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Climate Truth: a Plan for Sustainability
Climate Truth: a Plan for Sustainability Photo by U.S. Department of Agriculture | CC BY 2.0 There is a practical path for tackling climate change, for organizing from your house to your neighborhood, city, state and beyond. It’s clear. It’s simple. It’s 3 tons of carbon dioxide emissions per person per year as a goal […]
Climate science’s official text is outdated. Here’s what it’s missing.
Climate science’s official text is outdated. Here’s what it’s missing. The first-ever courtroom tutorial of climate science this week went about as you’d expect. The scientists representing Oakland and San Francisco had Powerpoint problems, and the oil industry’s lawyer cherry-picked his facts. For all their differences, both sides drew from a common source: The Intergovernmental Panel […]
Is Britain sleepwalking into a food crisis?
Is Britain sleepwalking into a food crisis? Image: Andrew Stawarz, CC BY-ND 2.0 On May 8th the government will end its consultation period on a new agricultural policy for England. Revealingly, its policy document – called ‘Health and Harmony: The future for food, farming and the environment in a Green Brexit’– has more to say […]
9 Mindful Ways to Start Breaking Up With Plastic – For Good!
9 Mindful Ways to Start Breaking Up With Plastic – For Good! One of the big problems with our prepackaged, modern, consumer spending-based economies is that everything is mass-produced in plastic with little or no regard for the future problems it creates. To date, 14 billion pounds of garbage are dumped into the ocean every year – […]
The Benefits of a Natural Pool
THE BENEFITS OF A NATURAL POOL Nothing is better than having a pool in the backyard, they’re great during the summer, make your backyard look better, and raise the value of your property. On the other hand, they require quite a bit of maintenance to care for. The pH levels have to be carefully monitored, […]
How the Cult of the Colossal Imperils American Agriculture
How the Cult of the Colossal Imperils American Agriculture Stressed-out farmers today only grow food for global consumption, and that is leading to a crisis at home. Jurga Jot/Shutterstock The 2018 farm bill is currently at a standstill as congressmen debate proposed changes to the bill’s SNAP (Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program) provisions. SNAP is a […]
Foresters vs. Ecologists
Foresters vs. Ecologists Photo by Andrew Malone | CC BY 2.0 There is a huge difference between the Industrial Forestry worldview and an ecological perspective. Many people assume that foresters understand forest ecosystems, but what you learn in forestry school is how to produce wood fiber to sell to the wood products industry. I know […]
Wheat & the Drought Cycle
Wheat & the Drought Cycle QUESTION: Interesting that $1.3T US spending bill was enacted on March 23, 2018, exactly 31.459 years after passage of US Tax Reform Act of 1986: Also, the 86 year cycle in drought conditions in the midwest US seems to approach – is this why Marty thinks wheat will bottom this […]
Europe’s Biggest Gas Field To Close Over Quake Risk
Europe’s Biggest Gas Field To Close Over Quake Risk Europe’s biggest gas field–Groningen in the north of the Netherlands–has been pumping gas for more than half a century and supplies gas to 98 percent of the Dutch population. But the field has been causing earthquakes that have become a growing concern for residents and authorities. […]
Fukushima Jitters
Fukushima Jitters Fukushima is full of nasty surprises, similar to John Carpenter’s classic film The Thing (1982), which held audiences to the edge of their seats in anticipation of creepy monsters leaping out from “somebody, anybody, nobody knows for sure,” but unlike Hollywood films, Fukushima’s consequences are real and dire and deathly. It’s an on-going […]
Michigan Activates Emergency Ops Ahead Of Chinese Space Station Crash
Michigan Activates Emergency Ops Ahead Of Chinese Space Station Crash With China’s Tiangong-1 space station (translated as “Heavenly Palace”) full of highly toxic chemicals such as hydrazine, set to crash into the earth at a still unknown location some time today, Michigan isn’t taking any chances. As a reminder, several weeks ago Aerospace.org predicted that […]
The Future Ain’t What It Used To Be
© Rangizzz | Dreamstime.com The Future Ain’t What It Used To Be Looks like we’re in for a much rockier ride than many expect This marks our our 10th year of doing this. And by “this”, we mean using data, logic and reason to support the very basic conclusion that infinite growth on a finite […]
The Great Flood
The Great Flood There is little doubt that the amount of water on earth really does not change. There is simply what is known as the Water Cycle whereby evaporation moves water to the sky and then it is redistributed as rain elsewhere. Therefore, the likelihood of an actual flood in Biblical terms that covered […]
Not So Happy Motoring
Not So Happy Motoring It hasn’t been a great month for America’s electric car fantasy. Elon Musk’s Tesla company — the symbolic beating heart of the fantasy — is whirling around the drain with its share price plummeting 22 percent, its bonds downgraded by Moody’s to junk status, a failure to produce its “affordable” ($36,000 […]
Selco: The Dirty Truth About Water and Sanitation When the SHTF
Selco: The Dirty Truth About Water and Sanitation When the SHTF Note: The biggest concerns in any long-term emergency are water and sanitation because the lack of these things can cause serious illness or even death. Because water and sanitation aren’t nearly as glamorous as guns and gadgets, they’re often overlooked in a preparedness plan. I […]
