By Alex Tung
In a recent blog post at the National Geographic’s Nat Geo News Watch, Sandra Postel, a Worldwatch Institute Senior Fellow and one of the authors of the upcoming State of the World 2011: Innovations that Nourish the Planet, highlighted the large amount of water wasted by Americans every day, and how people can use water with more care. To help us become more frugal water users, Sandra has been working with the National Geographic’s Freshwater Initiative to develop a calculator that allows consumers to discover how much water is used in typical daily activities, and determine their “water footprint.” Users can also compare their footprint with the average American and see how they fare. So let’s start calculating, and stop wasting!
Alex Tung is a research intern with the Nourishing the Planet project.
Danielle Nierenberg, an expert on livestock and sustainability, currently serves as Project Director of State of World 2011 for the Worldwatch Institute, a Washington, DC-based environmental think tank. Her knowledge of factory farming and its global spread and sustainable agriculture has been cited widely in the New York Times Magazine, the International Herald Tribune, the Washington Post, and
other publications.
Danielle worked for two years as a Peace Corps volunteer in the Dominican Republic. She is currently traveling across Africa looking at innovations that are working to alleviate hunger and poverty and blogging everyday at Worldwatch Institute’s Nourishing the Planet. She has a regular column with the Mail & Guardian, the Kansas City Star, and the Huffington Post and her writing was been featured in newspapers across Africa including the Cape Town Argus, the Zambia Daily Mail, Coast Week (Kenya), and other African publications. She holds an M.S. in agriculture, food, and environment from Tufts University and a B.A. in environmental policy from Monmouth College.
