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March 18, 2026, "Adapt or Die! Hyperbolic? Perhaps." However, warming is now parabolic and accelerating – we must prepare
March 4, 2026, "Viridis View: Tracking Progress in Ag Conservation" Nine days remain to respond to new collaboration opportunity from CTIC
January 19, 2026, "First Use of a New Cropping System Resilience Metric" Analysis of a 30-yr I-State dataset shows early gains have all been lost
November 25, 2025, "A New Lou" Workshop Summary - Renewing neighborhoods through food system transformation
July 30, 2025, "It's Gatting Hot Out There" - Replacing corn fields with with solar or server farms would only make it worse
June 25, 2025, "Meet Me in the New St. Louis" - Could urban ag help bring the needed transformation to STL North City?
June 3, 2025, "It's the Food System, Stupid" - Critique of MAHA Children's Health report's myopic focus on herbicides
April 25, 2025, "Rivers Make Rivals" - India & Pakistan clash over control of the Indus River headwaters
April 10, 2025, "Too Close for Comfort" - Are tornadoes becoming more numerous in St. Louis?
March 19, 2025, "They are the Egg Men" - Limiting flock size would reduce egg price shocks
January 31, 2025, "Zero Would be Nice" - Is it time for carbon-based tariffs?
December 18, 2024, "Build Your House on the Rock" - Foundational principles of resilient cropping systems
September 30, 2024, "Cooling Ecosystem Service" - Quantifying corn's valuable, unrecognized ecosystem service to the US Midwest
September 17, 2024, "Sisyphus" - The Greek myth is a perfect metaphor for the futility of current C-mitigation efforts
September 6, 2024, "Debunking Corn Sweat" - Rather than making the US Midwest more uncomfortable, corn helps cool our cities

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