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Are Small-Scale Farms the Key to Feeding the World?
Image by Zen Chung (pexels) Are Small-Scale Farms the Key to Feeding the World? In the United States, agricultural production has been shifting to larger farms for many years. The demand for cheaper food and lower production costs has turned fertile fields and small operations into industrial plots and factory farms. Today, these large-scale operations […]
Last Days for BC’s Apple Industry?
Last Days for BC’s Apple Industry? COVID-19 and bad weather have hammered Okanagan orchardists. But low prices are the biggest threat to their survival. First of two. Not only does Sukhdeep Brar have to spend more time and effort to pick the apples on his farm this year, thanks to COVID-19 and bad weather, he […]
Spanish Energy Markets Roiled Amid Chilling Temps
Spanish Energy Markets Roiled Amid Chilling Temps A cold snap across Spain is expected to last through mid-January has resulted in natural gas prices more than doubling in the last week, according to Bloomberg. LNG prices trading at Spain’s Punto Virtual de Balance (PVB) gas trading hub hit a record 51.55 euros ($63.13) a megawatt-hour this week, […]
The Urgent Case for Shrinking the Economy
The Urgent Case for Shrinking the Economy Endless growth is destroying the planet. We know how to stop it. ILLUSTRATION BY TIM LAHAN In July 1979, shortly after installing a set of solar panels over the West Wing, Jimmy Carter did something peculiar for a peacetime president. He asked Americans to sacrifice: to consume less, take public transit more, […]
The Shame of Global Hunger
The Shame of Global Hunger We live in a world of plenty, resource rich, financially wealthy, but despite this abundance an estimated 700 million people go hungry every day. Millions more are food insecure, meaning they may have food today, but have no idea if they will have any tomorrow or next week. Additional millions […]
Farming for Change
Farming for Change DOWNLOAD Farming for Change: mapping a route to 2030 introduces new research from research institute, IDDRI, showing agroecology can produce enough healthy food for a future UK population and explores how this new technical modelling challenges and develops our thinking about a new food and farming system. This new research that addresses […]
Is Covid-19 providing cover for Jay Hanson’s Society of Sloth?
Is Covid-19 providing cover for Jay Hanson’s Society of Sloth? Gail Tverberg made a comment today that rings true and motivated me to write about something I’ve been mulling for a while… https://ourfiniteworld.com/2020/12/23/2020-the-year-things-started-going-badly-wrong/comment-page-24/#comment-274042 I think the reaction to COVID-19 is part of how a self-organizing system works. People were looking for a reason to cut back/shut […]
Geomagnetic Storm Expected To Strike Earth’s Magnetic Field Today
Geomagnetic Storm Expected To Strike Earth’s Magnetic Field Today A minor (G1-class) geomagnetic storm watch is in effect for Jan. 6 as a coronal mass ejection (CME) is expected to strike Earth’s magnetic field, according to SpaceWeather. On Jan. 2, the Sun released a blast of energy that has taken at least four days to reach […]
Three Major Threats to Life on Earth That We Must Address in 2021
Three Major Threats to Life on Earth That We Must Address in 2021 Pulp Mills on a December night, Wauna, Oregon. Photo: Jeffrey St. Clair. Large parts of the world—outside of China and a few other countries—face a runaway virus, which has not been stopped because of criminal incompetence by governments. That these governments in […]
Extreme ocean-effect snow buries parts of Japan beneath seven feet, with more coming
Extreme ocean-effect snow buries parts of Japan beneath seven feet, with more coming The nation was sandwiched in between record-breaking weather systems. The American GFS model simulates heavy snow targeting Japan during the next week. (WeatherBell) Barely two weeks after a prolific ocean-effect snowstorm dropped seven feet of snow and stranded thousands of motorists, the new […]
Unplugged: Abandoned oil and gas wells leave the ocean floor spewing methane
Unplugged: Abandoned oil and gas wells leave the ocean floor spewing methane The Gulf of Mexico is littered with tens of thousands of abandoned oil and gas wells, and toothless regulation leaves climate warming gas emissions unchecked. Out on the deck of a research boat, Tara Yacovitch looked out to the water. In the middle […]
Saving Farmland, Supporting Young Farmers
Saving Farmland, Supporting Young Farmers It’s a bit odd that land reform is barely mentioned in most progressive agendas. Maybe that’s because it is seen as challenging the presumed virtues of private property and capitalist markets. Yet secure access and tenure to land is essential for achieving so many progressive goals, from building new sorts […]
Zero Input Agriculture
Zero Input Agriculture On Tuesday afternoon, 24th November, Evita and I ventured to meet Shane at his 40 acres near Pomona. I first heard Shane on an Abundant Edge podcast in July 2020. It was his first podcast and it was incredible to hear him talk about growing food without using inputs such as irrigation, fertiliser, and imported […]
EU can shut off power supplies if UK tries to seize control of fish stocks, small print of deal reveals
EU can shut off power supplies if UK tries to seize control of fish stocks, small print of deal reveals Cables under Channel meet 8 per cent of demand – raising threat of higher prices and possible blackouts. The EU has secured the ability to shut off gas and electricity supplies if the UK tries to seize […]
Welcome to the New Terrorist Movement – Ecoterrorists
Welcome to the New Terrorist Movement – Ecoterrorists In London, we had the Extinction Rebellion becoming very violent. Now we have people blowing up gas lines on a coordinated basis and deliberately trying to create havoc leaving people without heat. This will indeed be part of the rise in Civil Unrest and we should expect this to […]
