by Evan Dwan | Sep 7, 2021 | News |
In 1977, scientist James Black delivered a presentation to Exxon executives called ‘the greenhouse effect’. Black gave evidence that the carbon dioxide released during the burning of fossil fuels was warming the planet. This warming, he revealed, will eventually pose...
by Evan Dwan | Sep 3, 2021 | News |
Facing the challenge of the climate crisis fundamentally involves creating not just change but transformation. We are going to need to change the way we eat, farm, travel and how we power and heat our homes. However, a lot of damage has already been done and so the...
by Evan Dwan | Sep 3, 2021 | News |
A project called ‘Framing climate justice’ describes the ‘story’ of climate justice as follows. Climate change is real and is already happening; the cause of climate change is exploitative systems like capitalism and colonialism; the changing climate increases the...
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...
