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The unacceptable collateral damage of overconsumption
Source: The International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme The unacceptable collateral damage of overconsumption The Great Acceleration, un-burnable carbon, and global impacts We are living in extraordinary times and transformation is already happening and accelerating all around us. Many technological, social, and environmental changes are racing up the steep end of the exponential curve. In almost every area of […]
What Will We Do With All Those Solar Panels When Their Useful Life is Over?
WHAT WILL WE DO WITH ALL THOSE SOLAR PANELS WHEN THEIR USEFUL LIFE IS OVER? As solar power booms, businesses are exploring ways to ensure valuable components don’t end up in landfills. Photo courtesy of sinovoltaics.com April 11, 2018 — Solar power is having its hockey stick moment. Since the early 2000s, the amount of […]
An Oceanic Problem: the Atlantic Overturning Current is Slowing
An Oceanic Problem: the Atlantic Overturning Current is Slowing Photo by Michael Mayer | CC BY 2.0 The Atlantic Overturning Current is part of a worldwide twisted loop of ocean water, called the thermohaline cycle (thermo = heat, haline = salt), which emerges very salty and warm out of the Gulf of Mexico, travels north […]
Hanford’s Toxic Avengers: Department of Energy Suppresses Deadly Nuclear-Cleanup Flaws
Hanford’s Toxic Avengers: Department of Energy Suppresses Deadly Nuclear-Cleanup Flaws Your tax dollars are on the line. The DOE is set to extend a contract to Washington River Protection Solutions (WRPS) for another year at the Hanford Nuclear Site, despite numerous allegations of misconduct since the company won the initial contract for $7.1 billion in 2008. […]
Understanding What the ‘New Normal’ Means for Water in the West
Understanding What the ‘New Normal’ Means for Water in the West After 20 years of drought conditions, some scientists are calling for better terminology to describe the impact of rising temperatures in the region. Humphrey’s Peak in Arizona is experiencing one of its lowest runoff years in history.Education Images/UIG via Getty Images APRIL IS OFTEN a […]
Dangerous climate tipping point is ‘about a century ahead of schedule’ warns scientist
Dangerous climate tipping point is ‘about a century ahead of schedule’ warns scientist A slowing Gulf Stream system means catastrophic East Coast flooding will get much worse. TAXIS SIT IN A FLOODED LOT AFTER HURRICANE SANDY OCTOBER 30, 2012 IN HOBOKEN, NEW JERSEY. CREDIT: MICHAEL BOCCHIERI/GETTY IMAGES New research provides strong evidence that one of […]
Massive Geomagnetic Storm Set To Hit Earth This Week
Massive Geomagnetic Storm Set To Hit Earth This Week Over the weekend, a middle latitude coronal hole (88) started to face earth. This is the same coronal hole that was responsible for a moderate (G2) geomagnetic storm last month. Now it seems like the same coronal hole is at it again, spewing high-speed solar wind […]
A Shell report predicted how devastating climate change would be — it’s from 1988
A Shell report predicted how devastating climate change would be — it’s from 1988 Royal Dutch Shell gas station. Jonathan Nicholson/NurPhoto via Getty Images A 1988 Royal Dutch Shell report recently published online shows that the company knew decades ago what the impact of climate change would be. The document was found by Dutch journalist […]
Insects are disappearing. Why should we care? What can be done?
Insects are disappearing. Why should we care? What can be done? Insects are disappearing. Remember how in the ’90s when you went for a drive down a country lane on a summer evening, you’d end up with hundreds of splatters on the windscreen? No more does that happen. Your car is no longer like a […]
GREEN Foundation is Reversing Negative Effects of the Green Revolution
GREEN Foundation is Reversing Negative Effects of the Green Revolution The GREEN Foundation is working to slow the rate of farmer suicides in India and improve conditions for farmers—especially women—whose traditional agricultural methods were stripped away by the Green Revolution. A 20th-century push by Western agronomists to decrease hunger in developing nations, the Green Revolution […]
Cutting a Farm into a Forest
Cutting a Farm into a Forest A conservationist is one who is humbly aware that with each stroke of the axe he is writing his signature on the face of the land. –Aldo Leopold, Sand County Almanac Many modern back to the land stories unfold on neglected farmland that is ready to be brought back […]
1.5°C of warming is closer than we imagine, just a decade away
1.5°C of warming is closer than we imagine, just a decade away Global warming of 1.5°C is imminent, likely in just a decade from now. That’s the stunning conclusion to be drawn from a number of recent studies, surveyed below. Paris Commitments now put the world on a path of 3.4°C of warming by 2100 […]
Where’s the “eco” in ecomodernism?
Where’s the “eco” in ecomodernism? Image: Richard Walker If you hadn’t heard, despair is old hat. Rather than retreat into the woods, now is the time to think big, to propose visionary policies and platforms. So enter grand proposals like basic income, universal healthcare, and the end of work. Slap big polluters with carbon tax, […]
In praise of stupid: for a self-systemic farming
In praise of stupid: for a self-systemic farming I’ve been blogging for over six years under this ‘Small Farm Future’ moniker, without devoting much effort to defining what a ‘small farm’ actually is. So I thought I’d try to make at least some minor amends on that score in this post. Strangely, I think the […]
The Magical Thinking of Ecomodernism
THE MAGICAL THINKING OF ECOMODERNISM I recently wrote an article for Fast Company explaining why “green growth” is not a thing. I looked at three high-profile studies showing that even aggressive taxes and rapid improvements in technological efficiency will not be enough to cut global resource use as long as we keep growing the world […]
