Nearly all nitrogen pollution stems from agriculture, which strives to feed more than 7 billion of us with low-cost abundance.
Category: agriculture
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.
How Green is Your Milk?
Soy milk seems to leave the smallest footprint on the environment.
Pig Poop
Currently there are about 75,000,000 pigs in the United States. They generate a lot of poop, for which disposal is an ongoing problem in need of good solutions. North Carolina is home to about 12%Continue reading
Bill Schlesinger
agriculture, biodiversity, biogeochemistry, carbon sequestration, faculty, natural habitat
agriculture, biodiversity, biogeochemistry, carbon sequestration, faculty, natural habitat
What Makes a Healthy Ecosystem?
[We need] a report card that grades plant production, soil organic matter, biodiversity and nutrient balance against our best measures of what they would be in a world without humans.
The Fabric for Our Lives
I asked myself whether cotton vs. linen shirts, or nylon or denim pants, left a greater footprint on the environment.