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Winter Weather Exacerbates Supply Chain Crisis
Winter Weather Exacerbates Supply Chain Crisis Comment: This is a Whole Foods in a high to middle income suburb in the northeast on January 4, 2022. I live near numerous ports from NJ, PA, to NY. I have lived here my whole life and have never seen the aisles this bare. When corona began […]
Why Pundits ‘Don’t Look Up’ from Progress
Why Pundits ‘Don’t Look Up’ from Progress The new film about a total apocalypse of the human race is being slammed by many film reviewers. But when I chat to people who have seen it they think it brilliant. And my Facebook wall is full of friends writing versions of OMG what a film! So […]
How To Pressure Can Your Garden Kale
How To Pressure Can Your Garden Kale Every year we plant kale in both our greenhouse and our garden. We choose red Russian kale because it is cold hearty and grows fast! We eat it in a salad every night during the summer and when it starts to cool off, we save it! Every year […]
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 […]
The Three Sisters Planting Technique – The Most Efficient Way To Grow Food
The Three Sisters Planting Technique – The Most Efficient Way To Grow Food Image Credit: 64MM @ Flickr Companion planting is all the rage these days, but did you know this practice goes back thousands of years? The three sisters garden is one of the oldest and most well known companion planting styles. Believed to be named […]
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 […]
Missiles on the Doorstep and Impending Nuclear Winter
Missiles on the Doorstep and Impending Nuclear Winter Nobody in their right mind would advocate what is called ‘first use’ of nuclear weapons. ‘Nuclear winter’ is defined in Britannica as “the environmental devastation that certain scientists contend would probably result from the hundreds of nuclear explosions in a nuclear war.” One immediately direct effect of such a conflict would […]
Building Complete and Warm Survival Shelter
Building Complete and Warm Survival Shelter
Richard Heinberg: Post-doom with Michael Dowd
Richard Heinberg: Post-doom with Michael Dowd
Vaclav Smil: ‘Growth must end. Our economist friends don’t seem to realise that’
Vaclav Smil: ‘Growth must end. Our economist friends don’t seem to realise that’ The scientist and author on his latest book – an epic, multidisciplinary analysis of growth – and why humanity’s endless expansion must stop. Vaclav Smil is a distinguished professor emeritus in the faculty of environment at the University of Manitoba in Winnipeg, Canada. […]
Here’s How the Energy Crisis Turns Into Hunger and Then… War?
Here’s How the Energy Crisis Turns Into Hunger and Then… War? We have previously warned about a whopping food crisis and supply problems in the fertilizer market. Well, now is worse because that was BEFORE we had the natural gas crisis. Why is that important? Natural gas is THE critical input into making fertilizer. Urea […]
