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Floods And Drought Devastate Crops All Over The Planet – Could A Global Food Crisis Be Coming?
Floods And Drought Devastate Crops All Over The Planet – Could A Global Food Crisis Be Coming? It looks like global food production could be well below expectations in 2019, and that could spell big trouble in the months ahead. In recent weeks, I have written extensively about the problems that we have been experiencing […]
Failure to Plant Crops
Failure to Plant Crops COMMENT: Good day from Chatham, Ontario Canada (50 miles east of Detroit 42.4048° N, 82.1910° W);Interesting your models are warning of the next year’s results in climate change. Our location is always the first to plant in Canada as it is the same latitude as northern California.A few climate tidbits; – As […]
Total Catastrophe For U.S. Corn Production: Only 30% Of U.S. Corn Fields Have Been Planted – 5 Year Average Is 66%
Total Catastrophe For U.S. Corn Production: Only 30% Of U.S. Corn Fields Have Been Planted – 5 Year Average Is 66% 2019 is turning out to be a nightmare that never ends for the agriculture industry. Thanks to endless rain and unprecedented flooding, fields all over the middle part of the country are absolutely soaked […]
How A Sustainable Food System Is Built
How A Sustainable Food System Is Built From the ground up. We all eat food. Most of us every day. Most of us several times a day. Food is undoubtedly one of the most constant and impactful aspects of our lives. And the ways that we produce — and consume it— are impactful as well. We all know about climate change. Agricultural activities […]
Are we Heading into a Food Shortage?
Are we Heading into a Food Shortage? COMMENT: Mr. Armstrong, I find it really distasteful that you laid out events well in advance and then everyone copies you without ever giving you credit. There are articles now appearing about the coming food shortage. The degree of plagiarism is unbelievable. It must be dishearting. I certainly begin […]
“The Story of Soil Is the Story of All of Us”
“The Story of Soil Is the Story of All of Us” Annie Leonard and Tom Newmark on how they came to see soil as a solution to one of our biggest environmental problems—and as a tool to build more resilient communities. Wendell Berry called it “the great connector of our lives, the source and destination […]
Growing a Revolution: Review
Growing a Revolution: Review Growing a Revolution: bringing our soil back to life by David R. Montgomery W. Norton & Company 321 pages $19.58 hardcover, $11.52 paperback, $9.88 Kindle, $26.29 audio CD Resilience.org asked me to review this book, probably because I did a multibook review five years ago in which I compared four books on sustainable […]
Using manure for fertilizer in the future – it won’t be easy
Using manure for fertilizer in the future – it won’t be easy Animals produce 44 times more manure than humans in the U.S. Preface. At John Jeavons Biointensive workshop back in 2003, I learned that phosphorous is limited and mostly being lost to oceans and other waterways after exiting sewage treatment plants. He said it can be […]
Western Industrial Farming Is Eating Our Forests and Accelerating Climate Change
Image: Shutterstock Western Industrial Farming Is Eating Our Forests and Accelerating Climate Change The dynamics of deforestation are increasingly inseparable from the growing demand for food from consumers in the most developed countries. Humans are eating the world’s forests. Not directly, of course—but a spate of new studies shows we might as well be. This is, […]
Garden Rebels: 10 Ways to Sow Revolution in Your Back Yard
Garden Rebels: 10 Ways to Sow Revolution in Your Back Yard Sometimes I think that the next Revolutionary War will take place in a vegetable garden. Instead of bullets, there will be seeds. Instead of chemical warfare, there will be rainwater, carefully collected from the gutters of the house. Instead of soldiers in body armor […]
The Failures of Farming and the Necessity of Wildtending
The Failures of Farming and the Necessity of Wildtending Kollibri terre Sonnenblume came through Saint Paul late last year and I will never forget his eye contact. It was steady and intimate. He was unafraid of what judgements lay on the other side. I tried my best to keep it, but rather sheepishly, turned away […]
Food and water: Plugging the drain before resources dry up
Food and water: Plugging the drain before resources dry up What if you could see how much water it takes to fill the supermarket shelves with food? About 4.2 litres (1.1 gallons) for every almond; over 52 litres for a single orange; more than 18.5 litres for a walnut — the numbers get even more […]
ANOTHER “Bomb Cyclone” Will Bring More Flooding To Parts Of The Midwest That Were Hit By A “1,000 Year Flood” Last Month
ANOTHER “Bomb Cyclone” Will Bring More Flooding To Parts Of The Midwest That Were Hit By A “1,000 Year Flood” Last Month Less than a month after a “bomb cyclone” caused a “1,000 year flood” in the middle portion of the country, another “bomb cyclone” of similar strength is going to bring even more flooding to the […]
100s Of Millions Of Dollars In Crops Destroyed By Flooding, And Farmers Are Being Told “There’s Nothing The U.S. Government Can Do To Help”
100s Of Millions Of Dollars In Crops Destroyed By Flooding, And Farmers Are Being Told “There’s Nothing The U.S. Government Can Do To Help” This is the worst economic disaster for U.S. farmers in modern American history. Our ongoing trade war with China had greatly depressed prices for wheat, corn and soybeans, and so farmers […]
Europe’s food imports devour rainforests
Europe’s food imports devour rainforests Europe’s food imports swallow large amounts of tropical deforestation. Image: By Sander Dalhuisen on Unsplash Human appetites drive global rainforest destruction. Now science has measured how Europe’s food imports leave scorched tropical soils and greenhouse gases. LONDON, 5 April, 2019 − European scientists have worked out how European consumers can reduce tropical forest loss and cut […]
