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Why Is This Happening? Unprecedented Flooding Has Hit The U.S. Within The Last 30 Days
Why Is This Happening? Unprecedented Flooding Has Hit The U.S. Within The Last 30 Days Over the past 30 days, major floods have hit the east coast, the west coast and now the middle part of the country. So why is this happening? Why is the U.S. being hit by so many catastrophic weather events […]
Powerful Earthquake Hits Afghanistan, Pakistan, India
Powerful Earthquake Hits Afghanistan, Pakistan, India Things are “shifting” in the Hindu Kush – literally. Just months after back-to-back quakes hit Nepal killing thousands, a powerful earthquake shook northeast Afghanistan on Monday. Tremors were felt in Pakistan and India as well. The quake, which the USGS says measured 7.5, “centered 82 km (51 miles) southeast of Feyzabad […]
Piecing Together a Guild of Your Own
Piecing Together a Guild of Your Own In the scheme of permaculture food production, harnessing the most out of nature whilst using its own attributes, creating plant guilds ranks pretty high up there. Most of us know them in simplified forms such as the three sisters—corn, beans and squash—or companion plantings like carrots and onions […]
Leaked Map Reveals Big Gas Is Setting Its Sights on the Most Biodiverse Place on Earth
Leaked Map Reveals Big Gas Is Setting Its Sights on the Most Biodiverse Place on Earth Part of a map from Pluspetrol, an exploration and production company, showing its interest in areas of Manú National Park in Peru’s Amazon. (Pluspetrol) A leaked map shows that a private energy corporation based in Argentina is eyeing Manú […]
Meet “Stunningly Catastrophic” Patricia, The World’s Strongest Storm Ever Is About To Hit Mexico
Meet “Stunningly Catastrophic” Patricia, The World’s Strongest Storm Ever Is About To Hit Mexico “Stunning, historic, mind-boggling, and catastrophic” is how Weather Underground’s Jeff Masters sums up Hurricane Patricia, which intensified to an incredible-strength Category 5 storm with 200 mph winds overnight as it approaches the Mexican coast. As The NY Times reports, The World Meteorological Organization warned […]
Permaculture, Climate & Survival
Permaculture, Climate & Survival SUMMARY: From 15th Annual International Permaculture Convergence in London, September 9th, 2015: “Cool Talk” by Albert Bates from The Farm in Tennessee. Albert interviews Transition Towns founder Rob Hopkins. Australian permaculturalist Rosemary Morrow tells us Western permies are the minority, compared to East Asia, India, Africa, and the Pacific Islands. WELCOME […]
Because the ‘Time for Climate Action Is Now,’ Oslo Makes Landmark Move to Ban Cars
Because the ‘Time for Climate Action Is Now,’ Oslo Makes Landmark Move to Ban Cars ‘The reduction in pollution will make the city even better to live in, and ensure that we take our global responsibility’ Pedestrians walk down a street in Oslo. (Photo: Caleb Khor/flickr/cc) As part of a plan to rein in carbon emissions, […]
Derrick Jensen has Inspired Me to Question Civilization
Derrick Jensen has Inspired Me to Question Civilization Photo: Hartwig HKD/Flickr CC. I rode my horse out through the woods the other day. It was a beautiful Autumn afternoon as golden light filtered through the trees. My horse was keen to graze in an open meadow, so we found a spot where he could forage for […]
Backyard Carbon Sequestration: What Does Synthetic Fertilizer Have to Do with It?
Backyard Carbon Sequestration: What Does Synthetic Fertilizer Have to Do with It? Part two of a series exploring how regenerative gardening techniques can enhance carbon storage while improving soil health. In part one I discussed some of the principles behind the factors involved in soil health and how plants and the soil biological community work […]
Stern warns: humanity is at climate crossroads
Stern warns: humanity is at climate crossroads China, the world’s worst polluter, says its emissions are now set to peak earlier. Image: Gustavo M via Flickr Expert on the economic impacts of climate change says the stakes have never been higher for radical action to be agreed at the Paris summit. LONDON, 21 October, 2015 − The lead […]
Worse Than Fossil Fuels? Why Bioenergy Is Not Green
Worse Than Fossil Fuels? Why Bioenergy Is Not Green An Interview with Princeton Research Scholar Tim Searchinger Bioenergy’s role in the global economy is growing as governments promote renewable biofuels and biomass electricity to replace fossil fuels. But in recent years, mounting scientific evidence has shown that bioenergy is not, in fact, carbon-neutral: hidden emissions […]
5.5 earthquake shakes Japan’s Fukushima & Miyagi regions
5.5 earthquake shakes Japan’s Fukushima & Miyagi regions © www.jma.go.jp A 5.5-magnitude earthquake has hit near the Fukushima prefecture in Japan, with residents of some 10 other prefectures feeling the tremor. The quake occurred off the northeast coast of Japan. No tsunami warning has been issued. The epicenter was near the Fukushima coastline, at a […]
Burning Down the House
Burning Down the House “To address the risk of catastrophic wildfire and improve air quality, the District has teamed with other public and private stakeholders to … sequester carbon from biomass waste in a highly stable biochar, and produce renewable energy from the energy-rich byproduct syngas. “ It is no secret we live in house […]
As the Fracking Boom Spreads, One Watershed Draws the Line
As the Fracking Boom Spreads, One Watershed Draws the Line After spreading across Pennsylvania, fracking for natural gas has run into government bans in the Delaware River watershed. The basins of the Delaware and nearby Susquehanna River offer a sharp contrast between what happens in places that allow fracking and those that do not. Over the […]
Appropriate Scarcity
Appropriate Scarcity … appealing to people to restrain themselves [by] self-enforced abstinence alone is a waste of time. By and large, we consume as much as our incomes allow…. changes… cannot take place without constraints that apply to everyone rather than everyone else. Manmade global warming cannot be restrained unless we persuade the government […]
