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S9 E1 Understanding the Basics: What is Regenerative Agriculture?

Welcome to the new season based ChangeUnderground Podcast. The theme, as always, is “Decarbonise the Air, Recarbonise the soil!” In this first dedicated season, I’m going back to take a deep look at the world of Regenerative Agriculture, its current state of play and where it might be heading. That being laid out, this episode, episode 1 of season 9, will cover the basics, the underlying principles and an overview of practices.

So without further ado… Continue reading →

Episode 345: Insurance

This is The ChangeUnderground for the 31st of July 2023.

I’m your host, Jon Moore

Decarbonise the Air, Recarbonise the Soil!

An anecdote to start the episode. A colleague at work asked to have a chat. Their story is instructive of what’s coming.

They’d received a letter from their home insurance provider of 16 years informing them that at the end of the current policy period they will no longer be able offer insurance for the property. Their reason being the property is a few metres above sea level and 100 odd metres from the coast and will become an unacceptable flooding risk in the next three years. Continue reading →

Episode 344: Movin’ Out… 

This is The ChangeUnderground for the 17th of July 2023.

I’m your host, Jon Moore

Decarbonise the Air, Recarbonise the Soil!

Following on from last week’s heat wave stories comes an article from The Conversation, dated 23 June 2023:

Quote:

If you take a plunge in the sea this winter, you might notice it’s warmer than you expect. And if you’re fishing off Sydney and catch a tropical coral trout, you might wonder what’s going on. Continue reading →

Episode 343: Cranking Up the Heat… 

This is The ChangeUnderground for the 10th of July 2023.

I’m your host, Jon Moore

Decarbonise the Air, Recarbonise the Soil!

And I’m back!

A month that’s just disappeared from my personal timeline. I hope all my listeners are well because it’s great to feel like I’ve got at least one foot in the land of the living. Thanks for your patience.

And what a month we’ve just lived through as a species. Continue reading →

Episode 342: 7 Ways to Kill Soil 

This is The ChangeUnderground for the 26th of June 2023.

I’m your host, Jon Moore

Decarbonise the Air, Recarbonise the Soil!

As I discussed last month with the new vision statement for the podcast and blog, “Decarbonise the air, recarbonise the soil.”

This week we continue our journey through the soil with a post from CHELSIESQUARED entitled: 7 Ways to Kill Soil Microbes: and why this is a bad idea….   Continue reading →

Epiosode 341: You Can Be The 100th Monkey?

This is the World Organic News for the week ending 12th of June 2023.

Jon Moore reporting!

Decarbonise the air, recarbonise the soil!

This week the focus is building big things from small. Let me explain.

Following on from the hundred monkeys idea discussed in Episode 189, I’ve come to realise the need for as many people as possible to know how to grow some food. My thinking goes like this:

If it took 100 monkeys to shift the monkey paradigm from eating raw spuds to eating salty raw spuds that had been washed in sea water, then the more people I can influence into growing some food, the point will come when our cultural paradigm will shift from consumption to production.  Continue reading →