My name is Robert, and I am a Cornell University undergraduate student. However, I’m not sure if I want to be one any more. Allow me to explain. Cornell, as an institution, appears to be ...
Changing the way our food is produced, distributed and wasted can seem out of reach, but what we choose to consume has a major impact on both people and the planet. What does it really mean to eat sustainably?The post Chewing the facts on sustainable diets appeared first on Positive News.
Par delà l’aspect informatif de cette vidéo, Christophe Köppel nous parle remarquablement bien de l’idée que beaucoup de gens se font de la permaculture et de ce qu’elle est de son point de vue. Il ne s’agit pas d’une énième vidéo nous montrant quelques conseils à appliquer, ou vous permettant d’obtenir le jardin D’Éden en appliquant les fameuses techniques miracles. Cette […]
A new report by leading sustainability experts has reaffirmed the case for a paradigm shift from industrial agriculture to diversified agroecological systems – fundamental to which is a call for redistributing power back into the hands of those who feed the world.
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I was prompted to write this article when a twitter contact of mine wondered whether some of my writings about the corpocracy amounted to a conspiracy theory. Having been a behavioral scientist most of my adult life I know a thing or two about what’s theory and what’s not. I don’t know how anyone, scientist or lay person, could mistake the corpocracy for a theory. I doubt if any readers of articles published in the alternative news media would confuse the two. Nevertheless, I want to tell you what I have learned over the years.
Avez-vous déjà entendu parler de la crise du phosphore ? Vers 2030 – 2040, nous aurons consommé la moitié des ressources planétaires en phosphore pour les besoins en engrais de l’agriculture productiviste (et non intensive). Le phosphore est un élément indispensable à la bonne santé des végétaux. Il est aujourd’hui considéré comme une ressource « non-renouvelable » dont les réserves commencent à diminuer […]
There’s a vicious presidential campaign going on, while Americans play tug-o-war over transgender bathrooms and other social issues. So maybe you haven’t heard that our antibiotics are failing, and we need to do something about it if we’re to beat future disease.
Source: Nova
A simple documentary premiere, in a small town north of Vancouver, WA, on the Columbia, a town called Kalama, near Longview, where millions of stripped logs from the Pacific Northwest’s forests are stacked 20 stories high, waiting for markets (sic) in Asia to be turned into lumber and cardboard and stuffing and paper and snot sheets for the U S of A.
The latest installment of the long-simmering Sagebrush Rebellion erupted early this year in the form an emotionally-charged, armed occupation of the Malheur Wildlife Refuge in Harney County, Oregon. Controversial and well publicized, this standoff ended with the tragic death of a Mormon Arizona rancher by the name of Lavoy Finicum and the jailing of the remaining alleged perpetrators.
