Adapting to Transformational changes 5 – Using Nature as a model for living Sustainably.

News stories that you hear from the mainstream that are not negative tend only to revolve around new positive technological innovations.  That is the creativity that excites us.  We get excited by things that work well and improve conditions.  Yet, the many positive stories that show social systems where people Read more…

Economics and Energetics of farming 2 – a reality check on food production energetics.

In the previous post I talked about the 10% rule of energetics within the food chain. The potentially most efficient way to eat is to consume the vegetables directly so that we get 10% of the vegetables energy.  Eating an animal that ate the vegetable only gives us 1% of Read more…

Economics and Energetics of farming 1 – a reality check on the food system.

“The primary mode of cognition that the practitioners of science have used during the past century – Analytic, Linear, Reductionist, Deterministic, Mechanical – has begun to reach the limits of its assumptions.  For this particular mode of cognition and the system to which that mode has given rise, can only Read more…