Ethanol/Grunwald 2: What Does an Acre Produce?
Farming, ethanol and the economics of living landscapes — essay 2 of 4 Thorsten Arnold is an environmental scientist and…
Ethanol/Grunwald 1: Michael Grunwald Is Right About Ethanol. But What Actually Spares the Land?
What Does an Acre Produce? Farming, ethanol and the economics of living landscapes — essay 1 of 4 Sep 29,…
Ethanol blog series: Farming, ethanol and the economics of living landscapes
Thorsten Arnold is an environmental scientist and farmer in Grey County, Ontario, working with the National Farmers Union on…
We Bet Everything on Farmer Heroes. That Was a Mistake.
Our best ecological farmers are burning out and selling up. The answer is not a braver hero. Over the past…
Agroecology Lost the Narrative—and Then Lost the Budget
Why Canada’s food-security strategy barely sees ecological farming—and what the agroecological field must build next Dr. Thorsten Arnold Abstract
Artificial Scarcity: Overproduction, Demand Management, and the Ecological Cost of Stabilizing Commodity Agriculture
For more than a century, North American agriculture has lived inside the wrong story about scarcity. The public story…
From Symptoms to Systems: What Participating in a Narrative Network Looks Like in Practice
This blog puts a practical side to my previous blog on “Beyond Production Narrative: Reclaiming Landscapes as Commons”. Leaders…
Beyond Production Narrative: Reclaiming Landscapes as Commons
It is easy to underestimate how culture changes. Not because it moves slowly—though it often does—but because culture change…
Empathy as Wedge: How Care Became Comfort — and Why It’s Tearing at Western Politics
In recent years, empathy has moved from a personal virtue to a political litmus test….
Why Climate Change Can Make Winter Driving More Dangerous
This is the first of several posts on hedgerow removal, and how it makes living in rural Ontario increasingly…
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