Le Parlement Citoyen

Le temps est venu pour un Parlement Citoyen sur l’urgence écologique

Davantage de participation citoyenne et une politique environnementale ambitieuse ? Le Parlement Citoyen a déjà une proposition concrète pour notre gouvernement De Croo ! 101 citoyen.ne.s tirés au sort pour représenter la diversité de la population belge et pour réfléchir, avec l’appui d’experts, sur le plus grand défi de notre époque.

http://leparlementcitoyen.be/

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I think I'm the first to check this out from the library. Still got that "new book" scent. Highly recommended BTW! #Books #Libraries #Ecology #Environment #Nature #LawnsIntoMeadows

L’eau potable en France largement contaminée par des résidus d’un fongicide interdit

https://www.rtbf.be/article/leau-potable-en-france-largement-contaminee-par-des-residus-dun-fongicide-interdit-11179626

#extinction-rebellion #extinctionrebellion #extinction-rebellion-belgique #extinction-rebellion-belgie #extinction-rebellion-belgium #extinctionrebellionbelgique #extinctionrebellionbelgie #extinctionrebellionbelgium #extinction-rebellion-bruxelles #extinction-rebellion-brussel #extinction-rebellion-brussels #extinctionrebellionbruxelles #extinctionrebellionbrussel #extinctionrebellionbrussels #climat #climate #klimaat #environnement #environment #milieu #extinction #uitsterven #écologie #ecologie #ecology #urgence-climatique #urgenceclimatique #climate-urgency #climateurgency #klimaatnoodsituatie #france #vudici #vu-d-ici #eau-potable #contamination #fongicide #interdit #pesticides #métabolites #anses #commission-européenne #santé #cancérogène

L’eau potable en France largement contaminée par des résidus d’un fongicide interdit

L’eau potable en France est largement contaminée par des résidus issus d’un fongicide interdit depuis plusieurs...

#UK #fishing vessels ‘underreporting’ #whale, #dolphin and #porpoise bycatch | Fishing | The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/mar/21/uk-fishing-industry-underreporting-whale-dolphin-porpoise-bycatch

#Environment #Ecology #Conservation

Your #garden should be a multilayer #food #forest, says #RHS horticulturist | #Gardens | The Guardian

There is an odd mindset in certain people in the #UK of gardens being ornaments rather than living environments.

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2023/mar/25/garden-multilayer-forest-biodiverse-tom-massey-rhs

#Horticulture #RoyalHorticulturalSociety #Wildlife #Biodiversity #Plants #Ecology

‘A wake-up call’: total weight of #wild #mammals less than 10% of #humanity’s | #Wildlife | The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/mar/18/a-wake-up-call-total-weight-of-wild-mammals-less-than-10-of-humanitys

#Biology #Biodiversity #Conservation #Ecology

#Ecosystem collapse ‘inevitable’ unless #wildlife losses reversed | #Biodiversity | The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/feb/24/ecosystem-collapse-wildlife-losses-permian-triassic-mass-extinction-study

#Science #Biology #Ecology #Conservation #Wildlife #ClimateCrisis #GlobalWarming #ClimateChange

about the cats..yes, even Diddums
ABC
#cats #pets #ecology #Australia

'Cat-free' suburbs could become common across Australia as councils call for urgent reform

Containing cats to homes and "cat-free" suburbs could become common across Australia if local councils get their way as they unite with scientists to try stop 340 million native animals being killed a year.

A third of #companies linked to #deforestation have no policy to end it | Deforestation | The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/feb/15/a-third-of-companies-linked-to-deforestation-have-no-policy-to-end-it

#Environment #Ecology #Conservation #ClimateChange #GlobalWarming #ClimateCrisis

Homestead Paradise: got barren land, boosted it at a profit

In the early 90s, Mark and Jen Shepard bought a degraded corn farm in Viola, Wisconsin, and began to slowly convert it from row-crops back to a native oak savanna that would become one of the most productive perennial farms in the country.

After 8 years of homesteading in Alaska (arriving just as the Homestead Act was expiring) where they had been forced by low-paying jobs to discover “which trees, shrubs, bushes, and vines we could get food from”, they arrived in the Driftless Area of Wisconsin ready to apply their knowledge of permaculture (“permanent agriculture”).

Over the past nearly three decades, Mark has planted an estimated 250,000 trees on the 106-acre farm. The main agroforestry crops are chestnuts, hazelnuts, and apples, followed by walnut, hickory, cherry, and pine (for the nuts). For short-term income, the couple planted annual crops, like grains and asparagus, in alleys between the fruit-and-nut-bearing trees. Cattle, pigs, lambs, turkeys, and chickens act as pest control and free composters as they roam the savannas of the farm.

Not content to rely on commercially-produced seeds, Mark does his own breeding to find the best-adapted trees to his region using the method he’s dubbed STUN (Sheer Total Utter Neglect). He plants trees at a higher density than recommended and with as much diversity as possible (at one point they were farming 219 varieties of apples) and then lets pests and disease run their course. He fells diseased trees or those that don’t bear enough, or early enough, fruit. The result is orchards hardy enough to survive even Chestnut Blight.

As more and more of the alley crops have been replaced with trees and pocket ponds to help manage water on the farm, the land here has returned to the native savannas where the mastodon once grazed 12,000 years ago (in 1898 bones were discovered 5 miles down the road).

New Forest Farm has inspired many other perennial farms, especially chestnut farmers in the region, and Mark hopes that every schoolchild will plant their own apple seeds (and perhaps subject them to STUN) and that every family can plant a backyard food forest.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sRPP4Ilpxso

#Agriculture #USA #Wisconsin #Forest #trees #edible #chestnut #food #ecology

A #book in five minutes: This is a great overview and discussion of the current relevance of 'Small is Beautiful', which came out 50 years ago. It was a highly influential book that, sadly, fell out of favour. It was not only #Schumacher’s left-leaning view of #economics that became unfashionable; its calls for restraint and technological simplification did not fit into ideology of #green or ‘ethical’ consumerism which dominated the Western ecological debate from the early 1990s.

You can read it as an article
and also watch it as a video

#ecology #environment #ClimateChange #capitalism

‘Small is Beautiful – A Study of Economics as if People Mattered’

Some books are so well observed, so prescient, that even their supporters are seemingly overwhelmed by their material implications, and turn away from the truths they annunciate: ‘Small is Beautiful’ is such an example.

The Diamond Sutra | Sr. Dang Nghiem, 2020-2-27, Deer Park Monastery

https://youtu.be/ASKhIwAqoPI

#SisterDangNghiem #DangNghiem #earth #MotherEarth #ecology #DeepEcology #DiamondSutra #buddhism #dharma #dhamma

Global #pollinator losses causing 500,000 early #deaths a year – study | #Insects | The Guardian

Food chain is too simple a term, a food web or network is more accurate.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/jan/09/global-pollinator-losses-causing-500000-early-deaths-a-year-study

#Environment #Ecology #Biodiversity #Conservation

When butter and lard were scarce in World War I, German researchers discovered that certain types of yeast also produced oily lipids

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/article/forgotten-technology-could-solve-world-palm-oil-problem-microbe…

#ClimateEmergency #pollution #ecology #environment #ClimateCrisis #ClimateCatastrophe
#ClimateChange #Climate

This forgotten technology could solve the world’s palm oil problem

Found in everything from chips to toothpaste, our addiction to the oil is destroying rainforests. But oily microbes may finally offer a sustainable alternative.

Sweden clashes with EU over its forest management

4–5 minutes

Sweden has come under fire from critics calling out the country’s unsustainable forest-based industry.

Despite being a strong backer of the EU’s green policies, Sweden has been criticised for having a climate-damaging approach to cutting down trees

https://www.euronews.com/green/2023/01/03/swedens-lucrative-forestry-industry-comes-up-against-eu-climate-concerns

#ClimateEmergency #pollution #ecology #environment #ClimateCrisis #ClimateCatastrophe
#ClimateChange #Climate #Sweden

Sweden clashes with EU over its forest management

Sweden claims the European Commission has no right to interfere in its forest management policies.

#Rewilded former #GolfCourse in #Cheshire to be transformed into public #woodland | Access to green space | The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/dec/25/frodsham-cheshire-golf-course-transformed-woodland

#UK #England #Ecology #Conservation #PublicSpaces #Rewilding

Emperor penguin at risk of extinction, along with two-thirds of native #Antarctic #species, research shows | #Antarctica | The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/dec/23/two-thirds-of-antarcticas-native-species-under-threat-of-extinction-from-global-heating-research-shows

#Wildlife #Science #Biology #Ecology #Environment #ClimateChange #GlobalWarming #Extinction

Meanwhile, just for fun & perspective...

John Oliver talks (clean) trash...

and introduces the "sexy, talking garbage cans of Malmo, "the Ohio of Sweden"

#JohnOliver #recycling #trash #garbagecans #demondolls #Malmo #ecology #Sweden

84% of Tunisians say climate change is already affecting their everyday life. 52% believe that climate change and environmental damage have affected their income or source of living. 83% of Tunisian respondents say that investing in renewable energy should be prioritised

https://african.business/2022/12/apo-newsfeed/84-of-tunisians-say-climate-change-is-already-affecting-their-everyday-life/

#ClimateEmergency #pollution #ecology #environment #ClimateCrisis #ClimateCatastrophe
#ClimateChange #Climate #Tunisia #TomorrowIsTooLate

84% of Tunisians Say Climate Change is Already Affecting their Everyday Life - African Business

84% of Tunisians say climate change is already affecting their everyday life. 52% believe that climate change and environmental damage have affected their

More than 1 in 10 #species could be lost by end of century, study warns | Cop15 | The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/dec/16/more-than-1-in-10-species-could-be-lost-by-end-of-century-study-warns-aoe

#Biology #Ecology #Biodiversity #Wildlife #ClimateChange #GlobalWarming #Animals #Plants #Extinction