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OUAGADOUGOU (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Wiping her sandy fingers on her shirt, Balkissa Sawadogo for a moment rests her aching body from shovelling sand and gravel into piles.
Three years ago, as rains dried up, the 25-year-old single mother was forced to stop farming in her neighbourhood on the outskirts of Burkina Faso’s capital Ouagadougou to begin the back-breaking work of selling sand to construction workers to support her family.
Her landlocked West African nation has been hard hit by drought and desertification caused in part by climate change.
Once-fertile land is now dry, forcing farmers that used to survive by cultivating it to change professions, often toiling from dawn until dusk in jobs that make it hard to scrape by.
Sustainably Yours: Delicious plant-based dishes
Sustainably Yours: Delicious plant-based dishes
A year and a half ago Netflix released the documentary The Game Changers, about injured MMA fighter James Wilks looking for a way to heal his body. What he found was that many professional athletes, including Olympic cyclists, runners, weightlifters and American football players, had all switched to plant-based diets to improve their performance.
Pumpkin Soup.
The Kombucha Club.
Namprik Kapi.
When the documentary was released, it stirred up a lot of emotion and brought the debate against eating animal products into the mainstream, with everyone from Joe Rogan to Arnold Schwarzenegger commenting on whether a plant-based diet is healthy.
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https://www.afinalwarning.com/494100.html (Natural News) Mushrooms make for a savory, vitamin D-rich addition to a balanced diet. But it turns out, they make for more environmentally friendly “bricks,” too.
How it works is agricultural waste materials like straw is combined with mycelium, a network of fungal threads that function as mushrooms’ “roots.” It will be left to grow into a brick for two weeks.
The product will then be “cooked” in an oven or treated with chemicals to kill the fungi. The fungi will continue to eat the supporting material that initially gave them structure. But cooking or treating it with chemicals stops the fungi from eating the material and weakening the product’s integrity.