Search Results for no-till

...Anne Therese O’Brien Abstract The growing adoption of no-till cropping and other minimal-impact farming practices in recent decades signals a shift in how soil is understood and valued. Eschewing vigorous disturbance, standard in the West (and beyond) since the Neolithic Revolution, farmers instead...

... between a divided Germany resulted in an asymmetrical impact on human, animal, and plant lives populating the former East—effects that are till this day hard to account for. The research process generated a series of designs that exposed the various practical and ethical issues entangled with acts...

... Hultman. Full gas mot en (o)hållbar framtid. Förväntningar på bränsleceller och vätgas i relation till svensk energi- och miljöpolitik 1978-2005 (Linköpings Universitet, 2010). 15 Messner. “The Masculinity of the Governator: Muscle and Compassion in American Politics,” 461-480; Sara Krakoff...

...: Modernity, Space and the Phantasmagorias of City Life (London: Sage, 2005); Karen Till, The New Berlin: Memory, Politics, Place (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2005); Karen Till, “Places of Memory,” in A Companion to Political Geography, ed. John Agnew, Katharyne Mitchell and Gerald...

..., in the poem “Moths Walking Along”: “After a million years you drew a breath // Paused till it seemed more accurate / Not to.” 15 In these lines, the addressee is granted the capacity to pause, to breathe, and to decide on its own movements. If the earth here is being addressed in the second person...

... to deflect the common charge against the Judeo-Christian ecological legacy, Francis insists on the erroneousness of the interpretation of the Creation accounts used to justify environmental domination, pairing the mandate to “have dominion” (Gen 1:28) over the Earth with that to “till it and keep it” (Gen 2...

... in conversations with Mapuche landholders. I owe most of the things I have learned about agriculture in southern Chile to the late Liscán Contreras, a teacher who has marked my life for the best like no other. On one occasion, while tilling the soil around potatoes soon to be harvested, Liscán pointed at a group...

... toxified subjects and communities. “Till They Are Incandescent” foregrounds the potential effects of accumulations of industrial chemicals through destabilizing lyric subjectivity, but also indexes the instability of claims made in and against the toxic infrastructures of contemporary capitalism’s...

... the whole day till I got out of my knowledge when the very wild flowers seemed to forget me and I imagined they were the inhabitants of a new country and the very sun seemed to be a new one and shining in a different quarter of the sky” (my emphasis). Clare returned at dusk after finding the right path...

... very successful.” It was the frustration with an endless “creeping up and down the fields” in a tractor that made Shawn consider farming his land without tilling it. This today allows him to grow a crop while building up the topsoil his clayey fields so desperately need. This short vignette...

... to live, but epidemiological studies are mostly dismissed as noncausal and circumstantial evidence. 33 There is a similar controversy in the debate on RR-soy’s influence on the soil and its immediate environment. A favorable factor mentioned often is no-till planting that saves the integrity...

... . Roenneberg Till , and Aschoff Jürgen . “ Annual Rhythm of Human Reproduction: II. Environmental Correlations .” Journal of Biological Rhythms 5 , no. 3 ( 1990 ): 217 – 39 . Roenneberg Till , and Merrow Martha . “ Entrainment of the Human Circadian Clock .” Cold Spring Harbor...

... in England, Krzywoszynska found that not tilling the soil demands new forms of “good farmer” identity. Similarly, in Switzerland Schneider and colleagues found that soil aesthetics play a key role in farmers’ perceptions and communication of good soil management practice. 15 As industrial management...

... for short periods Dondolo and Giorgiana could graze. They hope that the donkeys can age peacefully: “We hope to have conditions to look after them till the end of their days. We hope to be able to assist them; this goes beyond your ethics and willingness—you have to consider their weight of roughly 300 kg...

... of Aboriginal Australians .” In Encyclopaedia of the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine in Non-Western Cultures , edited by Selain Helaine , 1 – 4 . New York : Springer , 2014 . Hanebuth Till , Stattegger Karl , and Grootes Pieter M. “ Rapid Flooding of the Sunda Shelf...

..., this means reducing the quantity of nutrients that flow off the landscape by doing things like implementing no-till agriculture, erecting fences to keep livestock away from streams, planting trees along rivers and streams, and rebuilding wetland areas to slow the flow of water. While these are all beneficial...

... that are taken in battle . . . are given to the bereaved families, till their number is made good.” 52 Jemison herself becomes a new energy flow for her adopted family, becoming an intimate part of it, to restore what they had lost. The migrations and new (less intense) labor were, as Jemison says...

... . Hofman Corinne L., Hung Jorge Ulloa, Malatesta Eduardo Herrera, Jean Joseph Sony, Sonnemann Till, and Hoogland Menno . “ Indigenous Caribbean Perspectives: Archaeologies and Legacies of the First Colonised Region in the New World .” American Archeology 92 , no. 361 ( 2018 ): 200 – 216...

... team provides some funding for community groups to put their climate-wise projects into action. Each group’s collaborative storytelling yielded different action. Women farmland landowners and neighborhood groups increased conservation practices (cover crops, no-till farming, native prairie plantings...

... who tilled the soil, plucked the fruit, and passed on their botanical expertise to the white people who employed them. In the case of Miami, those workers came from elsewhere in the US South and, especially, from the Bahamas, where their expertise cultivating the plants and navigating the waters...