When you decide to have a cup of coffee, you have already made your largest contribution to the energy used to deliver coffee to your cup.
Category: agriculture
agriculture
Bill Schlesinger
agriculture, environmental policy, faculty, lakes and streams, water, water pollution, wetlands
agriculture, environmental policy, faculty, lakes and streams, water, water pollution, wetlands
Only the profits will flow upstream
Have the laws of physics been reversed?
Food Energy
there is no doubt that a vegetarian diet would have much less impact on the climate.
The Climate Underground
We can’t count on better management of soils to solve the climate crisis
Nitrogen Pollution
Nearly all nitrogen pollution stems from agriculture, which strives to feed more than 7 billion of us with low-cost abundance.
Waters of the United States
Eliminating protection for first order and seasonal (ephemeral) streams means that anything that might be dumped in the headwaters of major rivers would be exempt from pollution laws
Bill Schlesinger
agriculture, energy, environmental health, faculty, land use, natural habitat, sustainability
agriculture, energy, environmental health, faculty, land use, natural habitat, sustainability
City Mouse vs. Country Mouse
We will spare nature by living in cities, but for a sustainable world, we will not pull ourselves up by our own bootstraps by living in cities.
The Frogs are Speaking to Us
The human population is more vulnerable to catastrophic pandemics than at any time since the Black Death.
Super Plants?
It has been of great interest among plant geneticists to develop other crop plants that avoid photorespiration.
Soil Carbon Sequestration
Recent press coverage of soil carbon sequestration on farms creates the dangerous impression that we can easily store a significant fraction of CO2 from fossil fuel emissions through better soil management.