Does Cuba’s “Special Period” offer glimpses of a non-development model?
This portion of the documentary The Power of Community focuses on how Cubans faced with declining oil supplies in 1991 with the fall of the Soviet Union dealt with food shortages by creating a vibrant...
View ArticleRegenerate veggies on the windowsill
Green onions are one of many veggies that can become a gift that keeps on giving. Put a bunch bulb-end-down into a glass of water on your windowsill. Harvest greens to use, and the plant will send up...
View ArticleThe ironic twin problems of “peak fertilizer” and “dead zones” caused by runoff
Decades ago, Norman Borlaug and his team won a Nobel Prize for the Green Revolution, which was touted as the miracle that would feed everyone on the planet. A few years later, however, when oil...
View ArticlePermafrost emissions not included in climate change models
More bad news. Science Daily reminds us that there is more than 1.7 gigatonnes of carbon trapped in the permafrost in North America, according to research by the United Nations. Yet our current climate...
View ArticleNew report shows us going off the climate cliff
Last July, climate activist Bill McKibben wrote in Rolling Stone that the supposedly safe target of a temperature rise of 2 degrees Celsius might not be safe after all. So far, we’ve raised the average...
View ArticleTop 10 shopping list of Xmas gifts to deal with disasters
ReadyOhio, the state’s office of emergency preparedness, put together a Christmas Shopping List to buy life-saving gifts for your friends, whether the problem is being trapped on the highway during a...
View ArticleCamping indoors if the power goes out
An article in The Ready Store offers some great tips on staying warm if the power goes out. Suggestions include reducing the living area down to one room and pitching a tent in the middle. Not only...
View ArticlePlans for building a salad table or salad boxes
The University of Maryland put together this valuable handout on building salad tables and salad boxes. In addition to plans on building the items, it offers advice on planting and fertilizing. Salad...
View ArticleThe perpetual celery project
vine.co/v/brtAWYed062 — lansingonline (@lansingonline) February 16, 2013 A friend told me that you could sprout new celery from the leftover end of celery purchased at the supermarket. Who knew? The...
View ArticleSafe snow removal without fuel
Extreme weather associated with climate change means more of us will be vulnerable to a snowpocalypse like the one the East Coast is currently enduring with winter storm Nemo. This means many of us...
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