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Peak Gold
Peak Gold Preface. Both articles below offer the usual techno-optimism of more gold supplies from Man’s Cleverness: robots, AI, and Big and Smart Data Mining. But both are energy blind. Ores are decreasing in gold concentrations, and found in deeper and more remote places, requiring more energy to process. Where will this energy come from? […]
CPM GROUP Drops The Ball On Silver Mining Industry’s Falling Ore Grades
CPM GROUP Drops The Ball On Silver Mining Industry’s Falling Ore Grades On this Happy New Year’s Eve, I decided to post a short YouTube video update on my response to CPM Group’s stance on the Primary Silver Mining Industry’s falling ore grades. The CPM Group posted on Twitter that silver ore grades fall when […]
A Butterfly Polyculture and Planting a Productive Hedge
A Butterfly Polyculture and Planting a Productive Hedge Week 19 – ESC Project – The Polyculture Project As part of our ESC project we are maintaining and developing community spaces. The centre of our town, Shipka, was fairly recently developed to include a main plaza with a stage where numerous events take place throughout the year, […]
How our miraculous transportation system turns water into brine
How our miraculous transportation system turns water into brine “Water, water, everywhere, nor any drop to drink.” When English romantic poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge published those words in 1798, there was no dense network of modern concrete and asphalt roads in Great Britain (or anywhere else) and there were no automobiles or trucks to ride […]
BC’s Effort to License Water Use Falling Apart, Critics Say
BC’s Effort to License Water Use Falling Apart, Critics Say Liberals, Greens agree a crisis looms for thousands of farmers and other water users. With less than two months until new rules take effect, some 16,000 BC users are at risk of losing their right to water for irrigation and other critical needs. Photo by Ted McGrath, […]
Flights Canceled, 800,000 Without Power As Fast-Moving Winter Storm Pounds Mid-Atlantic
Flights Canceled, 800,000 Without Power As Fast-Moving Winter Storm Pounds Mid-Atlantic Update (1217ET): A fast-moving winter storm pounded the Southeast and Mid-Atlantic, resulting in 800,00 customers without power. According to PowerOutage.US, the highest concentration of power outages spanned across Virginia (378k customers without power) and North Carolina (163k customers without power). AccuWeather reports parts of Tennessee and […]
Bright Green Lies Torpedoes Greens
Bright Green Lies Torpedoes Greens Bright Green Lies (Monkfish Book Publishing, 2021) grumbles and growls like a rambunctious thunderstorm on an early spring day opening up darkened clouds of acid rain across the world of environmentalism, including celebrated personalities. According to Bright Green Lies authors Derrick Jensen, Lierre Keith, and Max Wilbert: “We are writing this […]
Wishes for a beautiful, safe, and productive 2022 for you and your gardens!
Wishes for a beautiful, safe, and productive 2022 for you and your gardens! This week is the end of 2021 and the start of the new year. What a year 2021 has been! Without even talking about politics, COVID-19, sports, or the economy, it was certainly one to remember from the standpoint of weather and […]
Why the Arctic Sea Ice Matters to All Complex Life on the Planet
Why the Arctic Sea Ice Matters to All Complex Life on the Planet “President Niinistö in North Russia: ‘If We Lose the Arctic, We Lose the World’” Clearly we have lost the Arctic as one of our major planetary thermostats. Myself, Beryl Sirmacek, John Doyle and Arctic Oceanographer Jim Massa discuss the unravelling in the Arctic and […]
Thinking about Establishing a Home Permaculture Garden in 2022? 6 Key Benefits You Shouldn’t Overlook
Photo by Beth Macdonald on Unsplash Thinking about Establishing a Home Permaculture Garden in 2022? 6 Key Benefits You Shouldn’t Overlook Have you ever wondered why humans have to invest so much time and energy into growing plants that grow all by themselves in nature? Permaculture gardening may be the answer. Permaculture is a style of agriculture that aims to […]
1st Jan 2022 Today’s Round-Up of Climate News
1st Jan 2022 Today’s Round-Up of Climate News Facebook Twitter “Snow and ash over Colorado: Devastated owners of the nearly 1,000 homes razed to the ground by December wildfires survey the damage… “Colorado Governor Jared Polis declared a state of emergency on Thursday, calling the wildfires a ‘disaster in fast-motion’… Tens of thousands were ordered to […]
A review of three books: Futuresteading, The Good Life and Costa’s World
A review of three books: Futuresteading, The Good Life and Costa’s World It’s not often I comment on the constant flow of new books about green lifestyle, growing and wellbeing but three recently released titles had me thinking about the issue of communicating the good news to inspire and motivate people to adopt and adapt […]
Massive Snowstorm To Ring In New Year For Millions Of Americans
Massive Snowstorm To Ring In New Year For Millions Of Americans AccuWeather meteorologists say that millions of Americans will be ringing in the new year with a massive winter storm that is expected to blanket the Midwest and parts of the Northeast with as much as 18 inches of snow. As of 0900 ET, winter storm […]
E.O. Wilson’s lifelong passion for ants helped him teach humans about how to live sustainably with nature
E.O. Wilson’s lifelong passion for ants helped him teach humans about how to live sustainably with nature E. O. Wilson was an extraordinary scholar in every sense of the word. Back in the 1980s, Milton Stetson, the chair of the biology department at the University of Delaware, told me that a scientist who makes a […]
