World Population Day: Agriculture Offers Huge Opportunities for a Planet of 7...
Crossposted from the Worldwatch Institute's Nourishing the Planet. As the global population increases, so does the number of mouths to feed. The good news is that in addition to providing food,...
View ArticleAnti-Capitalist Meet-up: The Food Crisis and The Struggle for Food Sovereignty
One of the most difficult problems that we are facing is feeding the world while at the same time protecting our planet. We are facing a situation where the manner in which food production is...
View ArticleIntroduction to Ecological Gardening
This is the first diary in a new series on ecological gardening that I will be writing for the Practical Survivalism and Sustainable Living group here on Daily Kos. Diaries will be posted on Sundays....
View ArticleIntroduction to Ecological Gardening Pt. II: Basic Garden Ecology
This is the second diary in a new series on ecological gardening that I will be writing for the Practical Survivalism and Sustainable Living group here on Daily Kos. Diaries will be posted on Sundays...
View ArticleIntroduction to Ecological Gardening Pt. III: Basic Garden Ecology 2- Soil...
This is the third diary in a new series on ecological gardening that I will be writing for the Practical Survivalism and Sustainable Living group here on Daily Kos. I want to apologize for waiting so...
View ArticleIntroduction to Ecological Gardening Pt. IV: Basic Garden Ecology 3- Layers
This is the fourth diary in a series on ecological gardening that I am writing for the Practical Survivalism and Sustainable Living group here on Daily Kos. The purpose of this diary series is to...
View ArticleIntroduction to Ecological Gardening pt. V: Basic Garden Ecology- Polycultures
This is the fifth diary in a series on ecological gardening that I am writing for the Practical Survivalism and Sustainable Living group here on Daily Kos. The purpose of this diary series is to share...
View ArticleEcological Gardening pt. VI: Slideshow time!
--It has been almost five months since my last diary. Things happen when you work full time and move to another country.-- The purpose of this diary series is to share my limited knowledge about a...
View ArticleEcological Gardening Part VII: A Victory Garden's First Year in 6 Slide Shows...
This is the seventh diary in a series on ecological gardening that I am writing here on Daily Kos. The purpose of this diary series is to share my limited knowledge about a revolutionary mindset that...
View ArticleEcological Gardening pt. VIII: A Victory Garden's Second Year in 7 Slide...
This is the eighth diary in a series on ecological gardening that I am writing here on Daily Kos. This is also the last slide show diary for "A Victory Garden." Later diaries will be more...
View ArticleEcological Gardening: URGENT CALL TO ACTION
This is a short break from some diaries I have in the pipeline: an urgent call to action for some fellow Permaculturalists who are doing groundbreaking (pun pun pun) work at the University of...
View ArticleIntroduction to Agroecology: Holistic Management- Cattle, Cause or Cure for...
In the past decade, we have been told repeatedly by environmental campaigners, the UN, and scientists the world over that cows are a major contributor to climate change. The logic goes something like...
View ArticleClimate Skepticism Evaporates in Australia's oven-like heat wave
This comes from the Sydney Morning Herald:Climate-change denial feels the heatBy Peter HannamScepticism about climate change in Australia may be something else that will melt during the nation's great...
View ArticleClimate Skepticism Evaporates in Australia's oven-like heat wave
This comes from the Sydney Morning Herald:Climate-change denial feels the heatBy Peter HannamScepticism about climate change in Australia may be something else that will melt during the nation's great...
View ArticleEmergence of the Hive Mind – Orchids in the Cracks
There is a principle in Judo called kuzushi that refers to the art of unbalancing one's opponent. Stated simply: push when pulled, pull when pushed. The 'ju' in judo or ju jitsu, its direct ancestor,...
View ArticleIntroduction to Agroecology: Holistic Management- Compendious Edition
Last month I published a mammoth diary which reintroduced the concept of agroecology and presented the design framework known as Holistic Management.The premise? Livestock are not inherently...
View ArticleIntroduction to Agroecology: Permaculture ≠ Holistic Management ≠ Biodynamic...
My aim in this diary is not to step on anyone's toes, but I do wish to make certain that when we communicate about agroecology and things in general, that we do not conflate ideologies and approaches...
View ArticleIntroduction to Agroecology: Holistic Management- "There is No Other...
Allan Savory gave his electrifying presentation on Holistic Management this past week TED's first big conference of 2013. Given the "one presentation per day" release schedule of TED, Mr. Savory's talk...
View ArticleIntroduction to Agroecology: Green Gold- "The Source of Wealth is [are] the...
I have been promising a diary on John D. Liu's "Green Gold" documentary for months now. I even went so far as to include it as an embed before the main feature in "Introduction to Agroecology: Holistic...
View ArticleIntroduction to Agroecology: Updated Additional Resources and Announcement
This is going to be a short diary. I wanted to tidy up the "Additional Resources" section that accompanies all of my diaries. This is also an opportunity to inform the community that my diary entry for...
View ArticleIntroduction to Agroecology: "A Serengeti on Our Doorsteps"- George Monbiot &...
"[...] rewilding offers a positive environmentalism. Environmentalists have long known what they are against; now we can explain what we are for. It introduces hope where hope seemed absent. It offers...
View ArticleIntroduction to Agroecology: Is it Anthropogenic or Bovigenic Climate Change?
Is the changing climate we face today the result of human activity, or is it the result of cattle (Bos primigenius)?Current environmentalist dogma declares that cattle, other livestock species...
View ArticleAgroecology: "Rehabilitation of degraded land has the potential to double...
A recent article by Dr. Mae-Wan Ho, co founder of the Institute of Science in Society (I-SIS), Paradigm Shift Urgently Needed In Agriculture – UN Agencies Call for an End to Industrial Agriculture...
View ArticleAgroecology: "...Outperform[s] the use of chemical fertilizers in boosting...
With increasing frequency, the global scientific and development community is extolling the "win win win" benefits of shifting human relationships with the planet towards agroecology. While now two...
View ArticleAgroecology: "Wake up before it is too late"- UNCTAD's TER13 Report
This is going to be a short post this week because A) all weekend we have had a talkoot where I am interning and B) the content I am linking to is quite extensive. Talkoot does not exactly translate...
View ArticlePetition asking Disney to offer Organic & Non-GMO meals.
After watching Genetic Roulette - The Gamble of Our Lives (trailer above) -- a film that exposes 'Monsanto’s strong arm tactics, the FDA’s fraudulent policies, and how the USDA ignores a growing health...
View ArticleAgroecology: 1- Study Nature. 2- Facilitate Natural Functions. 3- Rediscover...
What ties the threats of runaway climate change, biodiversity loss culminating in trophic collapse, increasing water scarcity, discrimination and intolerance, food insecurity leading to widespread...
View ArticleAgroecology: Ray Archuleta from NRCS: "The Soil is Naked, Hungry, Thirsty,...
Ray Archuleta, a conservation agronomist with the National Resource Conservation Service, spoke at the National Conference on Soil and Cover Crops in Omaha this year.Ray delivered an authoritative and...
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Introduction to Agroecology: Soil Life Theory (Me on video!)
(Cross posted from Permaculture News' forums. I usually don't cross post things, but this time I want to... well save time. I hope you all understand. I'll still check out the comments of course. I've...
View ArticleTaking applied ecology to the seas: Philip Hoare on Whales and Climate Change
In an article up today over at The Guardian (in their infamous "Comment is Free" section), entitled "Why whale poo could be the secret to reversing the effects of climate change," Philip Hoare shares...
View ArticleCowspiracy & The Building Blocks of an Absolutist Position
Cowspiracy- the Sustainability Secret, a documentary ostensibly exploring the effects of livestock on the environment was released seven months ago. Somehow, perhaps due to being an expatriate, I...
View ArticleOpposing GMOs is not automatically antiscientific [see 3 edit notes]
[Edit: I want to thank everyone who has taken the time to read this piece and especially to those who have shared their opinions. I forgot to mention, like I usually do, that I live in Finland. I am 6...
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Agroecology as a Tool for Liberation: Transforming Industrial Agribusiness in...
Miguel Ramirez training family farmers on seed bank management. Photo courtesy of MAOES. By Beverly Bell An interview with Miguel Ramirez, National Coordinator of the Organic Agriculture Movement of El...
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We Are the Solution: African Women Organize for Land and Seed Sovereignty
From an Interview with Mariama Sonko By Simone Adler and Beverly Bell, Other WorldsMariama Sonko, third from right, with a women farmers' organization. Photo courtesy of Fahamu.Mariama Sonko is a...
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La Via Campesina, Building an International Movement for Food and Seed...
An Interview with General Coordinator Elizabeth MpofuBy Simone AdlerElizabeth Mpofu of Zimbabwe is General Coordinator of the international peasant movement La Via Campesina, a coalition of 164...
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Climate Brief: 'Nature could pull 11 billion metric tons of carbon from the...
xxYouTube VideoWHAT ARE NATURAL CLIMATE SOLUTIONS? (3:01) In this video, it's the future, and we look back on how we saved the world with nature. In the 2020s, we learned that nature could pull 11...
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