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The Delusion of a Seamless Reopening Is About to be Obliterated
The Delusion of a Seamless Reopening Is About to be Obliterated During the first wave of pandemic lockdowns, America became a rather surreal place. The initial shock that I witnessed in average people in my area was disturbing. Half the businesses in the region closed and a third of the grocery store shelves were empty. […]
Water Procurement: Setting Up a Low-Budget Water Catchment System and Why It Will Save Your Life
Water Procurement: Setting Up a Low-Budget Water Catchment System and Why It Will Save Your Life Using the information from Part 1 & 2, the setup of a water system, decontamination station, and rain catchment procedures entailed to blend all parts together. How are you doing, Ready Nutrition Readers? This article is the final segment […]
Integrated Pest Management – Part 2
Integrated Pest Management – Part 2 Suggestions for specific IPM techniques to help you obtain a yield In part 1(1) of this article, we looked at the history of Integrated Pest Management (IPM) and the spectrum of IPM techniques. In this part we will explore some specific ways to apply IPM with your own ecosystem, whatever […]
Enrich Garden Soils without Paying for Amendments
Enrich Garden Soils without Paying for Amendments A big part of permaculture is building soil. The loss of quality soils is one of the largest, most prevalent concerns on the globe, and of course, without good soil, producing healthy food just isn’t in the cards. So, really, before we can fill those storage bins with […]
Cheap, Simple DIY Water Catchment and Irrigation
Cheap, Simple DIY Water Catchment and Irrigation Last year in foothills North Carolina, we had a hundred-year flood in June. Then we went three months without any rain at all. Some things produced well in spite of drought, but tomatoes really suffered and I hardly got any pumpkins. I was not able to keep things […]
Avalanche
Avalanche How bad could it get? For the United States, it seems there is no bottom. Back in March, I wrote that the nation’s response to the coronavirus pandemic would likely shape its economic, political, and geopolitical fortunes for years or decades to come. Four months later, it’s time for a check-in. How’s that pandemic response going? […]
Tropical System Could Bring Heavy Rainfall To New York City
Tropical System Could Bring Heavy Rainfall To New York City Chances are, as early as Thursday, the 2020 hurricane season could get its sixth tropical system – now forming offshore of the North Carolina Outer Banks and likely headed to New York City. Earlier this week, the National Hurricane Center (NWS) had a 70% probability the storm would develop into […]
By Many Calculations, LNG Is a Fail for BC: Report
By Many Calculations, LNG Is a Fail for BC: Report The math for liquefied natural gas is bad on emissions, revenues, jobs, even offsetting coal in China, finds a new study. David Hughes, one of the nation’s foremost energy analysts, has a simple message for the governments of British Columbia and Canada when it comes to […]
We Can’t Grow Our Way Out of Poverty
WE CAN’T GROW OUR WAY OUT OF POVERTY For more than half a century, economists and policymakers have focused fanatically on growth as the only feasible way to end global poverty and improve people’s lives. But in an era of planet-wide ecological breakdown, that comfortable conventional wisdom is crashing to an end. Jason Hickel lays it on […]
Our conversation with a coronavirus
Our conversation with a coronavirus We have all been flummoxed by the way in which the coronavirus called COVID-19 has behaved as if it has agency in the world. We say it “moves,” “adapts,” “evades,” and “tricks us.” We attribute an intelligence to it. We marvel at its ability to manifest itself in so many ways. […]
How We Got Here: the Global Economy’s 75-Year Stumble to the Precipice
How We Got Here: the Global Economy’s 75-Year Stumble to the Precipice Not only will there not be a recovery, but there can’t be a recovery, as those brittle extremes have been lost for good. How did the global economy end up teetering on a precarious financial precipice? To formulate a cogent answer, let’s take a […]
Heat Wave To Bake Significant Parts Of US Through Mid-July
Heat Wave To Bake Significant Parts Of US Through Mid-July Extreme temperatures, mostly in the mid/the high 90s, are expected for the first half of July for much of the U.S., reported The Weather Channel. These hotter-than-usual temperatures have already begun this week and will bake a significant part of the country this holiday weekend, with elevated temperatures forecasted through the […]
Russia Denies Causing Latest Radioactivity Over Europe; UN Agency Says Origin “Still Unclear”
Russia Denies Causing Latest Radioactivity Over Europe; UN Agency Says Origin “Still Unclear” Last Friday monitors with the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization (CTBTO) issued an alarming report that its radiation sensors based in Scandinavia picked up abnormal radioactivity levels in the air over the Baltics and Scandanavia. Its ultra-sensitive networked sensors set up across Europe and the world are capable of picking up nuclear weapons […]
The epidemic in the US: a comment by the virologist Guido Silvestri
The epidemic in the US: a comment by the virologist Guido Silvestri Many have noted the spike in the number of coronavirus cases observed in the United States. The fear is, obviously, that this increase will result in a corresponding spike in the number of deaths after some delay. The virologist Guido Silvestri wrote a comment in […]
