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To Be Farming and Fortunate
To Be Farming and Fortunate Photographed by Paige Green To arrive at Fortunate Farm, you have to drive along the California coast, either north or south, passing some of the most epic viewsheds to be seen on Coast Highway 1. The farm is hours away from any major city, and just south of Fort Bragg, a […]
North Dakota blues: The legacy of fracking
North Dakota blues: The legacy of fracking When oil drillers descended on North Dakota en masse a decade ago, state officials and residents generally welcomed them with open arms. A new form of hydraulic fracturing, or “fracking” for short, would allow an estimated 3 to 4 billion barrels of so-called shale oil to be extracted […]
An alternative agriculturist’s guide to science
An alternative agriculturist’s guide to science To begin, just a heads up on a couple of new things on the site. First, I’ve posted on the My Book page advanced comments about my forthcoming book that have come in from a number of interesting thinkers. It’s nice to get such positive notices. Currently, I’m pretty busy gearing […]
Big Oil’s Backers Are Jumping Ship — and That’s Good for the Planet
Big Oil’s Backers Are Jumping Ship — and That’s Good for the Planet Investors, banks and even some oil and gas companies are breaking ranks on the future of high-emission energy. Alberta’s oilsands are increasingly toxic for major investors concerned with global warming. Photo by Kris Krug, Creative Commons licensed. The oil lobby’s political friends are […]
Preparing for the end of the world as we know it
Preparing for the end of the world as we know it For many Indigenous people, the collapse of our current system is not necessarily bad news. Image: Vanessa de Oliveira Andreotti, all rights reserved Gesturing Towards Decolonial Futures (GTDF) is a collective of researchers, artists, educators, activists and Indigenous knowledge keepers from the Global North […]
How our food choices cut into forests and put us closer to viruses
How our food choices cut into forests and put us closer to viruses As the global population has doubled to 7.8 billion in about 50 years, industrial agriculture has increased the output from fields and farms to feed humanity. One of the negative outcomes of this transformation has been the extreme simplification of ecological systems, with complex […]
The Positive Power of Emergencies
The Positive Power of Emergencies Seth Klein discusses his new book on tackling the climate crisis like we’ve fought wars — and now the pandemic. Called to the new fight. ‘What seemed politically impossible… can be quickly embraced,’ says Seth Klein, author of A Good War: Mobilizing Canada for the Climate Emergency, which will be published […]
Easy Ways to Increase the Available Minerals in Your Food
Image by author Kate Martignier Easy Ways to Increase the Available Minerals in Your Food Assuming you’re eating the healthiest plant foods, grown in the healthiest soils, that you can find or afford, what else can you do to increase your mineral intake without using pills? In the first article in this series we discussed the relative […]
The Coal Curse – A Review
The Coal Curse – A Review Governments are abrogating their first responsibility, which is to safeguard the people and their future well-being. The first part of historian Judith Brett’s Quarterly Essay, The Coal Curse – Resources, Climate and Australia’s Future, is a masterly dissection of Australian economic history since WW2. Credit – Unsplash It brings […]
How Low Flows Due to Irrigation are Destroying Oregon’s Deschutes River
How Low Flows Due to Irrigation are Destroying Oregon’s Deschutes River The majority of water removed from the Deschutes is used to grow irrigated pasture and hay for livestock not crops consumed directly by humans. Photo by George Wuerthner The recent article “Low Flows On Deschutes” highlights why irrigation is a significant threat to our […]
California Wildfires Cover 1 Million Acres In A Week As Storms Expected To Fan Flames
California Wildfires Cover 1 Million Acres In A Week As Storms Expected To Fan Flames In the course of just one week, wildfires blazing across the state of California have burned through nearly one million acres statewide, destroying hundreds of homes ahead of an expected storm system heading toward the state that could bring more […]
Sunspot Could Send Solar Flares Toward Earth That May Disrupt the Power Grid
SUNSPOT COULD SEND SOLAR FLARES TOWARD EARTH THAT MAY DISRUPT THE POWER GRID A massive sunspot on the surface of the sun has the potential to shoot solar flares toward Earth, and this particular sunspot is one of concern. A solar flare could disrupt the power grid and take down some radio communications. A massive […]
Double Tropical Trouble Brewing For US Gulf Coast
Double Tropical Trouble Brewing For US Gulf Coast The National Hurricane Center’s (NHC) latest update (Saturday morning) on two tropical storms swirling in the Gulf of Mexico, with crosshairs both pointed at the Gulf Coast of the US, is that both storms are set to strengthen through the weekend. Readers may recall, Tropical Depression 13 (upgraded to Tropical […]
Canada’s Trans Mountain Pipeline Inches Forward, But Opposition Intensifies
Canada’s Trans Mountain Pipeline Inches Forward, But Opposition Intensifies Late one night this past April, four people on off-road vehicles drove into a small, Indigenous village near the town of Blue River in British Columbia, Canada. It was dark and the vehicles drove through deep snow, smashing through wooden signs and barriers that guarded the […]
