“Our evolutionary remnants tell us that we’re not so far from the little hairy things we once were, hanging out in the trees and nursing whole litters of young.”
07:37 AM - May 16, 2024
The range of breadfruit trees is escaping the tropical band. On the one hand, yum. On the other hand, this is not entirely good news.
apple.news
Too Few Americans Are Eating a Remarkable Fruit
Breadfruit is a staple in tropical places—and climate change is pushing its range north. March 28, 2024 Someplace in the lush backroads of San Sebastián, in western Puerto Rico, my friend Carina pulled the car over. At a crest in the road stood a breadfruit tree, full of basketball-size, lime-green ..
02:38 PM - Mar 30, 2024
“What I like about this movement is that it is so positive. I think it’s awfully important to remind people when they feel no hope that there are wonderful solutions that don’t involve deprivation. [Regenerative agriculture] produces food that’s really delicious and much better for you.“
05:56 PM - Feb 21, 2024
“The time otherwise spent learning to code should instead be invested in expertise in industries such as farming, biology, manufacturing and education, the Nvidia head stated.”
06:46 AM - Feb 28, 2024
“To compartmentalise history into a set of distinct and essentially self-contained civilisations is a misguided quest that has dangerously distorted our understanding of the world.”
02:52 PM - Mar 01, 2024
Career milestone. Finally attended a meeting of the Maize Genetics Cooperative. It was everything I’d expected from the legendary community. The science was invigorating, and I got to meet many of my heroes and the students who are the next generation in our field.
06:32 AM - Mar 04, 2024
“Longstreet made the obvious point that the losing party should not expect to impose its perspective on the victor. He believed Confederates should accept that the Union’s victory demonstrated the superiority of a society based on free labor over one based on slavery.”
10:41 AM - Nov 14, 2023
07:11 AM - Nov 18, 2023
“Avocados have been consumed for thousands of years in the region. But producing the fruit on an industrial scale for export dates only to the 1990s, when Mexico pressured the USA to end its ban on avocado imports, after opening its own market to American corn.”
07:23 AM - Nov 28, 2023
“Around half the nitrogen added to corn fields enters the environment, through air or water. Health and environmental costs of current management practices are $25.6 billion per year, far exceeding farmer profits, which averaged $4.3 billion per year from 2013–2022.”
phys.org
The true costs of corn
A model examines farmers' profits and the health and environmental costs of growing corn in the US Midwest, where about 20% of the world's corn is grown. Corn farming involves applying fertilizer or manure to provide the crop with nitrogen, a vital nutrient. But around half of the nitrogen added to ..
11:56 AM - Oct 26, 2023
Greta arrested by Swedish police because she feels that she cannot just be a bystander to global climate disaster.
She makes her points powerfully, while prominently wearing Union of Concerned Scientists shirt @ucsusa . ✊🏼 #StandUpForScience
She makes her points powerfully, while prominently wearing Union of Concerned Scientists shirt @ucsusa . ✊🏼 #StandUpForScience
reuters.com
Swedish court fines Greta Thunberg again for disobeying police orders | Reuters
Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg was found guilty of disobeying a police order and ordered to pay a fine, TT news agency reported on Wednesday, the second time in three months she was convicted and fined for the same offence.
07:05 PM - Oct 20, 2023
“Restructured meat.”
“Most people would be extremely unhappy if they were served heart or tongue. But flaked into a restructured product it loses its identity. Tripe, heart and scalded stomachs are completely edible, wholesome & nutritious, and most are already used in sausage without objection.”
“Most people would be extremely unhappy if they were served heart or tongue. But flaked into a restructured product it loses its identity. Tripe, heart and scalded stomachs are completely edible, wholesome & nutritious, and most are already used in sausage without objection.”
01:13 PM - Oct 05, 2023
“It’s true that if we didn’t consume food that hadn’t been touched by slavery and Indigenous displacement, we wouldn’t be eating a lot of food.”
07:39 PM - Oct 07, 2023
“The next food and farm bill needs to be smarter and more forward-looking. If climate change is the existential crisis of our time (and it is), then a status quo food and farm bill simply won’t cut it.”
@ucsusa ’s @KarenStillerman ’s thoughts.
@ucsusa ’s @KarenStillerman ’s thoughts.
08:47 AM - Sep 22, 2023
This is still true today, yet a 10% food insecurity rate prevails.
Also note, in this 1943 government propaganda, who “everyone” is, and reflect that during WW II the US enacted the “Bracero Program,” which imported farm workers from Mexico (and Guam) to replace farmers who left to fight overseas.
Also note, in this 1943 government propaganda, who “everyone” is, and reflect that during WW II the US enacted the “Bracero Program,” which imported farm workers from Mexico (and Guam) to replace farmers who left to fight overseas.
06:28 AM - Aug 02, 2023
‘The advice the register offers to individuals feels faintly feeble; at times almost eccentric. For a “marauding terrorist attack”, it tells people to “run” then “hide”, which, though sensible, is not wholly comforting. The end, if not yet nigh, feels rather nigher than before.’
10:54 AM - Sep 17, 2023
As the world gathers in New York for #climateweek2023 , Indigenous leaders are calling on UN delegates, environmental organizations, and the research community to back a stronger goal for Amazon protection:
12:57 PM - Sep 19, 2023
‘“Literature-based discovery” involves analysing existing scientific literature, using Chatgpt-style language analysis, to look for new hypotheses, connections or ideas that humans may have missed.’ 🤓
10:07 AM - Sep 17, 2023
This is a great opportunity for timely and meaningful work for someone!
apply.workable.com
Director, ClimateWorks Food and Agriculture Program - ClimateWorks Foundation
About the organizationClimateWorks Foundation is a global organization committed to our mission: to end the climate crisis by amplifying the power of philanthropy. Since our founding in 2008, we have awarded over $1 billion in grants to more than 500 o...
06:19 AM - Aug 07, 2023
Possible key to feeding the world: perennial food crops that can be harvested more than once.
11:07 AM - Jul 22, 2023
Bears repeating: *16-year-old employee.*
amp.cnn.com
Mississippi poultry processing plant: A 16-year-old has died, county coroner says | CNN
A 16-year-old employee died Friday at a Mississippi chicken processing plant, a county official said. Mar-Jac Poultry said the teen died from injuries suffered in what it described as an “accident” in an emailed statement to CNN.
10:49 AM - Jul 19, 2023
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“Our food system is global, There are growing risks of simultaneous major crop losses in different regions in the world, which will affect food availability and prices. If you’re wealthy enough, you can get inside and put the air conditioning on. But natural and farmed ecosystems can’t do that.”
08:32 AM - Jul 21, 2023
01:49 PM - Jul 23, 2023
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“#Harvard Scholar Who Studies Honesty Is Accused of Fabricating Findings.”
“#Harvard Scholar Who Studies Honesty Is Accused of Fabricating Findings.”
10:16 AM - Jun 24, 2023
“Melissa Nelson, a professor of Indigenous sustainability in the School of Sustainability, is the co-principal investigator for Arizona State University. She said the grant will provide $4,114,625 in scholarship support for master’s and bachelor’s students and $838,320 in paid internships.”
news.asu.edu
ASU partnership earns $18M through USDA NextGen food systems grant | ASU News
Arizona State University, in partnership with other universities and nonprofits, was awarded an $18 million NextGen grant by the United States Department of Agriculture to directly support future leaders of our food systems. Nearly $5 million will be directed to ASU’s School of Sustainability studen..
10:28 PM - Jun 24, 2023
In a new interview for @mongabay I speak with an author about a top #climatechange solution: agroforestry.
One other benefit of growing useful trees among annual crops?
Edible leaves:
https://news.mongabay.com/2023/02/trees-with-edible-leaves-can-boost-human-nutrition-new-book-free-d...
One other benefit of growing useful trees among annual crops?
Edible leaves:
https://news.mongabay.com/2023/02/trees-with-edible-leaves-can-boost-human-nutrition-new-book-free-d...
12:27 PM - Feb 16, 2023
Sustainable agriculture via trees is possible, tasty, and increasingly supported by the US government
Here's something I republished recently at Civil Eats that shares the important details: https://civileats.com/2022/11/03/with-new-federal-funding-has-agroforestrys-moment-arrived/
Here's something I republished recently at Civil Eats that shares the important details: https://civileats.com/2022/11/03/with-new-federal-funding-has-agroforestrys-moment-arrived/
12:18 PM - Mar 13, 2023
“The Supreme Court on Thursday upheld a 1978 law aimed at keeping Native American adoptees with their tribes and traditions, handing a victory to tribes that had argued that a blow to the law would upend the basic principles that have allowed them to govern themselves.”
10:49 AM - Jun 15, 2023
“Injuries, deaths, and illnesses from these jobs are not just part of the business, but the result of deliberate decisions by CEOs, hell-bent on saving pennies as they rake in millions on the backs of their workers.”
05:31 AM - Jun 16, 2023
