Articles: Climate
How to Extend the Growing Season
Winter may be coming, but that doesn’t mean you should put away those tools just yet! Extend the growing season past the first frost with a few modifications.
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The Magic of Mini-Forests
“Hannah Lewis describes a gift to a despairing world…There may be no single climate solution that has a greater breadth of benefits than mini-forests…[and] can be done…
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The Winter Harvest Project
Four-season farmer Eliot Coleman strikes again with inspiration for all you cold-loving farmers out there! A master of extending the growing season, Eliot explains his strategies for…
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The Upstream Questions: What We Ask Of Science
“Climate change asks us questions that climate science cannot answer,” — Dougald Hine When it comes to climate change, it seems as if there are always new…
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A Conversation On Climate Change: Which Path Will We Take?
Dougald Hine has spent most of his life talking to people about climate change. And then one afternoon in the second year of the pandemic, he found…
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A Conversation with Paul Hawken
Paul Hawken is an environmentalist, entrepreneur, author, and activist who has dedicated his life to environmental sustainability and changing the relationship between business and the environment. He…
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A Call to Action on Climate, Farming, Food, and a Green New Deal
The following is an interview with Ronnie Cummins, author of Grassroots Rising, and originally appeared in the Chelsea Green 2020 Spring Journal. It has been adapted for the…
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On Foraging and Picking Wild Plants
Foraging for your own food limits your carbon footprint and helps to maintain the natural landscape. Done correctly, it reconnects us to nature while limiting our impact…
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Oil, Power, and War: Our Complicated History
When we reflect on the history of the world and the progress of human society, it’s incredible to think about where we started and where we are…
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What We Need To Achieve
With the climate crisis closing in, we need to consider what we need to do to make permanent, sustainable change for the better. We need a list…
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Mass Rebellion: When Common Sense Turns Into Rebellion
“Is Common Sense for the 21st Century the best hope we’ve got to prevent human extinction? Yes, I think it is.”— Dr. Alexandra Jellicoe Roger Hallam—leading environmental…
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Notes on Gull Watching and Trash Picking in the Anthropocene
“An important and entirely brilliant book. It’s a love letter to gulls and their charged relationship with humans, but it’s also a deep meditation on difficulty and…
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A New Perspective on Our Climate
Tourism, infrastructure, electricity. What do all these have in common? They’re impacted by global warming. We like to think of global warming as ocean temperatures rising and…
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How to Make Biochar
For something that looks like a lump of charcoal, biochar certainly has a great press agent. The subject of books, articles, blog posts, research papers, workshop presentations,…
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