It’s all the rage these days for just about everyone, every company, every contractor, every consultant, every government agency doing the usual, everyday destruction to the land to claim their actions are actually benefitting Mother Nature. And that if they don’t do that “management” or “restoration” or “treatment” or “stewardship” something, Mother Nature will be …
The filmmakers who brought you the environmental documentary films, “Kiss the Ground” (2020) and “Common Ground” (2023), which tout the legitimate benefits of chemicals-free “farming,” are at it again with their 3rd film, “Groundswell” (June 5, 2026 release date). They do offer some valuable ecological guidance, rightly disparaging our corporate-backed chemical/poisons dependency to grow food …
If you read just one article on the climate emergency and how it intersects with food production and the holy cow, read this August 2nd, 2023 blogpost by George Monbiot: https://www.monbiot.com/2023/08/02/all-hat-and-no-cattle/ Monbiot touches on several interrelated issues which TreeSpirit repeatedly focuses on, because they’re so damned important: the climate crisis (aka, global warming), deforestation, and, …
Grass-fed beef ain’t no better, pardner. A new study published March 17, 2025 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences shows grass-fed beef produces more methane than other livestock operations. Even under optimistic rangeland sequestration, grass-fed beef is not less carbon intensive than industrial beef — and 3-40x (!) more carbon intensive than most …
Time to turn off the TV news and re-read 1984. Or Brave New World (order). I don’t know about you, but I’m still in shock and grief is still only on the horizon in the distance of January 2025. Fear will come, too, but no rush – – there are over a thousand days …
FOCUS ON THE BEAUTY FOR A CHANGE, WILL YA, JACK? Where the wild things are. Pierce Point Ranch, Tule Elk Reserve, Point Reyes National Seashore – Jack Gescheidt, JackPhoto.com I’m painfully aware that I mostly write about problems (as I see them); like wild forests being threatened with logging — rebranded as “thinning” or “management” …
Yet another article detailing how the cattle industry is destroying soil and wildlife habitat in the American West — and accelerating the climate crisis by heating the planet. READ FULL ARTICLE. Some EXCERPTS: • Cattle are well known emitters of methane, through belching and manure. But in the arid and fragile West, they’re …
If you read just one article this month about the climate crisis, read this one (CLICK HERE). 2 big takeaways: What you eat matters – and eating less meat is key. (For most people, eating meat, especially beef, is a lifetime habit, but it’s heating the planet as fast as our burning fossil fuels — …
World leaders ignoring role of destruction of nature in causing pandemics – Damian Carrington, Environment editor, June 4, 2021 EXCERPT: Ending the destruction of nature to stop outbreaks at source is more effective and cheaper than responding to them, scientists say. The root cause of pandemics, the destruction of nature, is being ignored, scientists …
May 29, 2021 – America hasn’t done it yet – but France just did. Too much money and entrenched political power exercised by the meat & dairy industries for the U.S. government to take even these simple, reasonable, first steps France just took, encouraging people to eat more plants, and less meat, to reduce greenhouse …