by Evan Dwan | Aug 31, 2021 | News |
Natural cycles in the warming and cooling of the earth and other events have led to five mass extinctions, the last of which occurred 65 million years ago with the end of the dinosaurs. Six million years ago, early humans emerged, with the rise in human civilisation...
by Evan Dwan | Aug 31, 2021 | News |
If a farmer is struggling to make a living from farming alone, she is vulnerable. But if she uses her farm as part of a local tourism service she has more ‘insurance’ and so is more resilient. In Africa, for example, many communities who traditionally relied on...
by Evan Dwan | Aug 31, 2021 | News |
A system with many parts is generally more resilient that a system with few parts. Diversity is key to health. If you have lots of different parts of a system that can do the same job, if one fails, you have a back-up. In the case of food, having a wide range of food...
by Evan Dwan | Aug 31, 2021 | News |
In 1977, scientist James Black delivered a presentation to Exxon executives called ‘the greenhouse effect’. In it he gave evidence that the carbon dioxide released during the burning of fossil fuels is warming the planet. This warming, he revealed, will eventually...
by Evan Dwan | Aug 28, 2021 | News |
In the hunter-gatherer world, humans and animals, rocks and rivers, trees and plants are all seen as being connected. Even those who have passed away – the ancestors – are understood to be deeply connected to the world. All these parts of the world are not separate...
