by Deborah Phelan | Apr 23, 2023 | Climate Change, Disaster Risk Reduction, Displacement and Migration, Extreme Weather, Food Security, mitigation
The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) just released its latest annual report the State of the Global Climate 2022, revealing the impact of greenhouse gas emissions (GHGs) on the land, the ocean, and the atmosphere, painting a dire picture of droughts, floods and...
by Deborah Phelan | May 31, 2018 | 2050, Climate Change, Extreme Weather, Food Security, TIme Capsule, Youth and Climate Change
I was reached out to by a young Indigenous leader who wanted to meet with me. We did so, and we had a deep and substantive talk for several hours. The one thing that has stayed with me about that conversation was when we discussed what could be coming down the road as...
by Deborah Phelan | Mar 21, 2017 | biochar, Climate Change, Cookstoves, Food Security, Youth and Climate Change
Emerging young Marin climate activists are incorporating Traditional Environmental Knowledge to produce an ancient soil amendment which sequesters carbon while increasing crop yields in their school and community gardens. Students at the Marin City Conscious Kitchen...
by Deborah Phelan | Mar 8, 2017 | Climate Change, Food Security, Gender Equity
It’s International Women’s Day and while many are asserting their inherent value by participating in “A Day Without A Woman’ events, small scale female farmers in the developing world don’t have the luxury of taking a day off from their...
by Deborah Phelan | May 2, 2016 | Climate Change, Food Security
THE PHOSPHORUS TAX As efforts to feed an estimated 2050 global population of 9.7 billion swing into overdrive, the global breadbasket tropics from Africa to the Amazon are the primary target for “agricultural intensification.” Industrializing food security places the...
