From Food Forests to Healthy Soil: Five Incredible Permaculture Videos
Sami Grover writes at TreeHugger: When I posted 7 no-cost ways to grow more food from your veggie garden, one commenter argued that mulching was not a good strategy—suggesting that gardeners should...
View ArticleUtilities Wake Up – Rooftop Solar to Rival Conventional Power
Peter Sinclair writes at Climate Denial Crock of the Week: I’m shouting this wherever I go. There is a revolution in energy production technology happening right now – it will be as disruptive to the...
View ArticleWorking Less for a Sustainable Future
Anders Hayden writes at Solutions: Since the Industrial Revolution, two main motivations have driven the movement for work-time reduction. Free time away from the job improves individual well-being,...
View ArticleA Critical Analysis of the State’s Definition of “Ecological Terrorism”
Pic: Will Potter (CC) An incredibly lucid and thought provoking analysis by David Nickles of the DMT-Nexus, via their news site: The Nexian: While the following article focuses on the relationship...
View ArticleMagic Mushrooms and Natural Intelligence
In a time when Artificial Intelligence is getting all the headlines, English author and film-maker Simon G. Powell is making the case for Natural Intelligence – the idea that life itself is intelligent...
View ArticleWorld Has Lost More Than Half of Wildlife in 40 Years
Can you imagine the conspiracy theories that certain usual suspects would be broadcasting far and wide if the human population was halved in just 40 years? So why isn’t there more outcry over that...
View ArticleToxoplasmosis: how feral cats kill wildlife without lifting a paw
This article was originally published on The Conversation. Read the original article. By Bronwyn Fancourt, University of Tasmania Feral cats are a huge threat to our native wildlife, hunting and...
View Article“People often ask me, ‘How can you be so stupid and still proclaim yourself a...
Philosopher Slavoj Žižek argues that our current brand of global capitalism is quickly outgrowing democracy and that a divorce between the two is inevitable. This leads to an array of social and...
View ArticleInvasion of the earthworms, mapped and analyzed
This small worm — Dendrobaena octaedra, sometimes called the octagonal-tail worm — measures less than an inch long, but the invasive species is impacting the ecology of the boreal forest in...
View ArticleThe Surprising Health Benefits of the Great Outdoors
Florence Williams writes at Outside: WITH THE LARGEST CONCENTRATION of broad-leafed evergreens in Japan, mountainous Chichibu-Tama-Kai is an ideal place to put into practice the newest principles of...
View ArticleDeforestation Intentions Soar With Carbon Prices Low
Brian Fallow writes at the New Zealand Herald: Deforestation intentions have soared as the emissions trading scheme, at least at current rock-bottom prices, is no longer seen as a barrier to...
View ArticleWestern Black Rhinoceros Officially Extinct
I shouted out, “Who killed the [Black Rhino]?” When after all, It was you and me.. Chalk another one up to humanity… Via CNN: Africa’s western black rhino is now officially extinct according... The...
View ArticleFor a Future that Won’t Destroy Life on Earth, Look to the Global Indigenous...
Kristin Moe writes at YES! Magazine: There’s a remote part of northern Alberta where the Lubicon Cree have lived, it is said, since time immemorial. The Cree called the vast, pine-covered region... The...
View ArticleGood King Crab: An Arctic Shaman’s Death Song
Here Being a macabre transcription FOUND ETCH’D Upon a disc o’ Purified TIN, Wrapp’d in Seal’s hide And seal’d in a chest o’ SILVER, ‘Merg’d out yon lately Permafrost ‘Mid Whale bones... The post Good...
View ArticleThe Alchemical Ecology Of The Secret Commonwealth: A Solution To The UFO Enigma
Aliens. Faeries. Monsters. So… what are they, then? They’ve always been with us. That much is certain. There are far more sightings than would be needed for an advanced civilization to conduct... The...
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