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Rice and Redemption : The Learning Farm

10/06/2014

I am glad that some of them are now coming back and learn the old skills of the farm. A person should know how to grow their own food....

The Fight of the Bumblebee

05/06/2014

Bees are essential to our food chain and the populations of our native bumblebees have declined in recent decades...

Fracking : Follow the Money

26/05/2014

The net impact of recent oil and gas development has generally been positive for local public finances....

A picture of Centralia by Travis Goodspeed

Fracking : More Bad News

16/05/2014

'We have to get a handle on methane, or increasingly risk global catastrophe' : Cornell University report on Fracking...

On Twitter, Birdsong and Bards

08/05/2014

The Mistle Thrush reminds us not to be beguiled by outward display but to see through to what, if anything, lies beneath....

Environmentally, Graphene is Not All Good

02/05/2014

dropcap style=”font-size:100px; color:#992211;”H/dropcapad to be. It’s a self-fulfilling prophesy. The wondermaterial that was going to change the destiny of humankind. This time...

Raising the Stakes : New York Flood Odds

28/04/2014

The chances of water overtopping the Manhattan seawall are now at least 20 times greater than they were 170 years ago...

Nano-enforcing the Seventh Commandment – On Olives

26/04/2014

Developing the use of invisible labels in the food industry....

Rejecting Capitalism’s Putrefying Paradigm

24/03/2014

Late capitalism's putrefying paradigm has but one remedy for the devastation reaped by the system... insanely, more production and more consumerism....

Fuel Your Truck With Alligator Fat

18/03/2014

Animal fats, including those from alligators, could give an economical, ecofriendly boost to the biofuel industry...

A picture of tankers by John Marakevelis

Walking in an Anthropocene Wonderland

13/03/2014

Although we have been graced with life - all its possibilities and abundance - it has become apparent, we have fallen in love with Extinction....

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Anti Fracking Benefit (Asian Dub Foundation)

06/03/2014

“No Toxic for profit legacy for our children” : Asian Dub Foundation...

A picture of a panda by Sue Nichols, Michigan State University Center for Systems Integration and Sustainability

Panda Versus Horse Deathmatch

04/03/2014

Livestock, particularly horses, have been identified as a significant threat to panda survival. ...

Fear in a Handful of Dust

03/03/2014

The times call for us to explore the soul's topography of exaggeration, and this is propitious because it is not possible to exaggerate the peril we face if we cling to the status quo...

A tree branch filter by Michael Boutilier and Jongho Lee

E. Coli – A Simple Solution

01/03/2014

A small piece of freshly cut sapwood can filter out more than 99 percent of the bacteria E. coli from water...

Plug Car In – Black City Out. Oops.

24/02/2014

The growing fleet of electric cars will put a lot of new strain on the United States' aging electrical distribution systems. News item...

Imagination in a Soulless Age

24/02/2014

Often a collapse, a breakdown, a depression—some sort of unsolvable crisis is required before the soul's message is heard. ...

A picture of a window and leaves by Martin Wessely

A New Leaf for Clean Hydrogen

19/02/2014

Designing an artificial leaf that uses solar energy to convert water cheaply and efficiently into hydrogen and oxygen ...

Drilling into Magma for Geothermal Energy

24/01/2014

Drilling into magma is a very rare occurrence anywhere in the world and this is only the second known instance, the first one, in 2007, being in Hawaii...

MAgnetic North Pole expedition by Mike Laird

Beards, Boots and Balaclavas. North Pole

21/01/2014

-40C has a nasty habit of damaging the human body no matter how good the kit or how hardy you believe you are....

Scotland’s Abundant Tidal Energy

20/01/2014

The Pentland Firth is a prime candidate to house marine power projects because of its tidal currents, which are among the fastest in the British Isles....

Poisoning Coal Country Isn’t Freedom

18/01/2014

A Mining Disaster in Coal Country Pushes the Limits of 'Freedom' in Industry...

Cleantech Crash? Why Government Should Go Green

11/01/2014

The government has a definite role to play in the promotion of new green technologies and energy sources, no matter what budget hawks like to think....

A picture of Colin Leslie Eyewear sunglasses

Business Interview : Colin Leslie Eyewear

10/01/2014

People need to appreciate that we are all responsible for our environment. If we wish to maintain certain standards and ways of living, we need to....

Drawing Inspiration

07/01/2014

Symbols don't mean anything; rather they are fecund triggers to the imagination that allow meaning to arise through their contemplation....

Second Generation Biofuel Breakthrough

04/01/2014

The use of 'difficult-to-digest' sources, such as plant stems, wood chips, cardboard waste or insect / crustacean shells, offers a potential solution....

A picture of rubbish by freedigitalphotos.net/hinnamsaisuy

London’s River of Filth

03/01/2014

Thousands of pieces of plastic have been discovered, submerged along the river bed of the upper Thames Estuary...

Dragon Paths and Pilgrimages

02/01/2014

At a time when many of us experience a profound sense of disconnection or even alienation from the land, we need more modern pilgrimages...

A picture of a hippo by Freedigitalphotos.net/RTP411

How to Castrate a Hippo

23/12/2013

The procedure is notoriously difficult due to problems with anaesthesia and difficulties in locating the testes....

A picture of a broken window by Carl Byron Batson

Kentucky Fried 3D Printing

09/12/2013

In a future where any garage, shed or corner of a living room could be turned into a miniature factory, what will be the point of large scale manufacturing?...

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