Fertile Health: Parallels between Sustainable Agriculture and Sustainable Medicine
The future of health care…involves…returning to the commons of care.
industrial agriculture
A Cubic Mile of Oil: Facilitating the Shift to Cleaner Energy Sources
A Cubic Mile of Oil, by Hewitt Crane, Edwin Kinderman, and Ripudaman Malhotra, illuminates the history, sources, and way forward for global energy.
We Can Feed the World / No We Can’t / No We Won’t
There are, and have been for a few decades now, competing narratives about food, hunger, and population.
Mining the world to death
The agricultural revolution produced the first systematic extractive model, which set us on a road to eventual collapse.
The Earth’s plants produce exactly what others eat
The enormity of the biofuel lie is such that I constantly rub my eyes and pinch myself to check if this is merely a bad dream or modern fascism has arrived.
Urban Ag: Taking steps toward political ecology
Practitioners of urban agriculture have a lot to be proud of, including forming part of a “food movement,” which is increasing in size and influence. People are questioning food systems conventions and the dominant forms of food production (industrial farming) and distribution (globalized trade) are being opposed more and more by communities around the globe. Urban agriculturists—with their claim for a viable alternative to the broken food system—seem to have at this moment a certain cultural cachet.
Food & agriculture – Dec 7
•Supporting Climate-Friendly Food Production
•When a Green Revolution Runs Out of Water
•Can Permaculture Transform Industrial Agriculture?
•A Genius Investor Thinks Billions Of People Are Going To Starve To Death — Here’s Why
•How one nonprofit pub is giving back, one pint at a time
•Are We Heading Toward Peak Fertilizer?