agriculture

A recent landmark study that investigated alarming loss of insects is leaving scientists dumbfounded, deeply troubled, potentially the biggest-ever existential threat, risking ecosystem collapse too soon for comfort.  In contrast to global warming, this may be much more imminently dangerous across-the-board to terrestrial life. An enormous loss of insect population, almost decimation in some parts of the world, threatens the life-giving structure of the ecosystem. This is a deadly serious problem!

America’s all-time-leading heartless anti-science zealot EPA Administrator Scott “Mr. Toxicity” Pruitt, as of March 2017, nixed his own agency’s proposal of 2015 to ban the toxic chemical chlorpyrifos, an insecticide that attacks the nervous system of pesky insects, as well as pesky and non-pesky people (the Nazis invented it for germ warfare). It’s sprayed on crops of foodstuff that ends up in grocery stores.

Germany is ploughing ahead when it comes to more sustainable agriculture with more land under organic production than ever before
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As agriculture becomes ever more reliant on technology, horse-drawn farming seems consigned to a bygone age. But working with horses reduces the reliance on fossil fuels, cuts soil compaction, and can be economically viable on a small scale, writes Eleanor Paddock, from her farm in the shadow of Dartmoor using real horse power
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Voici une chaine qui devrait vous plaire si vous êtes adepte de permaculture ou jardinier curieux. Montée par Damien Dekarz, vous y trouverez une multitude d’informations utiles et bien renseignées sur les mécanismes des plantes, des cultures, des sols, de ce qu’il est envisageable de faire dans un jardin en permaculture et à l’inverse la démystification des mythes autour de […]

Voici une chaine qui devrait vous plaire si vous êtes adepte de permaculture ou jardinier curieux. Montée par Damien Dekarz, vous y trouverez une multitude d’informations utiles et bien renseignées sur les mécanismes des plantes, des cultures, des sols, de ce qu’il est envisageable de faire dans un jardin en permaculture et à l’inverse la démystification des mythes autour de […]

Only by restoring the broken connections can we be healed.
— Wendell Berry, The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays of Wendell Berry, Counterpoint Press, 2002.

A pack of wolves has become established in the Danish wilderness; one of several recent ‘rewilding’ successes across Europe
The post A pack of wild wolves roams Denmark for the first time in 200 years appeared first on Positive News.

RT’s Editor-in-chief Margarita Simonyan has spoken before Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping.
In an impassioned speech, Simonyan spoke of the dangers of fake news media which she correctly lumped together with western mainstream media as a destabilising force of global mis-information.
She sated,

“We can only tackle this (fake news problem) together. In this case, together and with the help of Chinese media”.

Ne vous fiez pas au titre énigmatique ou à l’aspect visuel un peu dépassé  de ce documentaire, c’est un pur chef-d’œuvre.  « Quelle fin absurde ! La vie à la fin de l’empire » traite de l’effondrement systémique, dans la veine d’un documentaire comme « collapse ». Il oriente le spectateur vers la compréhension des différentes mécaniques qui sous-tendent l’activité de notre espèce et […]