NEW MIDDLES: Exhibit Columbus announces online symposium
Exhibit Columbus has announced a series of conversations and online events which will comprise the 2020 Exhibit Columbus Symposium New Middles event this fall. Exhibit Columbus—which launched in 2016 to…
Our Turn At This Earth: Wes Jackson And The Life Of The Mind
What if you discovered that a genius, a visionary thinker who could string thoughts and words together that make you believe in your own potential and that of all humanity,…
Vertical Farms Could Grow All the Wheat We Need — But at a Cost
For years, vertical farming has captured headlines, including on this very website. A new study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences on Monday shows the practice could revolutionise the world’s…
Beyond the Green New Deal
Is it weird that it would be the pen of a plant breeder who specializes in perennial sorghum, Stan Cox of The Land Institute, that would give us the most…
The Coronavirus-Climate-Air Conditioning Nexus
This summer, America will be hemmed in by a climate emergency on one hand and a continuing deadly pandemic on the other. Meanwhile, humming away in the background, aggravating our plight, will be…
How to Get Off Fossil Fuels Quickly—and Fairly
When it comes to a just transition, it’s going to take a radical re-imagining not only of our economy but also of our culture and the shape of our social…
How to Get Off Fossil Fuels Quickly—and Fairly
When analyzing the Green New Deal, author and plant scientist Stan Cox says it has two distinct parts: “The ‘new deal’ part is pretty good, with its provisions for job and…
Kernza: The Environment-friendly Wheat Crop that Wants to Feed the World
The development of agriculture has been essential to the rise of civilization. But in the 21st century, the ever-increasing need of Earth’s growing population for food is one of the factors…
Genetic Analysis of Domestication Parallels in Annual and Perennial Sunflowers (Helianthus spp.): Routes to Crop Development
Parallels exist between the domestication of new species and the improvement of various crops through selection on traits which favor the sowing, harvest and retention of yield potential and the…
Fungal Community Shifts in Soils with Varied Cover Crop Treatments and Edaphic Properties
Cover cropping is proposed to enhance soil microbial diversity and activity, with cover crop type affecting microbial groups in different ways. We compared fungal community compositions of bulk soils differing…
Prairie Research Could Help Farming Become More Resilient, Sustainable
On a still November day, Patrick O’Neal, the burn coordinator at Kansas State University’s Konza Prairie Biological Station near Manhattan, Kansas, convenes a meeting about a planned fire. “The goal…
Our Turn At This Earth: The Ones We’ve Been Waiting For
“Are We the Ones We’ve Been Waiting For?” This was the title of Wes Jackson’s speech at last year’s Prairie Festival, an event held each September at the Land Institute…