I'm hearing reports that the NY State Assembly just passed the plug-in solar vote by a wide margin, joining the State Senate. Assuming the governor signs it, that will be the 8th state making it legal (and the biggest). A groundswell across the country, and so many thanks to great organizers!

Place your bets now folks

The bad take factory must be working on overtime

Covid elicited a massive deployment of resources, both public and charitable, to address hunger. It was a time where we came together to care for the most vulnerable in a challenging time. This rise in hunger is a choice. We must recapture this nascent ethic of societal care.

I never would have guessed that writing an article on soil chemistry would require me to look up what counts as defamation. This’ll be a fun one ;)

Sooooo . . .

Misty forest bike ride

I work in the largest academic HVAC research lab in the US. Tons of my prof and grad student colleagues have worked for years to characterize low-GWP refrigerants and adapt equipment to use them. In collaboration with most major manufacturers. That train is moving, fast. Trump lackeys won't stop it.

FFA is one of the largest student organizations in the country

That Harris and Walz didn't go to fancy schools like elites should is an underrated cause for why the press loathed them.

Really, a castle to fit all budgets or situations

There are some great, low energy tools out there that are unfairly getting caught up in a rightful outrage. Just more causalities to add to the obituary pages.

Minnesota’s Tree-Range Farms has some of the best agroforestry marketing I’ve seen, masterfully and accessibly communicating how trees help them grow sustainable and delicious poultry. headwatersblog.substack.com/p/marketing-...

Agroforestry-grown products possess unique qualities that distinguish them in a saturated marketplace. Check out my analysis on how these unique farming systems can capture consumer's attention 🌳🍅🛒

Even if it enrages the ornithologists and taxonomists in my life, I must insist on calling birds modern dinosaurs. I cannot let my children grow up in a dino-free world.

Shout out to ice cream cake

Whenever I tell my friends something is "making the rounds on perennials BlueSky" all that really means is a post of mine got 9 likes

The technological landscape of mid century France was very different than what we face today. It was an era of public intervention, directing innovation and productive capacity to better the lives of everyday citizens. What can we learn from this era?

Black soldier fly fertilizer could become the center of a homegrown, circular nurtient economy in Africa, marrying scientific and social progress

Come with me as I explore the literature, film, and music of Portugal

All I want is reviewers of audio products to shut up in their videos and let me listen to it play uninterrupted for like 20 seconds. That's all I'm asking for.

Ozark farmers are always on the look out for the regions next cash crop, and in the late 1800s, agroforestry accidentally brought immense opportunity to the region.

Book review incoming

It’s amazing to me, how quickly progressives have shifted their views on this issue. And encouraging!

A record year for dam removals reconnects US rivers, reconnecting over 7,900 km of rivers. Many of the structures were obsolete or unsafe, and their removal is already restoring fish migration routes, reducing flood risks, and reviving ecosystems. American Rivers buff.ly/LwcNbjh #ShareGoodNewsToo

Excited to document how landowners are building community networks to burn their land

When this small Iowa town was about to loose their grocery store, instead of consigning themselves to Dollar General hell, they bought it 👇 my latest for The Checkout

With new crop commercialization efforts launching in recent years, I wanted to explore the introduction of the kiwi and the blueberry to American diets to understand what strategies and circumstances led to their success. Enjoy!

Spotify's private session feature was actually designed purely with my annual Toby Keith indulgence in mind

Currently in the bleak part of the year, where the pears are lackluster but the stone fruits have yet to come into play

While this doesn't mean that the microplastics don't have a large presence in the environment, the problem may be more manageable than we previously thought (and even if it isn't, the cope is nice)

The future of energy is being decided now. "The US is basically aligning itself as the last big petrostate. We're going to go down with the fossil fuel ship, and China is aligning itself as the first electrostate." [kottke.org]

Pakistan went from below 2% solar to over 25% solar in just 600 days! Less than 24 months. This graph from @ember-energy.org shows it clearly:

My latest blog is a cultural exploration of the culture of the rural manufacturing town, an increasingly endangered species on the American map

I'm scheming so much they're calling my house the Hatchery

Croatia is free of the scourge of landmines

As Suzanne Simard brings out a new book, and a film inspired by her "Mother Tree"/ "Wood Wide Web" hypothesis is in development, please be aware that - to use the technical jargon - it's mostly bollocks. A huge media phenomenon, running miles ahead of the science. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Consumers are increasingly being asked to either deal with corporate enshittification or swear off technology entirely. What if instead we demanded a system that delivered functional, customizable, secure, and durable goods?

It is the anniversary of the My Lai massacre today. I'd say that even more than most years, it's important to remember what happened. And the role Hugh Thompson, an active serviceman, played in both stopping and publicising it. Despite enormous military, political and public pressure to stay quiet.

Perennial Farm Gathering haul! Elderberry juice and heritage grain flour milled less than 2 weeks ago!

My favorite entries at yesterday's agroforestry business pitch competition were: -A tattoo aftercare product made from hazelnut oil -A compost made from spent mushroom logs -A gummy made from honeyberries

When I say “hell yeah,” this is what I’m referring to

What I don't get about MAHA is when was America ever a paragon of health? When infant mortality rates were in the double digits? When nutritional deficiencies abounded? When rotten meat graced the supermarket shelves? What tradition are we returning to?

Agroecology is simultaneously described as an academic discipline, a social movement, and a set of farming practices. In today's post, I explore the history leading to this unique situation

I was experimenting with taking pictures through my friends binocs at the same time this flock of seagulls decided to take off

Some interesting new evidence in the conversation about how domestication affects soil carbon accumulation under perennials In breadfruit, it appears that SOC decreases in early stages of domestication, but eventually rebounds in later stages. Fascinating implications for tropical agroforestry.

Quite a day to have the last name Monaghan. I have an ancestral right to those coffee makers!

the new upside down food pyramid:

An understudied effect of climate change is how it's pushing communities to the edges of their ecologies. Mountain herders are moving higher in search of grass; fire practitioners are taking on larger burns because there are fewer days when it's moist enough to burn.

Everyone remembers where they were when they first noticed the arrow in the FedEx logo