Scientists are deploying ever more refined tools to prove the dire and rapidly worsening state of the living biosphere – in a last-ditch attempt to trigger meaningful action.
Indigenous women in villages of West Africa have demonstrated a 700 year old farming technique, which converts nutrient-poor soil into fertile farmland, to anthropologists and soil scientists from a number of Western universities. The villagers invited the scientists to live within their communities and observe the women at work as they added ash, bones and…
An international network of alternative economics experts has collaborated to produce an online platform to accelerate the shared understanding required for an effective transformation of the global economic system to achieve environmental sustainability. Economic pathfinders Peter Lipman, Chair of Transition Networks UK, and Jules Peck, of the New Economics Foundation, are bringing together researchers and…
The second edition of the potentially world-changing book Biochar for Environmental Management: Science, Technology and Implementation has been published.
Mycologist Dr Paul Stamets has announced the release of his company’s water improvement technology to the public domain. Performing functions that Stamets has termed mycofiltration and mycorestoration, the technology entails “the intentional and judicious use of cultivated networks of fungal mycelium to facilitate water quality improvements in engineered ecosystems,” according to the company’s web site….
More than 50 organisations and groups representing the interests of small farmers and the hungry in South Africa have agreed on a declaration that will take them towards securing food sovereignty for the country and its people. It is expected that their campaign will add to the growing, people-led global movement to restore agency over…