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Media briefing: Farming can be a climate change solution, so why is it missing in action at COP26?
Media briefing: Farming can be a climate change solution, so why is it missing in action at COP26? Our planet is at a tipping point. Climate change threatens all our futures if we do not act now. All sectors must look at their impact, and agriculture is no exception. Agriculture is currently responsible for up to […]
The Woodchip Handbook: A Complete Guide for Farmers, Gardeners and Landscapers: Excerpt
The Woodchip Handbook: A Complete Guide for Farmers, Gardeners and Landscapers: Excerpt The following excerpt is from Ben Raskin’s new book The Woodchip Handbook: A Complete Guide for Farmers, Gardeners and Landscapers (Chelsea Green Publishing, October 2021) and is reprinted with permission from the publisher. The Woodchip Handbook By Ben Raskin Restoring Damaged Soil With the potential […]
COP-26: Stopping Climate Change and Other Illusions
COP-26: Stopping Climate Change and Other Illusions Measured atmospheric CO2 at Mauna Loa Observatory. Note: red = the monthly mean values; black = the same, after correction for the average seasonal cycle. Do not expect significant progress from COP-26 on climate change mitigation. There are fundamental barriers that prevent the deep and rapid changes that […]
COP-26 is a global energy embarrassment
COP-26 is a global energy embarrassment For 26 futile years, the net-zero maniacs have wasted fuel, energy, and taxpayers’ money to bite the hands that provide their food, energy, welfare, and public-sector jobs. Led by E.U. and AUKUS dreamers, they destroy reliable energy from coal, oil, nuclear, gas, and hydro while forcing us to subsidize […]
Creating a Preferred Future
Creating a Preferred Future
The Global Economy Is Rapidly Slowing Down
The Global Economy Is Rapidly Slowing Down Summary Between a domestic real estate bubble bursting, the Evergrande debt crisis, electricity power outages, plus negative service and manufacturing PMIs in September, China’s economic slowdown has been very swift. The practice of defaulting on foreign debt and trying to restructure domestic debt is common in emerging market […]
Our population problem
Our population problem Like Sir David Attenborough and many others, I recognise overpopulation as one of the most significant underlying causes of global problems today – along with our use of fossil fuels, overconsumption and our addiction to a perpetual growth economic model. However, when I mention this I am often countered with, “No, no. […]
Net zero policies are ’emperor’s new clothes,’ academics warn
Net zero policies are ’emperor’s new clothes,’ academics warn Credit: CC0 Public Domain Net zero targets are a “fantasy” that often just protect “business as usual,” a leading expert in environment and sustainability has said. Dr. James Dyke, Assistant Director of the Global Systems Institute at the University of Exeter, criticized net zero targets as […]
Why root washing is important – an illustrated cautionary tale
Why root washing is important – an illustrated cautionary tale I’ve promoted root washing of containerized and B&B trees and shrubs for a few decades now. The experimental science is slowly coming along – it can take several years to determine if the practice is more successful in terms of plant survival than leaving the […]
Northern California Swamped With “Historic Rain” Amid Rare Atmospheric River Event
Northern California Swamped With “Historic Rain” Amid Rare Atmospheric River Event The National Weather Service’s (NWS) Sacramento office said “potentially historic rain” rain has fallen in parts of Northern California after a bomb cyclone accompanied an atmospheric river that unleashed massive amounts of moisture pulled in from the Pacific Ocean. Northern California bore the brunt late Saturday/Sunday, with record […]
Homage to soil
Homage to soil Perhaps surprisingly, given that I worked for more than 20 years for an organisation called the Soil Association, my striving to understand the full significance and importance of the soil is still an evolving process which continues to be inspired and illuminated by ongoing revelations derived from my farming, my reading and my […]
Leaked documents reveal the fossil fuel and meat producing countries lobbying against climate action
Leaked documents reveal the fossil fuel and meat producing countries lobbying against climate action Files show how Brazil, Argentina, Australia, Japan, Saudi Arabia and OPEC have pressed to water down a key UN scientific report. Some of the world’s biggest coal, oil, beef and animal feed-producing nations are attempting to strip a landmark UN climate […]
Bomb Cyclone To Unleash Atmospheric River Over Northern California
Bomb Cyclone To Unleash Atmospheric River Over Northern California A “bomb cyclone” will unleash an atmospheric river Saturday night into Sunday across Northern California. “By Saturday night, a rapidly intensifying Pacific cyclone directing a powerful atmospheric river squarely at the West Coast delivers a fire hose of rich subtropical moisture into California,” the Weather Prediction Center (WPC) […]
