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Posts tagged ‘conservation’

Allan Savory on climate change

January 6th, 2010

Allan Savory of the Holistic Management Institute spoke recently in Ireland…the full video sat in my browser for a couple of weeks until the holiday madness subsided. Things have calmed down a bit, finally. Here’s an exerpted version

Allan Savory – EXTRACTS – Keeping Cattle: cause or cure for climate crisis? from Feasta on [...]

Carbon farms

December 16th, 2009

With the Copenhagen climate talks stuttering along, it seems like past time to throw in some quick comments
The effect of livestock on greenhouse gas emissions are often overrated, if not entirely exaggerated
Pasture is part of the solution to the carbon issue
Some farms are doing it right
And the systems exist to fix the problem
OK, seriously, I [...]

Interviews

November 16th, 2009

Our friend Clare was interviewed on KBOO recently along with Joel Salatin…quite a coup. I found it especially interesting to hear Joel talk about the massive gullies that were on his land when his family arrived there, since we are dealing with similar legacies of past land abuses.
They talk about land, farm [...]

GIS, farming, and subsidies

April 16th, 2007

Here’s a pretty interesting article from the European Space Agency: Satellite images aid implementation of agricultural reforms
This is one of those applications of remote sensing and GIS that I have mixed feelings about. As a guy sitting at a computer, it’s pretty cool, being able to get so much information about a location with [...]


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