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- Peak Oil is Officially Here! World oil production peaked November of 2018
- Wood, the fuel of preindustrial societies, is half of EU renewable energy
- Rare Earth updates: recent research on why complex & intelligent life are rare in the Universe
- Book review of “Chip War” and the Fragility of microchips
- The tremendous material and energy toll of the digital economy
- Nuclear attack on U.S. could kill 90% of Americans
- What percent of Americans are rational?
- Book review of Lights Out. A Cyberattack. A Nation Unprepared. Surviving the Aftermath
- Off-Road vehicles & equipment need diesel fuel
- Book review of “Prime Movers of Globalization: the History & Impact of Diesel Engines & Gas Turbines”
- Mental Health. Coping with the future: notes from Jackson & Jensen’s “An Inconvenient Apocalypse”
- Tesla Semi trucks hauling corn chips
- What is the plan for an electric grid outage that lasts for months?
- Where to be? Links to Superfund, hazardous waste and other toxic sites in U.S.
- Why methanol cannot replace petroleum as a transportation fuel
Tag Archives: farms
Jason Bradford on reforming the current food system
Preface. Jason Bradford is amazing: He taught ecology for a few years at Washington University in St. Louis, worked for the Center for Conservation and Sustainable Development at the Missouri Botanical Garden, and co-founded the Andes Biodiversity and Ecosystem Research … Continue reading
Posted in Agriculture, Farming & Ranching
Tagged agriculture, bradford, cattle, crazy town, farms, Jason Bradford, organic
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The Back to the Land Movement: why it failed and why we need to try again
[ This is my book review of “Back from the Land: how young Americans went to nature in the 1970s, and why they came back”. Some succeeded, but most failed, and there are lessons to be learned from the previous … Continue reading
Posted in Agriculture, Books
Tagged agriculture, back to the land, energy, farms, peak oil, what to do
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