Every drop counts
Let’s make Algeria a model country, where every drop of water is honored, captured, used, and shared.Let every drop become a promise of life.Let every drop count.
Food & Water
Logging proposal threatens Walla Walla water supply
We call upon the Mayor, the City of Walla Walla and its elected and appointed representatives to require the USFS to provide an Environmental Impact Statement and at least some independent analysis to consider and plan for the foreseeable outcomes to our water before approving the Forest Service’s shortsighted plan.
Greening the North African Desert: Between Regenerative Dreams and Realities to Be Transformed
The Sahara has not spoken its last word. It is only waiting to come back to life. It is up to us to rekindle memory, spark the flame, and believe once again in the desert’s fertility.
Letter From The Farm | Community Farming in Ireland
Community owned farms may not be able to answer every question posed by a dysfunctional agri-food system, but they can offer insights and realistic alternatives to many of them.
A Roadmap for Renewable Phosphorus
Phosphorus is a critical resource underlying global agricultural production. This nutrient, a common component of commercial fertilizers, is essential for photosynthesis and the storage and transportation of energy in crops. This element is a critical component of global food security.
Finding Lights in a Dark Age – or, writing ἀποκάλυψις
We need to find ways to inhabit place and meta-place differently to the present, ways that are equal to the challenges of our times and what they’re revealing to us.
Be a gardener
Being alive to the real world around us, seeing the love and the connection and the magic, is all we need in life, it is all we want. It is the meaning of life.
Troubled Waters: How Microplastics Are Impacting Our Oceans and Our Health
Microplastic pollution is poisoning nearly everything on the planet—from the deepest parts of the ocean to inside the cells of living beings. In “Troubled Waters: How Microplastics Are Impacting Our Oceans and Our Health,” we’ll dive into this growing global crisis.
Algeria: Decolonizing the Mind, Liberating Water, Inventing the Future
Liberate water, liberate the land, liberate the mind — this is the triple revolution awaiting Algeria.
Energy transition: the end of an idea
Pretty much the last nail in the coffin for the idea that there’s going to be a smooth transition out of fossil fuels and into renewables that can rescue the existing high-energy global economy in anything like its present form comes courtesy of Jean-Baptiste Fressoz and his 2024 book More and More and More: An All-Consuming History of Energy.
What I’ve Learned from Chickens
Chickens are smart, emotional animals. They can decimate local insect populations, but they are resilient and courageous. They deserve our respect.
Letter From The Farm | All In A Day’s Tree Planting
We’re back with Martino Newcombe in the West of Ireland, where he reflects on a winter’s day of planting a shelter belt of native tree species. Not on his farm, but on that of his neighbour, a retired farmer, with the help of another neighbour – echoing the traditional Irish practice of helping each other out that is known as “meitheal”.