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LINKS CONTACT:  podcast@worldorganicnews.com **** This is the World Organic News for the week ending 18th of September 2017. Jon Moore reporting! I’d like to begin this week with a big shout out to FarmerHarper! And I quote: So glad to stumble on this podcast 5 stars End quote. Thank you for the review and rating FarmerHarper, you have indeed given this podcaster an enormous thrill! Now to this week’s focus.... Stranded Assets! Floods in South Asia, fires across Europe and the US west and north and, of course, those hurricanes of late all point, if not directly, but perhaps cumulatively to evidence of the climate reacting to CO2 concentrations above 400 ppm. And into this 46 degree celsius (that’s about 115 degrees F) heat waves here in Australia’s east last summer, twice, and I see no reason not to act. Are but the economy I hear some people screaming. The economy indeed. Do we have any evidence from the past which help point us in a direction of least suffering, economically? Well yes. When we think about w

LINKS CONTACT:  podcast@worldorganicnews.com   More Trees Less Assholes http://moretreeslessassholes.org   The Harappa https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harappa Deforestation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deforestation **** This is the World Organic News for the week ending 11th of September 2017. Jon Moore reporting! We begin this week with a quote from a Facebook post I saw. Quote: The forests are screaming and few are the people who listen to their cries. End quote. That's from the Facebook page More Trees Less Assholes. A link is in the show notes. It could be, of course, be that many are unaware that they can even listen. As a species we are rapidly approaching the point where more people will be living in urban agglomerations than in rural settings. For a species with an arboreal heritage, that relied upon wood as the primary fuel source and who obtained a large proportion of its food from trees, this is a major change in living arrangements. Trees are, as we all know, the lungs of the world. Especially so

  CONTACT:  podcast@worldorganicnews.com   This is the World Organic News for the week ending 4th of September 2017. Jon Moore reporting!   The Fukuoka Alternative. From Home Farmer Volume One Available here: http://www.smallfarms.net/xcart/product.php?productid=16269   If you’ve liked what you heard, please tell everyone you know any way you can! I’d also really appreciate a review on iTunes. This may or may not help others to find us but it gives this podcaster an enormous thrill! Thanks in advance!   Any suggestions, feedback or criticisms of the podcast or blog are most welcome. email me at podcast@worldorganicnews.com.   Thank you for listening and I'll be back in a week.  

Links CONTACT:  podcast@worldorganicnews.com   India's Farmers Revive Traditional Grains in Face of Severe Drought https://www.voanews.com/a/india-farmers-revive-traditional-grains-face-severe-drought/3996412.html   India's Farmers Revive Traditional Grains in Face of Severe Drought https://www.voanews.com/a/india-farmers-revive-traditional-grains-face-severe-drought/3996412.html   The Center for Indian Knowledge Systems http://www.ciks.org/   Suicides of nearly 60,000 Indian farmers linked to climate change, study claims https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/jul/31/suicides-of-nearly-60000-indian-farmers-linked-to-climate-change-study-claims   Dr Vandana Shiva https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vandana_Shiva TED talk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ER5ZZk5atlE **** This is the World Organic News for the week ending 28th of August 2017. Jon Moore reporting! This week we focus on the organic sector in India! I must apologise at the very beginning of this episode for any butchering of Indian names and any

Links CONTACT:  podcast@worldorganicnews.com   Systemic Change Driven by Moral Awakening Is Our Only Hope https://damnthematrix.wordpress.com/2017/08/17/systemic-change-driven-by-moral-awakening-is-our-only-hope/ There’s No App for That: Technology and Morality in the Age of Climate Change, Overpopulation, and Biodiversity Loss Small Farms http://journeytoforever.org/farm.html **** This is the World Organic News for the week ending 21th of August 2017. Jon Moore reporting! This week we focus upon one post from Damn the Matrix Or why the world is going to hell, entitled: Systemic Change Driven by Moral Awakening Is Our Only Hope by Richard Heinberg. Quote: Our core ecological problem is not climate change. It is overshoot, of which global warming is a symptom. Overshoot is a systemic issue. Over the past century-and-a-half, enormous amounts of cheap energy from fossil fuels enabled the rapid growth of resource extraction, manufacturing and consumption; and these in turn led to population increase, pollution

Contact: podcast@worldorganicnews.com   Dealing with weeds through knowing their seed maturation process. Surprisingly effective with side benefits.

Links CONTACT:  podcast@worldorganicnews.com   How farming giant seaweed can feed fish and fix the climate https://kevinswildside.wordpress.com/2017/07/31/how-farming-giant-seaweed-can-feed-fish-and-fix-the-climate/ Sunlight and Seaweed: An Argument for How to Feed, Power and Clean Up the World **** This is the World Organic News for the week ending 7th of August 2017. Jon Moore reporting! This week we are focussing upon a piece entitled: How farming giant seaweed can feed fish and fix the climate from the blog Kevin's Walk on the Wild Side. This covers a new book by Tim Flannery: Sunlight and Seaweed: An Argument for How to Feed, Power and Clean Up the World. Links in the show notes. In the past, I’ve been surprised at some of Flannery’s statements. A while back he was surprised at how quickly solar rooftop panels had taken off in Australia. After all, he’s projected 2030 or thereabouts for the level of usage we achieved by 2015. Little did he realise that price signals, rising power bills and increasing

Links CONTACT:  podcast@worldorganicnews.com   The industrial agriculture “feed the world” myth — Local Food Northland http://wp.me/p5Cqpo-fN7   The Alliance to Feed the Future King Corn **** This is the World Organic News for the week ending 31st of July 2017. Jon Moore reporting! This week we are focusing on post from the blog Local Food Northland entitled The industrial agriculture “feed the world” myth. The myth discussed in this video and written presentation is the “We need industrial agriculture to feed the world now and into the future.” This myth is prevalent, usually unchallenged and wrong. It is supported in the US by The Alliance to Feed the Future. I’ve put a link in the show notes. It worth a look just to check the members page. Here we find such health food producers as the National Frozen Pizza Institute, the Association for Dressings and Sauces, Flavor and Extract Manufacturers Association of the United States, The Fertilizer Institute, Grocery Manufacturers Association, International Associa

Links CONTACT:  podcast@worldorganicnews.com   Self-fuelling boat starts 6-year world trip using green energy, fuel cells — News http://wp.me/p5Cqpo-fK1 Researchers put some of the wild back into domesticated wheat — Scientific Inquirer       http://wp.me/p5Cqpo-fKd       Episode 65 #worldorganicnews 2017 05 22 http://worldorganicnews.libsyn.com/65-worldorganicnews-2017-05-22 Seaweed shown to reduce 99% methane from cattle http://wp.me/p5Cqpo-fKl Less Mowing, More Pollinators — Bee Branch Farm http://wp.me/p5Cqpo-fKT **** This is the World Organic News for the week ending 17th of July 2017. Jon Moore reporting! This week a fuel cell, solar and wind powered boat, ancient wheat genes, seaweed for ruminants and do less to protect more! From the blog News comes the post: SELF-FUELLING BOAT STARTS 6-YEAR WORLD TRIP USING GREEN ENERGY, FUEL CELLS This vessel is covered topsides with solar panels and has a couple of vertical axis wind turbines. From the post: Quote Energy Observer will use its solar panels, wind tu

Links CONTACT:  podcast@worldorganicnews.com   Explainer: what can Tesla’s giant South Australian battery achieve? — Random Thoughts http://wp.me/p5Cqpo-fJf      In defense of Yeomanry.      http://www.worldorganicnews.com/published-books/long-pieces-and-ideas/ Vermicomposting: Tips from First Timers — EcoBLOGic http://wp.me/p5Cqpo-fIV 1.5 Acres of High Intensity, No-Till Vegetable Production – Neversink Farm — Permie Flix http://wp.me/p5Cqpo-fJr Rural New Zealand Quarter Acre Permaculture Farm / Market Garden — growingarden http://wp.me/p5Cqpo-fJO **** This is the World Organic News for the week ending 17th of July 2017. Jon Moore reporting! This week we look at the Tesla battery in South Australia, one version of vermicomposting and two examples of intensive, organic veggie production. So to the Tesla Battery! The post entitled: Explainer: what can Tesla’s giant South Australian battery achieve? From the blog Random Thoughts explains: It was announced this past week that Tesla has won a tender to set up a 1

Links   CONTACT:  podcast@worldorganicnews.com   Climate change to disproportionately affect the poor — Iowa Environmental Focus http://wp.me/p5Cqpo-fFD Constructing an Alley Cropping Food Forest — Permie Flix http://wp.me/p5Cqpo-fH0 SALT in the Philippines http://www.fao.org/ag/agp/agpc/doc/publicat/gutt-shel/x5556e0y.htm Atmospheric Water Harvesting, Peru — Permie Flix http://wp.me/p5Cqpo-fF1 **** This is the World Organic News for the week ending 10th of July 2017. Jon Moore reporting! We begin this week with a post from Iowa Environmental Focus: Climate change to disproportionately affect the poor. I’m pretty sure we can all agree that the lower down the socioeconomic scale one resides the worse off one is in the material life and to continue this trend, Climate Change looks likely to hit the poorest, the hardest. Quote: Researchers figured the economic costs of climate-related impacts like rising sea levels, more extreme weather and higher temperatures. They ran many simulations which calculated the pot

Links CONTACT:  podcast@worldorganicnews.com Could Ireland Use Hemp As Biomass? – Dublin Hemp Museum – Medium — Cannabis News World http://wp.me/p5Cqpo-fBi California to list herbicide as cancer-causing; Monsanto vows fight | Reuters — GLOBAL MEDIA  SENTRY http://wp.me/p5Cqpo-fCw **** This is the World Organic News for the week ending 3rd of July 2017. Jon Moore reporting! We begin this week with piece on the revival of an old plant: Hemp. Not the wacky tobaccy type but the “Grow Hemp for Victory” type from World War Two. A little background. Hemp has been grown for millennia as a fibre. It makes good, hard wearing cloth, Henry Ford used it to build a prototype vehicle, that is as the panels for said prototype vehicle and the navies of the world used it to create lines and ropes. A further aside, any rope under one inch in diameter is called a line or sheet and any line or sheet greater than one inch in diameter is called a rope. Hence the “Grow Hemp for Victory” push by the US government as they built huge n

CONTACT:  podcast@worldorganicnews.com This is the World Organic News for the week ending 19th of June 2017. Jon Moore reporting! This is the world organic news for the week ending 26 June 2017. Jon Moore reporting. This week I’m out of town and so I’m presenting for your listening pleasure, episode 3 of the Real Food Chain, a podcast I co-host with Rich Bowden. Check it out in iTunes! This episode is about gut health and fermented foods. I’ll be back next week with the usual roundup of ideas from the blogosphere on all matters organic. Until then here is episode 3 of the Real Food Chain. **** Episode 3 The Real Food Chain Contact Us www.realfoodchain.wordpress.com/contact-us/ Host links: Jon Moore's World Organic News. Rich Bowden's Rich Bowden Writing   Mel's links and suggestions: Emu Wellness Facebook Page Recommended site by Melinda: Dr Axe -- (excellent information and graphics) Recommended author by Melinda: Dr David Perlmutter. Books available here.   Welcome to episode 3 of The Real Food Chain podc

Links CONTACT:  podcast@worldorganicnews.com New “Instantly Rechargeable” Flow Battery could Dramatically Change EV Market — Great Things from Small Things .. Nanotechnology Innovation http://wp.me/p5Cqpo-ftX Old Energy Left Behind — Equivalent of 7 Gigafactories Already Under Construction; Tesla Plans 10-20 More — GarryRogers Nature Conservation http://wp.me/p5Cqpo-fvj Ode to a little stream – Off Grid Power, Part 2: Micro-Hydro — through the luminary lens http://wp.me/p5Cqpo-fvW Solar paint offers endless energy from water vapor: Breakthrough by RMIT Researchers — Great Things from Small Things .. Nanotechnology Innovation http://wp.me/p5Cqpo-fwZ **** This is the World Organic News for the week ending 19th of June 2017. Jon Moore reporting! Back in episode 67 I spoke about the need to replace fossil fuels as the the first big step we could take to start solving our global and local issues of concern. I summarised the current situation thusly: Quote: Climate change appears to be accelerating, we are bathed i

Links CONTACT:  podcast@worldorganicnews.com Can “Regenerative Farming” Save Us From Global Catastrophe — GarryRogers Nature Conservation http://wp.me/p5Cqpo-frv Advantages Of Organic Farming — Organic Farms http://wp.me/p5Cqpo-frf 5 reasons why Sustainable Agriculture is good for the environment and you! — Crop Connect Chronicles http://wp.me/p5Cqpo-fqB Clean energy too big to be shut down by Trump – San Francisco Chronicle — Economics Outside the Cube http://wp.me/p5Cqpo-fsr **** This is the World Organic News for the week ending 12th of June 2017. Jon Moore reporting! This week we begin with a post from the blog: GarryRogers Nature Conservation entitled: Can “Regenerative Farming” Save Us From Global Catastrophe? Garry is not completely sure but he provides the article for our consideration. To give you some idea: Quote: “A growing corps of organic, climate, environmental, social justice and peace activists are promoting a new world-changing paradigm that can potentially save us from global catastrophe. Th

Links Analysing wastewater reveals population health - The Science Show - ABC Radio National (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) http://wp.me/p5Cqpo-fqo Sydney’s Toxic Green Olympics https://www.uow.edu.au/~sharonb/Olympic.html Antidepressants in Stream Waters! Are They in the Fish Too? https://toxics.usgs.gov/highlights/antidepressants_fish.html   This year’s new global solar capacity on pace to potentially pass 2016 record due to lower costs — Financial Post http://wp.me/p5Cqpo-fo5 **** This is the World Organic News for the week ending 5th of June 2017. Jon Moore reporting! This week we begin with a post linking to the ABC’s Science Show from 3rd of June 2017. The segment is entitled: Analysing wastewater reveals population health. Not surprisingly, given the unfettered nature of chemical production from 1945 until the momentum of Silent Spring led to the establishment of environmental protection legislation across the nations outside of the Iron Curtain in the 1970s, many of these chemicals persist. No

Links The Truth About Factory Farms http://wp.me/p5Cqpo-ffR 6 Reasons Local Food Systems Will Replace our Industrial Model BY http://wp.me/p5Cqpo-fgH Ridiculous! “EU declared Monsanto weed killer safe after intervention from controversial US official” | The Guardian http://wp.me/p5Cqpo-fjt Luscious grass http://wp.me/p5Cqpo-fjq **** This is the World Organic News for the week ending 29th of May 2017. Jon Moore reporting! This we begin with an infographic from the blog The Internet Post entitled: The Truth About Factory Farms. What can I say? The horrors of factory farming should be well known by now yet as a form of food, and I use that word loosely, production continues. The business sense of bringing every component to one place, performing a production activity and then sending out a finished product makes some sense if you’re building a car or mass producing widgets. When it comes to food, living things, then it makes far less sense. Plants do not fit into this system and animals less so. Let me explain.

Contact Us www.realfoodchain.wordpress.com/contact-us/   Hello and welcome to episode two of the Real Food Chain podcast! I’m Jon and we’ll hear from my co-host Rich later in the show. This month’s focus is urban farming here in sunny Australia. Rich will be talking with Margaret Paton about her experiences growing food in her Blayney backyard using permaculture principles. Before that let’s have a deeper look at urban farming. This system of food production has much to recommend it. Food miles are reduced to zero. This strips all the green house gasses out of transport. If you also urban farm organically, and I’ll assume we’re all on that page, then you’re building soil carbon. Pulling CO2 out of the atmosphere and holding it in the soil, where it belongs. You are also not adding to the demand for poisons to be sprayed on your food. Basically a win, win, win situation! In the upcoming interview Margaret talks about an extremely small garden which was her inspiration. This is worth bearing in mind. The amount

Links What happened to the “fail-safe” Svalbard seed vault designed to save us from crop failure. http://wp.me/p5Cqpo-ffT Washington Post: preposterously warm winter Inside Climate news: began melting at an alarming rate **** This is the World Organic News for the week ending 22nd of May 2017. Jon Moore reporting! This week we bring troubling news. The seedbank at Svalbard was flooded. I’m sure we can all understand that mixing seeds and water is not ideal for long term preservation of said seed stocks. There is, though, much more to this than first meets the eye. Svalbard was the doomsday defense for humanity’s food seeds. So far above the arctic circle and never above -18degrees C that’s around zero degrees F, the facility was set up as a set and forget operation. The ground temperature rarely varied, the ground continually frozen, a safe place for our food seeds. All this sounds great but and I quote: Quote: The Arctic experienced a preposterously warm winter last season, and the permafrost, which has b

� Links   Pastured Pork Pros and Cons http://wp.me/p5Cqpo-f4y   The Top 5 Things I Have Learned Since I’ve Started Homesteading http://wp.me/p5Cqpo-f6X   ****   This is the World Organic News for the week ending 15th of May 2017. Jon Moore reporting!   We begin this week with a post from the blog The Intrepid Homestead entitled: Pastured Pork Pros and Cons.   A whole new skill set is required for pastured anything. Pigs being pigs and innately intelligent bring their own issues.   The right breed is essential. Thankfully there were far sighted people who didn’t follow the Danish landrace highway to factory farmed pork. No these people kept alive the old breeds, not all of them but enough for pastured pork to be a thing. The old breeds like Gloucester Old Spot, Wessex Saddleback, Berkshire and Tamworth.   Three of the pros discussed are as follows: Quote: Your pigs will taste better than the average pig (assuming you feed them good food). Remember, you are what you eat and you are what you eat eats! They’ll cl