Energy Reality: What We’re For
Recognizing that all human economic activity is a subset of nature’seconomy and must not degrade its vitality is the starting point for systemic transformation of the energy system.
biodiversity
A Dam, Dying Fish, and a Montana Farmer’s Lifelong Quest to Right a Wrong
In the pantheon of river conservationists, few may leave a legacy larger than that of Roger Muggli, a third-generation farmer in eastern Montana.
Learning to value Mother Earth
Reducing waste and eating foods that have less of an impact on the environment is this years’ World Environment Day theme. We can all learn lessons from communities living in the Andes.
City Bees, Country Bees: Part 2
Honeybees are not the only ones in trouble–bumblebees are too.
Ordinary Magic: The Alchemy of Biodiversity and Development in Cape Flats Nature
The Cape Flats I had known before, as a life-long citizen and social activist in Cape Town, was one of social, not natural, fragmentation, marked by the railway lines designed to separate communities according to skin color under Apartheid—White, Colored, Black African, or Indian.
City Bees, Country Bees
Honeybees are not the only ones in trouble–bumblebees are too. This is the first of a two part series that will discuss how urban areas might be bumblebees’ best chance for survival.
Green Highways: New Strategies To Manage Roadsides as Habitat
From northern Europe to Florida, highway planners are rethinking roadsides as potential habitat for native plants and wildlife. Scientists say this new approach could provide a useful tool in fostering biodiversity.
Empire of the Ape
This morning, I turned on the radio to be greeted with the news that 60% of the species in my country are in decline…There was a five-minute discussion about this on the news programme before the agenda moved on to more important topics.
Biodiversity – May 31
•My manifesto for rewilding the world •Decline in biodiversity of farmed plants, animals gathering pace •Ecology Lessons From the Cold War
Michael Pollan on the Links Between Biodiversity and Health
It was an odd paradox that led author Michael Pollan to write a book about cooking: How was it, he wondered, that in an era when Americans were buying more and more pre-packaged, ready-to-eat food, they were spending more time watching programs about cooking on television?
Climate: action, impact, and geoengineering – May 24
•China agrees to impose carbon targets by 2016 •Warming to hit half of plants, a third of animals •Geoengineering: Can We Save the Planet by Messing with Nature? •Climate Denial’s Death Knell: 97 Percent of Peer-Reviewed Science Confirms Manmade Global Warming, Consensus Overwhelming •Climate disasters displace millions of people worldwide •For Insurers, No Doubts on Climate Change
Let’s Keep the Seeds Real… and introducing Huauzontle
Growing plants, particularly for food, and particularly in community, is a big part of the Transition experience and ethos. Many people in transition are active permaculturists. At the very least, most of us want to eat plants grown organically from good seed.
