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Finding Our Niche: Toward a Restorative Human Ecology

Finding Our Niche: Toward a Restorative Human Ecology

Part memoir, part environmental non-fiction, Loring offers a perspective on achieving more regenerative and just cultures.

2020

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The imperative to transform global food systems

Never before, perhaps, has there been greater consensus that our food systems need to be radically reimagined and transformed.

5 min readNov 1, 2021

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The imperative to transform global food systems

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You say you want a resolution? Five ways to be a disruptor in 2024.

It’s that time again. Time when the calendars advance a year, and people set about identifying ways they might commit to improving their…

12 min readJan 1, 2024

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You say you want a resolution? Five ways to be a disruptor in 2024.

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Embrace the language of the living

Many people agree that we need to make major changes to our food systems, whether to address social issues like human health, poverty, and…

3 min readNov 7, 2023

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Embrace the language of the living

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Yes, buying local food is a climate solution.

It seems reasonable. If each of us simply reduces the carbon footprint of our own diets, GHG emissions will drop. Right?

6 min readOct 10, 2023

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Yes, buying local food is a climate solution.

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Walk like a river

Each step in a river’s path is part of a conversation, a negotiation between the water and the riverbank. As the water makes its way down…

4 min readJun 5, 2023

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A photo of a bend in the Nenana river, with gravel banks on both sides framed in trees.

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A response and an invitation regarding RBC’s “Green Revolution for Canada” report

Author’s note: this essay is also published on the Arrell Food Institute website, along with a response from Dr. Evan Fraser.

7 min readNov 22, 2022

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Mare Nullius and the wishful audacity of deep sea seaweed sinking

One proposed climate solution for rapidly sequestering atmospheric carbon, is to grow, and then sink in the ocean, massive quantities of…

5 min readJul 28, 2022

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Food Miles 2.0

A recent paper in the academic journal Nature Food has dusted off, and I believe improved upon, a well-known concept that had otherwise…

7 min readJun 22, 2022

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Food Miles 2.0

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Regenerative food systems and the fallacy of scalability

This essay was originally featured on Ensia.com

4 min readFeb 1, 2022

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Peruvian maize varieties, photo by Jenny Mealing https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Peruvian_corn.jpg

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Regenerative food systems: a new primer

There is widespread agreement that global food systems are failing us and need to be radically transformed to meet today’s pressing social…

3 min readNov 12, 2021

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Regenerative food systems: a new primer

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Philip A. Loring

Philip A. Loring

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Human ecologist and storyteller. Author of “Finding Our Niche.” Director of Human Dimensions for the Nature Conservancy. (Opinions are my own).

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