A Historic Chance to Protect America’s Free-Flowing Rivers
Ten bills in Congress would add conservation protections to 7,000 miles of river to safeguard drinking water, biodiversity and recreation.
Food & Water
Transition Wilmslow’s gardens grow and grow
With real momentum clearly underway with the community garden at Oakenclough, how has seeing this project taking shape informed the group’s sense of what might be possible in the future? What are they dreaming for where all this might go?
Paying a proper price for milk: What dairy cows deserve
Everyone should have the right to high quality, health promoting milk from ethical and sustainable dairy farms.
Rural gentrification Part III: of locals and migrants
‘Floods’ of migrants has the wrong connotations, but the weather and the tides are definitely changing and unless radical policy measures are taken we’re going to see large changes in human population distributions.
Cooking Up Fairer Food & Farming Part 1
When a vegetable grower tells me he wants the cook to know what it is to pull cabbages in February in the rain – we have to find a way to communicate that.
The world’s food systems are in crisis, and big agribusiness is at its heart
Public finance has a key role to play in agriculture. Instead of propping up corporate interests, it should learn from local producers.
Weeds: What can they tell us about our soils?
However we proceed, we very much consider the plant bioindicator method alongside a host of other tools for deepening our connection with land.
Home Biogas: Renewable Energy from Food Waste (Part I of Ecological Civilisation – Free Course)
This presentation is about making renewable energy in your backyard from food scraps. Dr Alexander provides an introduction to domestic-scale biogas production and provides an independent, four-year review of the Home Biogas system.
Rural gentrification Part II: Of localists and homesteaders
Homesteading is not fundamentally a ‘movement’, as the comment I quoted earlier suggested, still less a centrally planned one. Rather it results from the failure of monopoly corporate planning, public and private, and it will grow as that failure grows.
Hogs Are Up: Review
But in his hands, we are slowly and carefully being carried out to full exposure in the fertile, fallow fields. And there we will set roots, awaiting the beginning of our next story — with digressions.
Nectar Nomad in the Land of Enchantment
The first beekeepers, farmers, ecologists, and scientists were and continue to be Indigenous peoples around the world. And so, again and again, I return to the bees and to my roots, resonating in unison.
Watershed consciousness: Is streaming wisdom a community solution?
Watersheds are life-places. They outline and embrace distinct realms. They collect fluid intelligence from animate terrains.
