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My garden is your garden.
It’s pretty hard to find anything quite as satisfying as growing your own produce and then turning it into a yummy meal (and if you think you can, we’d like to know about it).
However, not everybody has access to a suitable patch...
The Right’s Environmental Wish List
There are more motives for legislation, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy. So Hamlet might have observed in gazing upon the environmental and political landscape of 2011, which will either be known as Year One of the post-cap-and-trade...
Eating Raw Food – Two Basic Approaches
There are two basic approaches to eating raw food. Learn which works and which doesn’t!
High Fat Raw: Also known as gourmet raw or Hollywood raw, this is what’s promoted in some form by a huge number of raw food authors, including...
Deadly Cucumbers Kill 14 in Germany, Death Toll Still Rising
More than two weeks after a food poisoning epidemic broke out in northern Germany, at least 14 people have been reported dead and hundreds have fallen sick from an extremely dangerous strain of the E. coli bacteria found on imported cucumbers.
The...
The CIA Accurately Predicted How Long World Oil Supplies Would Last—in 1978
Perhaps I am atypical, but I’ve always been hypersensitive to what’s going on around me in the real world. Among my earliest childhood memories are the gas lines that followed the 1973 Arab oil embargo; the event which probably planted the...
Cleaning Up Japan’s Radioactive Mess with Blue Goo
DeconGel Pour it on, peel it off. Courtesy: DeconGel
Paint it on and peel it off
A clever technology is helping hazmat crews in Japan contain and clean up the contamination caused by the ongoing nuclear disaster there: a blue liquid...
The Earth Is Full: The ‘Great Disruption’ is Coming
You really do have to wonder whether a few years from now we’ll look back at the first decade of the 21st century — when food prices spiked, energy prices soared, world population surged, tornados plowed through cities, floods and droughts...
More Melted Fuel At Japan’s Fukushima Nuclear Plant Uncovered During UN Probe
TOKYO — A major international mission to investigate Japan’s flooded, radiation-leaking nuclear complex began Tuesday as new information suggested that nuclear fuel had mostly melted in two more reactors in the early days after the...
Google Experimenting With World’s First Seawater-Cooled Data Center
Google has never been a slouch when it comes to trying out new ways to make its data centers as energy efficient as possible. Some ideas have been ocean-centric, such as its wave-powered data center concept. Slightly less futuristic but no less...
Our Today is Forever
Plastic is a petroleum derivative, and is as bad for the marine and biological environment as oil is. Not completely inert, plastics break up into small pieces, offgass and photodegrade to the molecular level. Because those are synthetic molecules,...
