1. 18 Jun


    erland: This is the Critical Decade.

    erland:

    This is the Critical Decade.

     

  2. 17 Jun


    climate-changing: thenonprophet: How You See Things great depressingly true…

    climate-changing:

    thenonprophet:

    How You See Things

    great

    depressingly true…

     

  3. 14 Jun


    climate-changing: Great cartoon reblogged this before, it’s likely I’ll reblog it again.

    climate-changing:

    Great cartoon

    reblogged this before, it’s likely I’ll reblog it again.

    (Source: astrodidact, via sabelmouse)

     

  4. 12 Jun


    (Source: princess-being, via sabelmouse)

     

  5. 9 Jun



    Peak soil: industrial civilisation is on the verge of eating itself New research on land, oil, bees and climate change points to imminent global food crisis without urgent action

    sabelmouse:

    Nafeez Blog on Peak soil : Wind causing soil erosion in fields, Suffolk Sandlings

    Wind causing soil erosion in agricultural fields, Suffolk, on 18 April 2013. Photograph: Alamy
    it’s of course not the wind that’s causing the soil erosion but agriculture laying bare  the soil .

    “When we factor into this picture soil erosion, land degradation, oil prices, bee colony collapse, and population growth, the implications are stark: industrial civilisation is on the verge of eating itself - if we don’t change course, this decade will go down in history as the beginning of the global food apocalypse.”

     

  6. 4 Jun



    And a big part of reversing soil decline is carbon, the same element that is overheating the planet.

    “Keeping and putting carbon in its rightful place” needs to be the mantra for humanity if we want to continue to eat, drink and combat global warming, concluded 200 researchers from more than 30 countries.
    “There is no life without soil,” said Anne Glover, chief scientific advisor to the European Commission.

    — 

    Peak Water, Peak Oil … Now, Peak Soil?

    “It takes half a millennia to build two centimetres of living soil and only seconds to destroy it,” Glover said.

    (via stopkillingourworld)

    (via sabelmouse)

     

  7. 3 Jun


    climate-changing:

    Awesome

    (Source: thecoffeeimp)

     

  8. 27 May


    thenonprophet: Extinct Creatures

    thenonprophet:

    Extinct Creatures

    (via climate-changing)

     

  9. 27 May


    Graeme Sait on the importance of Humus to soil health, & thereby the health of the planet.

    Key takeaways:

    • The use of industrial agrochemicals has killed 90% of the micro-ornaisms that build humus.  
    • Humus stores & cycles carbon, taking CO2 out of the atmosphere & pumping it into the soil & thereby into biomass.

    What can we do?

    1. Buy from farmers who practice regenerative farming (well managed pastured animals & organic crops).
    2. Pay carbon credits to primary producers who work to increase humus.
    3. Compost.
    4. (re-)Inoculate soils with critical humus-building organisms to replace that 90% we have destroyed.
    5. Legislate to protect those organisms by banning the herbicides & pesticides that kill them.
    6. Ban the burning of crop residues - the ash from all that bio-matter should go back into the soil, not waft away on the breeze.
    7. Every nitrogen based fertiliser should contain a carbon source.
    8. All gardens & farms should be using humates to help rebuild the humus.
     
     

  10. 27 May


    Tony Lovell talking about carbon cycling, & how important bio-diversity is.