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Soil Testing: Why Is It So Vital For The Natural Environment?
Soil Testing: Why Is It So Vital For The Natural Environment? Improving productivity is the core goal of each farmer, and good soils assist to gain it. Soil structure, composition, and fertility are key aspects to consider while choosing crops to sow, fertilisers to add, and water volumes to distribute. Thus, testing becomes a crucial […]
Forest Garden Plants – Ground Cover Plants for Deep Shade
Forest Garden Plants – Ground Cover Plants for Deep Shade Ground cover plants play an important role in the forest garden, protecting the soil, providing refuge for wildlife at ground layer, preventing unwanted plants from establishing and can provide some food such as berries or leaves. Ground covers are easy to establish and can be […]
People want a greener, happier world now. But our politicians have other ideas
People want a greener, happier world now. But our politicians have other ideas Boris Johnson’s ‘return to normality’ will only mean more consumerism at the expense of the planet – we must resist it Out there somewhere, marked on no map but tantalisingly near, is a promised land called Normal, to which one day we […]
Population
Population “Neo-Malthusian promotion of family planning as the solution to hunger, conflict, and poverty has contributed to destructive population control approaches, that are targeted most often at poor, racialized women.” While often thought of as a given reality, definitions of population are highly political. They are most often negatively associated with notions of “overpopulation” or […]
If you can’t stand the heat…get off of the planet!
If you can’t stand the heat…get off of the planet! As I sit in 90-degree heat typical of Washington, D.C. in midsummer and a so-called “heat dome” hovers over much of the United States, I am reading the following: At 11 or 12 degrees [Fahrenheit] of [global] warming, more than half the world’s population, as distributed today, would […]
Wet’suwet’en Fear Contaminated Soil Cleanup Is Creating New Risks
Wet’suwet’en Fear Contaminated Soil Cleanup Is Creating New Risks Waste from diesel spills by Coastal GasLink and RCMP is being dumped in local landfill. Efforts to clean up diesel spills by the RCMP and Coastal GasLink in Wet’suwet’en territory risk spreading the contamination, the First Nation has warned. Mike Ridsdale, environmental assessment co-ordinator for the […]
Optimistic for the Future
Optimistic for the Future I had a professor who once said that two people were standing on top of the World Trade Center and a gust of wind blew them off the roof. The pessimist immediately starts praying to be forgiven for his sins. The optimism, as he is passing the 4th floor says, “So […]
Has Suncor Seen the Climate Crisis Coming for 61 Years?
Has Suncor Seen the Climate Crisis Coming for 61 Years? A US lawsuit wants the oilsands producer to pay for global warming havoc. Did Canada’s largest oil producer learn about climate change as early as 1959, develop a massive bitumen industry in northern Alberta knowing the atmospheric damage it would cause, and then take part […]
China’s Massive Three Gorges Dam Is In Peril
China’s Massive Three Gorges Dam Is In Peril Click On Image To Enlarge Over the last month, most people have not paid much attention to the weather in China. This is because it is not something we dwell upon but it merits our attention because word has been leaking out that China’s massive Three Gorges […]
So It Turns Out ‘Overpopulation’ Was Always A Stupid Patriarchal Myth
So It Turns Out ‘Overpopulation’ Was Always A Stupid Patriarchal Myth A new study published in the Lancet confirms what people like myself have been saying over and over again for years: that the human population is unlikely to get much bigger than it is right now, and will in fact begin declining in the latter half of this century as […]
Siberian Heat Wave Was Made 600x More Likely by the Climate Crisis, Scientists Say
Siberian Heat Wave Was Made 600x More Likely by the Climate Crisis, Scientists Say Scientists say that a record-breaking Arctic heat wave was made 600 times more likely by the man-made climate crisis. PBS NewsHour / YouTube The record-breaking heat in the Arctic saw temperatures soar above 100 degrees for the first time in recorded history. Now, a new […]
The Sky Is Falling – Yes – No
The Sky Is Falling – Yes – No Image Source: Joseph Pennell – Public Domain The sky is falling is one of the more disturbing thoughts in society today, as to whether climate change is on a fast track collision course with doomsday amidst a collapsing society. In that regard, according to the details of […]
Heat Dome Roasts US With Temps Forecast To Approach 100°F
Heat Dome Roasts US With Temps Forecast To Approach 100°F A massive heat dome is set to intensify this weekend, expected to roast hundreds of millions of Americans with temperatures in some regions approaching 95-100°F. A portion of the same weather system, a large area of high pressure, that has been building and broiling the south-central United States […]
How to Build a Rain Garden to Capture Runoff
How to Build a Rain Garden to Capture Runoff There are many reasons to build a rain garden. Rain gardens help filter out pollutants like bird guano from stormwater and turn them into nutrients for your garden. They help reduce the draw on local aquifers to irrigate our gardens and allow those aquifers to be […]
Should No-Till Farming Be Adopted by All to Help the Earth?
Should No-Till Farming Be Adopted by All to Help the Earth? Farmers around the world are looking for innovative methods to save water, reduce costs and produce higher yields. No-till farming is a popular practice to improve soil quality and reduce soil erosion. Instead of using a plow to disturb soil before planning, it employs […]
