Ocean Malandra

Environmental Journalist. Food/Travel Writer.
Author @MoonGuides.
#PlantMedicines. #Socialjustice.

[Ocean Malandra @OceanMalandra]

How creating a "BioEconomy" around the nutrient rich nuts of the guiamaro tree is bringing back #Colombia's tropical dry forests. My latest for @mongabay #agroforestry #regenerativeagriculture @EnvolVertLatino @inst_humboldt https://t.co/LiBHazuahL

[Jason Hickel @jasonhickel]

We have this new paper, led by Meghna Goyal, which provides the first global view of inequality in the agri-food system. We find that agricultural production has increasingly shifted to the South, but income is increasingly captured in the North.

https://t.co/t8MJsy1yvD

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@DavidSacks Thankfully these are not the only options.

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@jasonhickel Thats the future. And its already happening to some degree with products like coffee.

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@zetalyrae Not true. Persian culture had a huge impact on the development of Islam, from poetry and philosophy to art and architecture.

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@BuenoForMiami Mother Nature is God manifest in the material world (creation).

[Joshua Collins @InvisiblesMuros]

Colombia has increasingly looked towards strengthening trade with Asian countries since Trump took office in January, after having promised sweeping tariffs on U.S. trade partners

“What President Trump did was throw us into an abyss of opportunity” https://t.co/kgJ8ZpRvST

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@GMWatch Not cool

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Talking #plantmedicines and the social/environmental crisis with Christy Busby of the FATE Podcast. #psychedelics #socialjustice #environment https://t.co/hixvQPvfJ7

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@curtis_yarvin There is only one way to be free of power. And thats not it buddy...

[Invisible People ➤ Imagine Everyone With a Home @invisiblepeople]

It costs up to $50,000 to keep someone homeless in jail. It costs $8,000–$20,000 to house them through Housing First. This new study shows what happens when we invest in people over punishment.https://t.co/icgud2i8vx

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@ElonClipsX Star Trek, like all good sci fi, was a parable and had a moral lesson.

[IPES-Food @IPESfood]

The US #LandSqueeze in a graph. As farm sizes climb, the number of farms continues to fall.

When farmland is concentrated into fewer and fewer hands, #food becomes commoditized and uniform. Rural communities are hollowed out.

Diverse foods rely on diverse farms.

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@FullVerity @elonmusk All that money, but has never even really lived. Its quite sad actually.

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@elonmusk Spoken like someone who has never really lived a real day in their life.

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@elonmusk Great, now we can watch the mass species die off from space. yippee! What an achievement!

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@elonmusk Um try a train dude.

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@BuenoForMiami So lets cut all corporate subsidies.

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@BuenoForMiami The community-centered structure of Latin American societies does indeed come with social benefits, and this has been proven in many studies. However, the individualism-centered structure of the United States often tears that apart within a generation, also proven by studies.

[Joe Brewer @cognitivepolicy]

I feel it daily now as the old world breaks down more -- and we gather with those who are helping a new world to be born.

A quiet revolution has been underway since the late 1960's. It involved people seeing where the globalized system was heading through the ecological lens of pollution, limits to growth, and structural patterns of colonial extraction.

In the 1970's there was an explosion of planetary consciousness as more people began to see images of the Earth from space. We could see for ourselves that everything truly is connected. There were millions of us then. It is more like a billion now.

We have explored sustainability, regeneration, permaculture, local economies, and so much more. Yet all of it seemed to be failing because the world has been dominated by exponential growth of the extractive systems.

Yet all of that is coming to an end now. There isn't much left that can be raped or pillaged. The empires of the Holocene have all collapses with the exception of a desperate few. And increasingly people are realizing that they need to organize locally in order to restore health and harmony to their own watersheds.

This is the deeper meaning of "back to the land" as we discover our bioregional nature as human beings. More of us are realizing that we need to organize human societies that are respectful toward and act in service to the continuation of life on Earth.

Last week we began a six-month learning journey called "How to Organize Your Bioregion" and have people joining us from the continents of North and South America, Europe, Africa, and Australia. It isn't fully planetary yet, but is moving in that direction.

You can be part of this movement. Perhaps you already are. Simply look within your own heart and ask what could give you meaning and purpose as the old world dies around you.

Then find the others. Come together and practice restoring health to ecosystems and human communities. Now is the time. Let's do this.

Onward, fellow humans.

[Ocean Malandra @OceanMalandra]

@GMWatch Truly scary.