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The 100-Mile Diet, 15 Years Later
The 100-Mile Diet, 15 Years Later Authors Alisa Smith and J.B. MacKinnon on asparagus season, a more just local food system, and pandemic gardens of hope. First in a week-long series. Fifteen years ago, The Tyee launched a series called The 100-Mile Diet written — and lived — by Alisa Smith and James (J.B.) MacKinnon. The idea […]
Arctic Heat Overwhelms Green Infighting Issues
Arctic Heat Overwhelms Green Infighting Issues Image Source: Hunter Allen and Richard Rivera – Public Domain Arctic temperatures are soaring to new records… and staying there, ever since May of this year. Truth be known, the Arctic’s been heating up for years. Siberia recently hit 105°F. That’s not normal. It’s 30°F hotter than normal. Farther […]
DC Is the Latest to Sue Exxon and Big Oil for Climate Disinformation Campaigns
DC Is the Latest to Sue Exxon and Big Oil for Climate Disinformation Campaigns Washington, D.C. is suing the four largest investor-owned oil and gas companies — BP, Chevron, ExxonMobil, and Shell — for allegedly misleading consumers about climate change, including historically undermining climate science and even now using deceptive advertising about the companies’ role in leading solutions to the climate crisis. […]
Europe On Alert After Unknown Radioactivity Spike Detected Over Baltic Sea
Europe On Alert After Unknown Radioactivity Spike Detected Over Baltic Sea Almost a year ago Russia admitted to releasing significant amounts of radiation into the air that triggered warning alerts in the region of the far north Arctic Circle port cities of Arkhangelsk and Severodvinsk, after a failed weapons test involving a “small-scale nuclear reactor” that killed Russian […]
COVID-19 and the economy: Where do we go from here?
COVID-19 and the economy: Where do we go from here? The COVID-19 story keeps developing. At first, everyone listened to epidemiologists telling us that a great deal of social distancing, and even the closing down of economies, would be helpful. After trying these things, we ended up with a huge number of people out of work […]
3,500 Mile-Long “Godzilla Dust Cloud” Will Hit US Southeast Within Hours
3,500 Mile-Long “Godzilla Dust Cloud” Will Hit US Southeast Within Hours A giant dust cloud which has traveled 5,000 miles from North Africa is touching down on the US Southeast this weekend, and will cause a brown haze and raising respiratory health concerns amid the coronavirus pandemic, according to Reuters. The North African dust storm is […]
Integrated Pest Management – Part 1
Integrated Pest Management – Part 1 What is it and how can we do it as part of a balanced system? In these times of global uncertainty and transition, where the globalised food system has become halted or reduced1, there is a wonderful opportunity to begin practicing food sovereignty on a personal basis2. This seems […]
D614G: A New, More Serious Covid-19 Mutation To Worry AboutW
D614G: A New, More Serious Covid-19 Mutation To Worry About We’re not done with the honey badger virus by a long shot. Continuing its Keystone Cops manner of dealing with covid-19, the US appears to be caught flat-footed by the resurgence of infections happening across many southern and western states right now. Yes, people are […]
How to Get Off Fossil Fuels Quickly—and Fairly
How to Get Off Fossil Fuels Quickly—and Fairly Researchers from the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) discuss panel orientation and spacing for a project on simultaneously growing crops under PV Arrays while producing electricity from the panels in South Dearfield, Massachusetts. The project is part of the DOE InSPIRE project seeking to improve the environmental compatibility […]
How Waste Due to the Coronavirus Is Hurting Our Oceans
How Waste Due to the Coronavirus Is Hurting Our Oceans In an attempt to protect themselves and others from the coronavirus, millions of people are donning plastic masks, gloves and other types of personal protective equipment. From restaurant staff to medical personnel, workers and the general public are using and discarding thousands of single-use plastic […]
Global Warming and Cooling After CO2 Shutoff at +1.5°C
Global Warming and Cooling After CO2 Shutoff at +1.5°C I have done further analytical modeling of global warming, using the same general method described earlier. The question addressed now is: what is the trend of temperature change after an abrupt shutoff of all CO2 emissions just as the net temperature rise (relative to year 1910) reaches +1.5°C, […]
Nature’s antivirals: Top 5 antiviral agents that help boost immune health
Nature’s antivirals: Top 5 antiviral agents that help boost immune health (Natural News) Scientists are scrambling to fast-track a cure for COVID-19, the highly infectious respiratory disease that’s still currently spreading throughout the globe. In fact, the World Health Organization (WHO) has been conducting clinical trials for a potential COVID-19 drug since April, but to no […]
Capitalism is destroying ‘safe operating space’ for humanity, warn scientists
Capitalism is destroying ‘safe operating space’ for humanity, warn scientists The COVID19 pandemic has exposed a strange anomaly in the global economy. If it doesn’t keep growing endlessly, it just breaks. Grow, or die. But there’s a deeper problem. New scientific research confirms that capitalism’s structural obsession with endless growth is destroying the very conditions […]
‘Normal Is the Problem’
‘Normal Is the Problem’ So is normal’s idiot child, ‘the new normal.’ What we’ve made normal never was natural. Sharon Wilson is a fifth-generation Texan who drives around rural communities and takes pictures of oil and gas facilities with an infrared camera. The pictures make visible all the methane pollution that industry and governments pretend […]
Scientists’ warning on affluence
Scientists’ warning on affluence Abstract For over half a century, worldwide growth in affluence has continuously increased resource use and pollutant emissions far more rapidly than these have been reduced through better technology. The affluent citizens of the world are responsible for most environmental impacts and are central to any future prospect of retreating to […]
