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Dec 4, 2024 | 
foodtank.com | Gary Paul Nabhan
During the summer of 2024, more than two fifths of the continental United States faced summer temperatures exceeding 110 degrees Fahrenheit, along with more severe droughts. It is time to radically redirect our food system to better adapt to a hotter, drier world, what some of us now call Planet Desert.
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Dec 1, 2024 | 
santafenewmexican.com | Gary Paul Nabhan
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Oct 3, 2024 | 
foodtank.com | Gary Paul Nabhan
Refugee farmers and farmworkers have had to escape from wars and civil unrest all over the world. But now along with human displacement from their homelands, refugee seeds are being generated as well.
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Jun 7, 2024 | 
nogalesinternational.com | Gary Paul Nabhan
The multinational South32 claims to offer Southern Arizona a brighter future through a “sustainable” mining operation at its Hermosa Project between Nogales and Sonoita. As with any rural development, there has been and should be public debate on how it will affect our communities. Because South32 may become the largest single water user in Santa Cruz County, both entities and citizens should recognize how South32 has affected the health of other communities and their water supplies.
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Jun 4, 2024 | 
nogalesinternational.com | Gary Paul Nabhan
The multinational South32 claims to offer Southern Arizona a brighter future through a “sustainable” mining operation at its Hermosa Project between Nogales and Sonoita. As with any rural development, there has been and should be public debate on how it will affect our communities. Because South32 may become the largest single water user in Santa Cruz County, both entities and citizens should recognize how South32 has affected the health of other communities and their water supplies.
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Apr 4, 2024 | 
patagoniaregionaltimes.org | Gary Paul Nabhan
Sometimes TV, radio and print ads promoting businesses end up achieving the opposite effect of what they are intended to do. Ever watch those prime-time TV ads for new drugs that have a longer list of side effects than they do benefits: for reducing the pain of a tooth ache, the risk of heart attacks and breathing failure increases, your private parts fall out of or off your body, and you’ll never see your loved ones again? Who would buy into that Faustian bargain?
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Feb 26, 2024 | 
azcapitoltimes.com | Gary Paul Nabhan
This last year, the Arizona government repeatedly received favorable national attention for positive conservation actions: protecting the state’s scarce groundwater supplies from foreign-owned farms that repeatedly violated laws or over-pumped declining aquifers. Last December, Gov. Katie Hobbs was lauded for terminating the leases of state-owned land, where Fondomonte Arizona had for years pumped groundwater in excess of the terms of its contract.
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Feb 23, 2024 | 
foodprint.org | Alexandre Antonelli |Jennifer A. Jewell |Sarah Lohman |Gary Paul Nabhan
In the introduction to his 2022 book “Eating to Extinction,” Dan Saladino presents readers with a list of startling facts: “Half of all the world’s cheeses are produced with bacteria or enzymes manufactured by a single company; one in four beers drunk around the world is the product of one brewer; from the USA to China, most global pork production is based around the genetics of a single breed of pig.” Whether it’s farm animals or the invisible world of microorganisms, genetic uniformity in...
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Feb 23, 2024 | foodprint.org | Alexandre Antonelli |Jennifer A. Jewell |Sarah Lohman |Gary Paul Nabhan
In the introduction to his 2022 book “Eating to Extinction,” Dan Saladino presents readers with a list of startling facts: “Half of all the world’s cheeses are produced with bacteria or enzymes manufactured by a single company; one in four beers drunk around the world is the product of one brewer; from the USA to China, most global pork production is based around the genetics of a single breed of pig.” Whether it’s farm animals or the invisible world of microorganisms, genetic uniformity in...
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Nov 1, 2023 | 
shepherd.com | Dave Broom |Gary Paul Nabhan |David Piñera |Joshua Boissy
Shepherd is reader supported. When you buy books, we may earn an affiliate commission. Myfavorite read in 2023…Not just another whisky-tasting book, A Sense of Place is anenlightening travelogue through Scotland’s picturesque whisky regions,exploring both old and new distilleries, their past and more importantly anduniquely, their present and future.
