Article: Talk about climate change and you have to talk about agriculture

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Article: Talk about climate change and you have to talk about agriculture

Article: Talk about climate change and you have to talk about agriculture

Yet another story found out that yet another factor was underestimated by climate scientists: soil carbon loss due to agriculture. An estimated 133 billion (!!!) tons of carbon got from

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Article: 200 Environmentalists Were Murdered Last Year

Article: 200 Environmentalists Were Murdered Last Year

Big companies are waging a war against any effort to hold them accountable for what they do the the environment, for Nature, for the future. Environmental activism is increasingly criminalized

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Essay: On the personhood of plants

Essay: On the personhood of plants

Estimated reading time: 30 min. On the personhood of plants …and our relationship with them David B Lauterwasser “Here I stand in awe, deeply moved by the sheer beauty you

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Article: Primitive human lived much more recently

Article: Primitive human lived much more recently

Interesting details emerged about homo naledi, who apparently still lived in South Africa as recent as 200,000 – 300,000 years ago. That means he might have coexisted with homo sapiens.

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Essay: Hiking

Essay: Hiking

I want to live in the woods with predators. I don’t want to be the most dangerous animal in the woods when I go into them. I like knowing that

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Article: Why We Climb

Article: Why We Climb

The long read: The article below is the introduction to the eponymous book “Why We Climb”, which is already on our to-read list. The author, climber Chris Noble, attempts to

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Article: How to Decolonize the Permaculture Movement

Article: How to Decolonize the Permaculture Movement

Some good and important (and one misleading) point about permaculture as a movement. The author criticizes that permaculture is sometimes misused as a business (for those $2,000 permaculture courses) and

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Article: Evidence of Earliest Human Hunting Found

Article: Evidence of Earliest Human Hunting Found

Apparently there is now evidence supporting the claim that humans started hunting much earlier than previously thought. Archeological findings show that homo erectus already hunted 2 million years ago. This 

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Article: The Worst Mistake in the History of the Human Race

Article: The Worst Mistake in the History of the Human Race

This article is an exceptionally good example of a short summary of the main arguments against civilization and progress and for primitivism and tribalism. http://discovermagazine.com/1987/may/02-the-worst-mistake-in-the-history-of-the-human-race

Infographic: A Truish and Actual History of the World

Infographic: A Truish and Actual History of the World

A great and informative little graphic visualizing the history of modern humans (not the whole world) and the series of ever more complex and profound errors and mistakes we call

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