Renowned natural historian and British broadcaster Sir David Attenborough has a new documentary in the pipeline, this time to urge people to ditch meat for the preservation of the planet. David Attenborough: A Life On Our Planet recounts the 94-year-old’s extraordinary encounters with the natural world, exploring some of his defining experiences as a naturalist, and also the devastating changes […]
It is an unusually hot morning for early May, and we are clustered on the western side of the half-complete, skeletal structure of Heartland’s new school building and community center. At our feet is a fluffy heap of barley straw, to our right is a halved, recycled water tank, awash in a deliciously smooth clay and water concoction: slip. In […]
Permaculture – an amalgamation of the words ‘permanent’ and ‘agriculture’ coined by scientist Bill Mollison and his student, David Holmgren – is a system that offers us the tools to design our way out of numerous crises facing humanity. Permaculture has become a widely used and extremely misunderstood term. Before one can harness the ancient wisdom behind the ethics […]
Biodiversity refers to the naturally wide assortment of life present on planet Earth – including plants, micro-organisms, fungi, lichen, molds, insects, and animals – and the genetic diversity within each of these species. Natural, intricate, beautiful, and under great threat by humans, biodiversity – or the lack thereof – is leading us swiftly into the sixth mass extinction. If […]
Palm oil is in all your snack foods – in fact, it’s in 50% of all packaged products in supermarkets. It is a semi-solid vegetable oil extracted from the fruit of the oil palm (Elaeis Guineensis), an African tree that is now predominantly grown in Indonesia and Malaysia. Indonesia and Malaysia were once some of the most abundantly diverse […]
