Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
Hopefully my writing and maybe even my speaking might convince a few waverers from getting hoodwinked by some of the more preposterous ecomodernist claims, but mostly I’m happy to preach to the converted…
The mural Mariel García was creating, more than a year in the planning and execution, is a tribute to Mexico’s long struggle to protect the country’s more than 1,000 native maize varieties from contamination by genetically modified corn.
Hundreds of grassroots groups have called out the UN, saying they are still being excluded and claiming the summit is “poised to repeat the failures” of two years ago and want to see fundamental change in food systems.
Removing dams from the Klamath River is a step toward justice for Native Americans in Northern California.
Because without water, there is no life. And at those stakes, you always want a back-up plan.
Before I wade into blogging about my new book Saying NO to a Farm-Free Future, I’d like to take a step back and try to characterize some of the broader political contours that have now put me in a different camp to George Monbiot,..
To reject thousands of years of indigenous (in its wider sense) and traditional land management as ignorant and devastating is not helpful.
On this episode, Nate is joined by “free range biologist” Anne Biklé and “broad-minded geologist” David Montgomery – a married duo who have been educating about the link between soil and human health for nearly a decade.
For millennia, farmers in the Burren have played a central role in supporting the rich biodiversity and cultural heritage of the region.
Growing food is just like every other exercise – no one learns to rock climb, knit, box, embroider, run, dance, make art, build things, etc… without a LOT of time being less productive than they’d like to be to get the skill set.
I’ve come to think that, unfortunately, small farm societies emerging contingently in some of the margins of a collapsing urban-industrial world system and shining a light to the future is about as good a prospect as we can realistically now hope for.
There’s a wider point here—that in general the private sector would never be profitable if it had to pay for the environmental capital it gets through—but it’s rare to see such a clear cut example.
