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At heart I’m a country boy. I mostly grew up in agricultural areas and much of my career was out in the backcountry, from pecan groves and citrus farms of Yuma County, through the soybean and citrus farms of Florida, to the ranches, alfalfa fields,...
by Desert Scientist
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on Wed Apr 03, 2024 at 09:51 PM PDT
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On Monday, Tucker Carlson followed up his interview of Russian dictator Vladimir Putin with an appearance at the 2024 World Governments Summit in Dubai. Speaking with Egyptian journalist Emad Eldin ...
by Walter Einenkel
290 comments
on Wed Feb 14, 2024 at 06:30 AM PST
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I don’t like driving, and I don’t like having to drive. But since I often have to, it becomes clear to me why attempts to limit car use in most of the United States, to get people to shift to bicycles and public transit (usually buses), are doomed to...
by K S LaVida
346 comments
on Thu Dec 21, 2023 at 03:39 PM PST
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It used to be that there’d occasionally be someone selling flowers at the traffic light. Now there’s often someone there with a sign asking for help. It used to be that these people were almost always men. Now they’re often women. And lately these...
by stephr
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on Sun Nov 19, 2023 at 03:12 PM PST
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Greetings!
by Marko the Werelynx
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on Fri Oct 27, 2023 at 01:07 PM PDT
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Babylon Micro-Farms - for corporate dining, student dining, senior living communities, and event and hospitality venues now in 31 states https://babylonmicrofarms.com/ Local ecosystem restoration and food forestry - the transformation of one yard in...
by gmoke
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on Mon Oct 02, 2023 at 08:44 PM PDT
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Though the mayor’s position in Dallas is technically nonpartisan, Johnson joins Fort Worth Mayor Mattie Parker as one of two Republican mayors to lead a major Texas city. By Joshua Fechter And Brian Lopez Sept. 22, 2023 Dallas Mayor Eric Johnson, a...
by Texas Tribune
63 comments
on Sat Sep 23, 2023 at 07:30 AM PDT
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Photo source For several years Silicon Valley billionaires, including Apple Inc. founder Steve Jobs’s widow, secretly have been buying up tens of thousands of acres of the nation’s most productive farmland in pursuit of a plan to replace the farms with...
by cfordlaw
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on Mon Sep 04, 2023 at 12:56 PM PDT
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UPDATE: see added great links & info from culhwtch's comment. edited into the foot of this diary, by permission. How much stormwater could be captured? Southern California has the most potential for collecting stormwater — as...
by mettle fatigue
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on Mon Nov 21, 2022 at 05:08 PM PST
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Salmon Wars: The Dark Underbelly of Our Favorite Fishy Douglas Frantz and Catherine Collins, "a critical look at the commercial salmon farming industry which now provides 90 percent of the salmon consumed by North Americans” book:...
by gmoke
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on Mon Oct 17, 2022 at 11:13 AM PDT
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Net zero energy city planned for Egypt, ambitions towards producing more energy AND food than it consumes https://urb.ae/projects/nexgensustainablecity/ https://inhabitat.com/first-climate-positive-net-zero-city-in-the-world/ Hotels With Net-Zero...
by gmoke
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on Thu Aug 18, 2022 at 07:11 PM PDT
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This particular doom spiral, which once seemed relegated to a handful of hip cities and resort towns, has seemingly spilled over into just about anyplace you'd want to live now. I don't mean to pin personal blame on particular kinds of workers, but the...
by Jen Sorensen
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on Tue Jun 14, 2022 at 04:50 AM PDT
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It never fails. Start any online conversation about the issue of gun violence, and it won’t take five minutes before someone rushes in to ask, “What about Chicago?” That's because right-wing media has long been selling the idea that America’s cities...
by Mark Sumner
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on Wed Jun 08, 2022 at 01:32 PM PDT
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Zero emissions cherry orchard in New Zealand https://cleantechnica.com/2022/01/20/100-zero-emissions-cherry-orchard/ Follow the Food series from the BBC and Corteva Agriscience How we might build a food utopia...
by gmoke
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on Thu May 05, 2022 at 08:39 PM PDT
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“Produced by Bonnie Symansky, this video, Equal Rights to the Sun (1979) documents citizen [led] solar energy projects organized in the Boston area by the Urban Solar Energy Association (USEA - founded by Barbara Brandt [Susan Baldwin, George Mokray,...
by gmoke
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on Sun Dec 19, 2021 at 06:53 PM PST
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The results of the 2020 census lay out a clear trend: the dramatic drop in white population paints the picture of a GOP in decline. Americans under the age of 18 are�already 48% nonwhite. Moreover,�...
by Dorothy He
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on Wed Aug 18, 2021 at 05:00 AM PDT
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As much as I’d like it to be true, I found the title of former Toronto mayor David Miller’s 2020 Solved: How the World's Great Cities Are Fixing the Climate Crisis to be a bit overly optimistic. I needed to look no further than my own moving day on...
by DebtorsPrison
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on Tue Jun 29, 2021 at 07:00 PM PDT
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Here at Top Comments we welcome longtime as well as brand new Daily Kos readers to join us at 10pm Eastern. We strive to nourish community by rounding up ...
by Chitown Kev
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on Fri Apr 23, 2021 at 07:00 PM PDT
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The sponsors of campus speakers like Ann Coulter and Milo Yiannopoulos, Young America’s Foundation took on Pete Buttigieg, thinking that they were delivering trenchant criticism. Instead, they’ve revived the critical history of urban planning and...
by annieli
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on Sun Apr 11, 2021 at 02:42 AM PDT
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City Agriculture - February 28, 2021 Urban Agriculture Blog from Agritecture https://www.agritecture.com/blog-feed The 20 best green alleys of Montreal (en française, in French)...
by gmoke
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on Sun Feb 28, 2021 at 08:05 PM PST
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