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Geoengineering the climate: The zombie idea that just won’t die
Geoengineering the climate: The zombie idea that just won’t die Just when you think the last boomlet for geoengineering the climate has expended itself and we might be rid of any serious consideration of it as a strategy for addressing climate change, it rises zombie-like from the dead and starts roaming the Earth again. The […]
Book review of “Bright Green Lies”
Book review of “Bright Green Lies” This is a book review of “Bright Green Lies. How the Environmental Movement Lost its Way and What We can Do About It” by Derrick Jensen, Lierre Keith, and Max Wilbert. This is a timely book. The Biden administration is alarmed by how China controls up to 90% of […]
As temps rise, so do water protector arrests
As temps rise, so do water protector arrests AITKIN COUNTY, Minn. — Spring is bringing the heat to opponents of the Enbridge Line 3 tar-sands oil pipeline, as levels of arrests and citations for demonstrations against the private Canadian infrastructure project rise faster than at any time since construction began on it in December. The […]
“Them” and “Us”: Shifting Perspective on Responding to the Ecological Emergency
“Them” and “Us”: Shifting Perspective on Responding to the Ecological Emergency “We cannot keep drifting apart into two separate tribes with a separate set of facts and separate realities with nothing in common except our hostility for each other.” (Mitch McConnell). I’ll get this out there before we go any further: the idea of there […]
Grace Olmstead’s Uprooted Idaho, and My Own
Grace Olmstead’s Uprooted Idaho, and My Own Last summer my family and I drove right by Emmett, Idaho, the ancestral home of Grace Olmstead, author of the wonderful, if imperfect, Uprooted: Recovering the Legacy of the Places We’ve Left Behind. Idaho’s Gem County (Emmett is the county seat) is beautiful country, which it was good to reminded of. […]
Running out of Ice on the Moon. How we Forgot the Problem of Resource Depletion
Running out of Ice on the Moon. How we Forgot the Problem of Resource Depletion “The Moon is a Harsh Mistress” by Robert A. Heinlein, (1966), translated into Italian as “La Luna è una Severa Maestra.” It was probably the first science fiction book for adults I ever read in my life, I still remember […]
Sir David Attenborough issues a stern warning to Earthlings in his new documentary film
Sir David Attenborough issues a stern warning to Earthlings in his new documentary film Physicist Tom Murphy finds much to agree with in his review of the film: “We would keep consuming the earth until we had used it up.” No 2722 Posted by fw, March 30, 2021“In the 1970s, we started noticing extinctions taking place […]
A third of global farmland at ‘high’ pesticide pollution risk
A third of global farmland at ‘high’ pesticide pollution risk Nearly two-thirds of global agricultural land is at risk of pesticide pollution, a study says A third of the planet’s agricultural land is at “high risk” of pesticide pollution from the lingering residue of chemical ingredients that can leach into water supplies and threaten biodiversity, […]
New England Ecology
New England Ecology (Or Eat the Damn Deer) Deer droppings This week the garden finally thawed out. I can see the grass and soil and the lower trunks of trees again for the first time in months. And right along with that, I see enough deer droppings to cover an acre in an inch-thick layer. […]
Sorry Cranky Conservatives! Carbon Pricing Wins the Day
Sorry Cranky Conservatives! Carbon Pricing Wins the Day The Supreme Court ruling is good news for anyone invested in a habitable planet. But fixing the climate is going to take more. ‘There’s no court we can appeal this to,’ Alberta Premier Jason Kenney said on Thursday, before vowing to continue his fight. What taxpayer-funded mischief […]
Nuclear Fuel Buried 108 Feet From the Sea
Nuclear Fuel Buried 108 Feet From the Sea Photograph Source: D Ramey Logan – CC BY-SA4.0 “The most toxic substance on Earth is separated from exposure to society by ½” of steel encased in a canister.” (Blanch) That eye-opener comes from renowned nuclear expert Paul Blanch in reference to spent fuel rods removed from San Onofre […]
Can organic farming feed the world?
Can organic farming feed the world? I discuss various aspects of so-called ‘alternative’ agriculture at some length in Chapter 6 of A Small Farm Future1, and I don’t intend to retrace many of those steps here. But there’s a couple of further things I do want to say in this blog cycle. Here, I’ll focus on […]
Water is Life. Can We Protect It?
The Lempa River, whose watershed provides water for half of El Salvador (Shutterstock) WATER IS LIFE. CAN WE PROTECT IT? Americans will have to fight hard to protect their water from corporate greed. They can learn a lot from El Salvador. From West Texas to Jackson, Mississippi, tens of millions of people struggled through late winter […]
21st century crimes against nature: ecocide as international law
21st century crimes against nature: ecocide as international law Just as genocide has become the norm in international law, it is time to make war on nature a prosecutable crime also. At the end of last year while the world was focused on the Corona virus a panel of experts in international law met to […]
