EcoDynamics

11/04/2024

Frank interacting with our foal, Benson. Kiko (right) and Maisy and Milly in the background

23/04/2021

We are very glad to have our newest Austrlian import Izzy Olive joining our farm. Thank you Dawn Stone at Allevare for a wonderful healthy pup.

08/04/2021

'Techno Fixes will not Save our Planet

In his latest book, How to Avoid a Climate Disaster: The Solutions We Have and the Breakthroughs We Need, Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates lays out a plan to stop global warming by reducing greenhouse gas emissions to zero. A fact that seems a little ironic coming from one of the world’s largest emitters[1], whose “guilty pleasure” is flying on private jets and who just joined a bid to acquire the world’s largest private jet services company[2]. Though he attempts to waves this fact away by claiming to make sure that his miles are offset, and his jet uses only “sustainable fuel”. But this sort of contradiction, of placating a severe root problem with a superficial or false solution, is nothing strange for Gates, as a closer look into his million-dollar investments, billionaire and private company partnerships, and his political agenda show little alignment with the goal of truly curving climate change, helping alleviate world hunger, or lifting the poor out of poverty.'

New publication by Navdanya International: Bill Gates & his Fake solutions to Climate Change" ➡ http://bit.ly/BGFakeSolut
Technofixes, Industrial Agriculture, Billionaires Ventures, and Fake Food will not save our Planet - Biodiversity and Agroecology are True Solutions to Climate Change — In his latest book, Bill Gates lays out a plan to stop global warming by reducing greenhouses gas emissions to zero. In reality, his political agenda shows little alignment with the goal of truly fighting climate change, world hunger and poverty. Gates’ million-dollar investments allow him to influence a wide range of areas, from food and agriculture to health and climate change, and to impose the idea that any problem can (and should only) be solved through technology, innovation and the rules of the private market. Through examples such as one of Gates’ most prominent investments funds, Breakthrough Energy Ventures, or his push for plant-based fake food, this brief shows how this notion of technological solutionism ensures the further concentration of failed industrial models, diverting attention away from the deep systemic changes that are needed to address the crises we are facing today.

+ This article is part of Navdanya International “Gates to a Global Empire“ campaign. https://bit.ly/G2GEcmpgn

Food Farming Freedom UBINIG Ancut Garden Agroecology Mantasa Women's Earth and Climate Action Network Soil Not Oil Coalition NOFA/Mass Friends of Navdanya Movement Rights End Ecocide on Earth Health of Mother Earth Foundation

31/03/2021

The biotech industry is waging a battle to get new genetic modification techniques excluded from European GMO regulations. This would mean that these new GMOs would not be subject to safety checks, monitoring or consumer labelling. Corporate Europe Observatory has uncovered precisely how the biotech...

09/07/2020

Always good to know what is on the agenda of the government- patents

At the end of 2019, the Cabinet paper for the New Zealand Plant Variety Rights Act review was released. In this article, AJ Park senior associate Helen Bellchambers discusses the policy decisions made by the Minister of Commerce.

18/03/2020

The situation we are all finding ourselves in today, makes me and I hope you, realise that we need to create more resilient local food systems, systems you can rely and build on.

24/01/2020

Natural or Natural! What is the difference?

Learn more online at http://bit.ly/1aWC0H1. "The False Advertising Industry" reveals the shocking truth about what is allowed in "Natural" food. Only the USD...

13/01/2020

Just precisely what does all of that nitrogen ferilizer do to the soil?”Fertilizer is good for the father and bad for the sons.”–Dutch saying For all of its ecological baggage, sy…

20/12/2019

Time to get ready?

Introduction into Agro-Ecology & Regenerative Growing Practices 12-week summer evening course Starts January 14, 2020 Thursday evenings 6.30-9 pm, Wairarapa Eco Farm, Tauherenikau, South Wairarapa A course designed for people interested in food and fibre production systems with emphasis on…