Milk alt lab Imagindairy gets $13M seed funding
Imagindairy imagine a future of milk without udders and methane gas. Using fermentation, the company creates the same kind of milk protein found in cow milk but without the animal.
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Slow Food rallies against fake meat and techno fixes at COP26
The same old corporate solutions of a tech fix such as hydroponics and fake meat (see Leonardo Dicaprio and meatballs) will not save us from climate change.
Rewilding the Scottish highlands
Rewilding is where nature goes back to where it belongs, wild and free. Massive efforts have started to rewild Europe and then the world. Are you listening?
Forging a true Nature’s Path with regenerative agriculture: interview with Arjan Stephens of Nature’s Path
Today we speak with Arjan about the business his parents started, Nature’s Path, and how his company is shepherding the the food industry into the path of regenerative agriculture.
Prepping Lifestyle – A Complete Walkthrough
Prepping for beginners can be overwhelming, but if you decide to be one, here are some of the things a prepper must have:
Don’t forget us in the mountains
A joint study found that mountain ecosystems are becoming increasingly fragile, under pressure from changes to land use and climate, overexploitation, pollution, demographic shifts and other factors which threaten livelihoods and food security.
Are steak growers on Mars out to lunch?
Aleph Farms creates non GMO steak by cultivating and replicating bovine cells in the lab. The company has started building its BioFarm but it's not the only way to make our food chain more sustainable.
Getting cadmium out of my chocolate through the roots
Simran Sethi is a writer and activist who writes about protecting food we love like chocolate and wine. Scientists too are working to food we love safer through more sustainable agricultural practices.
How CBD companies can be more sustainable
Regenerative agriculture, like the proposed Hydropolis in Egypt, is one way to green the CBD and hemp industry.
Regenerative agriculture the solution, says Woody Harrelson
Building on what was before now, a new film narrated by Woody Harrelson offers a solution to the pickle we are in - or the pickle we think we are in. Regenerative agriculture.
Ancient carbon farming in Saudi Arabia
The Al Baydha project: a piece of Saudi Arabian desert is brought back to thriving life through ancient/innovative water conservation, and plenty of grit.
Goats – your new firefighting friends
Now, a new Israeli study has explored different ways to expand the use of this simple and ecological practice and to encourage goat grazing in Israel. Goats contribute to fire prevention by eating the excess vegetation in areas where plant growth is dense and scrubby (such as forests), making it more difficult for fires to spread. […]
Farmer’s everywhere: download the UN guide on fighting soil erosion
Wind, rain and industrial farming techniques accelerates soil erosion and can be mitigated before the world faces calamitous losses in terms of agricultural yields and critical ecosystem functions. “The negative impacts of soil erosion are ever more evident and the need to work jointly ever more urgent,” FAO Deputy Director-General, Climate and Natural Resources, Maria […]
Islamic Gardens Start a Green Muslim Movement
Can gardens really help promote environmentally friendly behaviour amongst the Muslim community? Mark Bryant from Cardiff University who researches Islam and gardens, says they can There’s nothing like being with nature to help clear your mind and when the weather is as lovely as it has been recently, who can resist spending a couple of […]
Tal Ya Water Irrigation Trays Make Water from Dew
When I wrote this article years ago I was excited about small ideas that could improve agriculture. But there is a big but: Tal Ya trays are made from a non-renewable resource: plastic. Plastic leaches into the soil and eventually groundwater.
Organic coffee in Tel Aviv
Tel Aviv, for those who haven't had the pleasure of visiting the city, is a city of coffee drinkers and cafes. (Some would say bums and people who don't work in the middle of the day... but we say coffee drinkers and cafes.) It is not unusual to step out in the middle of a work day and spot people happily sitting out on sidewalk cafes drinking some form of coffee drink.