🧑🌾 Do you know what syntropic farming is?
Meanwhile oil companies make record high profits
🧑🌾Dear 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 works…
But fear not syntropic farming is here to save the day!
This Week in Climate News:
🌡️US 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
🌡️ Early summer heatwave reaches Western Europe with highs of 45C
🇪🇸 Spain to target supermarket food waste with fines up to $520,000
🌡️ Kuwait records highest temperature this year at 51.2C/124F
📈 Cool Trends:
🧘 How to deal with eco-anxiety
Amid climate chaos it’s normal to feel frustrated, angry and vulnerable. So here our go-to ways to channel your anxiety positively.
Practice meditation and breathwork
🧑🌾 Syntropic Farming
Syntropic farming is one of those solutions that is so simple, it’s crazy that it hasn’t 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!
“Wouldn’t 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?”—Ernst Götsch
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 nature’s 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.
💩 WTF? news
🚢 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?
🌏 The Culture Club
📺 What we’re watching:
🎧 What we’re listening to: eco-nnect TALKS to Matias Muchnick about Plant-Based Food Tech
👁 Profile of the week: @tierra.negra.mx
🤯 Scary fact we learnt this week: Monsanto owns 33% of the world’s seeds…