Category Archives: Food & Farming

Fertilisers, soil health, biochar, regenerative agriculture, ocean farming, phosphorus, etc.

Shellenberger rabid – and I will gradually edit out my many references to his work as he has proved unreliable

Posted on 29 May, 2021 by Eclipse Now

Michael Shellenberger’s latest book is the last straw for me. I’m done referencing his work. If we can’t trust him to be professional and objective in his journalism about climate change science, especially when he is not a trained engineer, … Continue reading →

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While I love a steak, we need to eat more veggies.

Posted on 15 May, 2021 by Eclipse Now

This graph shows that land is only 29% of the surface of the earth, habitable land only 71% of the land (rest is glaciers and barren), and of that 50% is used for agriculture, 37% used for forests, and 11% … Continue reading →

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Regenerative agriculture is permaculture at the industrial scale!

Posted on 30 September, 2020 by Eclipse Now

It tells you to sell your sheep during a drought, and stops you getting into debt. It tells you how to manage your land so your ground-cover doesn’t blow away, so your land is immune to locust plagues, and so … Continue reading →

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“In the next 17 years, Sydney’s population is expected to grow by 1.5 million people”

Posted on 24 November, 2019 by Eclipse Now

Hang on, don’t we have a water crisis? A bushfire crisis? I mean, I’m convinced that with the right technology deployed we can feed a world of 10 billion, but don’t we have to deploy that first? And if ever … Continue reading →

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World now more middle class than poor

Posted on 16 December, 2018 by Eclipse Now

Interesting! Sept 2018 marks the point where (finally!) more of the world is wealthy than poor. I remember being told to refer to poor underdeveloped nations as the ‘2/3rd’s world’ because it was the majority. That has shifted somewhat. There’s … Continue reading →

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