Thursday, March 18th, 2010
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"The goal of life is living in agreement with nature."
- Zeno (335 – 264 BC)
As ecologists attempting to steer human civilisation back to a healthy relationship with the Earth, we benefit from understanding certain rules of nature, including the ‘Net Energy’ effect. (more…)
Tags: agriculture, corn, EROI, Net Energy, Peter Salonius, Pimentel, Richard Lee
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Friday, September 19th, 2008
On top of everything else we face in the global mess that industrialism has left us — crashing financial markets, ponzi scams passed off as economic theory, peak oil, disappearing forests, ocean dead zones — we also face a global soil crisis. Note these interesting developments regarding food production and arable land:
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Tags: agriculture, Ecology, permaculture, soil, wealth
Posted in Ecology | 4 Comments »
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