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Brighter Green at The Seed in NYC 5/19/13

Brighter Green's Executive Director Mia MacDonald spoke about climate change and animal agriculture, and the ecological impacts of the global spread of factory farm operations, at the Seed Experience in New York City on May 18, 2013. She also screened Green's short documentary, "What's for Dinner?" Find out more about the film, including how to show it, here.
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Blog Post on the U.S. National Climate Assessment in the Huffington Post and Civil Eats. 5/2/13

Executive Director Mia MacDonald's blog post on the U.S. National Climate Assessment and U.S. and global systems of food production was featured in the Huffington Post and was re-blogged on the American food system news website Civil Eats.

Brighter Green collaborates with Global Forest Coalition at the World Social Forum 3/29/13

Brighter Green collaborated with Global Forest Coalition on an event and paper on the risks of industrial livestock production for the environment, communities (including indigenous communities), and animals at the World Social Forum in Tunisia.

China Dialogue Publishes BG Blogs 2/13/13

Brighter Green guest blogger Wanqing Zhou's exploration of of the growing challenge of food waste in China ("Food Waste and Recycling in China: Too Easy, Too Hard"), including from animal agriculture, has been republished in English and Chinese on China Dialogue, an important, bilingual Web portal for global environmental news with a focus on China.

Katerva Award Winners Announced 2/12/13

The winners of the two Katerva awards for innovation in sustainability have been announced. Mia MacDonald of Brighter Green served on the judging panel for the food security theme, and the project finalist she ranked highest, Backpack Farm, piloted in East Africa, came first in its category.

Brighter Green Hosts a Successful East African Girls' Leadership Initiative Fundraiser 12/7/12

Brighter Green and Tribal Link hosted a successful fundraiser for the East African Girls' Leadership Initiative in December 2012. Over $3,000 were raised to help support two girls' education, living costs, rights training, mentoring, and leadership skill workshops for one year. Singer-songwriter Joy Askew performed at the event and Grace Koutimet, from SIMOO spoke about the role of Maasai women in the community and how educating Maasai women greatly assists the communities' progress.

Mia MacDonald's Blog Post on COP 18 Featured in the Huffington Post 12/6/12

Brighter Green's Mia MacDonald's blog post on COP 18 and the conference's failure to address the negative effects of industrial food systems, particularly industrial agriculture, on climate change appeared in the Huffington Post on December 6, 2012.

Brighter Green Participates in COP 18 Side Event 12/3/12

Brighter Green's Mia MacDonald participated in and moderated a side event to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP18) in Doha, Qatar in December 2012. The side event entitled "Climate Change & Ensuring Sustainable, Humane, Equitable Food Systems: Views from the North and South" focused on climate change and livestock farming. Xie Zheng, featured in Brighter Green's short documentary "What's for Dinner?" also spoke at the event. For more information on Brighter Green's research on climate change and the globalization of farming click here.

Brighter Green attended COP 18 Climate Change Conference in Doha, Qatar 12/2/12

Executive Director Mia MacDonald attended the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP 18) from November 26 to December 2, 2012. Mia shared Brighter Green's research on climate change and the globalization of intensive animal agriculture.

Brighter Green Joins Climate Action Network 11/16/12

Brighter Green has just become a member of Climate Action Network-U.S. (USCAN), in the lead up to the COP18 climate summit.
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What's for Dinner? in Veg News Magazine 11/5/12

What's for Dinner was mentioned in Veg News magazine's Media Lounge section in the November+December 2012 issue.
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Brighter Green Participates in Food Day 2012 11/2/12

For Food Day 2012 Brighter Green hosted an online event for Food Day: a nationwide celebration and a movement for healthy, affordable and sustainable food. We screened three movies related to global industrial food production and held a Facebook discussion on our Facebook page.
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Xie Zheng Posts a Video of His Talk at the COP 18 Side Event with Brighter Green

by Suzanne Lipton
December 14, 2012 12:26pm
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Xie Zheng's logo for Don't Eat Friends, described in the video

Xie Zheng, or "Shay," as he is known familiarly, is a Chinese activist, musician and environmentalist who was featured in Brighter Green's short documentary,What's For Dinner? recently attended COP 18 in Doha. He recently posted a video of his trip and the talk that he gave at the "Climate Change and Ensuring Sustainable, Humane, Equitable Food Systems, Views from the North and South," side event at COP 18, moderated by Mia MacDonald of Brighter Green and co-sponsored with Humane Society International (HSI) and World Society for the Protection of Animals (WISPA). Shay is the founder of Don't Eat Friends, a vegan initiative based in Beijing.

In his talk, Shay discusses the "Cool China" National Low-Carbon Action Plan, introduced in October 2011 by China’s National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC), which advocates for a meat free day each week (akin to Meat Free Mondays). For more on "Cool China," see Eve Feng's (the translator in the video and associate of Brighter Green) blog from August 2012. And for more from Xie Zheng at COP18 on food and resource consumption, plus a great song, please see this video recorded by the UNFCCC's Climate Change Studio. Eve Feng also translates -- but doesn't sing.

Image courtesy of Don't Eat Friends