Championing a regenerative farming revolution in Europe, with Richard Perkins, author of Regenerative Agriculture – Abundant Edge
https://abundantedge.com/richard-perkins/

There are a lot of inspiring voices in the regenerative agriculture community, but few have done such a thorough job of documenting and publishing every step of the development of a small profitable farm the way Richard Perkins has done with Ridgedale Permaculture. Especially now that I’ve decided to put down roots in Europe, I’ve been looking for examples of profitable small farming models for inspiration for my own project here, and between Richard’s youtube channel and two books, Making Small Farms Work and the new volume titled Regenerative Agriculture, there are few better resources to guide you step by step through all the design considerations, from landscape analysis, business planning, crunching numbers and creative paths to market.

Though I spoke to Richard for the first time back in season 1, I invited him back for this episode to talk about some of the massive changes that are coming about from the COVID health crisis and how he’s seen it affect small farms around Europe. We explore topics like farm enterprise analysis, suggestions for direct to consumer marketing and collaboration, and Richard also talks about his observations over the years of transformation of his small farm in northern Sweden, not only from a land health perspective, but also things he’s noticed about his teaching and mentorship strategy as well as the characteristics he thinks are essential for succeeding in farming.

Jeste k Planet of Humans:

A new documentary released by Michael Moore, Jeff Gibbs and Ozzie Zehner, Planet of the Humans, slots neatly into pre-existing demand for content that uses misinformation to frame humanity as a virus.
Part of reason it serves this purpose so well is that the density of falsehoods is incredible. Every re-encounter brings a new discovery. It is the gift that keeps on taking.
Since I published my first post on this, a litany of new errors, has emerged, partly covered here. In further interviews, the filmmakers botch the basic energy math even worse than the film. One scene, where it’s alleged solar enthusiasts ‘faked’ solar power for a festival was, it turns out, seemingly filmed in 2005 (two years prior to the release of Apple’s iPhone). Another, larger event presented as being falsely powered by a nearby solar field was in 2015 (Moore says it was ‘last year‘), and that solar field was only ever marketed by organisers as powering a small nearby pavilion.
One interviewee, Richard York, whose research suggesting renewables don’t displace fossil fuels was featured in the film, has since told media that “over the past decade, there have been more serious efforts”. The filmmakers had erased the date on the 2012 paper from the graphic on screen. Another interviewee, Richard Heinberg, revealed his interview occur.
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They filmmakers complain that the mineral and mining footprint for things like electric vehicles is non-zero. This is true of any manufactured object, so their argument is, very simply, the disavowal of any technology, of any type, scale and ownership, for any component of climate action. Community owned wind? Not allowed. Rooftop solar? It’s made from quartz, so no. Low income electricity bill reduction through locally-owned batteries? Not a chance; lithium is mined by skinny kids. Didn’t you see the montage?
The oft-repeated gripe the filmmakers cite is “the story that climate change plus green technology equals were saved. It’s not the correct story”. But no one is telling this tale. They are shadowboxing their own imagined parody of environmentalism.
The only explanation for this weird faux-argument is that wind and solar were prominent in the early 2010s. Electricity is the fruit that hangs lowest on the list of climate actions, and wind and solar shot ahead of competitors around 2005 – 2010.
Everyone else moved on. A variety of tools form a major part of the plans of nearly everyone playing in this space. The International Energy Agency’s ‘Sustainable Development Scenario’ lays out one potential mix of actions to get us where we need here:



The great giving up (and the film that made it worse) – Ketan Joshi
https://ketanjoshi.co/2020/05/08/the-great-giving-up-and-the-film-that-made-it-worse/

We're living through the biggest carbon crash ever recorded.
No war, no recession, no previous pandemic has had such a dramatic impact on emissions of CO2 over the past century as Covid-19 has in a few short months.
Multiple sources indicate we are now living through an unrivalled drop in carbon output.
But even though we will see a massive fall this year, the concentrations of CO2 that are in the atmosphere and warming our planet won't stabilise until the world reaches net-zero.

Climate change and coronavirus: Five charts about the biggest carbon crash - BBC News
https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-52485712

sice kapka v mori, ale vypada to, ze goetermalni energie zacina taky nabirat na obratkach

Coal mine in England to become geothermal heating system - Electrek
https://electrek.co/2020/05/08/coal-mine-south-tyneside-england-geothermal-heating-system/amp/

TUHO: a takhle lidskou niku přechroustala Idnes. Tak co myslíte, co po přečtení tohoto článku udělá průměrný Čech?
Začne volit Trikoloru? Pořídí si SUV a automatickou zbraň? :)
Až třetinu lidstva čeká do padesáti let nesnesitelné horko, povede k migraci - iDNES.cz
https://www.idnes.cz/...ni-oteplovani-zmena-klimatu-vedro-horkomigrace.A200506_114157_zahranicni_dtt

Wood You Believe It: 10 Ultra-Tall Timber Towers Compete for World Records | Urbanist
https://weburbanist.com/...ood-you-believe-it-10-ultra-tall-timber-towers-compete-for-world-records/

Penda proposes Toronto Tree Tower built from cross-laminated timber modules
https://www.dezeen.com/2017/08/02/toronto-tree-tower-penda-cross-laminated-timber-construction/

Nejvyssi drevena stavba na svete...

27 March 2019
Opened on 15 March, the Mjøstårnet, or the Mjøsa Tower in Brumunddal near Oslo, Norway, is with 85.4 metres currently the world’s tallest wooden building.

While wood was one of the first building materials used by men, its use fell out of favour because of it being known as a fire hazard. However, with the downsides of building materials like bricks, concrete and metal becoming more evident, more and more people are turning back to wood. Not the type of wood that grows on trees, though, but engineered wood that is stronger and less flammable.

Designed by Voll Arkitekter, the 18-storey tower is made from lightweight, prefabricated materials, mainly glulam (glued laminated timber), CLT (cross-laminated timber) and MetsäWood’s Kerto LVL (laminated veneer timber), produced in Finland. Kerto LVL is lightweight, strong, and uniform and has an “outstanding strength-to-weight” ratio.

Both the structure and the façade of the Mjøsa Tower are made of wood. The first ten floors, with offices and hotel facilities, are made of prefabricated wooden elements. The decks on the upper floors, however, where apartments are made of concrete. This is because the amount of swaying increases the higher you get in a building built of wood or concrete. The weight of the concrete makes the swaying slower and not as noticeable. The shafts for the elevators and staircases are made of CLT.

The tower, located next to the eponymous largest lake of Norway, was built according to strict fire safety regulations. Untreated solid wood creates its own fire-resistant surface because the outermost layer chars when exposed to fire, protecting against further fire damage. Massive wooden structures manufactured in large maintain therefore their load-bearing capacity in case of fire.

The world’s tallest wooden tower - MaterialDistrict
https://materialdistrict.com/article/worlds-tallest-wooden-tower/

DZODZO: ok, tak to sem si spatne vylozil. o to hur, ze s celym tim lockdownem, zavrenejma fabrikama, nelitanim, odstavenejma uhlenejma elektrarnama, rekordni produkci energie ze solaru atd. mame jen 11% snizenou produkci co2 :)

SHEFIK: zachrani nas odchod od uhlia a ropy e.g. surovin, ktore po miliony rokov ticho cusali v zemi, tak ako to tam ostatne pisu:

(2) the additional input of CO2 to the atmosphere (and hence to the system as a whole) by burning fossil fuels which have laid buried deep beneath the ground or ocean floor for millions of years

SHEFIK: vice mene se nepletu, z clanku:

In other words, without the lockdown, the total amount of CO2 in the atmosphere would have increased by 0.68% in 2020, compared to the 2019 global average. But with the lockdown, we project the increase to be 0.60%.

If global emissions reduce by 8% over the year, with the largest reduction in April, the annual minimum monthly CO2 by September will be 410.6ppm (±0.6), compared to 411.1ppm (±0.6) expected without the Covid-19 impact.

jinymi slovy, dopad covidu je minimalni (max 8% novyho prirustku) a uskromnit se nam v budoucnu vubec nepomuze, muzeme zacit klidne zas vesele litat. zachrani nas jen CCS nebo natural sinks, temata, o kterych mluvi TADEAS apod.

dekuju za prostor k monologu .)

Američané mnohem méně jezdí auty a utlumení průmyslu i těžby způsobilo mnohem menší emise skleníkových plynů. Od doby, kdy v březnu začala platit opatření proti nemoci covid-19, se USA podle nové zprávy Road Ecology Center Kalifornské univerzity v Davisu začaly blížit splnění klimatických cílů pařížské dohody.

Kvůli koronaviru v USA prudce klesají emise, země možná splní i pařížskou dohodu — ČT24 — Česká televize
https://ct24.ceskatelevize.cz/...viru-v-usa-prudce-klesaji-emise-zeme-mozna-splni-i-parizskou-dohodu

But a key question for climate change is what impact this has had on the overall amount of CO2 in the atmosphere – the principal driver of global temperature rise. In our analysis for Carbon Brief, we assess whether the global drop in emissions will have a noticeable impact on atmospheric CO2 concentrations this year.

Analysis: What impact will the coronavirus pandemic have on atmospheric CO2? | Carbon Brief
https://www.carbonbrief.org/...sis-what-impact-will-the-coronavirus-pandemic-have-on-atmospheric-co2