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If the world’s soils keep drying out that’s bad news for microbes (and people)
If the world’s soils keep drying out that’s bad news for microbes (and people) The world’s driest areas are tipped to get even drier, with potentially worrying implications for soil productivity. Author provided Deep beneath our feet, out of sight and out of mind, millions of tiny communities of microbes are working together to perform key functions […]
Seeing the Forest
Seeing the Forest Seeing the Forest tells the story of the Siuslaw National Forest in Oregon — how it made a successful transition from timber extraction to ecosystem restoration. Once the epicenter of conflict, the Siuslaw today is an exemplar of cooperation and collaboration. They harvest wood sustainably by thinning overly dense monoculture stands that are […]
Permaculture: Regenerative – not merely Sustainable.
Permaculture: Regenerative – not merely Sustainable. Introduction. September 2015 saw the International Permaculture Conference, held in London followed by the Convergence, which occupied 6 days at Gilwell park, on the Essex-London border, where practitioners of the discipline gave presentations and workshops on various aspects of this growing art, which is a sustainable design system intended to emulate […]
Modelling Tools for Dealing with Environmental Complexity
Modelling Tools for Dealing with Environmental Complexity Photo: Kyle Horner. Creative Commons BY-NC-SA (cropped). In many regions of the world, managing water demand without damaging the local ecosystem is a challenge. For instance, in regions suffering from water scarcity, extensive agricultural fields are often established along the coast. Water for irrigation is partly taken from groundwater and partly […]
Resilience: A New Conservation Strategy for a Warming World
Resilience: A New Conservation Strategy for a Warming World As climate change puts ecosystems and species at risk, conservationists are turning to a new approach: preserving those landscapes that are most likely to endure as the world warms. The San Francisco Bay was once one of the richest estuaries in North America. Almost completely enclosed and […]
How Canada Is Endangering Its Natural Wealth
How Canada Is Endangering Its Natural Wealth Impaired ecosystems leave Canada at an economic disadvantage. A Tyee Solutions excerpt. It’s an old economic truism that scarcity creates value. In an era when natural capital is disappearing around the globe, it’s also increasingly highly valued. Beyond degrading biological, intrinsic and cultural values, Canada’s ineffective stewardshipof our ecosystems […]
Nicaragua Canal: A Giant Project With Huge Environmental Costs
Nicaragua Canal: A Giant Project With Huge Environmental Costs Work has already begun on a $50 billion inter-ocean canal in Nicaragua that would cut through nature reserves and bring massive dredging and major ship traffic to Central America’s largest lake. Scientists and conservationists are warning that the project is an environmental disaster in the making. In […]
Planetary Boundaries and Human Prosperity
Planetary Boundaries and Human Prosperity The future of humanity will depend on mastering a balancing act. The challenge will be to provide for the needs of more than ten billion people while safeguarding our planetary life-support systems. Recent scientific insights have made us better equipped than ever to strike that balance. Doing so will be […]
Adjusting the Fifth to a Finite Planet, Part II
Adjusting the Fifth to a Finite Planet, Part II Editor’s Note: This is the second piece of a two-part post. You can read Part 1 here. Among the avenues by which Takings case law could be adapted to the reality of a finite planet are these three: One: Change the default by changing the definition of […]
7 Things You Should Know About Permaculture – Verge Permaculture
7 Things You Should Know About Permaculture – Verge Permaculture. What is permaculture? For those of you who’ve only heard of the term in passing, and ever for you seasoned “permies” who struggle to explain this exciting (and sometimes life-changing) idea to others, here’s the gist in 7 points: 1. Permaculture is a Design System […]
The Archdruid Report: Dark Age America: The Sharp Edge of the Shell
The Archdruid Report: Dark Age America: The Sharp Edge of the Shell. One of the interesting features of blogging about the twilight of science and technology these days is that there’s rarely any need to wait long for a cogent example. One that came my way not long ago via a reader of this blog—tip […]
The Environment: Increasing Waste – Crash Course Chapter 24 | Peak Prosperity
The Environment: Increasing Waste – Crash Course Chapter 24 | Peak Prosperity. Chapter 24 of the Crash Course is now publicly available and ready for watching below. Following up on the previous chapter focusing on human-caused resource depletion, the other disheartening part of the story of the environment concerns the things we humans put back into […]
Protecting Seeds and Their Stories: The Sacred in Everyday Life – PermacultureNews.org
Protecting Seeds and Their Stories: The Sacred in Everyday Life – PermacultureNews.org. The recent UN Climate Change Summit, the marches in New York and around the world, once again brought into our collective consciousness the need for real change. As did the shocking news of the global loss of species. The vital need to protect […]
