Isabella Kaminski, The Wave:

“Geoengineering is a huge risk to human rights that could be the subject of future climate lawsuits.

Geoengineering is one of those terms that has the skill of attracting sexy stories despite its surface dryness. It regularly crops up in articles exploring the latest solution to climate change – a label stuck onto a range of ways for deliberately making large-scale changes to the Earth’s natural systems, each of which have their own benefits, limitations and risks.

The geoengineering umbrella sometimes includes methods of removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, such as mass tree planting and carbon capture and storage technology. But attention is usually focused on the more theoretical and even more controversial approaches, including solar radiation management, ocean fertilisation and the manipulation of Arctic sea ice. What they all have in common is their grandiosity in assuming the right to affect a large swathe of the globe.”

Learn why the IPCC says “Solar engineering in particular introduces a “widespread range of new risks to people and ecosystems, which are not well understood.”

Read: “Why Is Blocking the Sun Being Quietly Normalized?” by Alexis Baden-Mayer, Organic Consumers Association

TAKE ACTION: Say No To Solar Geo! Blocking the Sun Is NOT a Climate Solution!

Environmental Working Group (EWG) reports:

“The FDA’s decision to ban brominated vegetable oil in food is a victory for public health. But it’s disgraceful that it took decades of regulatory inaction to protect consumers from this dangerous chemical,” said Scott Faber, senior vice president of government affairs at the Environmental Working Group.

‘It’s outrageous that for years Americans have been consuming a chemical banned in Europe and Japan. The FDA’s belated action on BVO underscores the urgent need for more rigorous and timely oversight of food additives,’ said Faber.

In addition to harm to the nervous system, BVO has been linked to other health hazards. It can also build up in the body. Research shows a connection between large amounts of BVO-containing soda ingested over a long period of time and problems such as headaches, irritation of the skin and mucous membranes, fatigue and loss of muscle coordination and memory.”

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By Robin McDowell & Margie Mason, AP:

“A hidden path to America’s dinner tables begins here, at an unlikely source – a former Southern slave plantation that is now the country’s largest maximum-security prison.

Unmarked trucks packed with prison-raised cattle roll out of the Louisiana State Penitentiary, where men are sentenced to hard labor and forced to work, for pennies an hour or sometimes nothing at all. After rumbling down a country road to an auction house, the cows are bought by a local rancher and then followed by The Associated Press another 600 miles to a Texas slaughterhouse that feeds into the supply chains of giants like McDonald’s, Walmart and Cargill.

Intricate, invisible webs, just like this one, link some of the world’s largest food companies and most popular brands to jobs performed by U.S. prisoners nationwide, according to a sweeping two-year AP investigation into prison labor that tied hundreds of millions of dollars’ worth of agricultural products to goods sold on the open market.

They are among America’s most vulnerable laborers. If they refuse to work, some can jeopardize their chances of parole or face punishment like being sent to solitary confinement. They also are often excluded from protections guaranteed to almost all other full-time workers, even when they are seriously injured or killed on the job.”

Find out what goods these prisoners are forced to produce

Analysis by Dr. Joseph Mercola:

“STORY AT-A-GLANCE

* “Failure to thrive” is a diagnosis that arose in the earliest 20th century, and is still given to children and adults today. It ignores the underlying conditions that can contribute to poor health, mainly impaired cellular energy production.

* Factors affecting cellular health include excessive linoleic acid intake, exposure to electromagnetic fields, endotoxin production in the gut and xenoestrogen ingestion from plastics.

* Strategies to help optimize your health include minimizing linoleic acid consumption to below 5 grams per day from all sources, reducing reliance on plastic wrapping, avoiding processed foods and optimizing gut health.

* Ultra-processed fortified products that will “address nutritional deficiencies” and supposedly help with growth and development contain unhealthy ingredients like canola oil, soy and artificial sweeteners. They cannot substitute the nutrients you get from real whole foods.”

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Jana Dziak, The Peasant’s Daughter:

“Perennials are easy to grow, easy to maintain, and will reward you for many, many years with a steadfast supply of delicious food that comes back on its own faithfully each spring. But most of these plants require time to establish themselves and begin producing food, so plan accordingly and start now.

Edible Perennials Will Save You Money!

Edible perennials, like fruits, herbs, and vegetables, are especially beneficial as they’re often hard (or impossible) to find in stores. It’s also vastly cheaper to grow your own for all of the plants on this list.

Heed my advice, new homesteaders and gardeners — start planting edible perennials right from the start.”



Check out this great variety of plants!

Stuart Braun writes for Deutsche Welle:

“New GMOs will continue to perpetuate an ‘agro-industrial system’ that ‘bears substantial responsibility for the climate crisis,’ Anneleen Kenis, lecturer in political ecology and environmental justice at Brunel University, London, told DW.

Currently, food systems generate around one-third of the greenhouse gas emissions fueling climate change. And in the US, more than half of harvested cropland is produced with genetically modified seeds.

Kenis’ research argues that GMOs often involve “large-scale monocultures” of limited crop varieties that also require great amounts of artificial fertilizers, pesticides and irrigation.

‘It’s a very energy-intensive system in terms of the input it needs to function. There is nothing sustainable about further strengthening this system,’ said the researcher, adding that GMOs are promoted by the same “agro-industrial giants” that also control and profit from “a large part of the seed, food, pesticide and fertilizer market.”

So far, this system has also failed ‘to feed large parts of the population in different parts of the world,’ Kenis claims. At least 250 million people in nearly 60 countries endure crisis-level food insecurity, according to the World Food Programme (WFP).” 



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Big Food, Big Data, Big Pharma, Silicon Valley the Pentagon, and the CIA want us to believe that industrial agriculture, factory farms, geo engineering,  genetic engineering, toxic chemicals, lab food, hi-tech weapons, biolabs, and engineered drugs will feed, nurture, and protect us.

What will really protect us is a regenerative food and farming revolution rooted in agroecology, food sovereignty, and Fair Trade/commerce, a participatory resistance carried out by the global grassroots, North and South, farmers and consumers, urban and rural.

What we need is to create Local Food Systems, Biodistricts, and social and inclusive economy networks based on economic democracy, including educational programs and farmers’ markets to link local organic farmers with the community.

Help us call upon governments, and regional and international institutions to support these constituencies’ pathways for transforming corporate food systems through agroecology and food sovereignty.


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By Isabelle Eyman, Camille Styles:

“For insights into this revolutionary shift, I spoke with Max Lugavere, a science journalist, New York Times bestselling author, and host of the top podcast, The Genius Life. Max is often looked to not only for his expertise but his curiosity. In his work, Max speaks with top experts across the fields of nutrition, psychology, mindfulness, and more. 

His questions point to and simultaneously define the wellness zeitgeist, answering the ultimate question: how do we not only live longer, but what it really means to age well.

I used to believe that disability and decrepitude were natural aspects of getting older. That like a car with excessive mileage on it, breaking down at some stage is inevitable. While aging does tend to bring some degree of wear and tear, we can fight off much of what appears to be “typical” aging today with a handful of high-impact healthy habits: namely exercise, proper nutrition, and sleep and stress management.”

Learn more about the science around aging and living well

Sarah Drumm, Imagine5:

“It’s a movement grounded in familiar principles of justice: you can’t rob someone’s house and just get away with it, so why should you be able to rob a forest of its resources? If crimes like murder, arson, and trespassing come with criminal sentences, what’s the difference when those same crimes are committed by companies against animals, trees or rivers?

Chile is in the process of drafting a new constitution that emphasizes the rights of nature, saying human survival depends on it. Nearby Panama is a step ahead, having signed legislation at the start of this year that gives nature the ‘right to exist, persist and regenerate its life cycles’. And in February, a top court in India ruled that “Mother Nature” had the same rights as a person under law.

Around the world, at least 17 countries have introduced some form of nature rights law, from the US to New Zealand.”  

Read about how some are trying to give meaning to what nature rights are about

Greg Stanley writes for StarTribune:

“The lightning bugs that once flashed so commonly in backyards and parks across the state are succumbing to some of the same perils that have devastated other insects, said Jill Utrup, a biologist with the Fish and Wildlife Service.

The intensive use of pesticides such as neonicotinoids, for instance, that began in the early 2000s can kill the bugs, especially when they’re in their larval stage.

Other pesticides destroy the snails and slugs they need as prey in the early part of their lives. The creatures have also lost a fair amount of habitat, Utrup said.

But the bioluminescent beetles also have to contend with an additional problem of their own: light pollution. Lights from new houses, businesses and urban sprawl are keeping fireflies from finding each other during the critical four- or five-week window they have to mate.”

You can help:

“Don’t turn on outdoor lights in July. Don’t pick up some fallen leaves and branches, but leave them in the yard for the bugs to shelter in. Close shades at night. Keep native shrubs and wildflowers in gardens.”

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