Articles: Environment

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Creating a Better Earth & Future: Overshoot & Collapse

The environment can only take so much gas emission, over farming, and plastic. What can you do to minimize your…

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The breeding program at the Lockwood, Connecticut, Agricultural Experi- ment Station run by Dr. Sandra Anagnostakis. This program includes species from all over the world and extends through many di erent plant- ings. This particular planting is a mix of American chestnut and Ozark chinquapin and also includes genetics of Japanese and Henry chestnut.

The Epic Saga of the American Chestnut

The American chestnut may well be the greatest and most useful forest tree to ever grow on this Earth. Its…

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Gulls, Humans, and the Environment

Nowadays gulls are trash birds, the subnatural inhabitants of drosscapes. Their coming among us has lowered their sea-bird status. Today…

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How Beavers Can Save the World from Environmental Ruin

If you’re a loyal Chelsea Green customer, and haven’t been living in a dam for the last year, the likelihood…

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Gulls: A Checklist for The Beginning of an Affair

Over the past hundred years, gulls have been brought ashore by modernity. They live not only on the coasts but…

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CARBON CASCADES: How to Restore Earth’s Natural Balance

In order to rescue ourselves from climate catastrophe, we need to radically alter how humans live on Earth. We have…

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Composting: Breaking Down the Core Principles

Composting is about more than just flinging your food scraps into a heap in your backyard. It’s about figuring out…

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How to Use Climate Maps to Navigate the Winter Harvest

Continuing to grow your crops and harvest them well into the winter months seems like an impossible task. How can…

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Healthy Culture, Society and Mother Earth: Agri-Culture

In Call of the Reed Warbler, Charles Massy’s stunning observations of interaction between nature, culture, and society is nothing short of eye…

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Chelsea Green 2018 Blog in Review

Chelsea Green Publishing: A Year In Review

It’s been quite the year here at Chelsea Green! We opened our first international office in London, England, launched a…

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Chelsea Green Authors in the News: Extra, Extra, Read All About It!

One of the most rewarding parts of our job is working with an amazing roster of authors who are not…

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Our History: A Look at Oil, Power, and War

For centuries, humans have had a very strong interest in oil and it’s only getting more intense. Our dependency is…

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Farming Against Nature

When you’re walking around the grocery store looking at all of the different vegetables, it’s probably hard to imagine that…

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The Importance of Planting Cover Crops

If you want to improve your soils, one of the most important things you can do is to plant cover…

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Emergence of the Mechanical Mind and Its Dire Implications

For as far back as we can remember, humans have been driven by the Mechanical Mind – a desire to…

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Happy National Wildlife Day!

Furry friends, ecological heroes, and wild beasts—we celebrate them all. In honor of wildlife and all there is to learn…

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A Call for Regenerative Agriculture: From the Group Up

Farmland covers 38 percent of the Earth’s land area and is a major contributor to climate change. But it doesn’t…

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Give a Dam and Worth a Dam

If you’ve been following our blog recently, you’ve probably read about the myriad abilities beavers have. With the ingenuity to…

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The Wild in Us and Us in the Wild

In the following Q&A, Martin Lee Mueller, author of Being Salmon, Being Human, discusses the importance of rethinking the human-Earth…

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Appetite For Construction

Have you ever wondered why beavers build dams the way they do? Believe it or not, there is actually a…

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What Is “Good” Silvopasture Grazing?

If you’re not familiar with silvopasture, you should be. The integrated system, which combines aspects of forestry, animal husbandry, grazing,…

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Fig Trees: Snakes and Ladders & Tantalising Figs

You ever think about how important fig trees are to ecosystems all over the world? Me neither… until I read Gods,…

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