Archive for the 'Agriculture' Category
Wednesday, February 20th, 2008
A provocative title, indeed, but the reality is a bit more practical. The tool in this photo is a castrator, for mules, horses, donkeys, and bulls...am I missing anything? No, not humans, not in this day and age, at least.
This is an interesting tool, it may be something that is [...]
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Thursday, January 10th, 2008
Bill Mollison has said: "A crisis is brought on by people who don't want to do something for themselves...and people who want to control others, talk about Peak Oil and crisis because everyone else is panicking".
This is a nice definition of crisis. Undoubtedly, crisis is a human-made phenomenon. In Bolivia, "crisis" is a [...]
Posted in Development, Environment, Bolivia, Agriculture | No Comments »
Friday, August 17th, 2007
Last year an article in the Economist pointed out some of the complexities and contradictions within the organic, Fair Trade, local food movement. The article is well written and provocative, but is it accurate? My attention was particularly drawn to statements made my Norman Borlaug, father of the [...]
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Wednesday, August 15th, 2007
A quick technorati search this morning gave me a general idea of an issue that is on many people's minds: agriculture is responsible for a large percentage of greenhouse gas emissions. Just have a look here, here, here or here...four different bloggers posting independently of one another, on the [...]
Posted in Environment, Global Warming, Agriculture | No Comments »
Sunday, July 29th, 2007
After hearing story after story about the therapeutic and life-changing effects of gardening on the mentally challenged, I couldn't help but notice a pattern. It's more like the pattern noticed me, and asked me to write about it. On a recent broadcast of This American Life, Veronica Chater tells the story of her developmentally [...]
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