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According to totalitarian agriculture, cows may live but wolves must die. According to totalitarian agriculture, chickens may live but foxes must die. According to totalitarian agriculture, wheat may live but chinch bugs must die. Anything we eat may live, but anything that eats our food must die—and not merely on an ad hoc basis. Our posture is
... See moreDaniel Quinn • The Story of B (Ishmael Series Book 2)
Increasing degraded soil’s carbon content at plausible rates58 could absorb about as much carbon as all human activity emits.
Paul Hawken • Natural Capitalism
World Forum for Acoustic Ecology. More recently, the International Society of Ecoacoustics, which convened for the first time in June 2014 in Paris, changed the focus of that inquiry to the narrower concept of soundscape ecology.
Bernie Krause • Wild Soundscapes: Discovering the Voice of the Natural World, Revised Edition
Asterisk Magazine Issue 02 Food
‘Forest gardening’ is a prehistoric method of food production in many tropical areas. Robert Hart pioneered it in temperate climates and his work has been developed further by Patrick Whitefield and Martin Crawford, who runs the Agroforestry Research Trust.
Daniel Wahl • Designing Regenerative Cultures
it is far better to restore and maintain grazing by cattle and other animals on grasslands that typically coevolved with grazing animals and cannot remain healthy without them.
Paul Hawken • Natural Capitalism
I asked him what was on his bookshelf. J. I. Rodale. Sir Albert Howard. Aldo Leopold. Wes Jackson. Wendell Berry. Louis Bromfield. The classic texts of organic agriculture and American agrarianism.