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Coal Generation In UK Jumps As Wind Speed Drops
Coal Generation In UK Jumps As Wind Speed Drops Coal met some 3 percent of the UK’s electricity demand on Friday morning, reaching its highest level of Britain’s power generation in one month, amid lower wind speeds this week and an outage at a gas-powered plant, Bloomberg reports. The last time the UK generated 3 percent […]
Bonus: Galactic-Scale Energy with Tom Murphy
Bonus: Galactic-Scale Energy with Tom Murphy Take it from astrophysicist Tom Murphy. Sure, lightsabers, dilithium crystal warp drives, and Mars colonies are a lot of fun to consider. But a physics-based perspective on energy tells us that we need to accept the limits to growth, stop chasing sci-fi fantasies, and get to work building a […]
Does Climate Change Increase Earthquakes and Volcanic Activity?
Does Climate Change Increase Earthquakes and Volcanic Activity? From top; Columbia Glacier, Mount Blackburn, Worthington Glacier, Matanuska Glacier Something many people aren’t aware of is just how climate change is affecting natural disasters once thought to have no connection to weather and/or climate – earthquakes and volcanic activity. Unfortunately, these two phenomena are predicted to […]
Flooding in West China Destroys Agricultural Production
Flooding in West China Destroys Agricultural Production People watch as floodwaters are released from the Yellow River, China, on July 23, 2013. (STR/AFP/Getty Images) Continuous rainfall for more than ten days has caused the lower reaches of the Luo River in China’s west to spill their banks. Large volumes of floodwater released from upstream have […]
Build a $300 Underground Greenhouse For Year-Round Fresh Food
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Europe’s Energy Crisis Is a Warning Sign for America
A tanker is stocked with fuel as workers walk past at the Hamble oil refinery near Southampton, southern England, on Oct. 4, 2021. (Adrian Dennis/AFP via Getty Images) Europe’s Energy Crisis Is a Warning Sign for America An energy crisis is rocking the world, the likes of which we haven’t seen since the 1970s. Although headlines about […]
Here is The Hidden $150 Trillion Agenda Behind The “Crusade” Against Climate Change
Here is The Hidden $150 Trillion Agenda Behind The “Crusade” Against Climate Change We now live in a world, where bizarro headlines such as the ones below, have become a daily if not hourly occurrence: *TREASURY TO STUDY IMPACT OF CLIMATE ON HOUSEHOLDS, COMMUNITIES *TREASURY LAUNCHES EFFORT ON CLIMATE-RELATED FINANCIAL RISKS *BRAINARD: CLIMATE-SCENARIO ANALYSIS WILL […]
Solving the climate crisis requires the end of capitalism
Solving the climate crisis requires the end of capitalism Overcoming the climate crisis will require a shift away from our growth-based, corporate-dominated global system General view during the Global Climate Strike March on October 02, 2020 in Durban, South Africa. According to media reports, the group demanded that individuals and governments must take stronger action […]
Feeding Britain one farm at a time
Feeding Britain one farm at a time On Farming Today this morning, in a conversation about food security and climate change, it was suggested that two fifths of the people on planet earth would not be alive today were it not for the use of mineral fertilisers – an interesting assertion and one with which […]
Gatherers
Gatherers I’ve been an armchair archeologist/anthropologist for most of my life. I’ve always had a fascination with deep history. I’ve spent a lifetime trying to tease out the Story of Us not mediated through the words of the privileged few; and deep history, pre-history, is where you find the story before it was broken. Further, […]
Pruning newly planted trees
Pruning newly planted trees As the climate warms the value of trees for cooling the environment around buildings, especially in cities, drives tree planting programs. Planting trees is just the first step in growing a tree in a sustainable landscape. Successful plantings require evaluation and guidance of the new tree’s current and future branch architecture. […]
Book review by AJ: Our One and Only Spaceship: Denial, Delusion and the Population Crisis by Eric Pianka & Laurie Vitt (2019)
Book review by AJ: Our One and Only Spaceship: Denial, Delusion and the Population Crisis by Eric Pianka & Laurie Vitt (2019) Thanks to AJ for contributing this book review. https://oneandonlyspaceship.com/ https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/our-one-and-only-spaceship-eric-pianka/1133496721?ean=9781733030533 Publisher’s Summary Ecologists Eric R. Pianka (University of Texas) and Laurie J. Vitt (University of Oklahoma) provide a scientific summary of the overpopulation crisis facing humanity and […]
5 Signs a Civilization is About to Fail
5 Signs a Civilization is About to Fail
Dear Mr. Paulson, Re Your Recent NY Times Op-Ed about Mass Extinction
Dear Mr. Paulson, Re Your Recent NY Times Op-Ed about Mass Extinction Dear Mr. Paulson, You arguably are one of the most powerful, famous, and networked men in the world, with many important accomplishments. I am the completely ordinary, middle class, volunteer steward of 53 acres of publicly owned, remnant floodplain woodland situated on the […]
