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2% Solutions for the Planet
2% Solutions for the Planet Since we live in an era of big problems, we tend to spend our time thinking of big solutions. Thinking big, however, can have a paralyzing effect on taking action. In my new book Two Percent Solutions for the Planet, I take readers on a journey around the world where low-cost, easy-to-implement solutions are regenerating the […]
Four Ticking Global Time-Bombs Few Even Hear
Four Ticking Global Time-Bombs Few Even Hear A few charts help us grasp the magnitude of the four global time-bombs. The geopolitical and financial risks facing the global economy are well-known.Hot wars and currency meltdowns garner headlines around the world. But few even hear, much less discuss, four ticking global time-bombs: 1. The demographic time-bomb. […]
Healthy Soils Reduce Water Pollution
Healthy Soils Reduce Water Pollution Absorbent soils yields big benefits for air and water. Photo © Brett Walton / Circle of Blue The rainfall simulator demonstrates the soil’s capacity to store and filter water. When heavy rain strikes bare fields and construction sites, the two soil samples in the middle, dirty water flows into […]
Growing Soil
Growing Soil Much of what I have learnt about soil comes from doing a two year apprenticeship at Stroud Community Agriculture and the influence of one of the farm team there who recently passed away, Ute. Digging couch out of the field with Ute was an exercise in plant observation, reading the landscape and soil craft; turning […]
Food Sovereignty
Food Sovereignty ‘Food sovereignty’ is fast becoming a lost concept; the right to have the knowledge and resources to grow our own food is an essential right. If we don’t have access to nutrient dense organic food, then where do we get the essential energy to heal our body, mind and spirit certainly not from […]
The Apex of Industrialism:Manufactured Fake Shit
The Apex of Industrialism: Manufactured Fake Shit The Dr. Pooper Papers, Issue #2: While it would be nice to think that in times before the industrial era that farming was a wholly benevolent practice, the truth of the matter is that similar to today, agriculture actually began with annual monocultures. Nonetheless, there did emerge over […]
Albert Einstein, Soil, Honey Bees and Biodiversity.
Albert Einstein, Soil, Honey Bees and Biodiversity. Among the manifold quotes that are attributed to Albert Einstein, are variants along the lines of: “If the bee disappeared off the surface of the globe then man would only have four years of life left. No more bees, no more pollination, no more plants, no more animals, […]
In Denial: We Pursue Endless Growth At Our Peril
James Steidl/Shutterstock In Denial: We Pursue Endless Growth At Our Peril A requiem for planet Earth As we’ve been discussing of late here at PeakProsperity.com, humans desperately need a new story to live by. The old one is increasingly dysfunctional and rather obviously headed for either a quite dismal or possibly disastrous future. One […]
Albert Einstein, Soil, Honey Bees and Biodiversity.
Albert Einstein, Soil, Honey Bees and Biodiversity. Among the manifold quotes that are attributed to Albert Einstein, are variants along the lines of: “If the bee disappeared off the surface of the globe then man would only have four years of life left. No more bees, no more pollination, no more plants, no more animals, […]
Soil Science Spelled It Out A Whole Century Ago
Soil Science Spelled It Out A Whole Century Ago An organic farm marketer brought me a strange book to read and I can’t get it out of my mind. It was written by Cyril Hopkins, an agronomist at the University of Illinois in 1911. Already a century ago, science had committed the wisdom of the ages […]
Joel Salatin: How food can restore America’s integrity
Joel Salatin: How food can restore America’s integrity While I was in Australia in February, imported Chinese raspberries carrying Hepatitis A (from human sewage) hospitalized a dozen people and heightened interest in my seminars to a fever pitch. The news media and individuals fell over themselves trying to learn about local food systems and integrity […]
Global Soil Week: A catalyst for change
Global Soil Week: A catalyst for change As many of you already know, 2015 has been named the International Year of Soils by the UN, so never has there been a better time to get soil into the conversation. The question of ‘how do we make soil sexy?’ is something that has been troubling soil […]
Tossing and Turning: Our Disturbed Soils and Troubled Sleep
Tossing and Turning: Our Disturbed Soils and Troubled Sleep I’m sitting under a halogen light right now and staying up late to write about soil. That probably doesn’t sound ironic to you. I think it should. How I came to reflect on soil and sleep as functionally related and analogous in their processes is something […]
The roots of your health: Elaine Ingham on the science of soil
The roots of your health: Elaine Ingham on the science of soil Put bluntly, Ingham’s message is that if you are interested in health, you have to be interested in soil. This lecture, and her work in general, brilliantly explains why. Time to take a deep breath, prepare to have conventional thinking about soil turned […]
