- Climate change good for wild boar. And bores?
- Climate change good for English wine makers.
- Climate change bad for Africa. Already.
- Climate change bad for Nenets and their reindeer. Already.
- Organic farming will solve climate change.
- Ecotourism will solve climate change.
- China going crazy for garlic. Because of climate change? Nope, swine flu.
Looks like we got ourselves a dialectic
Oglio, a third generation farmer eschews modern farming techniques — chemicals, fertilizers, heavy machinery — in favor of a purely natural approach. It is not just ecological, he says, but profitable, and he believes his system can be replicated in starving regions of the globe.
Nearly 5,000 miles (8,000 km) away, in laboratories in St. Louis, Missouri, hundreds of scientists at the world’s biggest seed company, Monsanto, also want to feed the world, only their tools of choice are laser beams and petri dishes.
Reuters anticipates the World Summit on Food Security with the standard oppositional fare.
Nibbles: Forest fires, integration
- Fire-fighters should heed forest diversity. Now there’s a thought.
- “Resilient integration of industrial and organic agriculture.” Now there’s a thought.
Nibbles: Climate, Fertilizers
- Sustainable Agriculture: The Unrecognized Key to Reversing Climate Change. Unrecognized by whom?
- Fred Pearce says: Cold turkey on nitrogen, now. It’s our only hope.
Permaculture eco-pioneer on CNN
We’ve blogged about permaculture before, actually several times, and I follow the goings on at the Permaculture Institute of Australia via their RSS feed. They define permaculture as
…the conscious design and maintenance of agriculturally productive ecosystems which have the diversity, stability, and resilience of natural ecosystems. It is the harmonious integration of landscape and people providing their food, energy, shelter, and other material and non-material needs in a sustainable way.
Which makes it sound so sexy I should not have been surprised to see it going mainstream on CNN a few days ago. But I was. Cynical old me. There are a couple of other interesting things — from an agrobiodiversity point of view — in CNN’s Going Green section.