A life on our planet – review
Because the film is so compelling and Attenborough such a sympathetic person, viewers may accept all of its statements and arguments. This would, however, be a mistake in my opinion.
Food & Water featured
What a wonderful world
As we cannot now afford to take vast tracts of land out of production due to the high and growing global population, the only viable option has to be to farm all land in harmony with wildlife and preserve what little wilderness is left.
Why We Need a Small Farm Future
If we’re to bequeath a habitable and abundant planet to our descendants, a key part of that reappraisal involves rethinking the relevance of small farm or ‘peasant’ societies that are often dismissed for their ‘backwardness’ or buried under an unusable legacy of romanticism and nostalgia.
A sociological farmer speaks…and answers questions about a Small Farm Future
But what’s perhaps of greatest import are the points where our human self-conceptions confront the wider world – and here farming looms large. Since I’m hopeless at multi-tasking, how fortunate, then, that I’m a ‘former’ social scientist and a farmer, albeit improperly!
Farming as the Climate Changes: Molino de la Isla, East Pecos, New Mexico
Water is everything – the only reason we survive here is because of water, the only reason anything survives here is because of water. We’re not talking about it, we’re not thinking about it; we’re just using it and polluting it, not thinking about what it’s being used for and how it could be used better.
A Small Farm Future: Excerpt
The heavy-handed nostalgia for a perfected vision of past modern achievements as the lodestar of human progress offered by figures like Steven Pinker is stuck in the past. It’s time to move forwards to a small farm future.
Fermentation as Metaphor: Excerpt
The only thing that makes do-it-yourself fermentation radical is context: our contemporary system of food mass production, which is unsustainable in so many ways.
Harnessing Food Waste to Empower Communities in Brazil
In 2011, Tchelly gave her first course on how to cook with food scraps to six other housekeepers in her slum, which led her to create a social enterprise called Favela Organica.
How one Swedish city grew the commons by foodsharing during the pandemic
Solikyl aims to create the latter, a food commons, where food is seen as a shared resource through social practice rather than as a private good.
Rescuing civilization dirt cheap
Society must be made aware of the fact that destruction of the world’s soil organic matter is an existential threat to civilization every bit as immediate and serious as climate change or oil depletion.
Livestock and food security: A contested relationship
How are we going to feed an increasingly hungry planet, without crippling the life support systems on which we depend? It’s an existentially important question, the solution to which will require action on a myriad of fronts.
What Could Possibly Go Right?: Episode 18 Severine von Tscharner Fleming
Severine brings her influences and analogies from the agricultural space to “What Could Possibly Go Right?”
