Welcome to the 122nd Carnival of the Green. Last week's Carnival was hosted at Conserve Plastic Bags, and now, here we are at Agroblogger. After reading through the submissions, I became aware that so much of what is addressed by the green movement is our relationship to the material world. Considering environmentalism is [...]

We are constantly on the verge of another breakthrough. An information revolution. A nano-world. We transformed. We are on the verge of colonizing space. We shall go to Mars, we shall go beyond, we shall conquer the universe, or we shall go extinct trying. It seems irresponsible that we should do [...]

The authoritarian mind boxes itself into a corner. Knowing the world as it is supposed to be, it views everything, Nature, society, and culture, through the prism of pre-defined rules and conditions, forcing the facts to conform to its concept of reality. In all of us there is [...]

The concept of a "photosynthetic ceiling" was first introduced in Jared Diamond's book Collapse. Though Diamond certainly did not pioneer the idea, as far as I can tell he was the first to use the easily digestible term "photosynthetic ceiling", often referred to in other studies as human appropriation of terrestrial [...]

In a dialog between blogger Marcelino Fuentes and myself, sparked by a recent post on NAFTA, I have found myself to be in complete disagreement with Marcelino's conclusions. He argues that cheap, imported corn is a boon to Mexican consumers, and that our grandchildren should be willing to pay for our [...]