Of hemp’s many uses, one of the most promising could be in construction
“Hempcrete,” made from the woody core of hemp, is showing promise as an environmentally friendly building material.
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To plant or not to plant: weighing methods of forest regeneration
The two main methods of reforestation are essential to meeting global reforestation targets: tree planting and natural regeneration, which is when forests are allowed to regrow naturally, sometimes with some human support.
A Gathering Place at Warner Mountain Weavers
Listening to Bonnie share her history, this shift from personal studio to studio and store seemed inevitable. Bonnie is a gentle but persistent catalyst for building fiber communities.
City Repair
Start with wherever they’re able to get to start to say yes. And then you get to the next yes. And the next yes. Until the process begins.
A Walking Forest in Stuttgart
Wanderbaumallee’s walking trees take over Stuttgart, Germany bringing green spaces and shelter, nature, biodiversity and community spaces to the city while championing for citizens’ freedom to change their neighbourhoods.
Bolivia’s new Vice President David Choquehuanca called the brotherhood to unity
We children have inherited an ancient culture which understands that everything is interrelated, that nothing is divided and nothing is outside.
Climate Policy in the Biden Era: On a Personnel Note
The transition from candidate to president provides critical clues as to how he is likely to rule. Above everything else, politics is a team sport.
What If? there was a daily imagination lesson?
The imagination is radical. It is the only way to get us beyond what is and to get us to what if. It can get us beyond business as usual, beyond what is in front of us.
Triple Crisis in the Anthropocene Ocean. Part Three: The Heat of 3.6 Billion Atom Bombs
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) projects that even if emissions are substantially reduced, by 2100 the ocean will heat 2 to 4 times as much as it has since 1970 — and if emissions are not cut, it will heat 5 to 7 times as much.
Cloud forests: narrow bands of biodiversity filled with mist, fog and mystery
Cloud forests are born of very specific geographic and climatic features: they usually form partway up mountains, when moisture-laden air currents from surrounding lowlands and bodies of water are forced upward and then cool and condense as they rise, creating persistent fog or cloud cover in a particular area.
The Art of the Legal Hack, as Pioneered by Janelle Orsi
SELC has advised over 1,500 grassroots groups, and when necessary, initiated policy initiatives to try to change laws and regulations that otherwise impede collective ownership and commoning.
Podcast from the Prairie: Mad About Science
In Episode 3, titled “Mad about Science,” host Robert Jensen asks Wes how formal science differs from, and is similar to, the folk science he learned on the farm growing up.
