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The Global Contagion Impacted Silver Production The Most
The Global Contagion Impacted Silver Production The Most According to a new report released by GlobalData, the global contagion impacted silver production the most while gold mine supply fared the best. The two largest silver producing countries, Mexico and Peru, have issued temporary shutdowns lasting nearly two months. Peru, which started its lockdown on March […]
Banana Town: Where Michael Moore Is Censored by the Left and Promoted by the Right (Episode 24 of Crazy Town)
Banana Town: Where Michael Moore Is Censored by the Left and Promoted by the Right (Episode 24 of Crazy Town) Paying attention to the buzz around Planet of the Humans, the new film by Michael Moore, is like standing in the middle of a three-ring circus. In ring #1 are the filmmakers, who raise critical questions […]
The Recent History of GDP Growth, CO2 Emissions, and Climate Policy Paralysis, All in One Table-Runner
The Recent History of GDP Growth, CO2 Emissions, and Climate Policy Paralysis, All in One Table-Runner Note: I began designing this table-runner just before the COVID-19 pandemic blew up in the United States. In the time I have been embroidering it, rates of death and misery have soared while wealth generation and carbon emissions (the […]
The Syrian Job: Uncovering the Oil Industry’s Radioactive Secret
The Syrian Job: Uncovering the Oil Industry’s Radioactive Secret Cancerous lesions have developed across Keith MacDonald’s body and his son is dead from leukemia. His life has disintegrated, and in his eyes fault lies with the third richest company on earth. It is headquartered in the Netherlands, incorporated in the United Kingdom, and is an […]
Permaculture and Money – Part 1
Permaculture and Money – Part 1 Cash, conflict and crisis: How is money connected to limited and violent beliefs, and how can we transcend these beliefs? Permaculture design is about finding ways in which parts of a system can harmonise together, creating regenerative patterns and structures which can help us to develop as part of […]
“Crisis In Processing” – Pandemic Exposes Fragility Of Food Supply Chain
“Crisis In Processing” – Pandemic Exposes Fragility Of Food Supply Chain Today’s food supply chain crisis began in the meat industry has been developing for decades, and Tyson Foods has helped to create the disaster that is currently unfolding. The problem is consolidation, and with Tyson, JBS SA and Cargill Inc, three mega-corporations that control 66% […]
How sand transformed civilization
How sand transformed civilization Preface. No wonder we’re reaching peak sand. We use more of this natural resource than of any other except water. Civilization consumes nearly 50 billion tons of sand & gravel a year, enough to build a concrete wall 88 feet (27 m) high and 88 feet wide right around the equator. […]
Tyson Foods Offers Workers $1000 Bonus To Return To Corona-Factories
Tyson Foods Offers Workers $1000 Bonus To Return To Corona-Factories Tyson Foods is set to double bonuses, increase wages, and better protect employees amid one of the worst health crises to strike the nation’s meatpacking plants. Several Tyson plants have now been shuttered due to COVID-19 outbreaks. The company is now offering “$120 million in “thank you bonuses” for […]
Unnecessary travel? The return of breathable air and rethinking transport in a crisis
Unnecessary travel? The return of breathable air and rethinking transport in a crisis Bowing, perhaps to inevitability, the group of scientists responsible for assessing ways to cut the pollution that causes global heating, working group three of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, announced in the middle of the COVID-19 pandemic, that for the first […]
Pandenomics: a story of life versus growth
Pandenomics: a story of life versus growth The clash between business-as-usual economics and the pandemic shows what we really need from our economy. I’ve been thinking a lot about breathing, recently: how our organisms take life-supporting oxygen from Earth’s clement atmosphere, and exhale waste carbon dioxide back out. I’ve been thinking about how pleasant and […]
What does a global pandemic mean for a global food system?
What does a global pandemic mean for a global food system? In the last few weeks, we have all experienced the impact that COVID-19 has had on food supplies. With supermarkets picked clean, many are wondering whether this is a short-term reaction to the crisis or a prelude to more significant shortages as global trade […]
Powerful T-Storms Threaten 60 Million Americans As “Squall Lines” Could Produce Twisters
Powerful T-Storms Threaten 60 Million Americans As “Squall Lines” Could Produce Twisters Widespread severe thunderstorms are expected to develop on Tuesday from Texas to Wisconsin, unleashing damaging winds, torrential rain, hail, and the threat of tornadoes in some regions. “An upper-level trough will dig southeastward from the northern Plains into the central Plains today. An […]
Chinagate is the New Russiagate
Chinagate is the New Russiagate I’ve become convinced the next major event that’ll be used to further centralize power and escalate domestic authoritarianism will center around U.S.-China tensions. We haven’t witnessed this “event” yet, but there’s a good chance it’ll occur within the next year or two. Currently, the front runner appears to be a […]
Can Community Gardeners Start Planting? It Depends Where You Live
Can Community Gardeners Start Planting? It Depends Where You Live Interest in local growing is exploding while funds shrink. Interest in growing food has exploded during the COVID-19 crisis, but not everyone has access to a yard or even a balcony. Community gardens play a crucial role for both households and food security organizations. But […]
