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“Everybody paddle the canoes together; bail and paddle, paddle and bail, and the shore will be reached.
E lauhoe mai na wa’a; i ke ka, i ka hoe; i ka hoe, i ke ka; pae aku i ka ‘aina.”
― Hawaiian proverb
Greek villagers' secret weapon: Growing their own food – Business Insider
KARITAINA, Greece (AP) — Ilias Mathes has protection against bank closures, capital controls and the slashing of his pension: 10 goats, some hens and a vegetable patch.If Greece's financial crisis deepens, as many believe it must, he can feed his children and...
Beyond the Perfect Drought: California’s Real Water Crisis by Glen MacDonald: Yale Environment 360
Water Crisis The record-breaking drought in California is not chiefly the result of low precipitation. Three factors – rising temperatures, groundwater depletion, and a shrinking Colorado River – mean the most populous U.S. state will face decades of water shortages...
Mass Extinction: It's the End of the World as We Know It
Guy McPherson is a professor emeritus of evolutionary biology, natural resources and ecology at the University of Arizona, and has been a climate change expert for 30 years. He has also become a controversial figure, due to the fact that he does not shy away from...
A Sustainable Earth Depends Upon an Indigenist Future | Dissident Voice
Indigenous Future Long prophesied by native thinkers, Earth is dying. The global ecological system is collapsing under the weight of industrial development. More ecosystems including the atmosphere have been lost and degraded than the biosphere can bear. Concurrently...
Food Independence Could Be a Matter of Survival for the U.S.’ Most Isolated State | TakePart
Hawaii imports 90 percent of what it eats at great environmental cost. Now ag activists seek to make ‘grown here, not flown here’ a reality. HONOLULU—When my Airbus touched down at Honolulu International Airport, I was one of 30,843 people to arrive in Hawaii on a...
Mighty Farming Microbes: Companies Harness Bacteria To Give Crops A Boost | Hawaii Public Radio-HPR2
Farming Microbes What if farmers, instead of picking up some agricultural chemicals at their local dealer, picked up a load of agricultural microbes instead? It's something to contemplate, because some big names in the pesticide business — like Bayer and...