Von Roenn Permaculture Solutions

11/08/2024

https://www.greenqueen.com.hk/what-is-regenerative-agriculture-sustainable-greenwashing-meat-dairy/

As climate disasters intensify, Big Meat and Dairy are ramping up efforts to divert attention from their major role in climate change.

10/30/2024

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20241028-lost-cities-how-maya-ruins-have-withstood-the-test-of-time

Ruins of cities keep turning up in the forests of central America. How have these structures stayed standing for millennia?

10/23/2023

...and oyster beds!

Nature Knows Best !

10/04/2023

https://www.resilience.org/stories/2023-10-03/the-anthropocene-no-were-actually-entering-the-ecocene/

If humanity is to survive, it will have to learn how to get in sync with natural systems, culturally and economically, and actively contribute to the flourishing of earthly and human systems in tandem.

09/22/2023

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The desert-dwelling Namaqua chameleon has a pretty neat trick – it changes skin color to stay cool when outdoor temperatures rise, and stay warm when they drop. An experimental new coating could one day do the same thing for our homes.

08/18/2023

The tiny Central American country of Costa Rica is known as a green paradise. But climate change is hitting the country in a multitude of ways, including increasing its risk from storms and natural disasters. Nowhere is the shifting planet being felt more than in some of the country’s most iconic ...

05/03/2023

The secret is this special ingredient.

03/12/2023

Oyster beds used to provide this service. How silly.

NEPTUNE, N.J. (AP) — Coastal communities around the world are adding a tropical twist to shoreline protection, courtesy of the humble coconut. From the sands of the Jersey Shore to the islands of Indonesia, strands of coconut husk, known as coir, are being incorporated into shoreline protection pr...

03/07/2023

The unintended consequences of being cut off from the world.

02/18/2023

I could get behind this...

Representatives of Minnesota's Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party introduced bills to prohibit sales of non-electric yard equipment and ice resurfacing machines such as Zambonis.

02/10/2023

With concerns about war, drought and the environment raising new worries about food supplies, the UN's Food and Agricultural Organization has christened 2023 as the "Year of Millets" — grains that have been cultivated in all corners of the globe for millennia but have been largely pushed aside.

01/31/2023

Great Zimbabwe was the first major city in southern Africa, home to an estimated 18,000 people at its peak.