Pincushion America revisited: The legacy of fracking on our drinking water
The toxic legacy of fracking is now making itself visible in our drinking water. Expect many more stories of contamination in the coming years.
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Grounds Keeper of the Earth: How Campuses Can Transition to Organic Land Care
Seattle University has been a leader in pesticide-free and organically maintained landscape and land care since 1986.
Climate change and the hidden water cost of the Panama Canal
The critical importance of water transportation is coming into focus as lack of water cripples river and canal navigation.
Plenitude
My garden is a plenum – a spatially continuous living community which includes me, its caretaker – and I intuitively experience it as such while simultaneously perceiving a visual panorama, an audible space filled with the music of cicadas, crickets and birds as well as an expanse of floral perfume.
Short editorial holiday August 28-29
The editorial team will be taking a short break on Monday, August 28 and Tuesday August 29. Regular posting will resume on Wednesday, August 30.
“It helped make the future visible” – Reflections on our spring gatherings
Imagining the future doesn’t make our present difficulties evaporate – but it gives us a north star to work towards and a collective vision of the difference our work could make.
Very very light posting 9 to 16th June, 2023
Due to editorial holiday, there will be very very light posting from 9th to 16th June. Regular posting will resume on Monday, 19th June.
‘Regenerative agriculture’ is all the rage – but it’s not going to fix our food system
Despite regenerative agriculture’s popularity and its focus on sustainable food production, it fails to tackle systemic social and political issues. As a result, the movement may perpetuate business-as-usual in the food system, rather than transform it.
S**t matters – how the Covid-19 crisis reveals both progress and the challenge of universal sanitation
Community access to sewage systems, clean water supply and efficient surface water drainage across the world has long been a key development issue, but today it is centre stage in climate emergency planning.
Artificial Intelligence & The Polycrisis
The arrival of this AI challenge to our adaptive capacities is occurring precisely at the historical moment in which all of the other facets of the polycrisis are reaching a kind of historical crescendo or apogee.
This is How we End Deforestation to Avert Pandemic, Climate and Societal Collapse
Deforestation is one of the most intractable and yet most potent drivers of environmental crisis. It is also among the four out of nine planetary boundaries that civilisation was already at high risk of crossing five years ago according to research published in the journal Science.
Light Posting 8th to 22nd October
Due to editorial holiday, there will be light posting from 8th to 22nd October. Regular posting will resume on the 23rd.