Food and agriculture number crunching, part 3
Almost 3,000 kcal per person per day is made available for consumers, who “need” in the range of 2,100 kcal per person per day.
Gunnar Rundgren
David Sloan Wilson: “Chickens, Cooperation and a Pro-social World”
On this episode, evolutionary biologist David Sloan Wilson joins Nate to unpack how evolution can be used to explain and understand modern human behavior, particularly with respect to cooperation and pro-social behavior.
Fusion Energy: A Different Take
Indeed, one thing seems indisputable: Unleashing fusion in an unbounded, growth-driven economy would be a wholesale disaster.
Sustainability can (and must) be beautiful
To fulfill the vision that sets the practice of sustainability in motion—the vision of life coordinating with life in ways that ensure the flourishing of life—ethics and aesthetics must be reintegrated.
Is “Polycrisis” the Right Word for Our Times?
But as the American anthropologist and historian Joseph Tainter documents in his seminal book, The Collapse of Complex Societies, this is what “advanced,” hierarchical human societies do—they respond to challenges created by their complexity with ever more complexity. This may work in the short-term but usually leads to the underlying crises worsening in the long term.
Are we seeing the collapse of the dollar-dominated global economy?
The near future is one of grave uncertainty and instability as the new global monetary regime takes shape.
Why gas stoves matter to the climate – and the gas industry: Keeping them means homes will use gas for heating too
As I see it, if “cooking with gas” keeps us tethering new homes to natural gas grids for decades to come, our health, climate and wallets will pay the price.
What determines the success of movements today?
Building on the recommendations of other movement strategists, new research from the Social Change Lab offers key insights into the factors that lead to protest wins.
Urban ‘Microrewilding’ Projects Provide a Lifeline for Nature
Until now rewilding, which is by its very nature a large-scale effort, has been concentrated in the countryside and rural areas. More recently, however, there have been a number of projects and local movements pushing for more urban rewilding and at a smaller scale.
Food and agriculture number crunching, part 2
By and large there is a far too simplistic debate about the role of livestock in our food and agriculture systems.
The Good Work In Urban-Rural
A new course in Sweden poses the question, “what will a self-sufficient Hällefors Municipality taste like in 2030?”
Students on the course act like talent scouts. They search for unrealised food-growing potential across the region – people, unused land, forgotten traditions.
Why Biodiversity?
Ultimately, the Earth will survive after the sixth mass extinction event, but it will do so without us unless we care enough to change.
