I’ve been doing a lot of thinking and reading about GMO’s lately and am wondering what you think. Is genetic engineering inherently destructive and bad for ecology, the planet, and us? Or are there circumstances in which GMOs could be used ethically?
If you have an opinion (I suspect that many of you do) please share it in the comment board. If the genetic engineering is inherently wrong, why? If not than under what conditions should genetic engineering be considered? I welcome your thought!
Nature isn’t natural… or, at least, the way that we currently think about it isn’t. As a society, I believe that we’ve got it all wrong and that we create a lot of problems, as a result. I might even go so far as to say that the closer we can align our guiding principals with the way that the world works, the better off we (and nature) will be. Continue reading
Masdar, a renewable energy company based in Abu Dhabi asks “What steps can individuals, businesses or world leaders take to address the most pressing and often interrelated water and energy challenges?” Continue reading
Let’s face it, meat is resource intensive and we could feed more of the world on less land if we just all ate less of it, right? Well, not necessarily. Under an ecological model of agriculture, I might even ague that eating a combination of meat and plants is the most balanced option. Continue reading
Here’s a permaculture Pecha Kucha (Japanese for ‘chit-chat’) talk that I did in September of 2010 in Edmonton. The talk contains twenty slides at twenty-seconds a piece (so it’s fast paced) during which I argue that resiliency is a measure of connectedness and draw on examples from building the courtyard food forest at Jasper Place High School.
It’s About Connections
The technique of Needs and Yields Analysis stems from the permaculture idea that, in nature, everything is connected and that the end of each process (yield) is the beginning of another (need). In this way, we can see work as unmet needs and that problems are unused yields; by connecting elements in a design, we believe, that it is possible to eliminate and or minimize work and problems. Continue reading