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Okay, what if all the stores are out of business, looted, and empty?
What if the cops all quit?
The city water stops flowing.
No electricity.
I truly do not know how all that might happen, in ...
by bigjacbigjacbigjac
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on Wed Mar 20, 2024 at 10:01 AM PDT
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“Ancient poetry and mythology suggest, at least, that husbandry was once a sacred art; but it is pursued with irreverent haste and heedlessness by us, our object being to have large farms and large crops merely. Henry David Thoreau, WALDEN With the...
by Gregg Matson
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on Sun Mar 17, 2024 at 04:56 PM PDT
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There are many steps we need to take�to a sustainable planet, and many possible paths.� One path involves�steering America’s farmers and ranchers toward�greener food production. Joe Biden is ...
by GoodNewsRoundup
42 comments
on Thu Feb 29, 2024 at 04:30 AM PST
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These kinds of events below are happening all over the world every day and most of them, now, are webcast and archived, sometimes even with accurate transcripts. Would be good to have a place that helped people access them. This is a more global...
by gmoke
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on Sun Jan 28, 2024 at 03:51 PM PST
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Except for during World War II, the United States has never had anything that could fairly be called an industrial policy. And unlike all the other developed nations and a few of the developing ones, it still doesn’t. However, the Biden administration...
by Meteor Blades
65 comments
on Sun Jan 28, 2024 at 08:00 AM PST
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In the U.S. Department of Agriculture National Agricultural Library Collection, they have a book written in 1899 by Oscar Loew on plant physiology titled ; Plants Assimilation; Minerals . Even as ...
by nailkeg
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on Thu Jan 11, 2024 at 06:00 AM PST
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Climate change is decimating the environment, but so is unrestricted agri-business. In both cases, the Cancer is Capitalism. If you love pizza and chicken wings, you better read this post! Americans eat more chicken and cheese than in the past, mostly...
by Alan Singer
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on Mon Jan 08, 2024 at 08:19 AM PST
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Welcome to the Overnight News Digest with a crew consisting of founder Magnifico, regular editors side pocket, maggiejean, Chitown Kev, eeff, Magnifico, annetteboardman, Besame, jck, and ...
by annetteboardman
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on Fri Jan 05, 2024 at 09:00 PM PST
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Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm on Friday announced her department’s seven choices for Regional Clean Hydrogen Hubs. The government is investing $7 billion in the hubs to leverage a total of $50 billion in public-private partnerships. That is meant...
by Meteor Blades
75 comments
on Sun Oct 22, 2023 at 08:00 AM PDT
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By Jayme Lozano Carver � The Texas Tribune Subscribe to The Y’all � — a weekly ...
by Texas Tribune
76 comments
on Sun Oct 08, 2023 at 11:00 AM 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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I was raised on a small farm in rural Michigan and of course we had animals. Cows, pigs, chickens before the price fell out of the market, and of course dogs and barn cats. They were always there and just part of the environment. Farmers don’t think of...
by McCrowlerr
102 comments
on Sun Oct 01, 2023 at 08:11 AM PDT
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Silicon Valley billionaires behind a secretive $800 million land-buying spree in Northern California have finally released some details about their plans for a new green city, but they still must ...
by Associated Press
163 comments
on Sat Sep 09, 2023 at 03:00 PM PDT
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Some food and agriculture events I found while compiling this month's Energy (and Other) Events Monthly (http://hubevents.blogspot.com): Food Politics 2023: What Matters and Why Thursday, September 7 12:00 PM - 1:15 PM Harvard Kennedy School,...
by gmoke
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on Fri Sep 01, 2023 at 07:42 PM PDT
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Welp, as usual caretaking duties for the elderly are a lot more strenuous than many (men!) like to admit, so I am running way late. Please use this space to chat, and I will add items to the diary proper as time allows. Sorry about the delay! Please...
by elenacarlena
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on Sat Aug 26, 2023 at 05:15 PM PDT
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I was raised on a farm in Michigan. Just a small, general farm with my dad trying to keep his head above water and raise us kids and care for his wife in a business that really didn’t make any money. We had chickens, pigs, finally settled on milk cows...
by McCrowlerr
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on Wed Aug 23, 2023 at 08:24 AM PDT
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Earth Matters: Tribes cheer Biden on new natl monument; more bad Antarctica news, but read it anyway On his trip to the Southwest to tout the impacts of hard-won legislation that is at the core of “Bidenomics,” President Biden on Tuesday dropped in at historic Red Butte Airfield near tiny Williams, Arizona, which calls itself the “Gateway to the Grand...
by Meteor Blades
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on Sun Aug 13, 2023 at 10:00 AM PDT
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Bottle Farm - growing system for windowsill hydroponics https://bottle-farm.com/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aGIfdIMiJPI hat tip: core77.com Editorial Comment: A good idea which can probably be replicated with available materials like peat pellets...
by gmoke
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on Sat Jul 08, 2023 at 06:52 PM PDT
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Is rural America financially leeching off metro areas? Commenters on this site often like to point out that rural areas receive more in benefits from tax dollars than they pay in. But that's only part of the picture. We also need to take a look at how...
by Walk In the Woods
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on Thu Jul 06, 2023 at 09:25 AM PDT
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Thanks to C-SPAN, I’ve watched numerous congressional hearings on energy and natural resources the past five months, including this week’s hearing on Republican energy bills. Yeah, that’s what I do in my golden years of retirement instead of parking...
by Meteor Blades
23 comments
on Thu Jun 08, 2023 at 04:52 PM PDT
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