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Farming on Karst and Fractured Bedrock Aquifers: Challenges, Best Practices, and the Silurian Bedrock Performance Standard

Introduction Karst and Fractured Bedrock aquifers, characterized by their unique and permeable geological formations, present significant challenges for agricultural activities….

Drinking Water Contamination Devastated a Region: Lessons from Kewaunee County, Wisconsin

In the tranquil landscape of Kewaunee County,…

“Development Agriculture” and farming extremely vulnerable Karst aquifers

This blog was published in the newsletter of the National Farmers Union Grey County chapter. Thorsten Arnold, NFU-Grey Director. From…

Pastured goose – The most delicious strategy for ecosystem regeneration

Humans have domesticated geese for millennia, going back to ancient Mesopotamia about 3,000 BCE ago. Today, geese may be…

What is agroecology?

Introduction The Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations (FAO) summarizes Agroecology as “a holistic and integrated approach that…

Embedding the Living Landscapes Narrative in our Climate Change story

*Disclaimer – This blog reflects the current state of my knowledge. It does not reflect the opinion of any…

Maybe ChatGPT IS the better climate activist?!?

(I used bolt font instead of normal font. Everything else is original…

Is ethanol a good strategy to reduce Ontario’s greenhouse gas emissions?

As one strategy to reduce Ontario’s greenhouse gas emissions, the government has legislated to add corn-based ethanol to gasoline….

On the fallacy of over-simplifying our climate narrative.

And why the narrative that “carbon dioxide determines our climate”‘ is not only wrong, but also…

How Anastassia Makarieva challenges climate academics to behave like scientists.

Do all global climate models neglect land use impacts, because they rely on the same…