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The Bulletin: February 20-26, 2025
The Bulletin: February 20-26, 2025 US Flies Bomber Group Over Middle East In Warning To Enemies | ZeroHedge Bizarre Symptoms of Societal Collapse Peak Oil. Food. Fascism. Collapse. Guest post: How the global ‘water gap’ will grow under climate change – Carbon Brief Bird study finds much larger volumes of toxic PFAS chemicals than previously […]
Natural Resources Necessary to Feed World Are at a ‘Breaking Point,’ Warns FAO
Natural Resources Necessary to Feed World Are at a ‘Breaking Point,’ Warns FAO “Taking care of land, water, and particularly the long-term health of soils is fundamental to accessing food in an ever-demanding food chain.” A United Nations report released Thursday detailing humanity’s degradation of natural resources warns swift and sweeping reforms are needed to keep […]
How healthy is your soil?
How healthy is your soil? In celebration of World Soil Day, December 5, 2021, we want to help farmers around the world to better understand their soil. Our soils are an incredible resource – they have a remarkable ability to clean water and help mitigate climate change, they support biodiversity and are the reason we […]
Drawing down atmospheric carbon
Drawing down atmospheric carbon There are two ways of addressing rising concentrations of atmospheric carbon; reduce the amount of carbon emissions or increase the amount of carbon removed from the atmosphere. Most of our efforts have been focused on reducing emissions. I’d like to shift the conversation to drawing down atmospheric carbon dioxide. The picture […]
Book review of Dirt: the erosion of civilization
Book review of Dirt: the erosion of civilization Preface. On average civilizations collapsed between 800 to 2,000 years before ruining their soil. Industrial agriculture is doing this far faster – in most of the United States half of the original topsoil is gone and industrial farming techniques erode and compact the land much more than […]
Down-to-earth policy: Improving soil health
Down-to-earth policy: Improving soil health In recent years there has been a surge in research, education and advocacy efforts to catalyse agricultural policies that help farmers actively improve the health of their soil. Healthy soils are essential to agricultural and rural prosperity, to improving food security and nutrition and to enhancing vital biodiversity and ecosystem […]
Soil Microbes “Key to the function of agricultural systems”
Soil Microbes “Key to the function of agricultural systems” Dr. Kristine Nichols was the Chief Scientist at the Rodale Institute, an independent research institute for organic farming, from 2014 to 2017. Her training and research focus on the microbes living in soil and how to make soil more productive. The Rodale Institute was founded in […]
Agricultural Innovation with John-Paul Maxfield
Agricultural Innovation with John-Paul Maxfield John-Paul founded Waste Farmers with $9,000 and a belief that idealism and capitalism can coexist. Waste Farmers has evolved into an innovator respected by leaders in the global community for developing simple solutions to the complex problems of modern agriculture and food security. Mar 20, 2018 John-Paul Maxfield | Photo […]
No-Till Farming For Healthier Soil and Lifestyles
NO-TILL FARMING FOR HEALTHIER SOIL AND LIFESTYLES Masanobu Fukuoka, the late Japanese farmer, developed a unique farming system he called “Natural Farming.” Trying to replicate what he saw in Nature, Fukuoka´s no till system allowed the soil to continually grow in fertility. Through the use of mulch and cover crops, this system effectively allows for […]
Investing in Soil Health, One Piece of Land at a Time
Jim Baird in a field of organic vetch in the Columbia River Basin Investing in Soil Health, One Piece of Land at a Time Three years ago, in collaboration with a group of farmers and investors, my spouse and I formed an LLC called Living Lands. Together we wrote our purpose and articles of incorporation […]
Ecological Meltdown And Nuclear Conflict: The Relevance Of Gandhi In The Modern World
Ecological Meltdown And Nuclear Conflict: The Relevance Of Gandhi In The Modern World A few months ago, entrepreneur Charles Devenish contacted me to tell me about his plans to develop various mining enterprises across India. He spoke about the massive amounts of untapped mineral resources lying beneath India that is just lying there and has […]
How Soil and Carbon are Related
How Soil and Carbon are Related Carbon cycle is one of the fundamental requirement of life on earth. Soil organic carbon (SOC) can be described as the amount of carbon that is stored in the soil as one of the components of the soil organic matter which comprises the animal and plant materials and different […]
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 […]
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 […]
