How to Win: Lessons from the Zad
Members of the Zad engaged in a nearly decade long, successful commual effort to block the construction of an airport near Nantes. But what happens when you win?
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Agribusiness Is the Problem, Not the Solution
Why agribusiness isn’t well positioned to address hunger.
Read more...New Review of Dozens of Studies of Insect Population Decline, the Causes, and Things You Can Do
A review of the massive new study on insect population decline and its drivers.
Read more...The Planetary Health Diet Isn’t Much Use to People Living in Food Poverty
Diet has now become political. But will the food industry support more sustainable diets, particularly for low income consumers?
Read more...Anticipatory Unease: A Visit to the Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens
By Lambert Strether of Corrente. During Naked Capitalism’s comment holiday, Yves and I also visited the Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens (CMBG), “Maine’s Premier Botanical Garden,” which it is! From their site: In just ten short years, Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens has become one of the largest public gardens in the country, ranking among the top […]
Read more...Interim Report on Lambert’s 2018 Garden
My summer office.
Read more...How Hunter-Gatherers May Hold the Key to our Economic Future
Their relaxed approach to work stemmed from their faith in the providence of their environment and confidence in their ability to exploit it
Read more...Wizards and Prophets Face Off to Save the Planet
How to feed 10 billion people? Wizards, as in technophiles, and prophets, conservationists, have very different answers.
Read more...Seed Catalogs of Desire
The history of seed catalogs
Read more...Why Urban Farming Is Key in the Fight Against Hunger and Climate Change
How urban farming can help alleviate food stress and buffer climate pressures.
Read more...January Thaw
Wood frogs, iguanas, anti-freeze, and plans for the garden
Read more...Thirteen Ways of Looking at Success and Failure in the Garden (2017)
A report on my garden in 2017.
Read more...Our Current Food System Is Broken and Unjust—We Need a Paradigm Shift That Values Nutrition as a Human Right
Plenty of food is produced, but it fails to reach at least an eighth of the world’s population that is suffering from hunger.
Read more...How Do We Reclaim Control Of Our Lives When the Economy Looms So Grim?
Lean Logic, community, and a post-growth world.
Read more...Il Faut Cultiver Notre Jardin
Gardening plans
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