“Occupy the Farm” coalition takes over land tract near Berkeley to feed local...
By Jeff Conant / AlterNet Invoking the spirit of international peasant farmer movements La Via Campesina and Brazil’s Movimento Sem Terra, hundreds of people entered a five-acre plot of land at the...
View ArticleNew study finds that biodiversity in the tropics has declined 61% since 1970
By Jeremy Hance / Mongabay In 48 years wildlife populations in the tropics, the region that holds the bulk of the world’s biodiversity, have fallen by an alarming 61 percent, according to the most...
View ArticleAmazon in dire threat as Brazil finalizes forest bill shaped by lobbyists for...
By Vincent Bevins / Los Angeles Times The Brazilian government is pressing forward with controversial legislation that critics say will lead to widespread destruction of the Amazon rain forest. After...
View ArticleMax Wilbert: We Choose to Speak
By Max Wilbert / Deep Green Resistance Great Basin I’m writing this at 68 miles per hour in the left lane of I-5. The freeway is 8 lanes wide here, a laceration running north and south for 1500 miles....
View ArticleBREAKDOWN: Industrial Agriculture
By Joshua Headley / Deep Green Resistance New York In no other industry today is it more obvious to see the culmination of affects of social, political, economic, and ecological instability than in the...
View ArticleAbandoned Russian farmland soaks up 50 million tons of carbon every year
By John Upton / Grist When the USSR collapsed, the communal farming systems that helped feed the union’s citizens collapsed with it. Farmers abandoned 1 million acres of farmland and headed into the...
View ArticleMax Wilbert: Plows and Carbon: The Timeline of Global Warming
By Max Wilbert / Deep Green Resistance Great Basin In June 1988, climatologist and NASA scientist James Hansen stood before the Energy and Natural Resources Committee in the United States Senate. The...
View ArticleFilm Review: Open Sesame: The Story of Seeds
By Norris Thomlinson / Deep Green Resistance Hawai’i Open Sesame examines the importance of seeds to humans as the genesis of nearly all our domesticated foods. It details the tremendous loss in...
View ArticleStudy finds agriculture and deforestation accelerate soil erosion 100 times...
By Joshua E. Brown / University of Vermont A new study shows that removing native forest and starting intensive agriculture can accelerate erosion so dramatically that in a few decades as much soil is...
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Lierre Keith: The Girls and the Grasses
Captured in a test tube, blood may look like a static liquid, but it’s alive, as animate and intelligent as the rest of you. It also makes up a great deal of you: of your 50 trillion cells, one-quarter...
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