What Should We Eat Now?
What we eat is in constant flux, changing from decade to decade and century to century.
building resilient food systems
City and Soil: How Food Waste Can Feed us
It may seem counter intuitive, but the greatest single tool we have to reconnect to our soils is this waste itself.
The Sustainable Farm — New Monastery?
As I try, without sounding like an idiot, to define the kind of economy best suited for sustainable farming, I think of the old monastic farm and then I do sound like an idiot.
Beekeeping Challenges and Changes
U.S. beekeeping is undergoing changes and challenges.
Ecomodernism: a Response to my Critics
George Monbiot, bless him, has recently been tweeting his enthusiasm for my critique of the Ecomodernist Manifesto (‘Dark thoughts on Ecomodernism‘)
Grassroots Efforts Target Food Insecurity in San Bernardino County, CA
Thanks to people like Arthur Levine, local and urban agriculture in San Bernardino County is experiencing a burgeoning grassroots movement.
Got Food? How Local Food Systems Can Build Resilience for Turbulent Times
In these turbulent times, we need to make our food supply systems more resilient. Producing and distributing food on the local level could help us weather disruptions of all kinds.
Resilience in the face of Climate Change
Resilience is a common principal of permaculture, says Dave Boehnlein, co-author of the book Practical Permaculture.
Food Justice Truck Serves Up Fresh, Healthy Food to Asylum Seekers
A mobile fresh food market, the truck offers locally sourced fruits, vegetables, grains, legumes, tea, and bread to asylum seekers at a 75% discount.
Slowly, With Earth Pushing Hard, A Confederacy Of Concern Develops
Underlying so much of the economic and ecological turmoil unfolding before us is a slow collision between the operating practices of the resource-wasting, vertically-managed 20th century and the much more crowded, polluted, and dangerous ecological and economic conditions of the 21st century.
The Dearth of Grass
Just three grass family plants – wheat, rice and maize – furnish about half the energy we eat worldwide.
Why Not Start Today: Backyard Carbon Sequestration Is Something Nearly Everyone Can Do
To make it simple as a crayon sketch, there are two ways to mitigate climate change that, in tandem, could work.
