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Eat Less Meat and Save the Planet
Eat Less Meat and Save the Planet Dr. D: Eat less meat to save the planet – report (1)The new diet that could save the planet (2)What to eat to save the planet: Report urges ‘radical changes’ to world’s diet – less meat, more veggies (3) These headlines, likely sourced from a recent article from “The Lancet” (4) are a regular feature of our time, in […]
Warning: A ‘Shrinking Window’ of Usable Groundwater
Warning: A ‘Shrinking Window’ of Usable Groundwater New analysis reveals that we have much less water in our aquifers than we previously thought — and the oil and gas industry could put that at even greater risk. We’re living beyond our means when it comes to groundwater. That’s probably not news to everyone, but new […]
Land Grabbers: the Threat of Giant Agriculture
Land Grabbers: the Threat of Giant Agriculture In the 1980s, I met a retired general at a Borders bookstore in northern Virginia. He used to buy tons of military history books. I used to buy environmental and classics books. We started talking about books. But, slowly, in our discussion of Latin America, I criticized American […]
The GMO Issue Reaches Boiling Point in India: Interview with Aruna Rodrigues
The GMO Issue Reaches Boiling Point in India: Interview with Aruna Rodrigues In a recent article published on the India-based News18 site (CNN), prominent US biologist Nina Federoff was reported as saying it is time for India to grant farmers access to genetically modified (GM) crops. In an interview with the site, she says there is no evidence that GM crops are dangerous […]
Agrarian Crisis: Father of Green Revolution in India Rejects GM Crops as Farmers Demand Justice in Delhi
Agrarian Crisis: Father of Green Revolution in India Rejects GM Crops as Farmers Demand Justice in Delhi Genetically modified (GM) cotton in India is a failure. India should reject GM mustard. And like the Green Revolution, GM agriculture poses risks and is unsustainable. Regulatory bodies are dogged by incompetency and conflicts of interest. GM crops […]
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 […]
Ohio’s watershed moment: How to fix Lake Erie algae
THE GREEN MONSTER Ohio’s watershed moment: How to fix Lake Erie algae The western tail of Lake Erie brims with life. Warm, shallow waters along the Ohio-Michigan border teem with bass, bluegill, and walleye, sustaining a billion-dollar fishing industry. Millions of people from Cleveland to Detroit draw their drinking water from this nook of the […]
Australia’s drought, climate change and the future of food
Australia’s drought, climate change and the future of food There’s a reason that few people are thinking about world grain supplies. Last year saw record worldwide production of grains and record stocks of grains left over. But this year worldwide production slipped about 2 percent, owing in large part to the plunge in Australia’s production […]
Why This Planet Is Becoming Uninhabitable
Why This Planet Is Becoming Uninhabitable And Even Trump Now Acknowledges that Man-Made Global Warming Spells Doom There are now overt indications that this planet is becoming uninhabitable. Not only are increasing numbers of humans migrating from near the Equator, northward toward nations that have more temperate climates, but also there are stronger and more […]
India’s Farmers Plan Mass March to the Nation’s Parliament as Agrarian Crisis Reaches “Civilization Proportions”
India’s Farmers Plan Mass March to the Nation’s Parliament as Agrarian Crisis Reaches “Civilization Proportions” With over 800 million people, rural India is arguably the most interesting and complex place on the planet. And yet it is also one of the most neglected in terms of both investment and media coverage. Veteran journalist and founder […]
One Size Fits None: Excerpt
One Size Fits None: Excerpt Ed. note: This post is excerpted from the forthcoming book One Size Fits None from the University of Nebraska Press and is reproduced here with permission. You can find out more about the book here. Introduction I’m in western South Dakota, rolling across the prairie in a blue 1970s-era pickup truck, […]
Dave Murphy: Will Monsanto’s Loss Result In Less Poison In Our Food?
rganicconsumers.org/ Dave Murphy: Will Monsanto’s Loss Result In Less Poison In Our Food? An update on the situation with glyphosate In November 2016, a very concerning report — Glyphosate: Unsafe On Any Plate — was released by The Detox Project and Food Democracy Now!, raising the alarm of the high levels of glyphosate in the US food supply and the […]
A Pyrrhic Climate
A Pyrrhic Climate What does it mean to fight and win an impossible war? Battle of Chancellorsville, by Kurz and Allison, 1889 Arecent debate in twitter’s climate community illuminated a schism between those arguing that mitigating climate change is impossible and those exhorting others to continue to “fight” climate change. While the debate yielded no […]
Seawalls for oil refineries and other ironies of climate change adaptation
Seawalls for oil refineries and other ironies of climate change adaptation A friend of mine includes a saying with each of his emails that goes like this: “It shouldn’t be easier to imagine the end of civilization than the end of air conditioning.” But in most depictions of the end of civilization at the cinema […]
