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Bee Lawns: What’s all the buzz about?
Bee Lawns: What’s all the buzz about? A bee lawn is a way to benefit pollinators in our landscapes by providing additional floral resources, and often utilizes a mix of low-growing flowering plants in addition to turf species. Although flower gardens also provide flowering plants for pollinators, bee lawns can be multi-functional in their usability […]
Prepper medicine: How to use sage, a versatile healing herb
Prepper medicine: How to use sage, a versatile healing herb (Natural News) Sage is a flavorful herb that’s often used during Thanksgiving to season turkey and homemade stuffing. The herb may be popular as a culinary seasoning for holiday recipes, but you also need to learn the medicinal uses of sage before SHTF. (h/t to TheSurvivalMom.com) Sage: […]
Want to save the oceans? Stop recycling plastic
Want to save the oceans? Stop recycling plastic If you put your plastic in your recycling bin, there’s a decent chance it will end up in the seas off east Asia. If you put it in landfill, it’s going nowhere Plastic in a river in Manila, the Philippines, where a significant amount of Western ‘recycling’ […]
Cash For Fracking: UK Households May Receive Payouts For Allowing Fracking
Cash For Fracking: UK Households May Receive Payouts For Allowing Fracking The UK lifted its long-running ban on fracking last month. UK households could soon receive cash payouts for allowing fracking in their neighborhoods. Drilling companies could soon go door to door in Britain, offering money in exchange for fracking support. UK households could soon […]
Want to save the oceans? Stop recycling plastic
Want to save the oceans? Stop recycling plastic If you put your plastic in your recycling bin, there’s a decent chance it will end up in the seas off east Asia. If you put it in landfill, it’s going nowhere Plastic in a river in Manila, the Philippines, where a significant amount of Western ‘recycling’ […]
Dutch dilemma: What is Europe willing to do for more natural gas?
Dutch dilemma: What is Europe willing to do for more natural gas? Modern global society is steeped in the idea of trade-offs, the notion that one must suffer losses to obtain desired gains. This prepares the way for disingenuous leaders to explain why sacrifices are necessary to reach supposedly exalted goals. Usually those sacrifices are […]
The Renewable Energy ‘Paradox’: A More Costly Way Forward
Michael Shellenberger, eco-modernist and author of “Apocalypse Never,” speaking at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Sydney, Australia on Oct. 1, 2022. (Horace Young/Epoch Times) The Renewable Energy ‘Paradox’: A More Costly Way Forward A California-based leading eco-modernist has disputed the widespread claim that renewables are a cheap and clean energy source, arguing that it’s […]
The Cult of Civilization
The Cult of Civilization From Pixabay/KELLEPICS I recently watched a Netflix documentary series about fundamentalist Mormons, exposing along the way a number of beliefs that seem bizarre from the outside, but that are accepted as perfectly normal within their insular community. Though the term “cult” is not used in the series, it is hard not […]
Living bioregionally, now
Living bioregionally, now Given the climate and other environmental stresses being experienced by ecosystems all over the world, a major rethink is taking place regarding alternative forms of governance, more adept at both preventing and mitigating these crises. One compelling idea being put forward is that of bioregional forms of governance, which start from the […]
The Green Transition Part 1: The Problem with Green Capitalism
The Green Transition Part 1: The Problem with Green Capitalism It’s clear that we need to decarbonize our economy as quickly as possible in order to avoid the worst of climate change — but carbon isn’t the only problem we’re facing. As the world moves towards renewables and away from fossil fuels as an energy […]
The climate movement was built for a world before climate change—it’s time for a new approach
The climate movement was built for a world before climate change—it’s time for a new approach We need a mass movement that can deal with climate disasters by training people to both protect and mobilize their communities. We are past the point where “stopping” climate change is really possible. With global temperature rise already above […]
Logging industry targeted B.C. old-growth forests for more than a century, SFU study finds
Logging industry targeted B.C. old-growth forests for more than a century, SFU study finds Ken Lertzman’s paper shows between 1860 and 2016, 87 per cent of logging took place in old-growth forests A man walks past an old growth tree in Avatar Grove near Port Renfrew, B.C. A new paper published by Simon Fraser University […]
Are We In the Midst of a Silent Mass Extinction?
Genetic diversity in deer mice creates differences in coat color. NICOLE BEDFORD Are We In the Midst of a Silent Mass Extinction? A new modeling technique aims to help scientists and policymakers detect declines in genetic diversity based on habitat loss. Nearly one fifth of the genetic diversity of the planet’s most vulnerable species may […]
Humanity’s Biggest Crisis Since WW2?
Humanity’s Biggest Crisis Since WW2?
