Re-wilding: Joined-up Thinking Needed
More farmers in the countryside are needed for the sake of both rewilding and sustainable agriculture.
Food & Water
From Cafeterias to Farms: How Students are Mobilizing their Universities to Build a more Local, Just, and Sustainable Food System
Thousands of students have united under the guise of a nation-wide campaign called the Real Food Challenge (RFC), a movement aimed at shifting $1 billion in institutional food spending to food that is sustainable, just, and local: in other words, ‘real food.’
Julie Brown on Food and Fairness
What would a fair food system look like?
Brooklyn Grange Inspires Danes
Fresu believes the connection of volunteers, shareholders and visitors with their food and where it’s grown creates something special.
To Feed Growing Cities we Need to Stop Urban Sprawl Eating Up our Food Supply
To feed growing cities we need to stop urban sprawl eating up our food supply
Woodlot Management in the Anthropocene
The slightly modified term “nose to tail logging” aptly describes a good woodlot management program, the constructive use of every bit of the harvested tree…
Public health, endocrine disruption and the precautionary principle
The entire human and animal population of the planet is now involved in an uncontrolled experiment courtesy of the chemical industry. We are all exposed to a soup of man-made chemicals every day, some of them endocrine disruptors.
A Smarter Approach for Multilateral Lending to Farmers
A new report by Foundation Earth and Watershed Media entitled Biosphere smart agriculture in a true cost economy calls on the World Bank (and other development banks) to assess the full ecological impact of agricultural development projects before providing loans, in order to account for the true cost of production.
Flowing Towards Abundance
It’s flow, dynamic and well-channeled, that keeps any system running.
Backyard Carbon Sequestration: What Does Synthetic Fertilizer Have to Do with It?
Researchers at the University of Illinois have shown that continued use of synthetic fertilizers actually causes reduced carbon storage, and thus reduced fertility in the soil, even when organic matter is added.
Spudman meets the Physiocrats
Still, wouldn’t it be nice if there were a contemporary economics that properly wrestled with the problem of agriculture and environment in the way that the classical economists did?
New Pittsburgh Urban Ag Law Passes, Boosts Options for Residents
Good news for yardfarmers in Pittsburgh. A new ordinance now makes it easier to have chickens, ducks, goats, and more additions to your yardfarm!
