The best food writing: eight books on how our food is grown, made and sold
The best food writing follows dinner back to field and factory. Eight food books on the industrial plate, growing and cooking, and the bigger picture.
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How carbon credits work: from a project's tonne to a company's claim
How carbon credits work: compliance and voluntary markets, registries, additionality and permanence, plus a worked example of how a tonne gets counted.
Drones over the fields: spraying, mapping and the rules catching up
A season with a farm spray drone, step by step (licenses, drift, neighbors, data), and why the rules are still catching up with the machine.
Climate change books worth your time: the science, the fixes, the politics and two novels
Nine climate change books for general readers: the science and the stakes, the solutions, the politics of power, and two novels about what comes next.
What does non-GMO mean? Three labels, three different promises
Non-GMO means different things on different labels. How the butterfly seal, the USDA bioengineered label and organic differ, and where gene editing fits.
The best books on AI: ten that explain the machines and who controls them
The best books on AI for general readers: how the systems learn and fail, who profits from the data, and what the long-range worriers get right.
Is cloud seeding harmful? Silver iodide, flood claims and what seeding can really do
Is cloud seeding harmful? What silver iodide does, whether seeding works, the Dubai and Texas flood claims, and who regulates it.