Ecological Gardening: URGENT CALL TO ACTION
This is a short break from some diaries I have in the pipeline: an urgent call to action for some fellow Permaculturalists who are doing groundbreaking (pun pun pun) work at the University of...
View Article[CA Prop 37-Label GMOs] Genetic Roulette- The Gamble of Our Lives: FREE...
Thought I would share that a new documentary about genetic modification is currently being broadcast on YouTube until October 17th- for free. California has a ballot initiative, Prop 37, which will...
View ArticleIntroduction to Agroecology: Holistic Management- Cattle, Cause or Cure for...
In the past decade, we have been told repeatedly by environmental campaigners, the UN, and scientists the world over that cows are a major contributor to climate change. The logic goes something like...
View ArticleIntroduction to Agroecology: Holistic Management- Compendious Edition
Last month I published a mammoth diary which reintroduced the concept of agroecology and presented the design framework known as Holistic Management.The premise? Livestock are not inherently...
View ArticleIntroduction to Agroecology: Permaculture ≠ Holistic Management ≠ Biodynamic...
My aim in this diary is not to step on anyone's toes, but I do wish to make certain that when we communicate about agroecology and things in general, that we do not conflate ideologies and approaches...
View ArticleIntroduction to Agroecology: Holistic Management- "There is No Other...
Allan Savory gave his electrifying presentation on Holistic Management this past week TED's first big conference of 2013. Given the "one presentation per day" release schedule of TED, Mr. Savory's talk...
View ArticleIntroduction to Agroecology: Green Gold- "The Source of Wealth is [are] the...
I have been promising a diary on John D. Liu's "Green Gold" documentary for months now. I even went so far as to include it as an embed before the main feature in "Introduction to Agroecology: Holistic...
View ArticleIntroduction to Agroecology: Updated Additional Resources and Announcement
This is going to be a short diary. I wanted to tidy up the "Additional Resources" section that accompanies all of my diaries. This is also an opportunity to inform the community that my diary entry for...
View ArticleIntroduction to Agroecology: "A Serengeti on Our Doorsteps"- George Monbiot &...
"[...] rewilding offers a positive environmentalism. Environmentalists have long known what they are against; now we can explain what we are for. It introduces hope where hope seemed absent. It offers...
View ArticleIntroduction to Agroecology: Is it Anthropogenic or Bovigenic Climate Change?
Is the changing climate we face today the result of human activity, or is it the result of cattle (Bos primigenius)?Current environmentalist dogma declares that cattle, other livestock species...
View ArticleAgroecology: "Rehabilitation of degraded land has the potential to double...
A recent article by Dr. Mae-Wan Ho, co founder of the Institute of Science in Society (I-SIS), Paradigm Shift Urgently Needed In Agriculture – UN Agencies Call for an End to Industrial Agriculture...
View ArticleAgroecology: "...Outperform[s] the use of chemical fertilizers in boosting...
With increasing frequency, the global scientific and development community is extolling the "win win win" benefits of shifting human relationships with the planet towards agroecology. While now two...
View ArticleAgroecology: "Wake up before it is too late"- UNCTAD's TER13 Report
This is going to be a short post this week because A) all weekend we have had a talkoot where I am interning and B) the content I am linking to is quite extensive. Talkoot does not exactly translate...
View ArticleAgroecology: 1- Study Nature. 2- Facilitate Natural Functions. 3- Rediscover...
What ties the threats of runaway climate change, biodiversity loss culminating in trophic collapse, increasing water scarcity, discrimination and intolerance, food insecurity leading to widespread...
View ArticleAgroecology: Ray Archuleta from NRCS: "The Soil is Naked, Hungry, Thirsty,...
Ray Archuleta, a conservation agronomist with the National Resource Conservation Service, spoke at the National Conference on Soil and Cover Crops in Omaha this year.Ray delivered an authoritative and...
View ArticleIntroduction to Agroecology: Soil Life Theory (Me on video!)
(Cross posted from Permaculture News' forums. I usually don't cross post things, but this time I want to... well save time. I hope you all understand. I'll still check out the comments of course. I've...
View ArticleTaking applied ecology to the seas: Philip Hoare on Whales and Climate Change
In an article up today over at The Guardian (in their infamous "Comment is Free" section), entitled "Why whale poo could be the secret to reversing the effects of climate change," Philip Hoare shares...
View ArticleAre war crimes only for the defeated?
Cross-posted from Humanitarian Left. If so, what is the point of codifying them in the first place? Humiliation of the losing side?
View ArticleCowspiracy & The Building Blocks of an Absolutist Position
Cowspiracy- the Sustainability Secret, a documentary ostensibly exploring the effects of livestock on the environment was released seven months ago. Somehow, perhaps due to being an expatriate, I...
View ArticleOpposing GMOs is not automatically antiscientific [see 3 edit notes]
[Edit: I want to thank everyone who has taken the time to read this piece and especially to those who have shared their opinions. I forgot to mention, like I usually do, that I live in Finland. I am 6...
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