What is our relationship towards the environment and why should we care about it?
In the way we have come to use the automobile, I think we have lost many things - clean air, health, nature, green spaces, and a little bit of our soul. This is my call for us to banish mass private ownership of automobiles from our cities.
We need a change in our culture to enable us to live in an environmentally attuned way, here are my ideas on how we need to change
Here are some of the changes we all need to make in our lives to stop being footsoldiers in the war against the natural world
I'm planning on writing a book at some point, so this is a place to dump some ideas for what I will talk about. From this, I will probably flesh the chapters out into a blog, but the uncertainty about whether it is good or important gets in the way of things.
The animals in the human food system are one of the major contributors to greenhouse gas emissions. A lot of different studies have come up with different figures as to what percentage of emissions are attributable to livestock; here I discuss them in the context of the world and Australia specifically.
In only a short time, Australia has been radically changed by European settlement. This is an introduction into the main problems we face.
...used declassified Soviet Ministry of Fishing reports to find that one Soviet factory ship had told the International Whaling Commission during the 1960s that it [sic] had killed 152 humpback and 156 blue whales. In fact the ship had taken 7,207 humpbacks and 1,433 blue whales and illegally killed 717 right whales, a species protected by the whaling commission since the 1930s
Feeding the world without devouring the planet
In Regenesis, George Monbiot details how the modern global food system is not only creating the conditions for its own collapse, but undermining the entire fabric of the living world. Many books on 'food sustainability' have sounded the alarm. What's different in Regenesis is its refusal to indulge in comforting...