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Threatened by Coal, Ranchers Take the Kenney Government to Court
Threatened by Coal, Ranchers Take the Kenney Government to Court Alberta is poised to let miners destroy mountaintops and vital watersheds grazed for a century. Mac Blades (foreground) carries on his family’s 100-year ranching tradition on the slopes of Alberta’s Rockies. He and his wife Renie joined a lawsuit to stop open-pit coal mining in […]
Staying Hydrated During The Winter Months Is A Key To Good Health
Staying Hydrated During The Winter Months Is A Key To Good Health Did you know that drinking more water during winter is crucial to your health and your survival? Did you know that drinking more water during winter is crucial to your survival? This fact is especially important when you are spending more time outdoors. Hydration is […]
Do we have room for a billion Americans?
Do we have room for a billion Americans? As I was reading Matthew Yglesias’ piece “The Case for Adding 672 Million More Americans,” the Soviet-era designation of Mother Heroine, initiated by Joseph Stalin in 1944, came to mind. Stalin and subsequent Soviet leaders gave Mother Heroine medals to mothers who bore and raised 10 or more children. Lesser […]
How Low Flows Due to Irrigation are Destroying Oregon’s Deschutes River
How Low Flows Due to Irrigation are Destroying Oregon’s Deschutes River The majority of water removed from the Deschutes is used to grow irrigated pasture and hay for livestock not crops consumed directly by humans. Photo by George Wuerthner The recent article “Low Flows On Deschutes” highlights why irrigation is a significant threat to our […]
How to Build a Rain Garden to Capture Runoff
How to Build a Rain Garden to Capture Runoff There are many reasons to build a rain garden. Rain gardens help filter out pollutants like bird guano from stormwater and turn them into nutrients for your garden. They help reduce the draw on local aquifers to irrigate our gardens and allow those aquifers to be […]
Water Procurement: Setting Up a Low-Budget Water Catchment System and Why It Will Save Your Life
Water Procurement: Setting Up a Low-Budget Water Catchment System and Why It Will Save Your Life Using the information from Part 1 & 2, the setup of a water system, decontamination station, and rain catchment procedures entailed to blend all parts together. How are you doing, Ready Nutrition Readers? This article is the final segment […]
Water and Cadillac Deserts
Water and Cadillac Deserts California Aqueduct near Kettleman City. Photo: Jeffrey St. Clair. My lengthy experience at the US Environmental Protection Agency brought me face to face with the terrors of our “modern” times. One of those awful realizations was that the leaders of America – and the leaders of other countries — are not […]
‘We Need Water Before Oil’: Kenyan Communities Scarred by Chinese Oil Exploration
‘We Need Water Before Oil’: Kenyan Communities Scarred by Chinese Oil Exploration The repeated honking of a speeding Tawakul shuttle announces the return of travellers to Merti from distant towns at dusk. It also marks the close of another searing and slow day in this part of northern Kenya. Idling villagers’ faces are suddenly lit by […]
Barrels, Buckets, and Bottles: Adventures in Low-Water Living
Barrels, Buckets, and Bottles: Adventures in Low-Water Living Water is invisible to most people in developed countries. We turn on the tap, and there it is. It’s provided free in restaurants, without our even asking for it. We can spend money to buy water in bottles, but in America at least, we’re never far from […]
Panicked Hong Kongers Hoard Food, Water, Supplies Amid Coronavirus Hysteria
Panicked Hong Kongers Hoard Food, Water, Supplies Amid Coronavirus Hysteria Now that striking health-care workers have successfully forced Carrie Lam’s government to close most of its border links with the mainland and dramatically restrict travel from elsewhere in China, a full-on panic has engulfed the city, fueled by “malicious rumors” about supply shortages, Reuters reports. Chaos has […]
Vital Implications on Water Scarcity According to 14 Experts
Vital Implications on Water Scarcity According to 14 Experts With factors as precarious as climate, failing infrastructure, increased global population, pollution, and excessive groundwater pumping, it is no wonder that the concern for water scarcity has garnered the attention of authorities across many agencies and sectors. And while those in developed countries might not experience […]
6 Ways to Recycle Water
6 Ways to Recycle Water Water is an important part of our lives, and something we take for granted. Learnings ways to conserve water will help during droughts, economic hardships, keeping the utility bill down and conserving our vital natural resources. Here are 6 ways to conserve water from the home. Watching the aftermath unfold during […]
10 Critical Water Scarcity Facts We Must Not Ignore
10 Critical Water Scarcity Facts We Must Not Ignore Why is water scarcity a legitimate concern? It is true that the hydrologic cycle, the process in which the earth circulates water throughout its ecosystems, is a closed-loop cycle that neither adds nor takes away water. In theory, the amount of water on earth will always […]
Save The World By First Saving Yourself
Save The World By First Saving Yourself We each have a role to play in how the world recovers from the coming crisis Ripped from today’s headlines: Negative Interest Rates Are Coming And They Are Downright Terrifying (Yahoo! Finance) Earth’s Lungs Are Burning: Amazon Rainforest Which Contributes 20% Of Planet’s Oxygen Is On Fire What’s […]
