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What do you plan to eat the rest of the year? Will you rely on industrial foods grown by strangers from all over the world and shipped thousands of miles? With increasing interest in healthy eating, sustainable local food supplies and self-reliance, many people are discovering the benefits of a [...]
While muddling through a pile of throw-away books at work yesterday, I found this: The Complete Y2K Home Preparation Guide. And oh what a gem it is!
Now, bear in mind that I’ve been haunting online survivalist enclaves and befriending well-armed mountain men for years now, so it’s pretty hard to catch my eye. But this [...]
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Floods seen adding to already high food prices
CHICAGO (Reuters) – The cost of everything from corn chips to beef steaks was going higher even before the disastrous floods hit millions of corn and soybean acres in the U.S. Midwest, and now food price increases may be even greater, industry sources said on Tuesday.
Torrential rains over [...]
As John McSame clumsily attempts to re-brand himself as an economist,
From ETC Group [link and blockquote added by biscuit]:
the world’s largest seed and agrochemical corporations are stockpiling hundreds of monopoly patents on genes in plants that the companies will market as crops genetically engineered to withstand environmental stresses such as drought, heat, cold, floods, [...]
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It’s not all doom and gloom, not just yet! I know I tend to report the bad news like a broken record, but believe me, it’s because it is bad, and with peak oil, water & food shortages, overpopulation…and the dopey monkey still in the WH, it doesn’t augur well, and I haven’t even mentioned [...]
Continue reading about Food News Roundup: The Cheery Edition
Obviously, it is not possible to touch every item that this vast subject holds, and I depend on readers to open up more frontiers. We barely scratched the surface about microwaves, but have to move to more energetic bands.
The infrared band lies just above the microwave, and just below the visible. Issac Newton [...]
Continue reading about The Electromagnetic Spectrum IV – Shorter Lambda than Microwaves
I am not a big fan of HVAC (Heating, Ventilation, Air Conditioning) systems, but they of course have their places. We would freeze in the winter, and swelter in the summer, without them. But now is a wonderful time of year.
I have my doors open, with only the screens covering them to keep [...]
I host a live weekly audio program called “The Celsias Show” and recently interviewed Mark Kastel, Senior Farm Policy Analyst from the Cornucopia Institute, one of the truly effective watchdogs of the organic industry. Immediately after the interview, Jill Richardson (who many of you know as OrangeClouds115) joined me in a discussion that covered, in [...]
Continue reading about Is Dean Foods (Horizon Organic) Killing USDA Investigation?
For all those global warming deniers out there, read this: climate change could mean some parts of southern England will be too hot to for wine-making by 2080, according to a UK professor. Why? Rising summer temperatures have already started to evolve the UK’s wine profile, with some French grape varieties being successfully introduced there [...]
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With an eye to Peak Oil, global warming and spiraling costs, I’ve been relying on fans and haven’t yet put in the window air conditioners for the season. But, alas, the time has come.
True, the houndie grrl is thriving, which, I suppose, is to be expected, given her coonhoundy pedigree. But Moose Boy (aka [...]
Continue reading about The Gardener’s Medicine Cabinet: Heat Exhaustion