Monday, January 3, 2022

From my pen

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Below there is a selection of Garden Earth blog articles. Articles that I am particularly fond of are highlighted. You can also use the search function in the top left corner to search for a word. 


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My books

The Planet of the Cows
Can we cure the global eating disorder?
Global Eating Disorder
Garden Earth – a study in political ecology and ec...


Civilization critique and development issues

Knock the Head off the pedestal and raise the Hand
The peasant and the washing machine
7 Billion and Peak Child
Is farming efficient?
Development - of what? for what?
Chaotic collapse or long descent?
Growth is gone - welcome steady-state
Peak Child - Peak capitalism?
The future is already here
Garden Earth - a regenerative society
Increase happiness productivity
Ten reasons to build another word
We get richer also without growth
What does sustainable really mean in an unsustainable economy
The monuments of the city are built on the backs of rural people
We are people through other people
Technology is rarely neutral
Poverty, Property and Profit
We are part of nature
Value social capital - don't put a price on it
Is improved transport and communication a blessing...
Talking the walk
The tragedy of the tragedy of commons
Post peak oil and post-growth, the same?
When the economy crashes, we run out of oil and na...
Economic growth leads to a scarcity of time
How to change complex systems?
The peasant strategy
How we measure
Winners and losers
Traditions, Western Union, Churches and Taro
Back from Druk Yul
Small is not only beautiful - it is productive as ...
Garden Earth - a modern civilization
Towards a new materialism!


Market economy and capitalism

If It’s Profitable, Is It Really Sustainable?
A tilted market is the normal market
Why did local go global?
The Singularity is already here - it is the market...
Competition, not consumption, drives global destruction
Stop pretending there are only winners in the glob...
Tale from the sandpit
There is no neutral market
Food as a business is the second fall of man
Why did local go global?
World Milk Markets: How 2 percent rule the rest.
Why competition is unsustainable
Capitalism: The right to extract wealth
A pilgrimage to the origin of global capitalism
The dictatorship of intellectual property rights
Who gave you your property?
Money: The only way to assign value to anything is to sell it
The market is not a management system for the plan...
Capitalism: The right to extract wealth
Turning water into wine - ooops, sorry, I meant do...
The wealth Pyramid - a sign of poverty
Why not call it by its proper name: theft.
Time to retire?
Growth as a symptom and not a problem?

Global trade

Fast noodles or resilience?
Food self-sufficiency – does it make sense?
Trading away our future?
Shipping, efficiency and emissions
Peak Globalization
Trade in food: It’s the competition, stupid
Food: trading away our future? - path IV
Food: trading away our future - Part III
Food: Trading away our future - part II
Food: Trading away our future? - Part I
Milk: the global market works as it should - but we don’t like the results
Groundbreaking innovations: the shopping cart and the container
Shrinking marginal benefits of globalisation?


Nature and environment

Meaning more than value is key for our relation wi...
How cleanliness and efficiency obscure our relation with nature...
To respect nature is to respect ourselves
Man: more dependent on nature than ever
The Market is not a management system for the plan...
Man giveth and he taketh away
The Environmentalist's paradox
Taking care of the garden
God and nature

Energy

Food, Water and Energy - competing and converging.
Energy-efficient food production – sure but within reason
Energy is the substance of the economy
EROEI for dummies
Why oil price and grain price follow each other
Energy squeeze, Is it a trap, a cliff or just a si...
Agriculture: How cheap energy (and capitalism) inc...
Renewables: Dangerously positive news
Energy and agriculture
Energy:the big picture
250 billion energy slaves
Humans and energy - the long view
A barrel of oil: a ton of maize

Climate

COP26: omitting the real emission driver
 Nitrogen fertilizer is not a climate solution
You say you love your children above all else, and yet you are stealing their future
There is no such thing as a business as usual scenario
Climate; doing the things right or doing the right...
Climate labelling is a good cure for climate anxie...
Economist: Coping with climate change - buy an air...

Green economy, green consumerism

Is the Green Deal a card shuffle trick?
Instead of decoupling, we need recoupling
Can we shop our way to a better world?
Stop dreaming about Green Growth
Reducing consumption and local exchange better than sustainable consumption.
The One Tonne life is hard
The business plan of the factory is to produce ext...

Efficiency, productivity, rebound and growth

Of mice, men and elephants
Efficiency and productivity two very deceptive words
Redefining productivity
Jevons paradox - why efficiency is a liar word
growth is the religion of capitalism
Aging populations will end growth
The fish industry is ready to commit suicide at an...

Ecosystem services and internalization of costs

Why True Cost Accounting is not a good concept for markets and public policy.
Paying farmers for environmental services in Japan
Carbon prices will not drive innovations
Ecosystems: Invaluable and worthless
The Polluter Gets Paid Principle

Ecomodernism and technofixes

Do we need farmfree food?
The dream of food without dirt
Vertical farms - no lighthouses for ecological cities.
Beware of the techno-optimists!
The synthetic meat scam
Why the GMO promises are hollow
Engineering the globe: trusting the hand that flip...

Food consumption, climate and environment

We can't all live on grass-fed beef - but we can eat more of it
Think inside the right box
Oats or milk – it is not the question
Five dollars a day is not enough for five a day
Counting apples and oranges
A fixed meat ration is not the path to sustainable...
Don’t let an LCA determine your menu
Confused indeed
Are pigs eating our food?
False methane math
The lost innocence of the soy burger
Should we feed cars, animals or people?
Leonardo and the hamburger connection
Are cows eating the Amazon?
How wet is your cucumber?
Animals - much more than meat
The beef grown on soy and maize

Food security and food production

Only possible to feed people sustainably in an equitable society
Where does the protein come from?
The global plate
Where shall the fat come from?
The road to food security: What works and what doesn’t
Markets don't distribute food to those without money
The hunger, the people and the land
Producing meat (for export) or food for the people...
Food is not a commodity like any other
Rich people are not starving – can markets help?

Food system and food policy

Build a future outside of the Market
To feed or to profit? To eat or to consume?
Towards a landscape diet and communal landscape management
How to cope with largely dysfunctional market signals for soil stewardship.
Our food system - a health hazard
Towards a new narrative of food
Food: from commodity to commons
The illusion of cheap food under commodified agriculture
How capitalism made a "socialist" ideal come true
Searching for alternatives 4: Transition
Searching for alternatives part 3 - Regional Value...
Searching for alternatives 2: Grasslands
Searching for alternatives, part I
The art of supporting agriculture
Chicken and fertilizers

Agriculture systems

Small farms don't produce most the of the worlds food -  but they could produce all
Beware of the N-bomb
A regenerative food system is both a means and an end
Inefficient productivity or productive inefficiency
Towards a regenerative food system.
The pesticide treadmill explained
Agroforestry in the Amazon
Does vegan farming work?
The greatest single experiment in global geoengineering
Soil: wrong side up
Overloaded with Nitrogen and approaching peak phos...
What about a few more people in farming?
The Malawi Fertilizer Myth?
Nitrogen fertilizers destroy soil organic carbon

Organic agriculture

The nitrogen challenge for organic agriculture
Don't buy organic instead of changing the world - ...
Organic agriculture should be adapted to the location-not to EU-rules
Organic agriculture spreads in East Africa
Organic agriculture: the Swiss army knife
Growing with love and care, Organic agriculture grows in Africa
Organic agriculture: time to look ahead
People, Planet and Prosperity-organic agriculture ...
Organic farming as a strategy for a new economy
Organic agriculture: Sowing the seeds for a better...
Can you trust organic claims?
Is the sky the limit?
What's in a name?
Save organic from over-regulation

Standards and certification

Organic certification - Is it worth it?
Quality management is a management fad elevated to divinity
Standards as tools for power
Paticipatory Guarantee Systems - a nice governance model
The danger of predictable procedures
The good mark or a million bits of information?
Eco labels: the more successful, the less value
What gives value to an eco label

Developing countries

Millennium Villages: the Great Experiment
Growing out of poverty or grow poverty?
The Rise of Africa - a fairy tale?
Is commercialized farming the cure for smallholders’ ills?
How fair is fair?

Book reviews

Standards: Recipes for Reality by Lawrence Busch
A new garden ethic, by Benjamin Vogt
Grace, the Organic Revolutionary
Review of Orlov's The Five Stages of Collapse.
John Michael Greer’s The Wealth of Nature: Economics as if Survival Mattered
Brown: Full Planet & Empy Plates
Heinberg: growth will end.period.
Bill Mckibben:Eaarth
Rob Dietz and Dan O'Neill: of Enough is Enough
Tony Juniper: What has nature ever done for us?
Daniel Kahneman: Thinking fast and slow
Tim Jackson: Prosperity without Growth




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