This is a slightly abbreviated re-post of an original release, Global Water Stress Index 2011,
by Maplecroft, with bold for emphasis and additional links added by ecoSanity.

Note: A lot of important info in the video above, but ecoSanity.org does not necessarily support the specific 'solutions' it poses.
 

Section 1: Summary: Food/agriculture & the climate emergency
Section 2: Videos: Food/agriculture & the climate emergency
Section 3: Videos: Food production/factory farming
Section 4: Videos: Genetic modification (GMO - Genetically modified organisms)
Section 5: Essential resources: Articles, blogs, websites, reports

In our last post, we passed along the shocking news that there's been a 40% decline (die-off) in phytoplankton (the base life of all life) since 1950 -- now accelerating at a rate of about 1% per year(!) -- because of the heating impacts of global warming.

Supplemental materials and more videos: www.storyofstuff.com.
 

Any crash course to a broad understanding of the scale, complexity and urgency of the climate crisis should include this informative, one-hour lecture by journalist, syndicated columnist and military historian, Gwynne Dyer, based on his new book, Climate Wars (video by TVO and recorded at the University of Toronto, Dec. 8, 2008).