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Crowdfarming Our Way Out Of The COVID Food Crisis

Sometimes it takes an emergency to understand what is important in life. With recent news stories about dairy farmers dumping milk and meat processing facilities shutting down, it is starting to dawn on urbanites and their suburbanite cousins that something pretty...

Making The Old Economy More Sustainable

Most of the companies about which I write in this column are new ventures commercializing cutting-edge technology to reduce or eliminate carbon emissions – companies like GlassPoint Solar, Carbon Engineering, and PrairieFoods. As a society, we desperately need these...

Capitalism Vs Climate Change: The Case Of PrairieFood

The modern system of farming, supported by the innovations of the Green Revolution, is a wonder. Since the end of World War II, the innovations brought forth by new hybrid crop species and agricultural chemicals has allowed the earth’s finite resource base to support...

Our Food Is Killing Us

Erik the Red brought his fellow Vikings to the southwestern shore of Greenland in the late 900s CE. His optimistic naming of the island may not have been entirely inappropriate as natural fluctuations in climate meant that he had stumbled upon Greenland when it was...

This Company’s GMOs Will Help Feed The World, Without Ever Being Eaten

  When I wrote about genetically modified organisms (GMOs) a few months ago (Here's The Real Reason Why GMOs Are Bad, And Why They May Save Humanity, GMOs And The Dangers Of Politicizing Science), I had no idea that the reader response would be so swift and...

The Future Is Circular

Over the last few months, I have been talking and writing about the paradigm shift in the investing world brought about by climate change. “Paradigm shift” is not only a buzzword; rather, it represents a fundamental change to the principles on which a system is...