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A kit designed to quickly and cheaply turn petrol cars into hybrid vehicles has won the prestigious James Dyson Award and could one day help cut Australia’s transport emissions. Continue reading →
From the Agriland website:
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New Zealand’s Environmental Protection Authority (EPA) has approved a feed additive to reduce methane emissions in livestock. Continue reading →
Following on from last week’s heat wave stories comes an article from The Conversation, dated 23 June 2023:
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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 →
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 →
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 →
Today we’re going to discuss regeneration in particular regeneration of the soil and ecosystems. Over the last 50 to 75 years, basically since the second world war we’ve gone through a period of destruction. In effect a faustian bargain in which we gave up 1% of our topsoil every year in return for production returns.
We did this by using chemicals: chemical fertilizers, chemical pesticides and herbicides and fungicides and it worked. There were lots of famines and people starving in the 1970s. A lot of the techniques developed with chemical inputs saved many people, kept them alive. But the cost! That bill is coming due and we need to pay for it now. If we wait, the cost will be so much higher. Continue reading →
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The World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) has warned that a warming climatic event in the coming months, combined with human-induced climate change, will have far reaching repercussions for health, food security, water management and the environment. Continue reading →
From Politico.eu comes an opinion piece by Jo Swinson, a former LDP leader in the UK. The piece is entitled: Mainstream economics is lost, and the price is political chaos Continue reading →
From a piece on Agriland by Aisling O’Brien on the 4th of May 2023:
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Irish wind farms provided 35% of the country’s electricity last month, according to figures from Wind Energy Ireland. Continue reading →
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Surging renewable energy output has pushed fossil fuel-fired generation down to record low levels in Australia’s biggest electricity grid, triggering another big fall in wholesale prices. Continue reading →