When life hands you weeds, make weed art
Author – Mary Hoff for Ensia May 8, 2017 — To most of us, nonnative plants like garlic mustard and honeysuckle are at best irksome invaders — and often sources of […]
Month: August 2017
The future of food production in 12 charts
Author – Mary Hoff for Ensia May 1, 2017 — What will agriculture be called upon to accomplish in the decades ahead? How well is it prepared to answer that call? […]
Watch: Faith and environmental stewardship on the farm fields of eastern Iowa
Author – Todd Reubold for Ensia “We are within nature. We are part of nature. … We’re not divided from nature. We cannot be dismissive of nature because Christ himself […]
Is the United States ready for offshore aquaculture?
Author – Virginia Gewin for Ensia Editor’s note: This story was produced in collaboration with the Food & Environment Reporting Network, a non-profit investigative news organization. Harlon Pearce walks muck-booted past […]
Clean water is a basic human right, and we can and should make it affordable to everyone
Ask someone in Flint, Michigan, or São Paolo, Brazil — the list of cities rocked by water disasters seems to grow each day — how much safe clean water is worth. […]
Here’s what we need to accelerate progress on the UN’s 2030 global energy goals
I’m an optimist by nature, so when I see a new sustainable energy report I immediately look for the good news. And there’s plenty of that in the 2017 Global […]
Bringing aeroconservation down to Earth
Author – Niki Wilson for Ensia From migrating birds to pollinating bees to seed-dispersing plants, thousands of species depend on the quality of the aerosphere — the layer of […]