Jake (Steven Jacobs)

23 Followers
79 Following
43 Posts
I relish family, food, funny, rhythm & things that last like love & entropy. 
My work: 
https://ofgorganic.org/https://www.ukgrainlab.com
https://www.shropshiregoodfood.orghttps://wrffc.wales/
Recent writing: 
https://wrffc.wales/2022/10/12/lets-talk-about-the-buns/
Also @[email protected]

"Isn’t it often in our most intimate relations that we come to realize that our identity, all identity, is combinatory?"

Wonderful short read: https://t.co/eN8EG99Hru

An Ecology of Intimacies

At its best, an intimate relationship is a symbiote of mutual nourishment — a portable ecosystem of interdependent growth, undergirded by a mycelial web of trust and tenderness. One is profou…

The Marginalian
We Are Free to Change the World – Hannah Arendt, the power of defiant goodwill, and the art of beginning afresh
https://t.co/DCS8dn2Xwd
We Are Free to Change the World: Hannah Arendt, the Power of Defiant Goodwill, and the Art of Beginning Afresh

“It is when the experience of powerlessness is at its most acute, when history seems at its most bleak, that the determination to think like a human being, creatively, courageously, and compl…

The Marginalian
Sign the petition!
UK regulations (transferred from European Union – EU) currently mean that any genetically modified (GM) ingredients in our food have to be listed on the packaging.
https://donthide.gmfreeze.org/?petition_origin=beyondgm
Don't Hide What's Inside

India has approved the environmental release of GM mustard, its first GM food crop. Since then, grassroots opposition has been building, exposing four key facts:

1. it's herbicide resistant
2. it's not made in India
3. it can decrease yields and
4. it would harm bees & honey exports

➡️ https://grain.org/e/6944

#GMOs #agriculture #India #resistance #GMfood #food #biotechnology #biosafety #bees

RT by @MartinHaeusling: #PlantHealth care in #OrganicAgriculture is about more than replacing harmful #pesticides by safer natural substances. It relies on a systemic approach based on #biodiversity. 🐛🐦🦎 Read more in our leaflet 👉 https://www.organicseurope.bio/news/read-our-new-leaflet-on-plant-health-care-in-organic-farming/
#SUR #PesticidesReduction @GFGFActionDays

🐦🔗: https://nitter.cz/OrganicsEurope/status/1722296213838373170#m

[2023-11-08 16:53 UTC]

Read our new leaflet on plant health care in organic farming

IFOAM Organics Europe released a leaflet Plant health care in organic farming – The role of natural substances in a biodiversity-based system

IFOAM Organics Europe

Open #internship at FiBL Switzerland! Are you interested in soil health, nature-based solutions and organic farming?
I am looking for an intern, preferably with a social science background and a focus on society-environment relationships.

Very good command of German OR French is required to conduct surveys/interviews in on of those languages.

6 months, paid internship, based in Frick, CH.

Details:
https://recruitingapp-2995.umantis.com/Vacancies/283/Description/2

Reach out if you have any questions.
#SoilHealth #OrganicAgriculture

Social science surveys and interviews on the topic of soil health

4 September 1930 | Czech Jewish boy František (Franta) Bass was born in Brno.

He was incarcerated in Theresienstadt ghetto on 2 December 1941. He wrote poetry there.
Franta was murdered in Auschwitz on 30 October 1944.

His poem "The Garden”.

A little garden,
Fragrant and full of roses,
The path is narrow
And a little boy walks along it.

A little boy, a sweet boy,
Like that growing blossom.
When the blossom comes to bloom,
The little boy will be no more.

#Auschwitz #poetry #Holocaust

What's the story about climate tipping points - ocean, ice and land?
Excellent overview by Grist, citing the insights of many colleagues studying key tipping points.
https://grist.org/climate-tipping-points-amazon-greenland-boreal-forest/
The 7 climate tipping points that could change the world forever

As the world warms, these Earth systems are changing. Could further warming make them spiral out of control?

Grist
What an astonishing reminder that there are myriad wonders of nature yet to be discovered: Entirely new type of cell found in hogfish that allows them to "see" with their skin, even after death https://t.co/EkSMwIxlnZ
Hogfish ‘See’ With Their Skin, Even When They’re Dead

The camouflaging talents of this fish are driven by a mysterious new type of cell, setting it apart from other animals that know how to blend in.

The New York Times