Cultivating Beauty
I think the reason that gardeners and small-scale farmers have such passion about their calling is that their deepest needs are satisfied. I am calling it beauty but it is more than that. It is fullfilling a longing.
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What Liberal Elites Don’t Know About Rural Americans Can Hurt Us
The truth is that when this nation chose to eliminate four million farmers (with their families, hired help, buildings, and boundaries) on the advice of the colleges of agriculture, the agricultural bureaucracy, and the agribusiness corporations, it committed a sort of cultural genocide.
Remembering peasants, anticipating peasants
The land wisdom of peasants and indigenous people is ultimately the land wisdom we moderns have to learn, not by some magic process of technology transfer but by long cultural development, starting now.
Transition farm throwing open its gates
The benefits of growing food together should be accessible to everyone, believes Transition Town Dorchester. And this week their community farm launches a new partnership with another local charity to make that real for more people in their town.
Among the ancestors
It seems unlikely to me that many of the modern-day technological appurtenances so baffling to my mother will count among the gifts that present generations hand on to succeeding ones.
Are your Cheerios impairing your fertility?
A lax U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is aiming right at your reproductive organs.
3 Old Technologies For A Sustainable Future
We don’t need high-tech innovation to create a sustainable future for humanity. In fact, all the tech we need to regenerate our ecosystem and provide a good life for all already exists.
Beyond legal personhood for the Whanganui River: Collaboration and pluralism in implementing the Te Awa Tupua Act
In 2017, the Whanganui River in Aotearoa New Zealand was given the rights of a legal person under the Te Awa Tupua (Whanganui River Claims Settlement) Act 2017.
Draining the World of Fresh Water
The thirst of humans and our technology for water, according to two important studies, is bottomless and accelerating, even if the precious liquid itself is finite on this planet.
Feeding Ourselves 2024 – Unlocking Local Food Economies
So what’s needed, and what can be done to help embed and amplify agroecological local food provisioning by communities, for communities?
Coastal Restoration: Recycled Shells and Millions of Larvae — A Recipe for Renewed Oyster Reefs
As oyster reefs have declined, other marine species have suffered and coastal storm damage has increased. Innovative programs are starting to help.
On the Radical Possibilities of Carbon Sequestration
This closed-loop approach to carbon sequestration would yield a world with both a safe climate and “communal low-tech luxury,” as Max Ajl calls it in his excellent book, A People’s Green New Deal. It is not just a vision for climate stability and justice but also beauty and comfort.