Soil4Climate: New Organization Fights Global Warming From The Ground Up
Soil4Climate is inspired by innovative farmers, ranchers and other land managers who are increasing soil carbon while providing environmental and health benefits.
Soil4Climate is inspired by innovative farmers, ranchers and other land managers who are increasing soil carbon while providing environmental and health benefits.
In the face of climate change, we have the dual challenge of both resisting new fossil fuel infrastructure projects and building a resilient, sustainable and equitable economy in the shell of the old.
Although the title is ‘This Changes Everything’, you are left with the sense that very little is actually changing for the better at all.
The past week or two have been good ones for bicycling in Wichita.
When we fit solar on community buildings, the buildings get cheaper and greener electricity, local people can obviously invest in what we’re doing, and we’ve set up a community fund that will cross-subsidise other energy projects, and indeed, community projects more generally.
It would appear that new economy activists and community economic development still live in largely separate worlds.
What can a Local Entrepeneur Forum do for a local Transition group and the surrounding community?
Nitrogen is absolutely crucial to life — an indispensable ingredient of DNA, proteins and essentially all living tissue — yet it also can choke the life out of aquatic ecosystems, destroy trees and sicken people when it shows up in excess at the wrong place, at the wrong time, in the wrong form.
It amazed me how easy it was to shift from asking what an institution could do to do the right thing by food, to what an institution could do for itself if it had a more dynamic appreciation of food.
On May 3 some of the biggest ever global actions against climate change began, and are running for 12 consecutive days through Sunday, May 15.
So you’d think that politicians would go far to support small and entrepreneurial companies. Unfortunately, you’d be wrong.
Every home with a lawn becomes a potential farm.