficiently and user-friendly flight options for space payloads onboard of diverse space platforms ranging from suborbital vehicles up to deep space platforms. Clients - space experiment or payload owners - can use search criteria to define payload requirements in detail, as well as generate an in-situ 'match' with hosts and flight opportunities. HOSTmi is the first neutral link between payload owners and space mission providers offering real time information.
Iacta Capital
The objective: The intelligent wastebasket "OSCAR"
Garbage collection from public waste baskets is a cost driver for communities.
OSCAR continuously measures its level of trash and transmits the data together with its position to the control centre (GNSS & GSM).The disposal teams become flexible in responding to fluctuations in the waste collection.
INTEND Geoinformatik GmbH
The web-based Geographical Information System WebLine and the optional mobile component WebLine mobile are offered as a service (software as a service, "SaaS"). The user can edit and visualise the spatial or factual data of his forest enterprise over the internet, print it or send this information via PDF document.
IPAYMO - Mobile Payment Solutions
IPAYMO-GeoSecurity is the next step in our young history and the GeoSecurity project has evolved from our mobile payments and e-commerce solutions. These were the subject of the activities conducted during the incubation period at the ESA-BIC in Darmstadt.
IP-Wetter e.K.
IP-Wetter offers geo-weather and location based weather. Location based weather is geo-weather on a mobile device, showing the moving weather fields related to its own position visualised on the map.
Isofleet GmbH
Wenn immer Geschäftsabläufe Mobilität und wechselnde Orte erfordern, kommt die Darmstädter Isofleet GmbH Elektronik und Software ins Spiel: Mit handfesten Lösungen für Transparenz und Prozessoptimierung. In der Sammlung, Übertragung und Echtzeitanalyse von Informationen über GPS gestützte Systeme haben sich die Darmstädter als Experten etabliert. Zu den erfolgreichen Branchenlösungen gehört "ISORent", als Überwachungslösung für Autovermieter und "ISOCollect" – für die füllstandabhängige Leerung und revolutionäre Routenoptimierung in der Altkleidersammlung.
Kaiku (means Echo in Finnisch language) is an app that allows users to leave location based memories in the form of short videos (10s). These videos create a memory stream of a location, so that a busy location for example like the university campus might have hundreds of memories over the year left by people.
Locations have feed of memories starting from the most recent ones. A user can watch memories and respond to them by responding with a video to the person who left the memory.
This project aims to create a fully automated solution for distributing donations conditioned to participation in education programs for pre-selected scholarship holders based on recommendations from partner NGOs. It includes the interface necessary for money transfers, the possibility to schedule international transactions and transferring the donation sums to beneficiaries. Conditions that must be met revolve around attending classes of partner NGOs, this can be safeguarded through GPS.
L-One Systems
L-One Systems verbindet die Anwendungsbereiche von CMS, CRM und ERP Systemen im Internet, mit Daten aus der "Wolke" und der Steuerung einzig allein über den Internetbrowser.
LatitudeN GmbH
LatitudeN provides intelligent location-based solutions in tourism. Providing outstanding solutions including the development of creative concepts and mobile applications, we help our clients to reinvent tourism. LatitudeN aims at taking the travel experience to the next level of satisfaction. "Farol City Guides", an intelligent travel guide app targeting short city-break tourists, is that an example.
MapCase GmbH
MapCase offers mobile location-based tracking and competition services for sports addicted people. It is also a platform for sports-related brands and companies to get in touch with their customers in a new social way and boost their sales. The business model is positioned in three markets: The coupon market, the social market and the location-based market.
MAVinci GmbH
MAVinci specialises in the development of Unmanned Aerial System (UAS) technology, designed specifically for automated mapping of construction sites, pipelines, disaster areas, mines and quarries. Based in Leimen, Germany, MAVinci is a young and innovative company dedicated to producing the highest quality solutions for aerial surveying.
mobile life UG (haftungsbeschränkt)
mobile life is a provider of GPS/GALILEO based monitoring products with high accuracy. The company supplies positioning and wireless sensor fusion / telemetric solutions in conjunction with a universal GNSS portal according to customer needs.
MockUp Studio
MockUp Studio develops a mobile software solution that offers users decoration and furnishing ideas after recognizing already existing furniture and measurements via image recognition.
Moovin UG
The business idea behind "moove-in" is the development of a location-based contextualized information system for indoor that combines a mobile application with a minimal technical infrastructure, allowing seamless guidance through indoor combined with outdoor environments in industry and retail scenarios.
myFoodMap UG (haftungsbeschränkt)
myFoodMap was founded in the city of Darmstadt in Hessen, Germany in 2014. The companies´ mission is to provide people with solutions to simplify their daily dietary needs. The company´s vision is to become number one choice app for people who live with a special diet and to be widely known for its revolutionary food intolerance diagnosis tool.
NAiSE GmbH
NAiSE is a specialist in indoor navigation. In the context of a Smart Factory, the technology startup develops a system for determining the position of automated guided vehicles (AGV). The system comprises the areas of tracking, data analysis and navigation. This allows to identify and optimize bottlenecks in intralogistics.
NavQuest UG
discover a world with more success
NavQuest UG is a location based "achievement system" for mobile devices featuring satellite navigation. Tracking your progress is automatic and forgery-proof.
Nomadic Power GmbH
The key elements of Nomadic Power's technology are the Nomad battery (MES, Mobile Energy System ) and the intelligence of the control electronics and software system. The intelligent energy management system (NEM, Nomad Energy Manager) is self-learning, predicting user behavior and energy production capabilities of the photovoltaic system, based on weather forecasts, when connected to the user's home.
Panda Insight
The fitness and health goals we all want to achieve are similar: lose weight, become fitter, reduce stress and improve sleep quality. However, there are different ways leading towards your goal. Our smartphone application guides you on the path that works best for you.
PaxAnimi GmbH
PaxAnimi GmbH is a Start-Up company founded and established in 2014 with headquarter in Darmstadt, Germany. Despite being formally registered as a legal business entity only in 2015. Background activities in research, design, development and promotion has begun since 2012. PaxAnimi in Latin language means Peace of Mind.
PosiTim UG (haftungsbeschränkt)
PosiTim is focused on solutions and services for the high accuracy GNSS market. PosiTim's service is the help to get your high accuracy GNSS solutions up and running.
A new tool in order to find the perfect living space: After entering preferences such as centrality, number of bars or green spaces, the app will display perfect areas on a map and immediately show free houses or apartments.
Punchbyte e.K. (Alumni)
Punchbyte is a media agency located in Butzbach, developing a universal satellite based inspection and maintenance software for different tasks in the areas of facility management, supply and disposal, eGovernment and industry.
Quantitec GmbH
Quantitec is an innovative and rapidly growing company specializing in hardware and software for indoor localization. Our self-developed system called IntraNav is precise, easily scalable, suitable for industrial use and robust.
QoL-MA UG
QoL-M UG (haftungsbeschränkt) was founded in Frankfurt, Germany in 2017. QoL-MA is a technology company that develops and markets e-Health solutions for emerging markets.
right. based on science
right. based on science is a data provider founded in August 2016, which measures a single economic entity's contribution to manmade climate change. With a team of experts with backgrounds in law, science, economics, psychology and mathematics, right. is devoted to the development of the X-Degree Compatibility (XDC) Model. The XDC Model calculates science-based climate metrics based on latest climate research and regulatory requirements, in order to deduct an entity's XDC.
samango GmbH
samango GmbH is an innovative IT company with its own product developement on the market. From the proximity of research samango realizes ideas in the area of data acquisition and evaluation in combination with geo-data on mobile devices.
SCALE aims to develop and commercialize the GIMOD technology. Graphene Interferometric MOdulator Display is an e-paper technology whose pixels are mechanical micro-devices made of the wonder material, graphene.
Senseable UG
SenseAble UG provides tools to quantify behaviour with wearable and mobile sensors. Our current target is smoking which, when properly quantified, can help to evaluate currently available interventions and provide novel, personalized ways to quit.
Sensovo is an award winning supplier and service provider of wearable technologies. We have expertise in the development of devices using tactile and haptic feedback. The company mainly focuses on the engineering of wearables with integrated tactile actuators and associated mobile phone applications.
SFM Systems
Founded in July 2018, SFM Systems aims to provide manufacturing companies with a digital shop floor management system that supports them in their day-to-day operations, solves problems faster and more effectively, and saves time through automated KPI (key performance indicators) capture. The team of SFM Systems combines years of experience in the area of lean management and digitization consulting for production, as well as in software development for industrial Internet of Things (IoT) platforms.
is your B2B market of selected top-experts designed to simplify your working life by beeing the answer to the digital age: Established technology-using and technology-developing companies can book "finish laced" service packages from specific fields of the economy or technology on SPACE800.
is an online platform for pre-ordering and pre-paying in restaurants, retailers and other businesses. We are revolutionizing the market with our digital innovation, which is the bridge between online and offline commerce.
SellNews GmbH
The SellNews platform allows people who have recorded news-relevant media (video and photographs) to create an auction to sell their material. Interested news media organizations can bid on the items on sale and the highest bidder purchases the full, exclusive rights to the material.
The three founders of SMARTEDUCATION UG – Robert Lokaiczyk, Eicke Godehardt, and Andreas Zinnen – develop a Context-Aware Interactive Learning Environment (ILE). The ILE interactively presents learning material and presents a certain amount of feedback to improve students' learning success. To this end, learning content must be brought into the appropriate form. Learning material is planned to be presented as interactive applications, depending on the student's context, supported by gamification elements, and continuous feedback about the performance and progress using on-the-spot quizzes.
Socratec Engineering and Services
Socratec Engineering and Services offers innovative solutions in the field of GPS/Galileo-Navsat technology for logistics and telematic applications and internet-based control center software. In order to meet challenging customer requirements at the edge of technology Socratec integrates sensor and energy technology and embedded software.
Solenix Deutschland GmbH
Solenix is a provider of high-quality software engineering, technical consulting and operations services in the aerospace domain. Over the last years, Solenix has made valuable contributions to many space programmes and activities, and is becoming increasingly active in non-aerospace markets.
Solorrow develops a smart farming mobile app based on long-term satellite data. The German start-up from Darmstadt analyses satellite images of agricultural fields to create variable-rate application maps which show zones of differing growth potential. Using those maps for applying fertilizer, pesticides and seeds, farmers can save input material and costs while at the same time optimize yield potential. This supports a more sustainable agriculture – both for the farmer as well as for the environment.
Spacenus GmbH
By 2050, the global agriculture industry must feed 9 billion people across the Globe. Climate change, weather variability, limited arable land and scarce water resources are the challenges to master with innovative technologies. Spacenus' mission is to provide ubiquitous and real time information and advisory services to farmers so that they can grow more with less. We make the agricultural processes more efficient so that it is more productive.
Spotloq UG
Spotloq is a location-based social networking application for the young generation designed to run on mobile devices. The start-up company is based in Darmstadt, Germany. and is founded by 19-year old Lukas Kmoth.
TaleTekk UG
TaleTekk UG is a German start-up company that was founded in the course of the ESA Business Incubation at the centre for satellite navigation (cesah) in Darmstadt, Germany. Its office is located at the TIZ in Darmstadt.
Our mission is to utilize and develop technology that helps to create a unique merging experience of the natural environment with virtual elements.
Our vision is to enrich people's experiences of their surrounding in new and imaginative ways.
TEC4MED LifeScience
The team behind the TEC4MED LifeScience GmbH consists of four enthusiastic founders: Martin Voigt, Nico Höler, Ina Brecheis and Julian Poths. They are developing a smart medication cooler for transporting and storing temperature-sensitive medication - the Nelumbox.
TeqBuzz GmbH
TeqBuzz is a company based out of Germany enabling people to track passenger vehicles such as public and private buses, trams and trains in real-time. Therefore it develops tracking hardware and software, implements into vehicles and provides accurate location information of each connected vehicle to public users in real-time.
The great advantages for passengers are to accurately organize their travels just on time and no more waiting too long at bus stands. Connections and transits can be aligned accurately and smart.
ThingsOnAir GmbH
ThingsOnAir GmbH builds solutions around satellite navigation and the Internet of Things. Our goal is to provide superior functionality and usability for demanding application scenarios of consumers/prosumers, systems developers, as well as the industry.
TRACkTICS develop a tool-kit that enables football coaches and players on all levels to analyze and improve their game based on real data.Using global navigation satellite system (GNSS) technology, football players can be tracked during training sessions and official games.
Treevolution GmbH
Treevolution is an innovative network for basic scientific research and sustainable development of mutually profitable management solutions with climate affecting regeneration processes for the development of trees and forests as a utility in the vital ingredient.
ukowapi UG (hauftungsbeschränkt)
ukowapi was founded in Darmstadt, Germany in 2015. The company exists to tackle one main problem, and that is the lack of a functional physical address system in the developing world. ukowapi hopes to achieve this by providing reliable and verifiable digital addresses as an alternative to underdeveloped physical address systems.
wer|denkt|was GmbH
wer|denkt|was is a solution provider for participatory software, that applies to both the public and the corporate sector. Municipalities utilize participatory software for crowd-sourced idea or complaint management and also participatory budgeting.


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At the beginning of September last year, pupils at Mason High School in Cincinnati found something unusual in their canteen. Alongside the traditional vending machines that had been supplying them with chocolates, crisps and fizzy drinks for most of their formative years, was another machine - painted bright orange - selling nothing but carrots. Exactly the same size and shape as a conventional snack machine, the fresh produce on its shelves was packaged in small, opaque, crinkly bags similar to the sort of bags crisps come in. There were a number of different designs - one featured a weird orange alien creature on a green background, another had a black carrot-shaped object travelling through space - but inside all of the bags was the same thing: about three ounces of washed and peeled baby carrots, selling for 50 cents a bag.
Just in case the broad brush strokes on the packaging hadn't got the message across, a strapline, in bold white lettering on the side of the machine, hammered the point home: "Baby carrots. Eat 'em like junk food".
The response was startling. Within an hour, pupils all over the school were walking around, munching on their new orangey treats. In the weeks that followed, the machine was emptied faster than the manufacturers could fill it.
"If they wanted a snack, they bought a bag of carrots," recalls Tim Keeton, Mason's assistant principal. "It easily got as much custom as our other vending machines which were selling the normal range of stuff; Sun Chips, Doritos, Cheetos and chocolate chip cookies." The machine is no longer at the school. It was part of a six-month trial by one of the largest growers of carrots in the United States, Bolthouse Farms. But Bryan Reese, a graduate of the U.S. Army's West Point academy and the company's head of marketing, believes the results of the test, which took place in schools and supermarkets in both Cincinnati and Syracuse, New York, herald the beginning of a new era in snack food.
"We looked at the success of mass-marketed categories and decided to take a page out of their marketing book," says Reese. "We said, 'We are not a vegetable, we're a snack. If you want a vegetable, go eat broccoli. If you want a snack, eat baby carrots. They're perfect for you. They're crunchy, they're bright orange; they're sweet and they're fun.' We advertised for a couple of months and the category grew in double digits." The brand is now off the market as Bolthouse makes plans for another, larger trial. If that trial is successful, then Reese thinks he may finally have discovered something parents and campaigners, both in the U.S. and here in Britain, have been searching for for decades: a way to sell healthy produce to fast-food junkies.
It comes not a moment too soon. Britain has the highest proportion of obese citizens in the whole of Europe. Nearly one in four adults is classified as obese and, according to a study published in The Lancet last month, the situation is only getting worse. The report's authors, led by the epidemiologist, Klim McPherson, predicted that almost half of all British men and 43 per cent of women could be obese by 2030, prompting a huge rise in obesity-related diseases including an extra 668,000 cases of diabetes, 461,000 cases of heart disease and 130,000 more cases of cancer.
Of course, our penchant for junk food and high-calorie, high-fat snacks can't take all the blame. The advances in technology over the past five decades have made us, as a nation, much lazier, meaning we burn off fewer calories in our day-to-day lives than we used to.
In recent years, the problem has simply become too big to ignore. Forced into action by a string of shocking reports from bodies like the World Health Organization and media campaigns like Jamie's School Dinners - in which the chef Jamie Oliver went to war against Bernard Matthews's Turkey Twizzlers - government ministers have started to talk tough on junk food and adopted a new, more interventionist approach towards the nation's diet.
Primary and secondary schools have been banned from serving chocolate, crisps and sugary drinks, both in their canteens and in vending machines, and television broadcasters are no longer allowed to show adverts for foods high in fat, salt and sugar during programs aimed at children. All pupils aged between four and six now get a piece of fresh fruit every day at school and everyone - adults and children alike - are told to include five portions of fruit or vegetables in their daily diet.
Many health campaigners would like the government to go further, introducing strict limits on exactly how much fat, sugar and salt manufacturers are allowed to put in their products. But, actually, something altogether more surprising is happening: junk-food behemoths like McDonald's, Pepsi and Coca-Cola are adapting to the new antipathy towards junk and remodelling themselves as responsible, health-conscious companies who can legitimately contribute to a well-balanced lifestyle. And while some of their initiatives might be nothing more than good PR, the corporations have also taken real steps, both to reduce the harm their products do to their customers and to develop new, healthier lines that challenge traditional snack foods in terms of taste.
Pepsi has led the charge. Early last year, its chief executive, a tall, slim, vegetarian called Indra Nooyi, announced that the company was fundamentally changing the mix of products it made, and was aiming to treble the revenue gained from nutritional and healthy food within 10 years.
In an interview with the New Yorker magazine earlier this year, Nooyi said the new strategy went to the heart of her ambitions for PepsiCo - to construct a company that not only makes things that taste good, but one that is considered a "good company" by the general public. She also laid out robust commercial reasons behind her decision.
"With the aging population and with everyone focusing on health, products that are good and nutritious, or nutritionally better than anything else out there, are a huge opportunity," she said. "These categories are growing several times faster than anything else."
Of course, many of the products PepsiCo bills as "good for you" are not always that good for you in nutritional terms; many, like Tropicana juices, have a high concentration of sugar, but they are better for you than the products the company describes as "better for you", such as Diet Pepsi, which are, in turn, healthier than the "fun for you" products, such as regular Pepsi and Walkers crisps, that make up the largest part of the business.
The company has also hired senior figures from the World Health Organization to drive through the changes, and spent millions of dollars reducing the sugar, fat and salt in products throughout its portfolio. In one of its most successful brands - Walkers - salt levels have been reduced by between 25 and 55 per cent and saturated fats by 70 to 80 per cent, and soon the company's biochemists hope to introduce a brand-new salt, with drastically reduced sodium levels, yet all the taste.
Coca-Cola too has accepted some responsibility for the current levels of obesity (although, like all junk-food manufacturers, it prefers to single out sedentary lifestyles as the main culprit) and pledged itself to cutting the amount of sugar in its drinks if this can be done without changing the taste. Coke Zero, launched five years ago to appeal to health-conscious men who didn't like Diet Coke (drunk predominantly by women), is the main feather in its cap. It boasts a taste that's virtually indistinguishable from that of regular Coke. But Coca-Cola has also reduced the amount of sugar in regular Fanta by 30 per cent and Lilt by 60 per cent, without anyone really noticing. You simply cannot buy full-sugar Fanta or Lilt anymore.
"We don't always flag it with a sign on the front saying this is no longer full-sugar because, for some people, taste is the most important thing, and you don't always want to tell people in big letters what you've done," says Helen Munday, Coca-Cola's director of science. " 1/8But 3/8, like many responsible manufacturers, we want to play our part in making sure that people have foods that can fit into their healthy lifestyles." The world's largest fizzy drink manufacturer spending millions on reducing the calorie content of two of its biggest brands and not even telling any of its customers what it's done? It sounds a little strange. But, multinationals like Coca-Cola have not got to where they are today without learning how to predict trends and stave off potential crises. Realizing how much pressure politicians are under to look tough on junk food, they have reasoned it's better to move fast and prove themselves responsible, than to stay still and ultimately provoke new legislation which could impose expensive burdens on them to reformulate their products faster than they can or would like to.
Following the same logic, United Biscuits has reduced the saturated fat of McVitie's Digestives by 80 per cent and Hobnobs by 75 per cent, Nestle has reduced sodium levels in Shreddies by 43 per cent and Kraft Foods has globally reformulated or launched more than 5,000 products.
There have also been significant changes at McDonald's, which now includes the calorie content of its products on its menus and has reduced the saturated fat and calories in its burgers. It also cooks its chips in a healthier canola-blend oil and includes slices of apples in the Happy Meals sold to children in the U.S.. In a similar vein, Burger King offers young customers fresh, peeled apple, in the shape of chips, under the brand name Apple Fries.
Manufacturers are also keeping a keen eye on the latest trend for so-called "nutricosmetics"; foods that improve the structure of the skin. Mars tested the proposition in 2008 with Dove Beautiful and Dove Vitalize, chocolate with added flavonols and minerals, but none of the major producers has so far developed a range for the mainstream market. There is also a line of prototype sweets, currently being trialled by the German-based company Beneo, that strengthen bones and improve digestion.
Of course, we shouldn't get carried away. Junk-food manufacturers are still motivated primarily by profit and will do whatever they can to maximise the bottom line without damaging their image. Many low-fat products have simply replaced fat with sugar and are still far from healthy.
What's more, if the public protests against the taste of a reformulated product - as happened earlier this month with Heinz's HP Sauce, which, it was revealed, had had its salt levels reduced surreptitiously - the producer can normally be expected to change it back.
All of which means there is still a gap in the market for a smaller company to become some sort of consumer champion. Bear, a healthy snack-food producer which was set up two years ago by personal trainer Hayley Gait-Golding and her husband Andrew, could be that company. Its Yo Yos fruit rolls, aimed at children, and its Fruit and Granola Nibbles for adults, have been flying off the shelves in Waitrose, Tesco and Sainsbury's and seem to have the appeal of a "treat" without any of the corresponding ill effects of chocolate or crisps. The company's turnover for this year is already pounds 3?million and, as it continues to grow and win fans with its refusal to use chemicals and preservatives, its popularity might force the standards of bigger companies upwards.
In the meantime, Dr Mike Rayner, director of the British Heart Foundation Health Promotion Research Group at the University of Oxford, warns there is still a long way to go if we are to reverse the frightening rise in obesity.
"There is some evidence to show that some things are improving in Britain," he says. "Fruit intakes are increasing, levels of awareness about diet have increased. But it's not just about producing healthier foods within the snack or confectionary category. We have to get people to eat fewer snacks and less confectionary. And if you're in the snack-food market like Pepsi are, you don't want that to happen."
The Sunday Telegraph


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OK, small triumph for me in figuring out a good way to get this done.
My /2 came with a VIN tag that wasn't original. I got one from vech, and it was flat and needed holes drilled. The big problem was bending the plate to the proper curve. It's just thick enough that it's hard to do, and do completely.
So here's my trick, with an admittedly poor photo. I'd do one thing differently, if I was going to do it again.
Get a 32mm socket, and put it in a vice, as in the picture. What I'd do differently, if I was going to do it again, I'd put a piece of cardbord between the socket and the jaws of the vice. The socket has to be deep enough in the vice so that you have enough room to put the side of the VIN plate between the jaws and the socket. Then bend, and turn it around to bend it the other way. The cardboard would be to ensure that you don't scratch up the plate. And there you have it!


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Sajjad* was convinced he was going to die. The engine on the boat had stopped working, the weather was stormy and the seas were high. He couldn't swim. Aged just 16, he was sure his life was over. ''When I thought I was going to die, I asked myself lots of questions. 'God, why have you made me a Hazara to suffer like this? Why have you made this life for me?'
''I said to myself: 'I'm sorry mum, I didn't make it'.''
Two hours later the engine was working again and, the next day, the terrified teenager's boat arrived at Christmas Island. It completed another leg of the journey that Sajjad began as a toddler when his family fled Afghanistan for neighbouring Pakistan.
Sajjad, now 18, is 11,000 kilometres away from his family and studying for his VCE in Melbourne's south-eastern suburbs. But, with no current prospect of permanent residency in Australia, he has no idea what the future holds or how long he will have to wait to find out.
About 400 unaccompanied minors (under 18 years of age) are currently seeking asylum in Australia. The Department of Immigration did not provide their ages but Fairfax Media believes most are 15, 16 and 17. Some have seen their families die, either through violence in their home country or on the journey to Australia. Others, like Sajjad, have been sent away by their families in search of a safer future.
A spokesman for federal Immigration Minister Scott Morrison says 90 per cent of unaccompanied minors have been released into community detention where a group of four or five youngsters live in a house supervised by a 24-hour carer. The welfare agency care is provided under a federal government contract.
Morrison's office did not respond to a question about the average length of time the teenagers spend in detention centres before being transferred to the community.
When the minors turn 18, the welfare agency funding is cut and they have to find their own private rental accommodation, often at two weeks' notice. They receive a Centrelink youth allowance equivalent of $414 a fortnight to pay rent, utilities, food, public transport and other expenses.
Under the ''no-advantage'' rule introduced by the former federal Labor government, those that arrived here after August 13, 2012, are not allowed to work. They survive solely on the government benefit.
Haphazard policies introduced by politicians of all stripes create bizarre anomalies. Because of his arrival date, Sajjad cannot work. But an asylum seeker of the same age, who arrived prior to August 13, 2012, is permitted to work.
In the context of populist politics, there is sometimes little room for logic. Anglicare Victoria's Paul McDonald says this has created ''two classes of asylum seekers''. Those unable to work or study struggle with a lack of routine, structure and purpose, he says. ''They are determined, they really want to get their lives going again. I went to dinner at a house with a group of boys and straight after dinner one of them went off into the corner and started reading again. He didn't want to waste a moment of his study time.''
McDonald says the emotional challenges are big - they miss their families terribly and worry if they are safe back home and they face constant uncertainty about their own futures.
''But the way they rise above these challenges is by getting into a routine. If they can't work, they don't have that routine,'' he says. He believes the no-advantage rule introduced by Labor should be scrapped.
Like many other children, Sajjad was sent away by parents who hoped simply to preserve their son's life. Hazaras, most of whom belong to the Shiite Muslim community, have been relentlessly persecuted by Sunni extremists in Afghanistan. Because of their distinctive Asiatic facial features they have no way of concealing their ethnicity, making them visible targets.
Sajjad's family left their Afghan homeland 16 years ago after his grandparents were murdered and their house was bombed. Sajjad says that, for a few years, the family carved out a reasonably quiet life in Quetta, in northern Pakistan. Two younger siblings were born, Sajjad attended school and his parents worked as labourers.
But after the US-led invasion of Afghanistan in 2001, members of the Taliban decamped to Quetta, near the Afghan border. Hazaras found themselves increasingly targeted. ''The violence started to become more extreme, we were the target of street shootings and bomb blasts,'' Sajjad says.
He stopped going to school because his family was scared he would be killed. ''We were totally bound in our homes, our families couldn't do business. If I went to the bazaar to buy something, there was no guarantee I would ever come back.''
The persecution of Quetta's half-a-million Hazaras is well documented. A BBC report from May 2013 described it as ''hell on earth'', with many young Hazara people fleeing the region. After claiming responsibility for two bloody attacks in January 2013, militant Sunni group Lashkar-e-Jhangvi said it planned to turn Quetta into ''a graveyard for Shias [Shiites]'', according to the BBC report.
Despite the known risks of drowning en route to Australia, his parents took action after Sajjad was injured in a bomb blast. ''That was the moment my parents said I had to get out.''
His passage was arranged via plane to Indonesia and then by boat. His parents paid people smugglers about $15,000.
For their eldest child, it was a heart-wrenching separation. ''I rang my parents from [Indonesia] and I was crying, saying 'why did you send me here?''' Bitterly lonely and homesick, Sajjad lived with other Hazaras for more than two months before boarding the boat.
Having survived the hazardous sea journey, he spent a month inside Christmas Island's detention centre. ''[It] was like [no] place I had never seen in my whole life,'' Sajjad says. ''It was very difficult. People were not sleeping, everyone was worried and depressed about their future and I saw people cut themselves.
''I was looking through the fence to the outside, asking myself: 'What will happen to my family? Why am I here? What is outside these fences that I am not allowed to have?' It was a big shock. I was totally depressed.
''When I contacted my family, they were very happy that I had arrived safely because so many Hazara have died at sea. But [in the detention centre] I saw lots of people suffering, I didn't feel happy.''
Sajjad was transferred to a mainland detention centre for another four months, by which time he was 17. He was then moved to community detention in Melbourne with other unaccompanied minors. Under government contracts, welfare agencies provided a home, round-the-clock carer, food, transport and English language classes.
Sajjad's English is remarkably fluent and his vocabulary extensive given the short time he has been here. He is clearly a keen student but, unsurprisingly, his character is reserved. He is yet to make friends at school. Despite his financial struggles, he does not seek charitable help in addition to government benefits.
Sajjad sports a hoodie and jeans like so many teenagers but, unlike many others, his past is littered with bombs and bullets.
It is unusual for a young person with an unresolved visa status to tell their story to the media, even anonymously. Many fear it could have implications for their refugee claims. Sajjad says he wants to explain the circumstances under which young asylum seekers have fled. Nevertheless, he is nervous about revealing personal details.
McDonald has met many young asylum seekers who have seen family members ''disappear'' or be killed back home. ''They are adolescents living men's lives,'' he says.
Many don't know their birth dates, so a nominal date was chosen by authorities. More than 250 ''officially'' turned 18 on January 1, McDonald says. At that point, they were sent out into the community to fend for themselves. Just before Sajjad turned 18 a few months ago, he received a letter from the immigration department.
''It said I was being moved onto a bridging visa and, within two weeks, [I] have to find my own accommodation,'' Sajjad says.
''How can you go and find somewhere that quickly, when you don't know the system, when you don't know anyone you can stay with?''
Nevertheless, he found a room in a private house, for which he pays $200 a fortnight. He has $107 a week left over for all other costs. He doesn't know the other tenants and keeps to himself because they are older than him. For a young man of 18, his social isolation is striking. ''Sometimes you just can't buy a meal because there's no money left. One time I was sick, and no one was there to take me to the doctor. I started to think: 'whether I die or live, no one knows. If something happens to me, there will be no one who cares, no one to find me'.''
Sajjad has managed to keep studying but not all 18-year-olds can. The rules appear unclear. The Age has previously reported that asylum seekers were being kicked out of school last year when they turned 18, unable to complete their school year. But the Immigration Department appeared to relax that rule towards the end of last year. Morrison's explanation is vague.
''The department funds schooling for children of compulsory school age until the end of the term in which they turn 18 years of age. In some circumstances this can be extended,'' his spokesman says.
Refugee Council of Australia chief executive Paul Power also points out that 18-year-old asylum seekers get a lower benefit than 22-year-olds, even though their expenses are the same. This mirrors the youth allowance paid to Australians aged 18 to 21, compared to the higher income support they receive at 22. But 18-year-old Australians are more likely to have family support than unaccompanied minors seeking asylum.
Sajjad says he has no information about his future in Australia. He loves Australia simply because no one here hates him for being a Hazara. He also revels in his education - his favourite subjects are English and law. ''When I am wearing my school uniform, I am so proud … I love it, it is like a dream,'' he says. ''When I come home from school, I don't have anything else to do, so I study til 9 or 10pm at night.''
Sajjad dreams of studying law at university to help others who have suffered from persecution or violence.
''The future is very dark back there [in Pakistan], there is no hope [for my family] because we can be identified anywhere as Hazara.''
Sajjad talks to his family at weekends and keeps in touch via social media. ''My mind is always back there. They are still in the same situation, they can't go anywhere for fear of being targeted. I'm very lucky I'm getting an education but I'm very depressed that I don't have my family. When I see families picking up their kids at school, I think about mine. I miss my little brother and my mum. She gets sick because she worries about me so much. When I go to bed at night, I always think of them. Sometimes, they are in my dreams.''
*Sajjad is an assumed name
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