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The Bulletin: September 3-9, 2025
The Bulletin: September 3-9, 2025 This past week’s articles of interest… CLICK HERE If you’re new to my writing, check out this overview. The Disruptor: William Rees Knows How to Save the World Slow down or die (degrowth, collapse, strategy) Collapse and the Consensus Trance What Happens After Humans Go Extinct How Water Shapes Our […]
‘A serious risk’: Mexican villagers take on cartel-backed avocado farms as water dries up
‘A serious risk’: Mexican villagers take on cartel-backed avocado farms as water dries up Copyright AP Photo/Armando Solis After enduring years of drought and ‘invading’ fruit farmers in Mexico, these locals are taking matters into their own hands. Desperate Mexican villagers are taking direct action on commercial avocado farms that are drying up streams while […]
Large-scale factory farms have become the biggest source of water pollution in the U.S.
Large-scale factory farms have become the biggest source of water pollution in the U.S. The EPA can change that. Your hotdogs and burgers may be doing more than feeding friends at a barbeque. Large-scale factory farms and confined feedlot operations have become the biggest source of water pollution in the United States. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced plans to […]
Thinking food: What’s ‘healthy’ and ‘sustainable’?
Thinking food: What’s ‘healthy’ and ‘sustainable’? What constitutes a ‘healthy diet’ has been endlessly debated and the advice on eating changes almost year on year. With the dangerous rise in non-communicable diseases (such as cardiovascular disease and diabetes) which has occurred over the last fifty or so years – significantly accelerating from the 1980s onwards with […]
The fight over food at the UN’s Food Summit
The fight over food at the UN’s Food Summit Food Summit image via the International Science Council The UN’s Food Systems Summit was held last week in New York. This sounds like it ought to be a good thing, given the sense of impending crisis around the food sector. But a lot of people aren’t happy about […]
Catch my Drift? Herbicide Drift, Curling Tomato Leaves, and Food Safety
Catch my Drift? Herbicide Drift, Curling Tomato Leaves, and Food Safety There’s all kinds of maladies that can strike your garden plants throughout the season- diseases, insects, negligence, and more. But one common issue we are seeing more and more here in the corn belt and other places with lots of crop production is herbicide […]
Imagine Earth Day in ten years
Imagine Earth Day in ten years It’s a bit of a challenge, to imagine what Earth Day will look like in ten years. Part of that challenge arises from the fact that it depends on what we do throughout that decade to deal with and try to correct the ravages of incipient climate change effects. […]
A third of global farmland at ‘high’ pesticide pollution risk
A third of global farmland at ‘high’ pesticide pollution risk Nearly two-thirds of global agricultural land is at risk of pesticide pollution, a study says A third of the planet’s agricultural land is at “high risk” of pesticide pollution from the lingering residue of chemical ingredients that can leach into water supplies and threaten biodiversity, […]
Monsanto, Big Food, and Big Ag Move to Co-opt the Organic and Regenerative Movement
Monsanto, Big Food, and Big Ag Move to Co-opt the Organic and Regenerative Movement There’s one skill that Big Food and Big Ag corporations have in abundance: taking control of every situation and corrupting it into an opportunity for profit. For example, as consumer interest in the terms “natural” and “sustainable” increased, industrial agribusiness began […]
Regenerative Agriculture part 3 | Working With Nature, Not Suppressing It
Regenerative Agriculture part 3 | Working With Nature, Not Suppressing It In the third and final installment in this series on regenerative agriculture, Peter Dunne explains how regenerative agriculture is about working with nature, not suppressing it. We’re often told nature and agriculture can’t share the same space. But we urgently need a paradigm shift, […]
Healthy Crops: A New Agricultural Revolution
HEALTHY CROPS: A NEW AGRICULTURAL REVOLUTION First published in 1985 by agronomist Francis Chaboussou, Healthy Crops: A New Agricultural Revolution is republished online in full here for the first time! A forgotten classic, Healthy Crops offers a critical exploration of the plant science behind the success of organic, agroecological, biodynamic and other holistic agricultural approaches, as well as the catastrophic […]
Global soils underpin life but future looks ‘bleak’, warns UN report
Global soils underpin life but future looks ‘bleak’, warns UN report It takes thousands of years for soils to form, meaning protection is needed urgently, say scientists Scientists describe soils as like the skin of the living world, vital but thin and fragile, and easily damaged by intensive farming, forest destruction, and pollution. Photograph: Zsolt […]
Food for thought
Food for thought Leander Jones looks at the role of community supported agriculture as a 21st-century antidote to the destructive and increasingly fragile corporate agricultural model Members of the Basta community supported agriculture collective working the farm. Image courtesy of Hof Basta. In the past few decades fundamental flaws in the global food system have […]
How our food choices cut into forests and put us closer to viruses
How our food choices cut into forests and put us closer to viruses As the global population has doubled to 7.8 billion in about 50 years, industrial agriculture has increased the output from fields and farms to feed humanity. One of the negative outcomes of this transformation has been the extreme simplification of ecological systems, with complex […]
Weeds: Real Nutrition, For Free
Dandelion leaves are extremely nutrient-rich, accumulating over 400% more calcium and zinc than the average plant. Weeds: Real Nutrition, For Free If you’re walking over chickweed and dandelion in your lawn or ignoring a nettle patch by the garden wall as you hop in the car and drive to the grocery store and pharmacy, you’re […]
