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Persephone Market Garden’s path to regeneration

The professional agricultural community – government employees, extension workers, and academic researchers – are struggling with the question of…

THE ETHICS OF DEATH IN FARMING

Comment: This blog is part of a series on animals in agriculture. It is written in response to political activities…

Meat or plants for our diet? Beef or chicken? A case to look at reciprocity

Why we frame the diet question wrong, and why a vegan diet is only second-best. Michael Pollan offers the shortest…

Climate & the animal debate – toward common ground

Contents THE PROBLEMS WITH MODERN ANIMAL CULTURE. ANIMAL SUFFERING…..

A Manifesto for brutal truth in our RegenAg narrative

This blog is written as a think-piece for Regeneration advocates. It poses the question “What narrative is our movement…

A story of resilience, community, and gratitude

Resilience works differently at different scales – and…

How human activities “locally” impact our climate, sometimes at continental scale

This is the second blog of a four-blog series. The first one reviewed why our perception of “climate change’…

How climate change became narrowly focused on carbon dioxide

Why the Regenerative movement is sometimes at odds with the Climate Change…

Why is our world so blind to ways how landuse is changing our climate?

Global climate change is about greenhouse gases. When nowadays we hear the word “Climate Change”, we mostly think about the…

Institutional investors are degrading our agricultural landscapes – what’s to do?

This article summarizes what I believe to be the driver of…