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The Bulletin: February 11-17, 2026
The Bulletin: February 11-17, 2026 This past week’s articles of interest… CLICK HERE If you’re new to my writing, check out this overview. Requiem For An Oil Glut | Art Berman Our Leaders Couldn’t Fix Our Problems If They Wanted To (And They Don’t Want To) Life Before Petroleum – by Ugo Bardi – Chimeras […]
The Bulletin: October 22-28, 2025
The Bulletin: October 22-28, 2025 This past week’s articles of interest… CLICK HERE If you’re new to my writing, check out this overview. Japan Pushes Back on U.S. Pressure to Halt Russian Energy Imports | OilPrice.com Demystifying Collapse Western Media Finally Admit That Trump’s Mobilisation of Forces Against Venezuela Is All About Regime Change | […]
The Bulletin: September 24-30, 2025
The Bulletin: September 24-30, 2025 This past week’s articles of interest… CLICK HERE If you’re new to my writing, check out this overview. The Terracotta Pot Heater: A DIY Guide To Cozy Emergencies ‘Families are dying’: an Ohio town suffering from fallout years after nuclear plant’s closure | US news | The Guardian Confronting devastating […]
The Bulletin: June 26-July 2, 2025
The Bulletin: June 26-July 2, 2025 This past week’s articles of interest… CLICK HERE If you’re new to my writing, check out this overview. Farming Ourselves to Extinction: The Great Tulip Uprising of 1822 – George Tsakraklides Indicators of Global Climate Change ‘This is a fight for life’: climate expert on tipping points, doomerism and […]
The Bulletin: May 15-21, 2025
The Bulletin: May 15-21, 2025 This past week’s articles of interest… If you’re new to my writing, check out this overview. Pharaohs to AI: The Long Ascent of the Superorganism | Art Berman No Economies Without Biodiversity: Why Our Markets Rely on the Complexity of Nature Wetlands Disappearing Three Times Faster than Forests | UNFCCC […]
The Bulletin: December 12-18, 2024
The Bulletin: December 12-18, 2024 The Baby Bust: How The Toxicity Crisis Could Cause the Next Economic Crash Global Warming and the Great Unravelling All Stories Are Propaganda | how to save the world The Big Shining Lie: We’re Better Off Now–No, We’re Poorer, Much Poorer Are We Running Out Of Copper? This Image Says […]
July 7, 2024 Readings
July 7, 2024 Readings War is Peace: Andrew Carnegie’s “Temple of Peace” in the Hague–Dr. Jacob Nordangard GOP Senate Farm Bill Framework, Similar to House Bill, Elevates Threat to Health, Biodiversity, and Climate – Beyond Pesticides Daily News Blog Crash Or Bear Market, Either Way Stocks Going “Down, A Lot”: Mark Spiegel–Quoth the Raven 150 […]
War On Nation’s Food Supply?: Idaho Restricts Water To 500,000 Acres Of Farmland
War On Nation’s Food Supply?: Idaho Restricts Water To 500,000 Acres Of Farmland In late May, Idaho Department of Water Resources Director Mathew Weaver issued a curtailment order requiring 6,400 junior groundwater rights holders who pump off the Eastern Snake Plain Aquifer to shut off their spigots. Idaho Gov. Brad Little issued a statement following the […]
It’s Dangerous to Farm Alone
It’s Dangerous to Farm Alone At the start of the famous video game, Legend of Zelda, a helpful old man says “It’s dangerous to go alone, take this.” Surprisingly, the protagonist is then given a limited selection of technologies to use, so that they can then proceed, alone, on their adventure. I suppose the whole […]
N-wrecked
N-wrecked The way that humans have messed with the Earth’s carbon cycle rightly figures as planetary eco-problem No.1 in public debate, but the way we’ve messed with its nitrogen cycle probably ought to get more attention than it does. In the former case, farming often gets a bit too much of the blame in my […]
The Government’s War on “Backyard” Farms
The Government’s War on “Backyard” Farms “I’m still the king of me” – Part 1 On the front page of the CDC website, is the following headline: Which then opens into the following: Are you ready to give away your chickens? Move from the country? Wear gloves and a mask when caring for backyard chickens? […]
Menace on the Menu: The Financialisation of Farmland and the War on Food and Farming
Menace on the Menu: The Financialisation of Farmland and the War on Food and Farming Between 2008 and 2022, land prices nearly doubled throughout the world and tripled in Central-Eastern Europe. In the UK, an influx of investment from pension funds and private wealth contributed to a doubling of farmland prices from 2010-2015. Land prices in the US agricultural […]
I’m a British farmer. Here’s the scary truth about what’s happening to our crops
I’m a British farmer. Here’s the scary truth about what’s happening to our crops The climate crisis is making the farming business unsustainable – and without support for us, food security will suffer too Farming has always been a risky business. To the chaos of Brexit and the relentless squeezing of the supermarkets, we can […]
