mick capelin 💉💉💉💉

Passion for family, friends, reading, dreaming, rural planning, soils, sourdough, sailboarding, open swimming, cycling & discovery.

[Keith Orejel @keithdorejel]

Reupping the best thing I wrote in 2024. The modern urban-rural political divide is the product of a decades long bifurcation in the political economy which has given rise to a high tech metropolitan knowledge economy & a slow growth low wage rural economy https://t.co/Eu6feLeFtG

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@SatPaper @AusRepublic @yasmin_poole Important piece, but missing from my print edition. Page 11 repeats page 12!

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@s0ft_rubbish @GrogsGamut Who would have thought the Eras Tour would help teach the US about PT?

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@urbanizationist Another option would be to exclude NG from housing used for STA (short term accommodation).

[The Saturday Paper @SatPaper]

.@PaulBongiorno on Dutton's latest attempts at baseless fear mongering:

Consider this: Every year in Australia 60,000 convicted criminals are released back into the community after serving their time. There is a 53 per cent recidivism rate. #auspol  https://t.co/0UUsxkJEmk

[The New Yorker @NewYorker]

Although we tend to equate “rural” with “farm,” small, general farms disappeared more than half a century ago. Now, agriculture has become a capital-intensive, high-tech pursuit. https://t.co/Rp9s8t7k40

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@NewYorker This article could be describing Australia.

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@GregVann Morningside in the 1950s had unsealed streets and outhouses but we had good access to the Balmoral tram, 8A trolley bus, and the Wynnum train.

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@7NewsMelbourne Obviously you’ve never been to Tokyo

[NZ Soc Soil Science @NZ_Soil_Soc]

NZSSS member, Sam Carrick of @mwlr_nz talks to Radio NZ about the fragile magic of highly productive land and the new national policy introduced to try help protect it for future generations.
https://t.co/ecwUzTZXir

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@Farmland Makes sense @QldFarmers

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The world has passed peak agricultural land

[Samuel Arbesman @arbesman]

One thousand years of agricultural land use.

[Long Data #15]

https://t.co/aG0FzAqkLq

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@SwannyQLD @louinoosa Macron’s first round vote was 27.6%

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Soil war #soil

[Nicholas Gruen @NGruen1]

Only about 2% of the world’s soil is black soil and about 25% of that is found in Ukraine

https://t.co/I34ckfFFU6

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Our TV gave up too #auspol

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@HenryRothwell I quite like puffins

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@Zhengo_Jengo … and Noosa!

[AFT New York @FarmlandNY]

American Farmland Trust released a new report on how to expand #solar energy generation while strengthening farmland protection and farm viability in New York, guided by research and stakeholder input. Learn more @farmlandinfo: https://t.co/wZXZx9XfiF

[Gabrielle Chan @gabriellechan]

Targeted restoration of degraded ecosystems on less profitable ag land has enormous potential to alleviate these problems. Farmers can cont. to produce valuable crops on their prime land, while rebuilding habitat+ sequestering carbon on more marginal land https://t.co/QVGKByVsir

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Carbon sinks bubble up the dollars for state's rural economy https://t.co/EmJ5VhDTtb via @InQldMedia