Soil Conservation

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]

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]

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 Think about this: our old and outdated structures have generated a $4 billion demolition industry, which is a pretty significant number if you ask me….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]

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]

I call it “Zoop,” fertilizer from the plethora of exotic animals that poop daily at your local zoo. You can imagine collecting, transporting and disposing tons of daily waste represents a fairly large zoological capital expense. Is waste management of this scope a subject for budding zookeepers to study in college? The care and feeding… [Read More]