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EPA underestimates methane emissions from landfills and urban areas, researchers find
EPA underestimates methane emissions from landfills and urban areas, researchers find Methane emissions for 2019 from 70 individual landfills that report methane emissions of 2.5 Gg a−1 or more to the EPA’s Greenhouse Gas Reporting Program (GHGRP) for 2019 and for which the TROPOMI inversion provides site-specific information. Credit: Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics (2024). DOI: 10.5194/acp-24-5069-2024 The Environmental Protection Agency […]
How to be an urban fruit forager
Photo by Alex Ciobanu on Unsplash How to be an urban fruit forager Helena Martin co-founded the foraging platform, RipeNearMe. A Singapore native, her travels led her to Malaysia, Sydney, and ultimately Adelaide, South Australia. Here, Helena — a lifelong forager — shares tips to help other urbanites begin their own foresting journeys. My love affair with fruit goes back a […]
People Left Cities for Rural Zoom Towns. How Does That Impact Wildfire Risk?
People Left Cities for Rural Zoom Towns. How Does That Impact Wildfire Risk? As the pandemic waxes and wanes and we look back on the last 18 months, it’s clear that different types of workers experienced differential economic impacts. On one hand, there are workers who need to be in a location to do their […]
The Flight from Urban to Suburban
The Flight from Urban to Suburban COMMENT: Good morning Marty and team, You’re still my first read in the mornings after many years and I can’t say that about any other blog or content creator to even take the number #2 or #3 position, well, maybe Zerohedge. Thank You! Glad to see you referencing Cristian […]
Panic in Real Estate
Panic in Real Estate COMMENT: I live in central West Texas, I am passing on to you the fact that there is a “rush” of sales in rural property’s. Houses with small amounts of land attached are “flying off of the shelves” so to speak. This is occurring throughout all of West Texas and in the […]
How to Start an Urban Farm
HOW TO START AN URBAN FARM Like any new venture, starting an urban farm is a daunting and difficult task. Not only do you have to find land to farm, but that land also must be suitable for growing food. Not only do you have to know how to grow food, but you also have […]
Would Rural Areas Be Safer In A SHTF Situation?
Would Rural Areas Be Safer In A SHTF Situation? In a situation where national infrastructure and life sustaining resources are suddenly cut off , population density will have a lot to do with how well you get by in the days following the crisis. When it happens, what you have on hand will likely be all […]
Fact: Your Chances of Surviving a Post-Collapse Urban Environment are Slim
Fact: Your Chances of Surviving a Post-Collapse Urban Environment are Slim ReadyNutrition Readers, Simply put, urban survival will be quite a bit different from survival in a remote wilderness area or even a sparsely-populated suburban area. Let’s game some options, remembering that these options are general. These actions aren’t specific to the type of breakdown […]
The Tale of Two America’s…Urban Rise, Rural Demise, Rationale to Hyper-Monetize
The Tale of Two America’s…Urban Rise, Rural Demise, Rationale to Hyper-Monetize (The following was written as an outline for a potential book. To this point no publisher has shown interest and time and funds have run out.) America is in the midst of an ongoing and accelerating shift in demographics and population growth. These trends, long […]
How to survive a global disaster: a handy guide
How to survive a global disaster: a handy guide Whether it’s a natural disaster, bioterrorist attack or pandemic, experts reckon society as we know it will collapse within 13 days of a catastrophic event. So what do you do next? Ubisoft’s role-playing shooter The Division wouldn’t be as much fun if players followed Nafeez Ahmed’s […]
The Permaculture City: Cities as Complex Systems
The Permaculture City: Cities as Complex Systems The following sections are excerpted with permission from Chapter 1 of Toby Hemenway’s new book The Permaculture City, published by Chelsea Green. When a permaculturist sees words such as “function” and “synergy,” it sets off lightbulbs in his or her head. Function, for example, indicates a relationship, a connection […]
The Cimmerian Hypothesis, Part Three: The End of the Dream
The Cimmerian Hypothesis, Part Three: The End of the Dream Let’s take a moment to recap the argument of the last two posts here on The Archdruid Report before we follow it through to its conclusion. There are any number of ways to sort out the diversity of human social forms, but one significant division lies between […]
Wilderness Corridors: Agenda 21 Under A New Name
Wilderness Corridors: Agenda 21 Under A New Name When it comes to people the government fears the most, those who live in rural areas must be somewhere near the top of the list. Not that there’s anything wrong with this particular group of people. It’s just that they’re a demographic that the government often struggles […]
Resilient Urban Systems: Where We Stand Now and Where We Need to Go
Resilient Urban Systems: Where We Stand Now and Where We Need to Go By the year 2050, close to seven billion people will be living in urbanized areas worldwide, which is almost double the number of urban inhabitants of today. Provision of adequate infrastructure service to this massive urban population in order to ensure their […]
