Biodiversity
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Overfishing and More: Sea the Truth (video)
Background Sea the Truth is based on numerous scientific publications that examine the problems of seas and oceans. Below follows…
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Rashtriya Guni Mission – Promoting Traditional Medicinal Systems (India)
A mission to revive and promote traditional health care systems — Guni traditions — in India. Abstract Herbal medicine is…
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Ed Yong: Suicidal Wasps, Zombie Roaches and Other Parasite Tales (TED video)
We humans set a premium on our own free will and independence … and yet there’s a shadowy influence we…
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A One Way Street to Oblivion
As soon as an animal becomes extinct, a new bill proposes, it will be classified as “non-native”. Spoonbill (Photo ©…
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Scientific Research Condemns Neonicotinoid Pesticides: What More Will It Take?
Photo © Craig Mackintosh Last week, newly-published research (1) in the Nature journal links a type of pesticide whose use…
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Another Silent Spring?
Neonicotinoids appear to have devastating effects across the natural world: we need a global moratorium. Here’s our choice. We wait…
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Abode of the Clouds (North-east India)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0L63z__z9yY Narrated by film-maker and ecologist John D. Liu, “Abode of the Clouds” is about how local communities in the…
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Beaver Baiters
The government’s decision to capture England’s only free-living population is unjustified and irrational. An opinion poll in Scotland found that…
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The Hidden Horror of CCD (Colony Collapse Disorder)
At PermaEthos we are working hard to get our first flagship farm profitable and already thinking about the next few…
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Australia Coal Mining – We Had A Win But Still More Support Is Needed
At the eleventh hour, even as the coal miner’s dozers clawed and smashed their way through our precious local forest,…
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Vandana Shiva Keynote Speech – Food Otherwise Conference (Netherlands, February 2014)
World famous author and activist Vandana Shiva gave an inspiring speech at the Food Otherwise conference in Wageningen, Netherlands, on…
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A Gathering of Silverbacks: Age of Limits 2014
Whenever such large shifts in temperature occurred in Earth’s history, they were not gradual but came in lurches. Resilience is…
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