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The Woman Aiming to Get 50 Million Americans Into the Worker-Owner Economy And she has a plan to do it. http://www.yesmagazine.org/new-economy/the-woman-aiming-to-get-50-million-americans-into-the-worker-owner-economy-20171026 Global atmospheric CO2 levels
Join Fritjof Capra and explore the new systemic conception of life at the forefront of science and its application in economics, management, politics, design, medicine,
How carbon farming could halt climate change Soil holds more carbon than the atmosphere and all vegetation combined. But who’s going to convince more farmers to
A Soil Scientist with a Plan for a More Resilient Food System http://www.gracelinks.org/blog/8074/building-a-more-resilient-food-system-requires-a-paradigm-s Earth is becoming ‘Planet Plastic’ http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-40654915 and Production, use, and fate of
Harvesting the Sun – Jairo Restrepo at Ragmans Farm (video 7 min.) The first video in English of Jairo Restrepo, a world expert in Biofertilisers and
Rethinking Transportation 2020-2030 The Disruption of Transportation and the Collapse of the Internal-Combustion Vehicle and Oil Industries https://static1.squarespace.com/static/585c3439be65942f022bbf9.pdf India’s ‘Fruit of the Gods’ Could Make Solar
Humans Produce So Much Junk, We Are Creating a New Geological Layer The technofossils we leave behind will create a mark on the planet. http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/future_tense/2017/03/humans_are_creating_a_new_geological_layer_of_technofossils.html
More on organics management, cities, & circular economy prospects Urban Biocycles was produced in collaboration with the World Economic Forum as part of Project MainStream.
What’s Warming the World? NASA’s Model Researchers who study the Earth’s climate create models to test their assumptions about the causes and trajectory of global
An Economy of Meaning, or Bust Current economic systems are dismal because they waste our precious time. We can pause to reevaluate, and redesign. By
Solar power at 1¢/kWh by 2025 Thierry Lepercq, head of research, technology and innovation at the French energy company Engie SA, said in an interview
What makes plastic trash seem so tasty to seabirds? http://www.csmonitor.com/Science/2016/1109/What-makes-plastic-trash-seem-so-tasty-to-seabirds Plastic island: How our trash is destroying paradise http://www.cnn.com/interactive/2016/12/world/midway-plastic-island/ Life in Syntropy (Agroforestry; 15 minute
Broken Promises of Genetically Modified Crops By KARL RUSSELL and DANNY HAKIM OCT. 29, 2016 About 20 years ago, the United States and Canada began
How restorative agriculture could lead to commercial advantage http://www.producebusinessuk.com/opinion/fresh-opinions/2016/09/22/how-restorative-agriculture-could-lead-to-commercial-advantage Fair World Project Releases Statement on US, China Formal Sign-On to Paris Climate Agreement Leading Consumer
Pope Francis says destroying the environment is a sin Pontiff says humans are turning planet into ‘wasteland full of debris, desolation and filth’ in call
Our Consumption Of Earth’s Natural Resources Has More Than Tripled In 40 Years Limestone and steel for our homes, wheat and vegetables for our dinner,
Walk Through Green Space Could Help Put Brain In State Of Meditation, Study Finds Entering a more ‘zen’ mindset could be as easy as taking
Nike says ‘just do it’ to the circular economy Sportswear giant Nike aims to build on progress made in its latest sustainability report by integrating
Largest US food producers ask Congress to shield lobbying activities United Egg Producers, National Cattlemen’s Beef Association and National Pork Producers Council are proposing a
Nature magazine: The Circular Economy A ‘circular economy’ would turn goods that are at the end of their service life into resources for others, closing
Carbon Farming: Fighting Climate Change with Regenerative Agriculture Lowering atmospheric carbon dioxide to a level that will avoid catastrophic climate change requires massive shifts across
The mercury doesn’t lie: We’ve hit a troubling climate change milestone (McKibben) DOMINIQUE FAGET/AFP/GETTY IMAGES/FILE 2015 A view of the Kronebreen Glacier in northern Norway.
Key Issue Ignored by Presidential Candidates: Food ‘Presidential candidates should seize the opportunity to improve the nation’s food and farm system for the benefit of
Whole Foods Partnering with Urban Farming Project to Improve Food Security in Chicago Neighborhood In 2013, Whole Foods Market announced that it would be opening
Carbon Farming Gets A Nod At Paris Climate Conference This week, world leaders are hashing out a binding agreement in Paris at the 2015 U.N.
A Soil Pilgrimage http://www.asianage.com/columnists/soil-pilgrimage-994 GMO backlash threatens beet farmers as foodmakers swap sugars http://mobile.reuters.com/article/idUSL1N12C0Z520151029?rpc=401& World’s “appetite” for renewables is growing, but faster transition is needed,
Pope Francis would love the obscure theories of this dead Romanian economist http://qz.com/510096/pope-francis-would-love-the-theories-of-this-dead-romanian-economist/ THE NEED FOR A NEW ECONOMIC SYSTEM: PART 9 http://www.countercurrents.org/avery220815.htm Brazil
A Soil Pilgrimage http://www.asianage.com/columnists/soil-pilgrimage-994 GMO backlash threatens beet farmers as foodmakers swap sugars http://mobile.reuters.com/article/idUSL1N12C0Z520151029?rpc=401& World’s “appetite” for renewables is growing, but faster transition is needed,
Published on Thursday, September 24, 2015 http://www.commondreams.org/news/2015/09/24/rallying-pope-climate-justice-campaigners-hail-shovel-ready-solution byCommon Dreams “What is this magic solution?” activist asks demonstrators on National Mall. “You’re standing on it. It’s
The Soil Story (4 minute video) http://thesoilstory.com The Soil Story, created by Kiss the Ground, is a five-minute film that shares the importance of healthy
Making the transition to a circular economy will not be a walk in the park http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20150731/opinion/shift-to-circular-economy.578683 After what might be perceived as a rather wobbly
Circular economy more than just an opportunity Now that EU parliament has given its support to a report on the circular economy, it’s up to
What’s in the News… [break] USDA Develops New GMO-Free Certification And Label For Foods http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/05/14/usda-gmo-label_n_7284544.html What Happened After One Family Went Organic For Just Two
What’s in the News… Soil & Carbon: Soil Solutions to Climate Problems http://www.centerforfoodsafety.org/reports/3846/soil-and-carbon-soil-solutions-to-climate-problems# An excess of carbon dioxide (CO2) in the Earth’s atmosphere is warming
A new theory why bees are dying off The summary of the article linked to below is this. It’s not one thing. It’s a great
(Reuters) – Almost one in 10 of Europe’s wild bee species is at risk of extinction because of threats from the spread of farms and
Humility, caring and wisdom make a better future possible Federal support should shift to plant-based agriculture, including trend-setting oat and pea farmers, whose crops are made into meat and dairy alternatives.’
Just what California needs.
This new report shows that the average American household can both fight climate change and save money at the same time.
https://www.rewiringamerica.org/household-savings-report
https://www.localfutures.org/what-to-do-when-the-world-is-on-fire/
World leading scientists put a spotlight on the risks of homogenization of the terrestrial water cycle.
As the world responds to the simultaneous challenges of climate change and increased demands for certain commodities such as food and energy, land use and land cover are changing.
Increasing plantation forestry and agricultural monocultures are turning once diverse landscapes into areas with a single plant species, which affects the terrestrial water cycle.
Conversion of large swaths of land to uniform tree plantations and single-crop species may lead to unintended consequences for the water cycle, putting ecosystems at greater risk for fires, floods, droughts and even hurricanes, warns a think-tank group of almost 30 water scientists from 11 countries.
Stable conditions in the atmosphere favor fair weather. However, when the ocean is stable, the layers of the ocean do not mix. Cooler, oxygenated water from beneath does not rise up and deliver oxygen and nutrients to waters near the surface, and warm surface water does not absorb carbon dioxide and bury it at depth.
“The same process, global warming, is both making the atmosphere less stable and the oceans more stable,” said Michael Mann, distinguished professor of atmospheric sciences and director of the Earth System Science Center at Penn State. “Water near the ocean’s surface is warming faster than the water below. That makes the oceans become more stable.”
New solar-cell design shows potential for increased efficiency
A collaborative research team, consisting of University of Delaware mathematicians and engineers at Pennsylvania State University, has come up with a new design for thin-film solar cells with the potential to significantly increase the efficiency of these flexible panels that convert sunlight into electricity.
For example, standard solar cells, the kind seen on rooftops and in “farms” spread over acres of land, are reasonably efficient and increasingly affordable, but they are heavy and rigid. Thin-film cells —built from lightweight and flexible materials, making them useful for such applications as portable devices and vehicle roofs — are inexpensive and easy to manufacture, but they are much less efficient at converting light into power. Specialized types of thin-film technology are more efficient,
but those cells are manufactured from expensive materials or are not long-lasting, severely limiting their use.
“To be fair, I don’t have any “views on climate change” either. Just like I don’t have any “views” on gravity, the fact that the earth is round, photosynthesis nor evolution… But understanding and knowing their existence really makes life in the 21st century so much easier.”
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