Slowing biodiversity loss is more than a desire, it is an imperative if we are to feed everyone well. The problem is that the ideas to slow extinction rates often involve a compromise with food production and other land...
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Slowing biodiversity loss by designating half the world as a nature reserve
Slowing biodiversity loss is more than a desire, it is an imperative if we are to feed everyone well. The problem is that the ideas to slow extinction rates often involve a compromise with food production and other land...
Urban Growth May Not Happen As Imagined
If the trend of the last 100 years continues, by 2050, three, out of four people will live in urban areas. This urban growth might not be a good thing.
Daydreamers die of thirst | how our evolutionary past shapes our discounting of the future
Imagine for a moment that you are in the mind and physically fit body of your ancestor somewhere on the African savanna 70,000 years ago. What happens next?
Comment | The graph that explains so much
Historians and anyone with half an eye on the past know that the world changed when abundant coal made industrial energy cheap, then natural gas for lighting, and again when oil replaced coal as the primary energy for...
Sustainability over ecological time
Sustainability is a slippery concept. The conventional definition "use without depletion for future generations" is a fantasy because of one challenge.
How biology, willpower and opportunity shape our diets
Do you eat when you're hungry? And when you're hungry, do you choose what you would like to eat or what you should eat or grab what happens to be in the fridge?
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Slowing biodiversity loss by designating half the world as a nature reserve
Slowing biodiversity loss is more than a desire, it is an imperative if we are to feed everyone well. The problem is that the ideas to slow extinction rates often involve a compromise with food production and other land...
Urban Growth May Not Happen As Imagined
If the trend of the last 100 years continues, by 2050, three, out of four people will live in urban areas. This urban growth might not be a good thing.
Daydreamers die of thirst | how our evolutionary past shapes our discounting of the future
Imagine for a moment that you are in the mind and physically fit body of your ancestor somewhere on the African savanna 70,000 years ago. What happens next?
Comment | The graph that explains so much
Historians and anyone with half an eye on the past know that the world changed when abundant coal made industrial energy cheap, then natural gas for lighting, and again when oil replaced coal as the primary energy for...
Sustainability over ecological time
Sustainability is a slippery concept. The conventional definition "use without depletion for future generations" is a fantasy because of one challenge.
How biology, willpower and opportunity shape our diets
Do you eat when you're hungry? And when you're hungry, do you choose what you would like to eat or what you should eat or grab what happens to be in the fridge?
The soil organic carbon debt
Emissions from global human land use are estimated 214 Gt C compared to 270 Gt C from fossil fuel combustion. A third of these land use emissions are lost from soil—a debt borrowed against our children's futures.
Why service crops are an intelligent investment
Farming was a circular family affair before the arrival of big agriculture with its input heavy production of mostly monoculture crops on fields the size of suburbs. And before that, everyone was close to nature. Will...