๐งโ๐พ Do you know what syntropic farming is?
Meanwhile oil companies make record high profits
๐งโ๐พDear eco-nnecters,
It seems to be a week of records: stock market and crypto record crashes, food prices are at record high, heatwaves worldwide reach record levels, and oil companies reach record high profits. Funny how the world worksโฆ
But fear not syntropic farming is here to save the day!
This Week in Climate News:
๐ก๏ธUS temperatures hit record levels as south-west bakes in heatwave: Death Valley California: 50C/122F, Palm Springs 46C/114F, Phoenix 46C/114F, Las Vegas 42C/109F
๐ก๏ธ Early summer heatwave reaches Western Europe with highs of 45C
๐ช๐ธ Spain to target supermarket food waste with fines up to $520,000
๐ก๏ธ Kuwait records highest temperature this year at 51.2C/124F
๐ Cool Trends:
๐ Home composting
๐งโ๐พ Syntropic farming
๐ง How to deal with eco-anxiety
Amid climate chaos itโs normal to feel frustrated, angry and vulnerable. So here our go-to ways to channel your anxiety positively.
Practice meditation and breathwork
๐งโ๐พ Syntropic Farming
Syntropic farming is one of those solutions that is so simple, itโs crazy that it hasnโt gone mainstream. Turn arid monocultures into hyper productive forests that regenerate the soil, increase yields, increase biodiversity, produce water, reduce costs, and provide delicious food year round? Sign us up!
โWouldnโt we achieve greater results if we sought ways of cultivation that favor the development of plants, rather than creating genotypes that support the bad conditions we impose them?โโErnst Gรถtsch
So what is it exactly?
Syntropic farming is a method of agriculture devised by Ernst Gotsch in Brazil. Inspired by nature, it designs food forests that mimic natureโs natural succession and stratification to grow food that needs minimal human input.
What if your food forest produced its own water, just like the Amazon does?
Gotsch is currently working with top-tier engineers to adapt his system to large scale agriculture too.
๐ฉ WTF? news
๐ข The UN launches crowdfunding campaign to prevent catastrophic oil spill in Yemen
^ seems slightly incoherent to ask people to pay for an oil tanker spill rather than asking the company responsible or any oil company making record profits?
๐ The Culture Club
๐บ What weโre watching:
๐ง What weโre listening to: eco-nnect TALKS to Matias Muchnick about Plant-Based Food Tech
๐ Profile of the week: @tierra.negra.mx
๐คฏ Scary fact we learnt this week: Monsanto owns 33% of the worldโs seedsโฆ