No one needed to predict a frothing horde of Trump supporters would lay siege to the Capitol on Wednesday because they told us that was the plan all along. They told us not just on Twitter, TikTok, and TheDonald in the weeks leading up to the attack. They’ve been telling us for years from the... Continue Reading →
Early humans adapted to major environmental change in 'Cradle of Mankind' 2 million years ago New evidence unearthed at the Oldupai Gorge, a UNESCO World Heritage site in Tanzania known as the "Cradle of Mankind," has revealed that "environmental adaptability and pioneering behavior were in place two million years ago" in early humans, said lead... Continue Reading →
Early humans adapted to major environmental change…
humanity’s transformation of the ecological landscape
“Were in the middle of the largest mass extinction of species in sixty-five million years.”3 Dr. Will Tuttle told me during an interview. There have been five previous mass extinctions. Scientists believe that each of these five extinctions was caused by events such as large meteors and asteroids colliding with the earth, volcanic eruptions, or... Continue Reading →
There are two Green New Deal books that are definite 'must reads' this one mentioned below (Winning The Green New Deal) and Jeremy Rifkin's 'The Green New Deal' Both are truly informative and easy to understand. In fact, The Sunrise Movements book, 'Winning The Green New Deal' really educated me and Mr. Rifkin's book opened... Continue Reading →
The Sunrise Movement’s & Jeremy Rifkin’s Books…
WHAT DOES “PERMACULTURE” MEAN?
The term “permaculture” was originally coined by Bill Mollison and David Holmgren in their book Permaculture One (1978) as a contraction of “permanent” and “agriculture.” Its etymology reflects the early concept of permaculture as primarily focused on agriculture. By the early 1980s, the definition had expanded in scope to broadly encompass the ways in which... Continue Reading →
Why Climate Change is a threat to human rights…
Climate change is unfair. While rich countries can fight against rising oceans and dying farm fields, poor people around the world are already having their lives upended -- and their human rights threatened -- by killer storms, starvation and the loss of their own lands. Mary Robinson asks us to join the movement for worldwide... Continue Reading →
REGENERATIVE AGRICULTURE
RANKING AND RESULTS BY 2050 #11 23.15 GIGATONS REDUCED CO2 $57.2 BILLION NET COST $1.93 TRILLION NET SAVINGS Regenerative agriculture practices restore degraded land. They include no tillage, diverse cover crops, in-farm fertility (no external nutrient sources required, no pesticides or synthetic fertilizers, and multiple crop rotations, all of which can be augmented by managed... Continue Reading →
SILVOPASTURE
RANKING AND RESULTS BY 2050 #9 31.19 GIGATONS REDUCED CO2 $41.6 BILLION NET COST $699.4 BILLION NET SAVINGS Cows and trees do not belong together—so says conventional wisdom. And why should it not be? In Brazil and elsewhere, headlines condemn ranching as a driver of mass deforestation and attendant climate change. But the practice of... Continue Reading →
IMPROVED RICE CULTIVATION
RANKING AND RESULTS BY 2050 #24 (IMPROVED RICE CULTIVATION) 11.34 GIGATONS REDUCED CO2 NO ADDITIONAL COSTS REQUIRED $519.1 BILLION NET SAVINGS RANKING AND RESULTS BY 2050 #53 (SYSTEM OF RICE INTENSIFICATION) 3.13 GIGATONS REDUCED CO2 NO ADDITIONAL COSTS REQUIRED $677.8 BILLION NET SAVINGS Vietnamese poet Phan Van Tri writes of rice grains: “They leave rice... Continue Reading →
MULTISTRATA AGROFORESTRY
RANKING AND RESULTS BY 2050 #28 9.28 GIGATONS REDUCED CO2 $26.8 BILLION NET COST $709.8 BILLION NET SAVINGS Strata are horizontal layers. The word’s Latin root means “something spread out or laid down,” like a blanket. These layers are one of the defining features of forests, from undergrowth to understory, from canopy to emergent—the tallest... Continue Reading →
(two excerpts, highly advise see entire articles...) How to fix America’s misinformation crisis Teach our children critical thinking There is hardly a thing in the US that couldn’t benefit from change right now, but something I think about a lot is public education, from preschool to high school. If it were up to me, we’d... Continue Reading →
empowerment & inner transformation... 