What is the Law’s role, locally and internationally, in implementing good practises and emerging technologies to remedy declining biodiversity and a changing climate? Are legal systems too cumbersome to act with the urgency demanded by academia, community and industry?
Continue reading “The Cycle of Influence, Laws and Nature”
When you disregard human factors and ignore faulty systems, you might just be left up the creek without a paddle. CIFOR ICRAF has been tackling the deforestation dilemma for decades; and considers forests as part of a larger integrated system rather than an isolated problem.
Continue reading “Trees are not the problem: taking a holistic approach to reverse deforestation”
Join us in this energetic and motivating episode as I speak with Tiahni Adamson (Young South Australian of the Year 2024) and Shannon Evenden (Science Communicator with The Green Room). They talk all things kids, nature, and how being more like mud not stone might be just the answer to our conservation and climate change challenges.
Continue reading “Keeping curiosity: youth reflections on Dr Jane Goodall’s quest for a more sustainable future”
With almost a third of arable land classified as degraded, what can we do to reverse the rapid pace of degradation and can we do it in a way that benefits us?
Continue reading “The Federated States of Degradia – A nation humanity must take responsibility for”
I was recently at the Global Food Summit – Seeds and Chips – in Milan, and surprised to see that out of the 350 or so startups exhibiting there, about a quarter were profiling some sort of alternative protein source.
We are starting to see some pretty interesting dietary trends that aim to lower our meat consumption, but they are not based on the traditional ethical or health grounds, but now on environmental and climate impact grounds.
Prof Andy Lowe 