the backlash is irrefutable, it’s growing, and it’s happening on multiple continents. In June, thousands of Druze residents in the Golan Heights rioted to stop the installation of a large wind project on their traditional lands. Last month, Australia’s largest farmers union...
Adaptation should also involve growing less cattle feed in the Colorado River Basin, as much as many farmers don’t want to hear that. In the short term, a new federally funded program will pay farmers in California’s Imperial Valley — who use more Color...
which has no (European) history that long, its easy to think that the world is some kind of steady state machine that will go on forever. Here in Europe surrounded by the tangible remains of hunter gatherers, herders, neolithic farmers’ neolithic monuments, bronze hoards discarded when iron ...
Food prices could come down or farmers’ meager incomes could go up. Maybe both. This helps to explain the spectacular growth of community-based food systems in recent years. More than one thousand communitysupported agricultural or horticultural operations are now operating in every state, linking...
Wind makes windmills spin (旋转). When the windmills spin, they make electricity. Then we can use the electricity. A lot of people think that wind power is new, but that’s not true. For thousands of years, people have used wind to sail boats and move water. We still do those ...
Nothing we do today can be called sustainable on a planet that has already endured four solid decades of irreplaceable resource use. The 1970s were the last sustainable decade for mankind. Unfortunately, at the time, no one took notice that a tipping point had been re...