Agriculture Solutions: Carbon Farming
Restoring carbon depleted ag land in the US can remove 250 million tons of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere each year. How do we help farmers make the switch?
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Healing the Sick Society: Enabling A World that Works for All
Times like these clearly show us that our future has to become globally cooperative and peaceful. Since the beginnings of industrialism, we have ignored and exploited the laws of nature. We are now reaping the […]
An exploration in the role of cannabis in treating serious diseases
Michigan State University researchers are exploring the role cannabis plays in improving brain health and treating diseases such as HIV/AIDS, Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s. A pioneer in his field, Norbert Kaminski, director of MSU’s Institute for […]
Nanoparticle chomps away plaques that cause heart attacks
Bryan Smith, associate professor of biomedical engineering at MSU, and a team of scientists created a “Trojan Horse” nanoparticle that can be directed to eat debris, reducing and stabilizing plaque. The discovery could be a […]
How a small action, or decision, made on one side of the world can effect people on the other side of the world.
The whole world is in conflict, confusion and chaos, but there’s great news! We can fix it because we don’t have the thousands of problems most of us think we do, we have thousands of […]
For a healthier planet, management must change
Our environment sustains all life. Both human and wildlife. When habitat degrades, the lives of all that depend on it also deteriorate: poor land = poor people and social breakdown.By Sarah Savory, Zimbabwe In Zimbabwe […]
Harvey Wasserman on Solar Power and Democracy
A life-long activist who speaks, writes and organizes widely on energy, the environment, US and global history, drug war, election protection and grassroots politics. He taught (2004-2017) US history and western civilization, cultural and […]
Why Modifying Your Lawn Care Practices Will Do More to Abate Climate Change than Changing Your Car for a Hybrid
In the efforts to slow the ravages wrought by Climate Change, the hare may have beaten the hybrid car while munching on grass. The real winners are non-fertilized green lawns and permaculture. The hare was […]
How can we Prevent Future Crises: The Butterfly Effect at the Time of Global Pandemics
“The whole world is in conflict, confusion and chaos, but there’s great news! We can fix it because we don’t have the thousands of problems most of us think we do, we have thousands of […]
How to best Transform Yourself with Climate Truth
Sarah Lazare, Web Editor of In These Times. Work and words of Dr. Margaret Klein Salamon, founder of The Climate Mobilization and author of Facing the Climate Emergency: How to Transform Yourself with Climate Truth.