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.
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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.
Read more...Another False Start in Africa Sold with Gates Foundation Green Revolution Myths
The Gates-Foundation-promoted Green Revolution has proven harmful and also crowded out safer and effective ecological agriculture projects
Read more...Preparing to Celebrate the Only Season Named for the Soil: Mud Season
What is mud?
Read more...Corporate Concentration in the US Food System Makes Food More Expensive and Less Accessible for Many Americans
How Big Food increases prices in categories like bread, beer, processed chicken, and packaged salad, and what to do about it.
Read more...Could We Learn How to Talk to Trees (or Forests)?
The forest is the computer?
Read more...COVID-19 Has Exposed the Fragility of Our Food System—Here’s How We Can Localize It
The pandemic has shown the need to localize food production. Farms from Northern California to Canada are creating regional food systems.
Read more...The Next Neoliberal President…
A clear eyed and therefore not cheery look at where President Biden is set to take the US.
Read more...Fourteen of My Favorite Flowers
il faut cultiver notre jardin.
Read more...Robert Pollin: Biden Not Phasing Out Fossil Fuel, Relies on Carbon Capture
Robert Pollin critiques the Biden climate plan for over-relying on unproven carbon capture, investing too little in solar and wind, and treating China as a rival.
Read more...54 Million People in the U.S. May Go Hungry During Pandemic—Can Urban Farms Help?
In the COVID era, growing food locally has become more essential than ever.
Read more...How the Agricultural Lobby Is Sabotaging Europe’s Green Deal
The European Commission’s ambitous Green Deal plans are already stumbling over bureaucratic infighting and ag industry opposition.
Read more...Covid-19 Shortages Continue and Could Get Worse
Covid-19 still stalks the land and winter is coming.
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