The Autumn Raspberry Harvest
The Autumn Raspberry Harvest Preserving food is not just ‘cooking’; preserving food requires that you think about the future. Hence why growing and preserving food can be a window into planning a new future. ‘An Anarchist’s Cookbook’, Part 4 Podcast: Download this recording as: An MP3 file; or an Ogg Vorbis file Page bookmarks (use section […]
The World’s Deadliest Terrorist Group: Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix
The World’s Deadliest Terrorist Group: Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix Listen to a reading of this article: ❖ The CIA just casually discussed sinking a boat full of Cuban refugees and planting bombs in Miami and blaming Castro, but you’re bat shit crazy if you suspect such agencies may have had similar discussions about […]
The ECB is the Reason We Have the Great Reset
The ECB is the Reason We Have the Great Reset The European Central Bank (ECB) has kept its monetary policy unchanged. However, it did slow down the pace of net asset purchases under its pandemic emergency purchase program. The ECB’s main refinancing operations remain at 0%, on the marginal lending facility at 0.25%, and on […]
Unextractable fossil fuels in a 1.5 °C world
Unextractable fossil fuels in a 1.5 °C world Abstract Parties to the 2015 Paris Agreement pledged to limit global warming to well below 2 °C and to pursue efforts to limit the temperature increase to 1.5 °C relative to pre-industrial times1. However, fossil fuels continue to dominate the global energy system and a sharp decline in their use […]
Carbon Starvation – A Crisis Of Our Time?
Carbon Starvation – A Crisis Of Our Time? Are we beginning to see carbon – the fundamental building block of all life – as a pollutant? Instead of demonising carbon as a cause of climate breakdown, we need to restore balance in the natural carbon cycle that has been disrupted by the use of artificial […]
Standing Rock is Everywhere: The Indigenous Heart of the Climate Change Fight
Standing Rock is Everywhere: The Indigenous Heart of the Climate Change Fight This is a story of victory for the earth and of the end of the Keystone XL pipeline. It also involves the Dakota Access pipeline and the Standing Rock Lakota reservation, indeed the entire world, all of which is threatened by our desperate […]
20 Years of Government-Sponsored Tyranny: The Rise of the Security-Industrial Complex from 9/11 to COVID-19
20 Years of Government-Sponsored Tyranny: The Rise of the Security-Industrial Complex from 9/11 to COVID-19 “I tell you, freedom and human rights in America are doomed. The U.S. government will lead the American people in — and the West in general — into an unbearable hell and a choking life.”—Osama bin Laden (October 2001), as reported […]
The Nitrogen Bomb: fossil-fueled fertilizers keep billions of us alive
The Nitrogen Bomb: fossil-fueled fertilizers keep billions of us alive Preface. There are two articles below that explain why natural gas fertilizers are keeping at least 4 billion of us alive today. If you’re interested in this topic, here are a few more to read: Erisman JW, Sutton MA, Galloway J, et al (2008) How […]
EU To Propose Exempting “Green” Bonds From Deficit And Debt Limit Calculations
EU To Propose Exempting “Green” Bonds From Deficit And Debt Limit Calculations Yesterday, the ECB announced that in Q4, it would “modestly lower the pace of net asset purchases under the PEPP than in the previous two quarters” (even as Lagarde scrambled to convince markets not to call it tapering) with Reuters sources adding that “policymakers set a monthly target of between […]
2052: A Global Forecast for the Next Forty Years
2052: A Global Forecast for the Next Forty Years
Europe Needs Nord Stream 2 More Than It Likes To Admit
Europe Needs Nord Stream 2 More Than It Likes To Admit When construction began on the second Nord Stream pipeline that was going to double the volume of natural gas ships to Europe—most of it to Germany—the European Union wasted no time in voicing its opposition to more Russian gas. Led by Ukraine, which fears […]
Ida Hit Crushes Crude Output In Gulf Of Mexico, Ranked Worst In 16 Years
Ida Hit Crushes Crude Output In Gulf Of Mexico, Ranked Worst In 16 Years Hurricane Ida’s disruption to the U.S. offshore energy production in the Gulf of Mexico is the worst in 16 years. It has already stressed domestic and global supply chains, further testing the Federal Reserve’s “transitory” inflation narrative. Gulf Coast hurricanes usually cause minor […]
Xeriscape – landscaping whose time has come.
Xeriscape – landscaping whose time has come. With drought conditions or lower than average precipitation becoming more widespread across the country, it’s time to revisit the principles of xeriscape gardening. Let’s take a look at the “classic” principles and we’ll update them, Garden Professor style. Note: If you’re growing food crops to supply your table […]
Sustaining the Unsustainable: Why Renewable Energy Companies Are Not Climate Warriors
Sustaining the Unsustainable: Why Renewable Energy Companies Are Not Climate Warriors In the fight to address climate change, renewable energy companies are often assumed to be Jedi Knights. Valiantly struggling to save the planet, wind and solar interests are thought to be locked in mortal combat with large fossil fuel corporations that continue to mine, […]
