Our excrement is a natural, renewable and sustainable resource – if only we can overcome our visceral disgust of it
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Our excrement is a natural, renewable and sustainable resource – if only we can overcome our visceral disgust of it
We are on the cusp of the biggest economic transformation, of any kind, for 200 years. While arguments rage about plant- versus meat-based diets, new technologies will soon make them irrelevant. Before long, most of our food will come neither from animals nor plants, but from unicellular life. After 12,000 years of feeding humankind, all farming ex... See more
Georgie Monbiot • Lab-grown food is about to destroy farming – and save the planet | George Monbiot
Certainly, the affluent world—given its wealth, technical capabilities, high level of per capita consumption and the concomitant level of waste—can take some impressive and relatively rapid decarbonization steps (to put it bluntly, it should do with using less energy of any kind). But that is not the case with the more than 5 billion people whose e
... See moreVaclav Smil • How the World Really Works: The Science Behind How We Got Here and Where We're Going
Our Earth is a plentiful place – it generates an abundance of forests and fish and crops every year. It is also remarkably resilient, as it not only reproduces these things as we use them, it absorbs and processes our waste too: our emissions, our chemical run-off, and so on. But in order for the planet to maintain these capacities, we can only tak
... See moreJason Hickel • Less is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World
And how will we deal with unfolding climate change? There is now a widespread consensus that we need to do something to prevent many highly undesirable consequences, but what kind of action, what sort of behavioral transformation would work best? For those who ignore the energetic and material imperatives of our world, those who prefer mantras of g
... See moreVaclav Smil • How the World Really Works: The Science Behind How We Got Here and Where We're Going
Farmers can exploit the resulting composted organic matter as crop fertilizer.
Scientific American Editors • Battling Drought: The Science of Water Management
For the average American, the daily flows of materials (other than water) total more than twenty times a person’s body weight, nearly all of it waste.