Grass-Fed Nation
Why do we have such a seemingly illogical food system? This is the question at the heart of Graham Harvey’s recently published book, Grass-Fed Nation, a manifesto for grazing livestock and the extensive benefits of mixed farming.
Act: Inspiration
Ripples in a Community
In a more traditional world, community isn’t a hobby or cause; people need each other.
The Best Reason to Ride a Bike
The film “Bikes vs Cars” tells us that bicycling for transportation can reduce our emissions. But more importantly, bicycling can change our mindset.
Changing the Culture and Changing Ourselves
Our real task is to change the culture and the only way to do that is to change ourselves.
Israel’s Mediterranean Desalination Plants Shift Regional Water Balance
A national mission in the last decade to develop the fleet, plus many more years of investment in wastewater recycling facilities, have turned Israel into as much a water producer as a water consumer.
Climate Change Activism: A Post-Mortem
Thus it’s not inappropriate to ask what happened to all the apparent political momentum the climate change movement had ten or fifteen years ago, and why a movement so apparently well organized, well funded, and backed by so large a scientific consensus failed so completely.
Suffocating Cities
Air pollution is a full-on, flashing-lights, health emergency.
Grass from the Past
I found this profile featuring myself and SFT Board member Peter Segger when cleaning out my garage last week. It appeared in the Guardian on 1st December, 1984 at a time when the UK organic movement was still in its infancy but developing strongly.
Music, Solidarity and Community
On a small scale, Mousai is laying the foundation for what Dr. Jessica Gordon Nembhard calls a Cooperative Solidarity Commonwealth.
In Conversation: Food After Fossil Fuels
While its slice of the overall energy pie may seem relatively low, the modern American food system is figuratively awash in fossil fuels.
Of Wessex and Londinium: a Tale of Two City-States
From the furies of Brexit, let me turn to a saner and more achievable political project: restructuring Britain into a neo-peasant society.
The Doldrums of Summer
There is a moment that comes every year, usually about this time, when the heat and humidity kills all ambition on the farm.
