Plastics Use in Farming Threatens Food Safety and Human Health, FAO Warns
The UN’s FAO publishes first effort report on how the use of plastics in farming erodes the health of soils, threatening food safety and human health.
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Book Review: Gabe Brown’s “Dirt to Soil”
“From Dirt to Soil” is well worth a read — and very hopeful, a good thing these days.
Read more...The Agribusiness Alliance for a Green Revolution Failed Africa
Big Ag’s push to sell chemicals and other inputs to developing countries has worked out great for them and badly for Africa.
Read more...African Faith Leaders to Gates Foundation: Drop ‘African Green Revolution’
“When it comes to the climate, African faith communities are urging the world to think twice before pushing a technical and corporate farming approach.”
Read more...Hoisted from Comments: What Climate Change Reformers Get Wrong
Climate change activists too often wind up bypassing core issues. Here are a couple of them.
Read more...A 20-Foot Sea Wall Won’t Save Miami – But Living Structures Can
How to rescue Miami…and other coastal cities that will otherwise be largely under water.
Read more...Beware of World Economic Forum/Gates UN Food Systems Summit Trojan Horse
The Gates Foundation and the WEF are steamrolling normal UN processes as part of a campaign to discredit sound agroecology practices.
Read more...The Outdoors Is, Indeed, Great
Brain science, and gardening!
Read more...Prairie Dogs as Ecosystem Engineers and and Sentient Beings
“If a lion could speak, we could not understand him” –Wittgenstein. Wrong!
Read more...We’re Havin’ a Heat Wave (along with Our Cats)
Cats, “wet bulb” temperature, and life without air conditioning.
Read more...The 2021 Corporate Bamboozle On World Food Systems
Mega-corporations are set to win control of global governance of food and agriculture at the UN Food Systems Summit later this year.
Read more...Is the Only Green Thing about Cannabis the Almighty Dollar?
Cannabis has an enormous carbon footprint when grown indoors, with a utopian proposal for growing it outdoors.
Read more...UN Report Assesses Dire State of Global Soil Pollution
The UN last week issued a report assessing the dire state the world’s soil. The calls to action are inadequate to the scale of the problem.
Read more...Kelp, Trophic Cascades, and Climate
Wandering through the kelp forests (which turn out to be a carbon sequestration option).
Read more...The Corporate Food Takeover
Corporate ownership in many sectors of food production has risen and is set to increase further. Another rentier program well underway.
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