Backyard biocontrol – using natural enemies to wipe out invasive weeds
Backyard biocontrol – using natural enemies to wipe out invasive weeds The agricultural-residential interface Four years ago we moved to the family farm (where I grew up) and we’ve enjoyed restoring the 1 acre landscape around the farmhouse. Given that the residential part of this farm is surrounded by pastureland, there is a continual influx […]
Christmas Tree Farms Scorched In Oregon Amid Record Heat
Christmas Tree Farms Scorched In Oregon Amid Record Heat Oregon’s record-breaking heat waves and raging wildfires are set to dent Christmas tree crop output, resulting in supply constraints that may send prices skyrocketing come December. According to Reuters, who spoke with multiple Christmas tree farm operators in Oregon, one of the top Christmas tree producing states, […]
Huge carbon capture pipeline network proposed: Industry’s ‘delay-and-fail strategy’ rises again
Huge carbon capture pipeline network proposed: Industry’s ‘delay-and-fail strategy’ rises again An astute journalist I know once described carbon capture and storage (CCS) as a “delay-and-fail strategy” devised by the fossil fuel industry. The industry’s ploy was utterly obvious to him: Promise to perfect and deploy CCS at some vague point in the future. By […]
Mining of Minerals and the Limits to Growth
Mining of Minerals and the Limits to Growth The mining of minerals is linked to the 1972 Limits to Growth study. There are a number of technical problems the business model behind mining is struggling with now. Challenges for the proposed expansion in mining to construct a non-fossil fuel system (EV’s, batteries, wind turbines, solar […]
Our World Is Dying Because We Don’t Value Un-Making Things
Our World Is Dying Because We Don’t Value Un-Making Things Listen to a reading of this article: ❖ I talk a lot about how we’re destroying our environment with a global system where human behavior is driven by the pursuit of profit, how the power structure which dominates that system does so by violence, exploitation, oppression, and the threat […]
Market Volatility Is Troubling, But This Is the Real Problem
Market Volatility Is Troubling, But This Is the Real Problem Photo by Rémi Boudousquié If you were awake at all this week, you caught glimpses of the stock market drama. Maybe you tuned it out? Here’s a quick recap: Monday. Huge sell-off, the worst one-day decline since October 2020. Tuesday: Big rebound recaptured 80% of Monday’s […]
Pemmican – Proven Ancient Survival Food – DIY
Pemmican – Proven Ancient Survival Food – DIY Indigenous people of North America, trappers, and early settlers all owe their lives to pemmican. It’s a dense, high-protein, high-energy food that can be stored easily on a stable temperature shelf for an incredible five years. It has the right mix of fats, proteins, and calories to […]
Is a Revolution Coming?
Is a Revolution Coming? We have an amazing number of readers in France, and I want to thank everyone for all the emails documenting what is going on. Anyone who takes videos of protests in the future I have no problem sharing them for the world to see. The details of what moves people to […]
Iran Opens Export Terminal To Bypass World’s Biggest Oil Chokepoint
Iran Opens Export Terminal To Bypass World’s Biggest Oil Chokepoint Iran says it has opened its first oil export terminal in the Gulf of Oman to allow Tehran to avoid using the strategic Strait of Hormuz shipping route that has long been a focus of regional tensions. “Today, the first shipment of 100 tons of […]
Protesters Rage Across Europe As Lockdown, Vaccination Mandates Begin
Protesters Rage Across Europe As Lockdown, Vaccination Mandates Begin Update (19115ET): Anti-lockdown protests kicked into high gear around the globe on Saturday, including irate Irish protesters: Bitter Brits: Pissed-off Parisians: And incensed Italians, where the country has restricted public access to restaurants and museums to the unvaccinated. This is what it looked like today in Australia, Milan, London, […]
The Grand Illusion
The Grand Illusion One of the things that is so pervasive in today’s society is the constant flow of hype, advertising, marketing, and propaganda, and many people fail to see through it. Steve Bull came out with this article explaining the same scenario. They are led to believe that everything is a problem and that technology or […]
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh XXVII
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh XXVII Tulum, Mexico (1986) Photo by author Discussing ‘renewable’ energy and its shortcomings with those who hold on to the belief that they offer us a ‘solution’ to the predicaments humanity faces is always ‘challenging’. Today’s contemplation is based on a recent dialogue I have had with a few people who […]
“This Is The Biggest Bubble I’ve Seen In My Career” – Dems’ Infrastructure Spending Could Lead To Devastating Crash, Druck Warns
“This Is The Biggest Bubble I’ve Seen In My Career” – Dems’ Infrastructure Spending Could Lead To Devastating Crash, Druck Warns This isn’t the first time billionaire investor Stanley Druckenmiller has warned that US markets are caught up in a “raging mania” fostered by the trillions of dollars in government spending. Druck, an acolyte of George Soros […]
