This article includes an up-to-date list of those countries that have succeeded in formally incorporating sustainability messaging within their national dietary guidelines.

It also provides a summary of each country's messaging by quoting relevant sections from their respective guidelines.

Beef’s environmental impact dwarfs that of other meat including chicken and pork, new research reveals, with one expert saying that eating less red meat would be a better way for people to cut carbon emissions than giving up their cars.

In 2010, Finley dug up a strip of land between his house and the street and started planting fruits and vegetables. It was illegal to plant these on the land between the sidewalk and curb but he got the city of Los Angeles to change the law. The “Residential Parkway Landscaping Guidelines” were changed to end fines for vegetable gardens within the strip owned by the city.

In early 2013, Finley gave a TED talk on his progress as a "guerrilla gardener," the dangers of food deserts, and the potential for his program to improve quality of life. He said in the talk, "If kids grow kale, kids eat kale; if they grow tomatoes, they eat tomatoes." The talk has received over three million views on the TED web site, and attracted attention from numerous celebrities and collaboration proposals from corporations.

Feed Black Futures (FBF) was founded in 2020 as a means to create sustainable change for food autonomy within Black communities. Our organization feeds Black mamas and caregivers impacted by parole, probation, and/or caring for incarcerated loved ones, in the greater Los Angeles area by partnering with Black & Brown owned farms and food suppliers across Southern California. We are committed to our mission of creating a world where Black people have access to high-quality fresh produce and the means and skills to produce it.

Seafood Watch began 20 years ago as a special exhibition at the Monterey Bay Aquarium. Today, the Aquarium's Seafood Watch program is a leader in the global sustainable seafood movement. Over the years, Seafood Watch has grown from advising consumers to working directly with businesses and governments around the world — increasing both the market demand for, and a reliable supply of, sustainable seafood.

If you could know the truth about the threat of climate change — would you want to know? Before the Flood, presented by National Geographic, features Leonardo DiCaprio on a journey as a United Nations Messenger of Peace, traveling to five continents and the Arctic to witness climate change firsthand. He goes on expeditions with scientists uncovering the reality of climate change and meets with political leaders fighting against inaction. He also discovers a calculated disinformation campaign orchestrated by powerful special interests working to confuse the public about the urgency of the growing climate crisis. With unprecedented access to thought leaders around the world, DiCaprio searches for hope in a rising tide of catastrophic news.

Directed by Oscar®-winning documentary filmmaker Louie Psihoyos and executive produced by James Cameron, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Jackie Chan, Lewis Hamilton, Novak Djokovic, and Chris Paul, The Game Changers tells the story of James Wilks — elite Special Forces trainer and The Ultimate Fighter winner — as he travels the world on a quest to uncover the optimal diet for human performance.

Showcasing elite athletes, special ops soldiers, visionary scientists, cultural icons, and everyday heroes, what James discovers permanently changes his understanding of food and his definition of true strength.

Coral reefs around the world are vanishing at an unprecedented rate. A team of divers, photographers and scientists set out on a thrilling ocean adventure to discover why and to reveal the underwater mystery to the world.

In How to Let Go of the World and Love All The Things Climate Can't Change, Oscar Nominated director Josh Fox (GASLAND) continues in his deeply personal style, investigating climate change – the greatest threat our world has ever known. Traveling to 12 countries on 6 continents, the film acknowledges that it may be too late to stop some of the worst consequences and asks, what is it that climate change can’t destroy? What is so deep within us that no calamity can take it away?

THE STORY OF PLASTIC takes a sweeping look at the man-made crisis of plastic pollution and the worldwide effect it has on the health of our planet and the people who inhabit it. Spanning three continents, the film illustrates the ongoing catastrophe: fields full of garbage, veritable mountains of trash, rivers and seas clogged with waste, and skies choked with the poisonous emissions from plastic production and processing. THE STORY OF PLASTIC features interviews with experts and activists on the front lines of the fight, revealing the disastrous consequences of the flood of plastic smothering ecosystems and poisoning communities around the world, and the global movement that is rising up in response. With engaging original animation, archival industry footage beginning in the 1930s, and first-person accounts of the unfolding emergency, the film distills a complex problem that is increasingly affecting the planet’s and its residents’ well-being.

ALUNA is made by and with the KOGI, a genuine lost civilization hidden on an isolated triangular pyramid mountain in the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, Colombia, nearly five miles high, on the Colombian-Caribbean coast. The Kogi say that without thought, nothing could exist. This is a problem, because we are not just plundering the world, we are dumbing it down, destroying both the physical structure and the thought underpinning existence. The Kogi believe that they live in order to care for the world and keep its natural order functioning, but they recognized some years ago that this task was being made impossible by our mining and deforestation. In 1990 they emerged to work with Alan Ereira, making a 90-minute film for BBC1 in which they dramatically warned of our need to change course. Then they withdrew again…

The first film had a stunning global impact, and is now probably the most celebrated film ever made about a tribal people. It was repeated on BBC2 immediately after its first showing, and then in many other countries – some 30 times in the US last year, not bad for a 20-year-old documentary!

Gather is an intimate portrait of the growing movement amongst Native Americans to reclaim their spiritual, political and cultural identities through food sovereignty, while battling the trauma of centuries of genocide.

Gather follows Nephi Craig, a chef from the White Mountain Apache Nation (Arizona), opening an indigenous café as a nutritional recovery clinic; Elsie Dubray, a young scientist from the Cheyenne River Sioux Nation (South Dakota), conducting landmark studies on bison; and the Ancestral Guard, a group of environmental activists from the Yurok Nation (Northern California), trying to save the Klamath river.

A Story of Solutions: In a race against the end of farmable soil, three individuals fight for change in the industry of agricultural food production, calling for a revolution.

"The Need to GROW" delivers alarming evidence on the importance of healthy soil — revealing not only the potential of localized food production working with nature, but our opportunity as individuals to help regenerate our planet’s dying soils and participate in the restoration of the Earth.

Sumatran Orangutan Society, Nature for Change and the Orangutan Information Center are organizations I feel incredibly passionate about supporting. These organizations are run by indigenous communities in Sumatra working to protect and restore the most diverse ecosystem left on this planet. They are fighting multiple uphill battles, (most recently recovering from multiple floods). Check them out on social media, and via the link below to follow, learn more and support.

Article from New York Times:

WASHINGTON — Before the pandemic, Black and Hispanic households across America were already experiencing food insecurity at a significantly higher rate than the national average of 10.5 percent. The coronavirus pandemic has only exacerbated hunger worldwide, and in the United States, nearly one in eight households doesn’t have enough to eat.

We are bringing together leaders from the climate movement and broader fights for social, economic, and racial justice to be In Conversation about how we can build deep relationships and coalitions to achieve collective liberation, growth, and transformation.

We will be releasing episodes that feature activists and organizers from front line communities most impacted by climate crises to talk about how our collective fight for climate justice can help us build and move towards climate resilient communities. We will explore questions including: How are movements for black freedom, queer liberation, immigrant justice, and indigenous sovereignty connected to our fight for climate justice? How do we make sure that communities on the front lines aren’t left out of climate solution-making? How do we ensure that our movements aren’t perpetuating structural systems of oppression? What do we envision when we dream our biggest dreams about a world where we are able to truly thrive?

Black, brown, and Indigenous people live at the intersection of environmental racism and state-sanctioned police violence and brutality. These struggles are not disparate; in fact, they are deeply connected.

This film follows the lives of four communities who live at the intersection of environmental racism and police violence and learns from their collective wisdom about how to build climate resilient communities free of police violence and climate injustice.

Our mission is to humanize the climate disaster through storytelling, contribute to a shift in the climate change dialogue that puts the voices of those most impacted at the forefront of the conversation, and to connect people with ways to support the community-based climate solution-making work that frontline and vulnerable communities are already doing to combat climate impacts.

From learning about your own identities, to fostering interpersonal inclusion, to interrogating our systems of injustice — there are many powerful ways that we can engage daily in service for justice.

Choose 1 or 2 of the options to engage in each day during this challenge. If you have time, do more. Set aside time to reflect. What did you feel? What did you learn? How has your perspective changed? What does this mean to you?

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The ACLU dares to create a more perfect union — beyond one person, party, or side. Our mission is to realize this promise of the United States Constitution for all and expand the reach of its guarantees.

For more than one hundred years, ACLU lawyers have been at the center of one history-making court case after another, participating in more Supreme Court cases than any other private organization. With attorneys nationwide, we handle thousands of cases each year on behalf of clients whose rights have been violated.

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National CARES Mentoring Movement is a pioneering community-galvanizing movement dedicated to alleviating intergenerational poverty among African Americans. It offers Black children in low-income families and unstable communities the social, emotional and academic supports they need to unleash their potential and graduate from high school prepared to succeed in college or vocational-training programs and 21st-century careers. We employ two primary strategies. The proven-effective, consciousness-shifting model, ideated and built by experts over a decade, unearths hope and resilience in our young living with trauma-causing impacts of poverty—homelessness, hunger, unrelenting violence, gravely under-resourced schools and overwhelmed parents and teachers. The traumatic stress children in poverty live with fuels mental illness and physical disease, including anxiety, depression, hypertension, substance abuse, obesity, violence and also the recent spike in suicide.

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Black Fatigue is the first book to name and describe a phenomena Black people know well: the multifaceted physical and psychological damage wrought by simply living, day by day, in a racist society. This is a vital resource for Black and non-Black people who are looking for ways to heal, learn, and have productive and supportive conversations about racial injustice and trauma. To move forward, we need to know where we came from and where we are — Black Fatigue is the foundation from which we can begin to imagine a better world, together.

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This video explains 'adultification bias' and highlights some of the stories discussed by Black women and girls during focus-group research conducted by the Georgetown Law Center on Poverty's Initiative on Gender Justice and Opportunity. Share your story at www.endadultificationbias.org

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When you're a person of color, finding a clinician who shares your identity (be it ethnic, racial, or cultural), or who is also a POC, may become one of the top items in your list of “what I want in my therapist.” Here are six steps for finding a therapist of color who's right for you!

Originally sourced from: A guide to black wellness

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Here are some key questions to ask when scouting for a new therapist as a woman or queer person of color.

Originally sourced from: A guide to black wellness

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Self care has never been more important than in the past year. It not only rejuvenates our bodies, but it also feeds our souls and it's essential for remaining resilient in difficult times. At It's Lit, we recognized a lack of spaces for Black and brown communities to celebrate ourselves and our culture, so we strive to provide the opportunities for authentically diverse communities to practice self care and find joy. If you find yourself needing to unwind, reminisce with us at our upcoming Girlfriends Trivia as we celebrate a successful Black show that ran for 8 seasons (and is currently available on Netflix). Tickets are $5 for individuals, and $10 for teams and can be purchased here. The winning team will receive a $50 gift card prize.

In my freelance work as “The Dramatic Health Educator,” I curate interactive and educational arts-based health and social justice interventions, workshops, performances, and other programming. Some of this work includes theatrical projects such as The #StayHome Project and We’re Having a Party! I am particularly interested in using theatre and storytelling pedagogies in health to address Black maternal and child health, adolescent health, and intervention-based research. More so, I offer consulting services and health coaching when able. I enjoy sharing wellness related tips on my Instagram (@DramaticHealthEducator). I have presented at the North Atlantic Drama Therapy Association (NADTA) 40th annual conference and the National Organization for Arts in Health (NOAH) 4th annual conference.

Soul Circle is a Women’s Arts & Health Collective creating brave spaces for Women and Girls of Color to explore health and justice through art, performance, and storytelling. We are centering Black and Brown Women & Girls by putting art and culture at the forefront of our offerings…meeting you exactly where you are through a diverse sisterhood

Hey, hey! I'm Bre, the founder of Brown Girl Self-Care.

After my brother was killed in 2017 I was reminded that life can be short and I didn't want to spend another moment feeling stuck, unhealthy and miserable. From that point on I started implementing small habits into my day that helped me prioritize my wellness. I was no longer stuck but instead was blooming, becoming more free AND loving myself and life much more!! This is why Brown Girl Self-Care was started. I want to see all Black and Brown women live life with an overflow of abundance, longevity, health and happiness.

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In this 1992 Oprah Show episode, award-winning anti-racism activist and educator Jane Elliott taught the audience a tough lesson about racism by demonstrating just how easy it is to learn prejudice. Watch as the audience, totally unaware that an exercise is underway, gets separated into two groups based on the color of their eyes. The blue-eyes group was discriminated against while the people with brown eyes were treated with respect. Jane says she first started this exercise in her third grade class back in 1968, the day after the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

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T. Morgan Dixon and Vanessa Garrison, founders of the health nonprofit GirlTrek, are on a mission to reduce the leading causes of preventable death among Black women -- and build communities in the process. How? By getting one million women and girls to prioritize their self-care, lacing up their shoes and walking in the direction of their healthiest, most fulfilled lives.

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There has been a shift in America following the deaths of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor. Their wrongful deaths, as well as those of many other Black lives, have sparked nationwide Black Lives Matter protests and demonstrations against systemic racism and police brutality, shining a light on racial injustice and oppression.

With more people having conversations about race, many are looking to works of literature to better help them understand the issues that Black people face in the United States. From powerful essays, personal stories, non-fiction accounts of mass incarceration and police violence, Black authors have shared their experiences through the written word. While all wide-ranging, they all have one thing in common, highlighting the perils of racism in the U.S.

Here is a collection of books by Black authors that explore race in America.

[ARTICLE] by Doreen St. Félix
The details of the killing of Nia Wilson are particular in their horror, but her death also brings into brutal focus multiple American crises. Photograph by Jim Wilson / The New York Times / Redux

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Using databases from Mapping Police Violence and The Washington Post, CBS News has compiled a list of 164 Black men and women who were killed by police from January 1 to August 31, 2020. Many of the cases remain under investigation.

This data is based on reported and verified cases, and does not necessarily account for all incidents in which a person was killed by police. But based on the known cases, police have killed at least one Black person every week since January 1, and only two states — Rhode Island and Vermont — have reported no killings by police this year.

[ARTICLE] by Coshandra Dillard

Located in Mound Bayou, Mississippi, a town founded by former slaves, the tombstone of Fannie Lou Hamer features an unusual inscription. Bordered on each side by urns overflowing with flowers, the Civil Rights icon’s gravestone doesn’t just include the date of her birth (October 16, 1917), or the date of her death (March 14th, 1977). It also features her most famous quote–“I’m sick and tired of being sick and tired”– a phrase she coined during a speech made alongside Malcolm X, before an audience at Williams Institutional CME Church in Harlem on Dec. 20, 1964.

[ARTICLE] by Duvalier Malone

“We repeat that line over and over, almost as if we expect a complete and instant transformation in the hardened hearts of racists that will make them accept and believe those words. We think that if we continue to voice the fact that "we are people,” it will somehow break through the defenses of bigots who hate us for no reason other than the color of our skin.”

[ARTICLE] by SHERRONDA J. BROWN

“They’ve been in solidarity with Black people, many for the first time in their entire lives, for barely three weeks. And now they have “allyship fatigue.” I don’t know who coined this term. I don’t know why or to what end, and I really don’t care to. What I do know is that it’s a term that attempts to center white people and white feelings in the conversation about demanding an end to Black genocide.”

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Everyone should have the opportunity to achieve good health. But, as Dr. Camara Phyllis Jones explains through her cliff analogy, that’s often not the case.

We can reduce health disparities and better connect people to high-quality medical care, but to really make a difference, we need to address the social determinants of health and equity that protect some people and push others off the cliff.

The Urban Institute collaborated with Jones to illustrate her analogy of the cliff of good health.

[ARTICLE] by JEWEL WICKER

Artists are taking to social media to remember Nia Wilson, an 18-year-old who was fatally stabbed on July 22 at the Bay Area Rapid Transit’s (BART) MacArthur Station.

[ARTICLE] by Morgan Taylor Goodwin

Racial Battle Fatigue (RBF) was a term coined in 2008 by Critical Race Theorist William Smith; it was originally used in reference to the experiences of African American men in America but is now expanded to describe the negative and racially charged experiences of all people of Color (PoC’s) in the United States.

William defines racial battle fatigue as

“cumulative result of a natural race-related stress response to distressing mental and emotional conditions. These conditions emerged from constantly facing racially dismissive, demeaning, insensitive and/or hostile racial environments and individuals.”

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Alive and Well Communities recognize the impact of toxic stress and trauma on the health and well-being of our communities. Our communities are working to ask new questions, build common understanding, and create pathways to healing. While trauma does not discriminate and impacts all communities, our work centers the impact of the trauma of discrimination, which science increasingly shows has devastating health impacts. With all of this knowledge, we seek to build the will to change and to activate communities to heal.

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We are a training institution made up of yoga teachers, educators, clinicians, and activist. Our community is shaped by those who are looking to build community and receive training to enhance their leadership and engagement. We use the tools of yoga, somatics, and meditation as foundational practices of self-awareness and self-accountability which are central to effective and ethical leadership and engagement.

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After the death of Michael Brown, Jr. on Aug. 9, 2014, “Ferguson” came to symbolize racial strife and inequality in the United States. Throughout this country, the circumstances surrounding and following his death have sharply defined the challenges that demand transformation. The alternative to change is to accept an untenable environment that is fraught with inequities and continued conflict. The Governor asked a group of regional leaders — The Ferguson Commission — to study the situation and prove a path toward change. Forward Through Ferguson (FTF) was established as a 501(c)3 to be a catalyst for lasting positive change in the St. Louis region as outlined in the Ferguson Commission Report. Embracing the Commission’s mandate, FTF centers impacted communities and mobilizes accountable bodies to advance racially equitable systems and policies that ensure all people in the St. Louis region can thrive.

Value’s are your heat’s desires for how you want to behave as a human being. Values are not about what you want to get or achieve, they are about how you want behave or act on an ongoing basis.

Deep down inside, what is important to you? What do you want your life to stand for? What sort of qualities do you want to cultivate as a person? How do you want to be in your relationships with others? Values are our heart's deepest desires for the way we want to interact with and relate to the world, other people, and ourselves. They are leading principles that can guide us and motivate us as we move through life.

The Polyamory-Friendly Professionals Directory is a listing of professionals who are sensitive to the unique needs of polyamorous clientele.

Professionals listed include psychologists, psychotherapists, physicians, lawyers, financial advisors, massage therapists, social workers, chiropractors, lecturers, organizers, and others.

The Bisexuality-Aware Professionals Directory is a listing of professionals who are sensitive to the
unique needs of bisexual clientele.

Professionals listed include psychologists, psychotherapists, physicians, lawyers, financial advisors, massage therapists, social workers, chiropractors, lecturers, organizers, and others.

The Bisexual Resource Center works to connect the bi+ community and help its members thrive through resources, support, and celebration. We envision an empowered, visible, and inclusive global community for bi+ people.

Established in February 2003, The Woodhull Freedom Foundation is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization devoted to education and public advocacy in support of the principle that consensual sexual expression is a fundamental human right. The Foundation offices are located in Washington, DC, and we work in partnership with activists, advocacy organizations and coalitions across the United States fighting the political, social and economic forces driving and expanding sexual repression

The NCSF is committed to creating a political, legal and social environment in the US that advances equal rights for consenting adults who engage in alternative sexual and relationship expressions. The NCSF aims to advance the rights of, and advocate for consenting adults in the BDSM-Leather-Fetish, Swing, and Polyamory Communities. We pursue our vision through direct services, education, advocacy, and outreach, in conjunction with our partners, to directly benefit these communities.

We thought you might want to join us for the Give Love event on Feb. 13 at 2pm to bring some love and kindness to our world.

Alight Theater Guild and Give Love team up for a virtual event, making phone calls to those who have been isolated during the pandemic. This year, we might not be able to see one another in person, but love is only a phone call away!
Here are the details:

• On Sat. Feb. 13 at 2 pm EST - Meet on Zoom for introductions, a self-care activity, and information about the phone calls ahead.

• You will next receive 2-3 phone numbers for individuals in a Senior residence. Using your own phone, you’ll connect with each one for about 15 minutes. (We will be available on Zoom to help you along the way.)

• If you like, you will also have the option to call a loved one who you might have been meaning to connect with as well.

• We’ll wrap up together with a reflection of the experience.

All are welcome to join at any point during the event. Feel free to invite family and friends!If you are interested in taking part, please RSVP here.

We’re all social distancing right now. And that begs the question: how do you have sex in the era of COVID-19 self-isolation? Is it even safe to have sex during the pandemic?

First, the facts. COVID-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus, is spread by direct person-to-person contact or by people who are close to (within six feet) of each other—as it’s believed that the virus is expelled in respiratory droplets from a cough or sneeze, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), which you can then inhale. You can also pick it up from contaminated surfaces if you then touch your face without washing your hands properly first and therefore introduce the pathogen into your body.

All close contact (within 6 feet or 2 meters) with an infected person can expose you to the virus that causes coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) — whether you're engaged in sexual activity or not.

The COVID-19 pandemic can feel overwhelming due to new information, long work hours, and caring for your family and yourself. It's important to pause for a moment and collect your thoughts, as worldwide pandemics can be taxing. Remaining calm can help.

It is normal to feel stressed or overwhelmed during uncertain times. Emotions in response to uncertainty may include anxiety, fear, anger and sadness. You also could feel helpless, discouraged and, occasionally, out of control. Physical responses may include headache, muscle tension, fatigue and sleeplessness.

SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19 (herein referred to as the COVID-19 virus), is thought to spread mainly through close contact from person-to-person in respiratory droplets from someone who is infected (CDC link). At this point in time, sexual transmission of the virus has not been documented; however, you can acquire COVID-19 virus through exposure to respiratory droplets when in close contact (less than 6 feet). When kissing or having sex - defined as vaginal, anal or oral sex - you are physically close to another person, which can put you in contact with respiratory droplets or saliva that spread the COVID-19 virus.

With mandatory mask wearing and physical distancing of at least six feet becoming the norm around the nation, the question remains—is sex safe?

In short—it can be, but experts say any type of in-person sexual activity does carry some risk. But there are ways to have intimate contact and remain connected.

We’re all dealing with new stresses, challenges, and realities as a result of the Coronavirus pandemic. With everything that’s going on in the world right now it can feel trivial or wrong to make time to do something nice for yourself. Many of us feel guilty if we’re not focusing on our families. But the truth is, to be a good parent, caregiver, partner, or whatever your role may be, you have to take care of yourself first.

That’s the idea behind self-care: recharging our batteries so we can be there for ourselves and others. Self-care has real health benefits, and you can do it for next to nothing or free. The important part is carving time out in your day to focus on you. Here are a few ideas, big and small, you can put to use right away.