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A circular food system can withstand crises like COVID-19 — and provide delicious meals
A circular food system can withstand crises like COVID-19 — and provide delicious meals There are many hard lessons learned from the pandemic. One is that our food system needs a serious reboot. Luckily, we need only look to nature’s cycles for clues on how to fix it. In a circular food economy, food waste becomes valuable, affordable […]
More Myths – This Time With Some Reality
More Myths – This Time With Some Reality Nate Hagens recently produced a new video here regarding myths and reality and it is very well done. The video goes into precise detail about many core myths and beliefs, and I have the video queued up to the part about the myth of “technology solving it” for anyone who still thinks […]
Electric grid operator asks Texans to stop blasting AC as unplanned outages and heat collide
Electric grid operator asks Texans to stop blasting AC as unplanned outages and heat collide The electric power grid manager for most of Texas has issued its first conservation alert of the summer, calling on users to dial back energy consumption to avert an emergency. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip) (CNN)The Electric Reliability Council of Texas […]
BC’s Axed Climate Action Fund Worries Municipalities
BC’s Axed Climate Action Fund Worries Municipalities Government promises replacement for program that helped towns and cities reduce emissions. Municipalities used funds from the climate program for everything from bike lanes to planting trees to electric vehicle charging stations. Photo by Paul Krueger, Creative Commons licensed. After abruptly cancelling a program that helped local governments fund projects […]
Who pays for the care of “orphaned” oil and gas wells? You do
Who pays for the care of “orphaned” oil and gas wells? You do When oil and gas wells end their useful life, one of two things happens: 1) They are plugged and capped to prevent further flows or 2) they are simply abandoned. When they fall into the second category, they are called “orphaned” wells […]
Four Scenarios for the Future (part one)
Four Scenarios for the Future (part one) Ten years ago, David Holmgren brought out a thesis he titled ‘future scenarios,’ wherein he laid out some reasoning for two main axes along which the next few decades could be characterized and developed four main scenarios which corresponded to the four general quadrants laid out by his axes of […]
Hundreds Arrested at Line 3 ‘Treaty People Gathering.’ Water Protectors Vow To Continue Until the Pipeline is Canceled
Hundreds Arrested at Line 3 ‘Treaty People Gathering.’ Water Protectors Vow To Continue Until the Pipeline is Canceled Indigenous activists in Northern Minnesota occupied sites of Enbridge’s Line 3 pipeline, seeking to disrupt construction. The action puts national attention on an issue that President Biden has tried to ignore. Water protectors are seeking to stop […]
Eight Pre-Hurricane Season Preparations You Need To Make
Eight Pre-Hurricane Season Preparations You Need To Make This past weekend Texas experienced its first tropical weather event for the 2021 season, and the season doesn’t officially begin until June 1st. Each year the tropics have been becoming active earlier than expected, and at this time they are unofficially starting the season in mid-May. Now […]
Is a “Climate Lockdown” on the horizon?
Is a “Climate Lockdown” on the horizon? If and when the powers-that-be decide to move on from their pandemic narrative, lockdowns won’t be going anywhere. Instead it looks like they’ll be rebranded as “climate lockdowns”, and either enforced or simply held threateningly over the public’s head. At least, according to an article written by an […]
Leak Reported At Chinese Nuclear Power Plant
Leak Reported At Chinese Nuclear Power Plant A nuclear power plant in southeastern China could turn into an “imminent radiological threat,” the part owner of the facility, a French company, has told the United States, CNN reported on Monday, citing U.S. officials and a letter of the French firm it had obtained. The U.S. has been assessing […]
Vancouver Council Votes Against Delay for Climate Emergency Plan
Vancouver Council Votes Against Delay for Climate Emergency Plan City bylaw will require new homes built after Jan. 1 to use zero-emissions heat and hot water systems, effectively banning natural gas hookups. ‘What’s clear to me after years of doing climate work is that climate delay is the same as climate denial,’ said Coun. Christine […]
The ‘Big Con’ Revealed: Report Details Fossil Fuel Industry’s Deceptive ‘Net Zero’ Strategy
A brown coal mining machine operating at the Welzow-Sued lignite opencast mine in Welzow, eastern Germany. A new report out Wednesday details how so-called “net zero” pledges are simply schemes propagated by the fossil fuel industry and other powerful interests “to mask inaction, foist the burden of emissions cuts and pollution avoidance on historically exploited […]
One Shocking Chart That Has Farmers Trembling With Fear
One Shocking Chart That Has Farmers Trembling With Fear Readers know by now that the Western US is facing one of the most severe droughts in years. We’ve documented (read here & here) this spring of a “megadrought” sweeping across states like California and Nevada as risks of a second Dust Bowl increase by the day. But in this note, […]
Peter Foster: Mark Carney, man of destiny, arises to revolutionize society. It won’t be pleasant
Peter Foster: Mark Carney, man of destiny, arises to revolutionize society. It won’t be pleasant What Carney ultimately wants is a technocratic dictatorship justified by climate alarmism Mark Carney, former governor of the Bank of Canada, is the author of Value(s): Building a Better World for All. PHOTO BY DYLAN MARTINEZ/REUTERS/FILE In his book Value(s): Building […]
Fossil Fuels Aren’t Dying, They’re Shifting To National And State Backed Companies
Fossil Fuels Aren’t Dying, They’re Shifting To National And State Backed Companies Despite the activist shareholder battles, calls for ESG changes and just outright negative press about fossil fuels, it looks like rumors of oil’s death have been greatly exaggerated. Fossil fuels aren’t dying – rather, their output is just being shifted to national and state […]
