Sustainable Farming

EAT-Lancet 2025: Global food transformation needed to ease pressure on the planet and save millions of lives Five of the seven breached planetary boundaries are linked to food systems. By transforming production and adopting a “planetary health diet,” we can halve food-related climate emissions and prevent m...

They really ask not too much, but highly likely way too less

From all what I collected over the years I would say meat consumption has at least to be reduced by 75% percent

The consumption of diary products has also to be reduced at least by half

What missing by 100% is the oceans

#Earth

You might easily take this for tropical rainforest in some faraway country.

But it's an Irish temperate rainforest, a much *rarer* habitat.

And it's equally threatened, only by masses of deer, goats, and sheep, rather than chainsaws or bulldozers.

The transition to renewables is more or less inevitable now, but the next big fight will be with the meat industry

The exceptionally tasty new fermented foods being cooked up in the lab Fermented foods make up a third of what we eat and were mostly discovered by accident centuries ago. Now a fermentation revolution is promising extraordinary new flavours and novel ways to boost gut health

Fermented foods make up a third of what we eat and were mostly discovered by accident centuries ago. Now a fermentation revolution is promising extraordinary new flavours and novel ways to boost gut health.

This is due to a law signed by Ronald Reagan and has nothing to do with this shutdown fight.

But consider this...

Emergency Medicaid spending in 2023 cost $3.8 billion — just 0.4% of total Medicaid spending.

Now what about the $20 billion taxpayers are giving to Argentina?

It's so pretty

Excellent new episode of PBS Terra Weathered has just been released.

This episode discusses hurricane rapid intensification and hurricane strength and how these relate to climate change.

The effects of AMOC strength fluctuations and aerosols / sulphur emissions are also covered.

Worth watching:

In a functioning society, this would have been front page news everywhere.

In our society, this didn't make the fine print.

As @georgemonbiot.bsky.social pointed out once, it's quite depressing to check the headlines when you know what the real headline should be...

YouTube video by Climate Town America's Dumbest Crop

I don't know how @climatetown.bsky.social keeps getting better, but their newest video on how awful lawns are is not to be missed

Global Sumud Flotilla reaches Gaza waters
from International Waters…

3. An excellent starter pack to follow: Potsdam Institute Climate Scientists and researcher alumni:

No doubt surfers are stoked about the massive waves along the East Coast this week. But please beware - it’s going to be very dangerous, with very rough surf, and dangerous rip currents due to Hurricane #Imelda and #Humberto Best to stay out of the water!!

In the UK, I can recommend realseeds.co.uk - they sell some really unusual heritage varieties and actually encourage you to save your own seed.

Lyme disease is a *massive* and largely unseen problem, especially in areas where deer or feral goats are prevalent.

Please, nature lovers: be tick-aware at all times.

15. Biodiversity is declining across land, freshwater and sea across all of Europe.

Try surviving in Europe in a few years when everything else has died:

State of Europe’s environment not good: threats to nature and impacts of climate change top challenges Significant progress has been made in reducing greenhouse gas emissions and air pollution, but the overall state of Europe’s environment is not good, especially its nature which continues to face degr...

"Biodiversity is declining across terrestrial, freshwater and marine ecosystems in Europe due to persistent pressures driven by unsustainable production and consumption patterns, demonstrated most notably in the food system."

#EU27 #Biodiversity

www.eea.europa.eu/en/newsroom/...

10. Avoid death cults like Monsanto with their suicidal seeds and opt for Seed Savers hand packaged, open pollinated vegetable varieties instead:

3. EU Member states have today backed a deal on a new Soil Monitoring Law:

Belangrijk rapport, waarin veel valt te grasduinen. Samenvatting: Europa heeft 6 van de 9 planetaire grenzen overschreden - de afgelopen 5 jaar zijn best gedaan om dat nog wat dieper in het rood te krijgen.

Review of the Week: 22-28 September 2025 An exciting autumn week of rarities included Black-faced Bunting and Eastern Bonelli's Warbler in Shetland, Isabelline Wheatears in Durham and Cornwall, Lesser Grey Shrike in Norfolk, and Brown Shrike in East Yorkshire, reports Miles Cluff.

Review of the Week: 22-28 September 2025

An exciting run of rarities included Black-faced Bunting and Eastern Bonelli's Warbler in Shetland, Isabelline Wheatears in Co Durham and Cornwall, Lesser Grey Shrike in Norfolk and Brown Shrike in East Yorkshire:

This is my regular reminder to everyone that jstor is open to the general public now; a free account there will give you access to 100 papers a year.

Climate News Round Up
Monday 29-09-2025

1. A new climate solution tool from Project Drawdown discussed with Marshall Shepherd:

5. A gallery of any queens from around the world:

True. But goats are able to go where sheep can't, easily jumping sheep fences.

The result is that goats are helping destroy forests and other wild places that are off limits to sheep.

HEB JIJ 'M AL? МАКЕ EARTH COOL AGAIN

New Dutch advert:

Sorry but this is an idiotic line of argument.

I doubt anyone would have a problem with this, as long as the goats are *fenced in*.

The issue is allowing them to freely destroy what's left of our native forests.

This is footage of a major gas leak near Romsey, UK in July 2024.

Methane is an extremely potent greenhouse gas — over 80x more powerful than CO2 over 20 years.

Leaks like this undermine climate goals, waste energy consumers pay for, and pose safety risks.

HT @twallinjames.bsky.social

EXTRAORDINARY HEAT IN THE CARIBBEAN
Brutal heat with >37C in Curacao,36C Martinique.
Stfling hot nights with widespread Minimums of 28/30C.

It's the harshest heat wave the Caribbean has ever seen,worse than 2023 and 2024.