Even though the soil is one of the most easily-accessible renewable resources on our planet, we as humans don’t always leave a positive footprint on it. A drastic increase in population, construction, mining, and other industrial activities make our fertile soils less and less usable. Since there’s already plenty of non-arable, infertile soils on Earth,… [Read More]
Desalinization Plants: The Good, The Bad, The Ugly
If you use water for plants, vegetation, gardens, lawns, or trees—you’ll want to read this. Plus, it makes for a great cocktail party conversation—whenever that starts again! You’ve heard about the Law of Unintended Consequences, right? That’s when you do something good for one reason and find out too late that it’s doing something else… [Read More]
The Importance of Using Recycled Construction and Demolition Building Materials
Recycling has become a widespread practice in many households, and it has contributed a lot to help sustain our planet. But what about the construction and demolition waste (C&D waste)? Think about this: our old and outdated structures have generated a $4 billion demolition industry, which is a pretty significant number if you ask me…. [Read More]
Who Knows How Hot It Will Get? (It May Be Up To Us To Decide)
OK, we all know climate change means rising temperatures. What we don’t know is how high those temperatures might go. Will they be just enough to be tolerably uncomfortable? Or will they be so severe that we will abandon the Great Outdoors and never venture away from air conditioning? We wish we could know the… [Read More]
Could Modern Farming Methods Be Destroying The Natural Order?
We should not be plowing, tilling, fertilizing, or spraying. We should not see any bare soil between crops, and there are no such things as weeds. In fact, almost all our farming practices we’ve adopted since we hitched an animal team to a plow have done far more damage than we might realize. Before we… [Read More]
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