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For decades, the international company Sterigenics had been using the compound ethylene oxide to fumigate medical devices such as catheters and surgical trays at its plant in Willowbrook, Illinois. But in 2016, the EPA published an updated risk assessment for the chemical, finding it to be 30 times more toxic for adults and 60 times more toxic for... See more
instagram.comWe’ve been the keystone species of ecological erosion, and now we must become the keystone species of ecological restoration.
Andrew Boyd • I Want a Better Catastrophe: Navigating the Climate Crisis with Grief, Hope, and Gallows Humor
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Richard Powers • The Overstory: A Novel
can get some idea of the untapped potential of agriculture by reading F. H. King’s fascinating 1911 book, Farmers of Forty Centuries; Or, Permanent Agriculture in China, Korea, and Japan, which explains how these regions sustained enormous populations for millennia on tiny amounts of land, without mechanization, pesticides, or chemical fertilizers.
... See moreCharles Eisenstein • Sacred Economics: Money, Gift, and Society in the Age of Transition
Resources: ‘On Guerrilla Gardening’ by Richard Reynolds⠀
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Enjoyed Alexander Harris' article on Guerrilla Gardening, check out Reynolds' book. The UK’s father of Guerrilla Gardening sets out his stall in this book, which is full of bellicose metaphors and botanical memories of genuinely home-grown... See more
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Being Salmon, Being Human: Encountering the wild in us and us in the wild
Formafantasma, Cambio - Serpentine Galleries, London
In 1864, American naturalist George Perkins Marsh published Man and Nature, the “fountainhead of the conservation movement”, as the American historian Lewis Mumfordwill later describe it.
Originally titled Man the Disturber of Nature ’s Harmonies — the... See more
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