(Cover image credit: Calm the Farm)On this website, I have written how the hydroxyl radical, derived from water vapour in the presence of ultraviolet light (UV), oxidises methane. This is simplified but essentially correct, but I went on to claim that the quantum of hydroxyl radicals produced in a pastoral setting is sufficient to oxidise … Continue reading Methane, did I get it wrong?
Every day across Northland, thousands of students sit down to a free lunch. What’s on the plate tells a much bigger story about who we are and who we could become. Approximately 120 schools get lunches via the Ministry of Education’s Kai Ora, Kai Ako programme. Of these 53 schools manage their own lunches, 54 … Continue reading Why the Way We Feed Our Kids Matters for Climate and Community
I was born in 1956, a year after Victor Lebow proclaimed the gospel of consumption. Our enormously productive economy demands that we make consumption our way of life, that we convert the buying and use of goods into rituals, that we seek our spiritual satisfaction, our ego satisfaction, in consumption.… We need things consumed, burned … Continue reading From consumers to citizens
In September 2025 the Food and Land Use Coalition published Re-WIRE Agri-Food Value Chains. The report presents a framework to map risks and opportunities across major commodity value chains (e.g. beef, soy, cocoa), showing how climate, regulatory, financial, and human rights pressures are reshaping agrifood systems, and offering pathways for more resilient, regenerative supply chains. … Continue reading Agri-Food value chains
This article, first published 14 July by Anastassia Makarieva, reveals some of the early science consistent with the biotic pump. Anastassia and her colleague, the late Victor Gorshov of the Petersberg Nuclear Physics Institute developed the biotic pump theory, critical to a more nuanced understanding of atmospheric and water cycle dynamics. It is published here … Continue reading Biotic Pump Miscellaneous: Jean-André Deluc, Heinrich Hertz, Meteorological Crosswinds, and the Drinking Bird
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