mick capelin 💉💉💉💉
@mickcap
Passion for family, friends, reading, dreaming, rural planning, soils, sourdough, sailboarding, open swimming, cycling & discovery.
Reupping the best thing I wrote in 2024. The modern urban-rural political divide is the product of a decades long bifurcation in the political economy which has given rise to a high tech metropolitan knowledge economy & a slow growth low wage rural economy lpeproject.org/blog/the-polit…
.@PaulBongiorno on Dutton's latest attempts at baseless fear mongering: Consider this: Every year in Australia 60,000 convicted criminals are released back into the community after serving their time. There is a 53 per cent recidivism rate. #auspol satpa.pe/V8Ej2lk
Although we tend to equate “rural” with “farm,” small, general farms disappeared more than half a century ago. Now, agriculture has become a capital-intensive, high-tech pursuit. nyer.cm/5qIHuZp
NZSSS member, Sam Carrick of @mwlr_nz talks to Radio NZ about the fragile magic of highly productive land and the new national policy introduced to try help protect it for future generations. rnz.co.nz/programmes/the…
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The fragile magic of highly productive land
The government has just put new protections on highly productive land, the best of which makes up only one percent of our soil.
The world has passed peak agricultural land
![arbesman's tweet image. One thousand years of agricultural land use.
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Soil war #soil
Only about 2% of the world’s soil is black soil and about 25% of that is found in Ukraine unherd.com/2022/05/putins…
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Putin's plan to starve the world
Farmers are being killed and their barns looted
American Farmland Trust released a new report on how to expand #solar energy generation while strengthening farmland protection and farm viability in New York, guided by research and stakeholder input. Learn more @farmlandinfo: farmlandinfo.org/publications/s…
Targeted restoration of degraded ecosystems on less profitable ag land has enormous potential to alleviate these problems. Farmers can cont. to produce valuable crops on their prime land, while rebuilding habitat+ sequestering carbon on more marginal land theconversation.com/australia-coul…
Carbon sinks bubble up the dollars for state's rural economy inqld.com.au/?p=33633 via @InQldMedia
Earth Day! And we have the perfect way to celebrate with @AshwoodLoka and Aimee Imlay's seminar at noon CST on all the complex consequences of right-to-farm legislation. Great article about this work, including today's talk, here: as.uky.edu/family-farms-o…
Interesting and thought provoking analysis of agricultural and rural perspectives.
I wrote this thing. We see so much ag policy that harms rural interests or refuses to pursue benefits for other rural stakeholders that I thought it was worth trying to figure out why. Perhaps ag isn't rural.
I so miss daily collaborations with @gabriellechan but we are better for her having time to think and write. Have a read of what humans have valued to chart progress and what needs to change about that 👇 griffithreview.com/articles/break…
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Breaking new ground – Gabrielle Chan
How do we measure the worth of our environmental assets? Journalist Gabrielle Chan explains how we can account for our big spending of natural capital. Delivery split for Griffith Review 84: Attach...
We can either continue fighting over 26 January for #AustraliaDay , which will never be won, or find a more suitable day. One of the Federation dates would be better: Declaration on 1 January or First Parliament on 29 March.
A gas-led recovery would cost agricultural jobs and increase land use conflicts, the @AustFarmInstitu says via @thelandnews #auspol theland.com.au/story/7034408/…
Rural issues are urban issues are suburban issues. planetizen.com/news/2020/11/1…
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3 Myths About Rural America and How to Debunk Them
The effort to debunk common myths about rural America in academia and the news media continues.
Soil affects history and the US election!
The US election is tomorrow. If you, like me, are tired of horse-race-style reporting, and need to zoom out, I wanna tell you a story. It’s about an ancient force influencing the election. And, as a bonus, it’ll give you an Easter egg to watch for as the returns come in. THREAD
United States Xu hướng
- 1. Rickea N/A
- 2. Duke N/A
- 3. #UFCVegas113 N/A
- 4. Fears N/A
- 5. Kingston Flemings N/A
- 6. Mario Bautista N/A
- 7. Travis Scott N/A
- 8. James Pearce N/A
- 9. Falcons N/A
- 10. #BlueLock N/A
- 11. Kentucky N/A
- 12. #Olandriax15PercentPledgeGala N/A
- 13. #Toonami N/A
- 14. Rick Barnes N/A
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- 17. Izzo N/A
- 18. Mark Pope N/A
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