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Meat and Consequences: More Bad News for Climate Change
Meat and Consequences: More Bad News for Climate Change Photo Source Audrey | CC BY 2.0 Thanksgiving is quite a holiday. In one day, we manage to eat and enjoy 44 million turkeys, twice the number consumed at Christmas. Yes, vegetarians may live longer and vegans even more so, but the smell of a roasting turkey […]
Global Cooling is Real – Major Temperature Low 2046?
Global Cooling is Real – Major Temperature Low 2046? While NASA has now confirmed that the outer atmosphere is getting cooler, it seems desperately insane for people to keep denying the possibility the Global Cooling is taking place rather than Global Warming when the former brings famine and the latter brings economic expansion as […]
The Scourge of the American Petroleum Tankers That Prowl the British Columbia Coast
The Scourge of the American Petroleum Tankers That Prowl the British Columbia Coast November 26 marked a dreadful anniversary for the tanker-bedraggled British Columbia coast. One year ago in Hecate Strait, the American ATB “pusher tug” Jake Shearer broke apart from its fully loaded 10,000 deadweight-ton capacity petroleum barge and came within a stone’s throw […]
We need a new common consciousness of what’s necessary and possible to curb climate change.
We need a new common consciousness of what’s necessary and possible to curb climate change. Cultural resistance to the need for a fundamental, urgent, unprecedented rethink of the way we conduct life in order to limit temperature rise is continuously fed by the apparently affirmative but actually misleading words of charismatic thinkers such as Rutger […]
Employment, Ecology, Extinction: French Students Take on the System to Save the Species
Employment, Ecology, Extinction: French Students Take on the System to Save the Species Photo Source Manifeste étudiant pour un réveil écologique | CC BY 2.0 It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it. – Upton Sinclair On my last day of teaching Environmental Studies, […]
Carbon Capture – Does it Work?
Carbon Capture – Does it Work? Photo Source Nicholas A. Tonelli | CC BY 2.0 Harken! Good news (maybe) “encouraging news” is a better description, as Negative Emissions Technology (“NET”) starts coming into focus. Conceptually, carbon removal or direct air capture removes CO2 from the atmosphere, which would be great for suppressing climate change. In […]
Humanure Part 1: Why Should We Give a Crap?
HUMANURE PART 1: WHY SHOULD WE GIVE A CRAP? Permaculture is not just about garden design. Even if you don’t have land or access to land, looking at life from a permaculture perspective can help you to make life decisions and take actions towards upholding the ethics of permaculture in your daily practices. This article […]
Thoughts From The Precipice
Shutterstock Thoughts From The Precipice Things are worsening. But we’re not over the edge quite yet. As you already know, things are unraveling. The narratives of the past are being revealed as false and fraudulent — even harmful. For example, the fallacy of pursuing “ever more” growth. Growth up to a point is beneficial, but […]
Here’s the Dire Climate Report the Trump White House Didn’t Want You to See
Here’s the Dire Climate Report the Trump White House Didn’t Want You to See “The decision to release this damning report when families are beginning to celebrate the holidays and newsrooms are short-staffed is a brazen attempt to bury the truth.” A house burns during the Woolsey Fire on November 9, 2018 in Malibu, California. […]
Coldest Thanksgiving In 150 Years As Northeast Hit By “Siberian” Temperatures
Coldest Thanksgiving In 150 Years As Northeast Hit By “Siberian” Temperatures Most of the Northeastern United States feels like Siberia right now due to a blast of Arctic air that is pushing temperatures 15 to 25 degrees colder below trend. As a result, people spending time outdoors during Thanksgiving Day into Black Friday may face some of the coldest […]
Ocean Warming Study Criticism Shows How the Scientific Method Works
Ocean Warming Study Criticism Shows How the Scientific Method Works Errors in a recent ocean warming study illustrate global warming’s complexity. They also show the depths to which climate science deniers will stoop to dismiss or downplay evidence for human-caused climate change. The study by researchers from the U.S., China, France and Germany concluded, “ocean warming […]
My Top 10 Books That Inspired Our Project
MY TOP 10 BOOKS THAT INSPIRED OUR PROJECT At the beginning of 2017 Permanent Publications sent us an email expressing an interest to publish a book on our polyculture trials and experiences. I’d been thinking about writing this book for some time and responded with gleeful enthusiasm. I’m happy to announce that we have signed the publishing […]
Extinction Rebellion: From the UK to Ghana and the US, Climate Activists Take Civil Disobedience World-Wide
Extinction Rebellion: From the UK to Ghana and the US, Climate Activists Take Civil Disobedience World-Wide More than 100 people were arrested during a week of action across the UK as protesters demanded the government treat the threats posed by climate change as a crisis and take drastic steps to cut emissions to net zero […]
The battle for the future of farming: what you need to know
The battle for the future of farming: what you need to know It is widely agreed that today’s global agriculture system is a social and environmental failure. Business as usual is no longer an option: biodiversity loss and nitrogen pollution are exceeding planetary limits, and catastrophic risks of climate change demand immediate action. Most concede that […]
Industrial Forest Science: Industry’s Bitch
Industrial Forest Science: Industry’s Bitch Photo Source Gunvor Røkke | CC BY 2.0 “As soon as you are a scientist … you take a political side [because] you must necessarily choose to ask only certain questions. Many scientists … produce risk assessment for forest management [which] asks ‘how much can we cut, graze, salvage, spray, […]
