Creating an enabling policy environment for farmers
The application of True Cost Accounting can be used to re-establish farming systems that operate within planetary boundaries and produce food in harmony with nature across the globe.
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Climate Change and Resource Depletion. Which Way to Ruin is Faster?
What could bring down the industrial civilization? Would it be global warming (fire) or resource depletion (ice)? At present, it may well be that depletion is hitting us faster. But, in the long run, global warming may hit us much harder. Maybe the fall of our civilization will be Fire AND ice.
Eric Kampe: Green Things Farm Collective
Eric Kampe shares experiences and perspectives on launching a small farm enterprise with a focus on both personal values and farm economics.
The Climate Crisis: Interview with Social Psychologist Kelly Fielding
Of course we need economic, political and other system change, but I think we have to also believe that we, individuals, have a role to play too, and to do whatever we can to address this looming climate crisis.
Transformation is not a metaphor
In this intervention I highlight an element that has been overlooked in this important debate about “progressive environmental futures” – the dismantling of fossil capitalism.
Global to Local: Who Has the Map? | Michael Shuman, Judy Wicks, and Richard Heinberg
How do we build strong local living economies for a post-carbon world? Tune into a stimulating conversation about how to move forward.
A Blueprint for Coastal Adaptation: Excerpt
As the need for large-scale migration to safer areas becomes more accepted (or we wait until we have no choice), these inequities will only be exacerbated unless policies are put in place to prevent it.
Rivercide
RIVERCIDE – a live investigative documentary on the shocking state of Britain’s rivers, hosted by leading environmental journalist George Monbiot (author of Feral, Out of the Wreckage, presenter of Apocalypse Cow, Guardian columnist) and directed by Grierson-winner Franny Armstrong (McLibel, The Age of Stupid) – will be streamed live on Wednesday 14 July, 7pm BST.
Who Saved Alberta’s Mountaintops and Precious Clean Water? Albertans
Unlike the Jason Kenney government, Albertans understand in a visceral way that water is the only true treasure in an arid land, and that mountain brooks quickly lose their song if we dig up all the rocks for coking coal to fuel steel mills.
altered landscapes
The much larger-scale but invisible transformation of our world – elevated atmospheric carbon dioxide levels – will outlast us and will wreak climate havoc for millennia.
What Could Possibly Go Right?: Episode 48 Penny Livingston-Stark
Penny Livingston-Stark is internationally recognized as a prominent permaculture teacher, designer, and speaker. She addresses the question of “What Could Possibly Go Right?”
Scientists Call Northwest Heatwave the ‘Most Extreme in World Weather Records’
A pair of climate scientists on Thursday said the record-high temperatures that have ravaged the northwestern U.S. and western Canada over the past week—killing hundreds and sparking dozens of wildfires—represent the “world’s most extreme heatwave in modern history.”
