These are a few stories we found this week that may be of interest to institute regulars. If you have a news tip, please send it to lowtechinstitute@gmail.com.
Low Tech News
Tree Pruning, How to Remove Tree Branches Correctly | Deep Green Permaculture
How To Plant a Fruit Tree | Deep Green Permaculture
The Permaculture Research Institute
Ticks spread plenty more for you to worry about beyond Lyme disease
How did people clean their teeth in the olden days?
Opinion: Why sustainable agriculture requires traditional knowledge | Ensia
Shadowland – Dark Mountain
Reinforcing biodiversity through reforesting
‘Giving voice to trees’
The humble pea is America’s favorite new crop | TreeHugger
1916 – The Adaptive Habitat Program | The Permaculture Podcast
Environmental News
Bipartisan Group of Governors Pushes Back on Big Oil, Tells Trump Admin to Halt Clean Car Rollbacks | DeSmogBlog
The ‘Historical Jigsaw of Climate Deception’: Private Notes Show How Big Oil Spread Climate Science Denial | DeSmogBlog
This Year’s Wild, Wet Spring Is Feeding Massive Blobs of Toxic Algae – Mother Jones
The Rondy Directions Are Here! | Earth First! Newswire
Western states buy time with a 7-year Colorado River drought plan, but face a hotter, drier future
Bernie Sanders and AOC want to declare a climate emergency. Does that mean anything? | Grist
The U.S. is way worse at recycling than other developed countries | Grist
Poland must obey UNESCO logging warning
Alaska Is Baking – Mother Jones
France’s record-breaking heatwave made ‘at least five times’ more likely by climate change
Bonn climate talks: Key outcomes from the June 2019 UN climate conference | Carbon Brief
Research News
Shine On: Solar Power is Eclipsing Coal, Oil, Gas and Nuclear Energy with Rapid Growth and Cost Reductions – Resilience
More Signs That Natural Gas Can’t Compete With Renewables on Cost | DeSmogBlog
We Are Flushing Away Our Forests – Mother Jones
Guest post: Understanding the UK’s recent spike in wildfires | Carbon Brief
Restoring Forests Could Help Put a Brake on Global Warming, Study Finds – The New York Times
Planting trees could be a “mind-blowing” solution to climate change | TreeHugger
Climate Change Fills Hurricanes With More Rain, Analysis Shows – The New York Times
Attenborough warns of climate social unrest
Plastic Has A Big Carbon Footprint — But That Isn’t The Whole Story : NPR
Could Mussels Teach Us How To Clean Up Oil Spills? : The Salt : NPR
Tiny creatures play a big role in climate change | Ensia
Op-Ed¹
Stop Building a Spaceship to Mars and Just Plant Some Damn Trees – Mother Jones
What Will Be Left When We’re Gone? Bones, Plastic, Radioactive Waste, and Lots of Garbage. – Mother Jones
Environmentalism’s Next Frontier: Giving Nature Legal Rights – Mother Jones
Cassandra’s Legacy: The First Recorded Ecological Collapse in History and How it Was Misunderstood.
Climate Change and Capitalism: A Political Marxist View. – Resilience
The Human Predicament – Resilience
Resource Insights: Connectivity becomes too dangerous: Putting manual security back into the grid
Minimalism isn’t all or nothing | TreeHugger
‘Green growth’ is not enough
Violated Earth – Violent Earth: Revisiting causes and effects of humans’ misdemeanor and nature’s power – Feasta
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¹Opinion pieces represent the independent thought of their authors and may or may not represent the position of the Low Technology Institute.