From Emergency to Emergence.   The pandemic has also exposed extreme vulnerabilities in the global market economy, including its long and highly specialized linear supply chains,

Ecological Reflections on the Corona virus From the forests, to our farms, to our gut microbiome https://navdanyainternational.org/one-planet-one-health-connected-through-biodiversity/ Coronavirus pandemic leading to huge drop in air

Al Gore promotes carbon markets, regenerative agriculture at D.C. conference https://thefern.org/ag_insider/al-gore-promotes-carbon-markets-regenerative-agriculture-at-d-c-conference/ How to support your children in turning climate angst into climate action https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/transformation/how-support-your-children-turning-climate-angst-climate-action/  

Banking on Climate? https://www.ran.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/Banking_on_Climate_Change_2019_vFINAL1.pdf Hundreds of workers defy Amazon rules to protest company’s climate failures Employees ‘needed to stand up for what’s right’ despite policy

Statistic of the decade: The massive deforestation of the Amazon https://theconversation.com/statistic-of-the-decade-the-massive-deforestation-of-the-amazon-128307 Greta Thunberg named Time magazine’s person of the year Teen activist lauded by magazine

If you read only one book this year, it should be Roger Hallam’s  “Common Sense for the 21st Century: Only Nonviolent Rebellion Can Now Stop

How the U.S. power grid is evolving to handle solar and wind As renewable energy sources move mainstream, electricity generation and distribution systems are getting

‘Genius’ Grant Goes To Marine Scientist Who Embraces Flash Mobs And Comic Books https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2019/09/25/763456317/genius-grant-goes-to-marine-scientist-who-embraces-flash-mobs-and-comic-books Is Compost the Secret to Making Ag Climate Friendly? A new

Greta Thunberg’s Transatlantic Sailing Trip Is Seriously Carbon-Neutral https://cleantechnica.com/2019/08/22/greta-thunbergs-transatlantic-sailing-trip-is-seriously-carbon-neutral/   Walter Jehne – The Soil Carbon Sponge, Climate Solutions and Healthy Water Cycles (video) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=123y7jDdbfY

  The Estate of R. Buckminster Fuller has just launched a new website: https://www.buckminsterfuller.net.   The Green New Deal Must Include Regenerative Agriculture and an

  A new generation of leaders understands that individual actions won’t fix our environmental problems By defining environmental citizenship as responsible consumption, sustainability advocates downplay

Climate change and biodiversity should be top headline news (David Suzuki) http://rabble.ca/blogs/bloggers/david-suzuki/2019/05/climate-change-and-biodiversity-should-be-top-headline-news We’re Not the Class of 2019. We’re the Class of 0000. Deliver a

A Global Deal For Nature: Guiding principles, milestones, and targets https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/5/4/eaaw2869 AND New paper proposes a science-based ‘Global Deal for Nature’ https://news.mongabay.com/2019/04/new-paper-proposes-a-science-based-global-deal-for-nature/ Why Is Going

The ideas behind regenerative farming are simple and ancient People taking the training are often surprised to find out that sustainable ecological farming—and healthy soil—actually

US Youth Climate Strikes https://www.youthclimatestrikeus.org/ Becoming Greta: ‘Invisible Girl’ to Global Climate Activist, With Bumps Along the Way https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/18/climate/greta-thunburg.html THIS IS A CRISIS FACING UP

Leonardo DiCaprio’s foundation just announced a bold new plan to curb climate change The One Earth Climate Model says we can curb temperature rises without

We don’t have enough organic farms. Why not? Organic food sales in the U.S. doubled over the last decade, but organic farming hasn’t kept pace.

FOURTH NATIONAL CLIMATE ASSESSMENT Volume II: Impacts, Risks, and Adaptation in the United States The National Climate Assessment (NCA) assesses the science of climate change

Turn your food scraps into soil BECOME A SOIL MAKER, OR FIND ONE NEAR YOU. MakeSoil.org A Record Number of Scientists Are Running for Congress,

California Climate Strategy An Integrated Plan for Addressing Climate Change http://www.climatechange.ca.gov   New study finds incredibly high carbon pollution costs – especially for the US

Losing Earth: The Decade We Almost Stopped Climate Change The first suggestion to Rafe Pomerance that humankind was destroying the conditions necessary for its own

A California City That’s Taking Beauty Seriously Vallejo is working on conserving open space and beautifying the city as part of a national campaign to

Spending time alone in nature is good for your mental and emotional health Today Americans live in a world that thrives on being busy, productive

Moving from sustainable to regenerative farming For those still catching up with sustainable farming, a new trend is on the horizon. The idea of regenerative

Closing the Loop, the world’s first feature-length documentary film on the circular economy.   “Unless we go to Circular it’s game over for the planet; it’s game over

This Georgia rancher might be our best hope for a sustainable future Ride shotgun on this game-changing farm in “One Hundred Thousand Beating Hearts,” streaming

World’s first plastic-free aisle opens in Netherlands supermarket Campaigners hail progress as Amsterdam store offers dedicated aisle of more than 700 products, with plans for

Will People Eat Relish Made from ‘Waste’ Ingredients? Drexel Study Finds They May Even Prefer It A new Drexel University study found strong potential for

‘It’s shocking, it’s horrendous’: Ellen MacArthur’s fight against plastic She broke the solo record for sailing round the world, but now she is dedicating her

Costa Rica Runs Entirely on Renewable Energy for 300 Days Costa Rica has charted another clean energy accolade. So far this year, the Central American country has

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