2020-10-11

Coping with long-term crises

Jim Stockdale spent seven years in a Vietnamese prison camp and survived. His secret? Quoting the article “The Stockdale Paradox” by Jim Collins:

2020-09-25

Regenerative agriculture: three videos

With climate change, both floods and droughts are becoming more extreme, resulting in soil degradation and desertification.

In this blog post, we look at three inspiring videos about solutions that people are using in Saudi Arabia, India, and Germany.

A common theme is that even in dry regions, there is enough water, but the ground doesn’t retain enough of it. Therefore, in each case, people have found ways of improving the ground’s ability to store water.

The effects are dramatic: Near-deserts are becoming green landscapes again.