⛴️ No more trawling in Greek marine parks
🌞 California runs on sun (for a while)
🌳 Less deforestation in Brazil
🌽 More plant-based eating in Europe
and also
🍁 200 Canadian islands returned to owners
🌪️Wind power growth of 117GW in 54 countries
👩🏽🌾 Caribbeans turning seaweed into fertilizer
🐟 Removed 487 dams reconnecting rivers in Europe
🫱🏻🫲🏼 Wind park in Scotland owned by the people
🏫 Initiative in UK fitting schools with solar
“We are forced to block the road, because we are poisoned, everything is polluted, we can’t grow vegetables anymore,” Radivojevic said this month as she stood at the blockade.
80% of Welsh dairy farms inspected, 69% of English ones, 60% in Scotland and 50% in Northern Ireland breaching regulations.
Guardians of the countryside? No care for the weak standards, no enforcement, pressure on farmers to cut the cost of dairy products to unsustainable levels by supermarkets… It all adds up.
It would seem for all their claims about being stewards of the land & working with the environment, a significant proportion of framers are contributing to the pollution of our rivers....
I have some sympathy with milk farmers who have been struggling against a market rigged by the supermarkets, but equally this will win them few friends... and nor should it; this really is sh*tting on your own doorstep (figuratively & literally!)
The title and the guy telling the story pretend it's all just farm in & outputs, but quite at the start he mentions that he starts with food scraps from local restaurants... So, that's external input in my book.
The other external input is all the machinery and the fossil fuels that are used.
To be more resilient in an uncertain/collapsing future scenario these are not the type of solutions that can be sustained.
I'm all in favor of composting and producing food (yourself) and as locally as possible, but please don't lie to yourself about the degree of 'sustainability' when you are working like this, even if it involves composting stuff yourself.
Reconnecting with Nature: How Permaculture Helps Earth to Thrive 🌍
In today’s fast-paced world, where concrete jungles dominate landscapes and industrial agriculture strains ecosystems, the concept of permaculture stands as a beacon of hope. Permaculture, derived from "permanent agriculture" or "permanent culture," offers a holistic approach to sustainable living by…
Farmers who have their entire cropping land submerged underwater have found they are ineligible for a government flooding hardship fund – because their farms are too far from a major river. #Floods#ukpolitics#farming
Seen in infrared, our goslings and ducklings run around in the dark, exploring their brooder, eating, and drinking.
赤外線で見ると、ガチョウの子やアヒルの子が暗闇の中で走り回り、雛を探したり、食べたり飲んだりしているのがわかります。 #farming
'[University of Oregon] findings indicate that commercial agriculture — which is currently dominated by farms that grow one crop type — has the potential to harm bee health. Installing strips of diverse vegetation alongside crops can serve as alternative resources that protect pollinators from infectious diseases, the researchers said.'
Looks like food inflation having dropped, may be about to accelerate again as yields drop in UK farming after 18 months of record breaking wet weather...
However, if this does drive inflation up again, I'm sure the BoE will be trying to find some way to blame this not on saturated fields, but on 'greedy' workers....
In the real world, this may well compound Brexit related import issues in the next year or so....
COOPESAFRA is a Popular Solidarity Economy Cooperative for Family Farming, Reforestation and Agroecology that aims to produce agroecological products for consumption and commercialization by its members.