The Farmer as Conservationist … and Restorationist

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marybeth Lorbiecki
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Studies ◽  
Fruit Trees ◽  
Commercial Use ◽  
The Face ◽  
Electric Fencing ◽  
Drought Resistant ◽  
New Forest ◽  
Solar Powered ◽  
Land Manager ◽  
Forest Farm

The farm lies about two hours away from the Shack but only historic inches away in concept. In the Driftless region of southwest Wisconsin, it bears upon it some of the beautiful contoured crop swirls of Coon Valley, telltale marks of Leopold’s influence. New Forest Farm, started by Mark and Jen Shepard, is restoration agriculture in action. The farm asks the land to do what it is tailored by nature to do best and then trains it artfully, holistically, and prodigiously for personal, natural, and commercial use. From the sky, it looks like a child’s fingerpainting in green, with curlycues and waves of varying shades, dotted with treetop spheres, winding around ridges and swells. Lovely, biologically diverse, and drought resistant. It has pocket ponds with connective rain-irrigation swales cut into the contours following gradual lines of gravity to disperse captured moisture into the roots and soil for storage. In the face of the worst drought since 1933, this farm stood out lush and lively, though the chestnuts, hazelnuts, and fruit trees produced a reduced harvest, saving their energies for survival. On the spring day we visited, three new shaggy, fawn-colored Highland cattle had just arrived—a mother, son, and calf—along with some new solar-powered electric fencing for pasturing paddocks. “The animals get to know the whole thing,” says Peter Allen, the land manager in his early thirties who expounds on the sequential grazing of the cattle, pigs, sheep, chickens, and turkeys. “They stay for a day in the paddock, and they’re ready to move on to the next when we open the gates.” A PhD student from UW-Madison’s Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies, Allen is applying precepts of wildlife and land ecology to the emerging field of restoration agriculture. He’s also a warm host and knowledgeable tour guide, handing out exciting details like the intoxicating cider made here.

A new dimension for deployment

2019 ◽  
Vol 35 (6) ◽  
pp. 21-23
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Design Methodology ◽  
Reading Time ◽  
Cutting Edge ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Commercial Use ◽  
Course Of Action ◽  
The Face ◽  
Pertinent Information ◽  
Practical Implications

Purpose This paper aims to review the latest management developments across the globe and pinpoints the practical implications from cutting-edge research and case studies. Design/methodology/approach This briefing is prepared by an independent writer who adds their own impartial comments and places the articles in context. Findings There is often a disconnect between science and business that is hard to fathom. Sometimes, of course, it is easy to see why two parties can seem so far apart – the scientist in search of truth and uninterested in any practical or commercial use of an invention – the industrialist who is dedicated to one course of action and unwilling to learn from research, which can prove it is the wrong one. Both people are as guilty as each other of missing what is staring them in the face. And yet, this dogged pursuit of a single goal is what represents them and perhaps enables them to more successful than other at what they choose to do. Originality/value The briefing saves busy executives and researchers hours of reading time by selecting only the very best, most pertinent information and presenting it in a condensed and easy-to-digest format.

Design and Performance Analysis of a Solar Powered Hybrid Rickshaw for Commercial Use in Pakistan

2016 ◽  
Vol 9 (6) ◽  
pp. 472-480 ◽  
Author(s):  
N. Saleh ◽  
K. Mushtaq ◽  
A.A. Zaidi ◽  
S. Abbasoglu ◽  
S. Faiz Ahmed
Keyword(s):  
Performance Analysis ◽  
Commercial Use ◽  
And Performance ◽  
Solar Powered

scholarly journals The Anthropocene, Cli-Fi and Food: Margaret Atwood's MaddAddam

2021 ◽  
Vol 43 (1) ◽  
pp. 39-54
Author(s):  
Esther Muñoz-González ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Food Production ◽  
Environmental Studies ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Individual Agency ◽  
Ethical Choices ◽  
The Face ◽  
Climate Fiction

This article examines Margaret Atwood’s climate fiction novel MaddAddam (2013), a dystopian cautionary text in which food production and eating become ethical choices related to individual agency and linked to sustainability. In the novel, both mainstream environmentalism and deep ecologism are shown to be insufficient and fundamentally irrelevant in the face of a submissive population, in a state of passivity that environmental studies scholar Stacy Alaimo relates to a scientific and masculinist interpretation of the Anthropocene. The article focuses on edibility as a key element in negotiating identity, belonging, cohabitation and the frontiers of the new MaddAddam postapocalyptic community.

scholarly journals Geosocialities, Flow and Renewal in Microbial Rivers

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 24-44
Author(s):  
Serena Zanzu
Keyword(s):  
Microbial Communities ◽  
Continuous Flow ◽  
Environmental Studies ◽  
Interview Data ◽  
Environmental Destruction ◽  
Somatic Therapy ◽  
Changing Environments ◽  
Human Interventions ◽  
The Face

This article draws on interview data and insights from environmental studies and somatic therapy to argue for the significance of thinking ‘with rivers’ in order to reaffirm human and nonhuman entanglements in the current challenges presented by anthropogenic devastation. River microbial communities are unintelligible and complex entities due to their unclear origin and continuous flow downstream. The account of one environmental scientist is presented to consider how the metaphors of movement used in the riverine context assist in exploring the complicated dynamics of fluid communities facing constantly changing environments I call ‘microbial rivers’. A pollution incident affecting a UK river, where microbial communities responded by growing in number and activity, further illustrates the intersection of communities and ecosystems in their adaptation to troubling human interventions. Engaging with somatic understandings of trauma, this article proposes thinking with flow as a possibility to reimagine the capacity for renewal when experiencing debilitating adversities, thus countering apocalyptic responses of immobility in the face of environmental destruction and inviting novel opportunities for growth for human and nonhuman communities.

scholarly journals MODERN FLORAL DESIGN IN THE FACE OF CLIMATE CHANGE

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. Bakumenko ◽  
E. Leontieva ◽  
I. Lukina
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Ground Cover ◽  
Ecological Requirements ◽  
The Face ◽  
Drought Resistant ◽  
State Forestry ◽  
The City

This paper substantiates the relevance of using a mix of shrubs and resistant perennials, in particular, cereals and drought-resistant ground cover plants in modern urban flower decoration. An analysis was made of the modern floral decoration of urban social facilities in Voronezh and a search for the current assortment of perennials for mixborders and container compositions. When selecting the assortment, the authors were guided by the ecological requirements of plants and the main purpose of flower beds - to create color dominants of landscape compositions. Particular attention in the work is paid to container gardening. Some of the compositions have already been tested in practice last season on the example of the campus of the Voronezh State Forestry University named after G.F. Morozov. After a year, some adjustments were made to the range of plants. There is an opportunity to extend this experience to other social facilities of the city.

scholarly journals (93) Evaluating the Effectiveness of Prohexadione-Ca as a Plant Growth Retardant on Buddleia, Dianthus, Eupatorium, and Lilium

HortScience ◽  
2005 ◽  
Vol 40 (4) ◽  
pp. 1045E-1046
Author(s):  
Roberto G. Lopez ◽  
Erik S. Runkle
Keyword(s):  
Plant Growth ◽  
Foliar Spray ◽  
Lilium Longiflorum ◽  
Fruit Trees ◽  
Growth Retardant ◽  
Spray Application ◽  
Commercial Use ◽  
Dianthus Barbatus ◽  
Small Grains ◽  
Buddleia Davidii

Prohexadione-Ca (ProCa) is a relatively new plant growth regulator (PGR) that inhibits internode length in rice, small grains, and fruit trees. However, little is known about its efficacy and potential phytotoxicity on floriculture crops and how it compares to other commercially available PGR chemicals. The effects of two foliar spray applications (2 weeks apart) of ProCa (500, 1000, or 2000 ppm), paclobutrazol (30 ppm), or a tank mix of daminozide plus chlormequat (2500 and 1000 ppm, respectively) were quantified on Dianthus barbatus L. `Interspecific Dynasty Red', Ageratina altissima R. King & H. Robinson (Eupatorium rugosum) `Chocolate', Lilium longiflorum Thunb. `Fangio', and Buddleia davidii Franch. `Mixed.' All plants were forced in a glass-glazed greenhouse with a constant temperature setpoint of 20 °C under a 16-h photoperiod. Two weeks after the second spray application of ProCa at 500, 1000, or 2000 ppm, plant height of Dianthus and Lilium was shorter than control plants by 56%, 60%, and 65% and by 6%, 26%, and 28%, respectively. However, ProCa bleached and reduced the size of Dianthus flowers. ProCa at 2000 ppm and daminozide plus chlormequat were effective at controlling the height of Eupatorium (64% and 53% reduction, respectively); however, leaves of Eupatorium were discolored and showed symptoms of phytotoxicity 1 week after the first ProCa application. Only daminozide plus chlormequat were effective on Buddleia. ProCa is an effective PGR for most of the crops we tested; however, its discoloration of red flowers and foliage may limit its application for commercial use.

Robert Angus Smith, F. R. S. and ‘sanitary science’

1974 ◽  
Vol 28 (2) ◽  
pp. 241-262 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Industrial Pollution ◽  
Environmental Studies ◽  
Applied Science ◽  
The Other ◽  
Chemistry Department ◽  
Field Of Study ◽  
The Face ◽  
History Of

IN the library of the old Chemistry Department in Manchester University stood the busts of three ‘great chemists’, Lavoisier, Dalton, and Angus Smith. History has dealt less kindly with Smith than with the other two, but he does not deserve to be totally forgotten. As the first Alkali Inspector under the Act of 1863 (and for several years the only one) his effect on the face of industrial Britain should not be under-estimated. We are reserving this aspect of his work, however, for a broader treatment of the history of industrial pollution. In this paper we shall consider his life, and his contributions to what he called ‘sanitary science’; an ill-defined field of study, comprising aspects of those disciplines now called ‘public health’ and ‘environmental studies’. The present popularity enjoyed by these branches of applied science has tended to obscure the fact that they were pursued with a comparable vigour and urgency a century ago.

Why do people believe in a zero-sum economy?

2018 ◽  
Vol 41 ◽  
Author(s):  
Samuel G. B. Johnson
Keyword(s):  
Perspective Taking ◽  
Evolutionary Model ◽  
Everyday Experience ◽  
Coalitional Psychology ◽  
The Face ◽  
Zero Sum

AbstractZero-sum thinking and aversion to trade pervade our society, yet fly in the face of everyday experience and the consensus of economists. Boyer & Petersen's (B&P's) evolutionary model invokes coalitional psychology to explain these puzzling intuitions. I raise several empirical challenges to this explanation, proposing two alternative mechanisms – intuitive mercantilism (assigning value to money rather than goods) and errors in perspective-taking.

Mars: was There an Ancient Eden?

1997 ◽  
Vol 161 ◽  
pp. 203-218 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tobias C. Owen
Keyword(s):  
Positive Answer ◽  
Biogenic Elements ◽  
Habitable Zones ◽  
The Face ◽  
The Origin Of Life ◽  
Early Mars ◽  
Favorable Conditions ◽  
Open Question ◽  
Rocky Planets ◽  
Impact Erosion

AbstractThe clear evidence of water erosion on the surface of Mars suggests an early climate much more clement than the present one. Using a model for the origin of inner planet atmospheres by icy planetesimal impact, it is possible to reconstruct the original volatile inventory on Mars, starting from the thin atmosphere we observe today. Evidence for cometary impact can be found in the present abundances and isotope ratios of gases in the atmosphere and in SNC meteorites. If we invoke impact erosion to account for the present excess of129Xe, we predict an early inventory equivalent to at least 7.5 bars of CO2. This reservoir of volatiles is adequate to produce a substantial greenhouse effect, provided there is some small addition of SO2(volcanoes) or reduced gases (cometary impact). Thus it seems likely that conditions on early Mars were suitable for the origin of life – biogenic elements and liquid water were present at favorable conditions of pressure and temperature. Whether life began on Mars remains an open question, receiving hints of a positive answer from recent work on one of the Martian meteorites. The implications for habitable zones around other stars include the need to have rocky planets with sufficient mass to preserve atmospheres in the face of intensive early bombardment.

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