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Nurturing vital diversity & resilience: Scaling out, rather than scaling-up!
Nurturing vital diversity & resilience: Scaling out, rather than scaling-up! There is an unfortunate knee-jerk response programmed into many people in leadership positions to want to ask: “How do we scale it up?” every time they hear a seemingly good idea. To a larger or lesser extent, many of the people who have this response have contracted […]
DARPA Seeks “Militarized Microbes” So They Can Spread Genetically Modified Bacteria
DARPA SEEKS “MILITARIZED MICROBES” SO THEY CAN SPREAD GENETICALLY MODIFIED BACTERIA The Pentagon’s DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency) wants to be able to spread genetically modified bacteria as “explosives sensors.” The United States government could very well be looking into ways to militarize microbes. The Pentagon has teamed up with Raytheon for this project, […]
The Globalists Are Openly Admitting To Their Population Control Agenda – And That’s A Bad Sign…
The Globalists Are Openly Admitting To Their Population Control Agenda – And That’s A Bad Sign… Eugenics and population control are long time hobbies of the financial elites. In the early 1900’s, the Rockefeller Foundation and the Carnegie Institute were deeply involved in promoting Eugenics laws in the US. These laws led to the forced sterilization […]
Nitrogen glut: Too much of a good thing is deadly for the biosphere
Nitrogen glut: Too much of a good thing is deadly for the biosphere Abbreviations in this articleCBD UN Convention on Biological Diversity.CO2 carbon dioxide.N nitrogen.N2 dinitrogen (inert nitrogen gas). N2O nitrous oxide.NH3 ammonia.NO, NO2, NOx nitrous oxides.NO3 nitrate.Nr reactive nitrogen.O3 ozone.P phosphorous.PM particulate matter Part Two of Ian Angus’s examination of the disruption of the global nitrogen cycle by an economic system that values profits more than life itself. […]
Regenerative Agriculture Is So Good In So Many Ways
Regenerative Agriculture Is So Good In So Many Ways Welcome to Terra Firma by Courtney White. I’ve spent my life prospecting for innovative, practical, and collaborative answers to pressing problems involving land and people, sharing them with others. I’d like to share them with you! Don’t miss the next issue, sign up here:Subscribe I’ve been involved with […]
Power Shutoffs: Playing with Fire
Power Shutoffs: Playing with Fire California’s fire season is back. Yet if this past week is any indication, our emergency response remains woefully inadequate. When disaster strikes we are far from being energy resilient, ensuring reliable access to electricity for our most vulnerable communities. Climate fires are California’s new normal. Dangerous combinations of high (20-60 […]
Italy Declares State Of Emergency As Record Flooding In Venice Worsens
Italy Declares State Of Emergency As Record Flooding In Venice Worsens After “apocalyptic” flooding brought the city of Venice “to its knees” on Wednesday, Italy’s Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte declared a state emergency, giving Venice access to millions in disaster recovery money to help repair the damage from what appears to be the second-worst round of flooding […]
The Growing Threat of Water Wars
The Growing Threat of Water Wars In 2015, United Nations member states adopted the Sustainable Development Goals, which include an imperative to “ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all.” Yet, in the last four years, matters have deteriorated significantly. NEW DELHI – The dangers of environmental pollution receive a lot of […]
Plunder of the Commons: A Manifesto for Sharing Public Wealth by Guy Standing
Plunder of the Commons: A Manifesto for Sharing Public Wealth by Guy Standing Solving the problems of our times together by reviving the commons Anyone looking for an excellent description of the damaging effects of austerity will find it in this book. Anyone looking for an analysis of the ecological crisis and what to do […]
Memo from a Climate Crisis Realist: The Choice before Us
Memo from a Climate Crisis Realist: The Choice before Us If we don’t take these 11 key steps, we’re kidding ourselves. Second of two. That first query was this: The modern world is deeply addicted to fossil fuels and green energy is no substitute. Am I wrong? Read my fact-based argument here. Today I ask: Question 2: Human […]
Are You Ready For A Catastrophically Cold Winter? Here Is What The Mainstream Media Won’t Tell You…
Are You Ready For A Catastrophically Cold Winter? Here Is What The Mainstream Media Won’t Tell You… Experts are warning us that this will be a “freezing, frigid, and frosty” winter, and even though the official beginning of winter is still over a month away, it already feels like that in much of the country […]
Of Warnings and their Ripple Effects
Of Warnings and their Ripple Effects In her testimony to the US Congress, Greta Thunberg did not prepare a statement for submission to the record. Instead, she submitted the most recent scientific report, issued by the IPCC three weeks earlier. She said simply, “I am submitting this report as my testimony because I don’t want […]
Air-conditioning the outside—really
Air-conditioning the outside—really Qatar is both a country and a peninsula which juts out about 100 miles into the Persian Gulf. It is precisely this geography which makes it both one of the hottest and muggiest places on Earth. The average daily high in mid-summer is 108 degrees F (42 degrees C). With temperatures now exceeding those […]
Don’t Call Me a Pessimist on Climate Change. I Am a Realist
Don’t Call Me a Pessimist on Climate Change. I Am a Realist To see our fate clearly, we must face these hard facts about energy, growth and governance. Part one of two. Why is this important? Well, if Greta Thunberg and followers are to inspire more than emotional release about climate change, the world needs […]
