Categories
-
Recent Posts
- New war and energy alliances over next resource wars
- Book review of “Siege: Trump Under fire”
- Why do people vote for Trump?
- Book review of “Pandemic Politics: The Deadly Toll of Partisanship in the Age of COVID”
- The evolution of the Republican party from 1960 to 2024: from moderate democracy to extreme authoritarianism
- Why some people are conservative and others liberal
- Book review: Bring the War Home: The white power movement & paramilitary America
- Book review: How Democracies Die
- Book Review “Conservatives without Conscience” by John Dean
- Book review of “The Power Worshippers. Inside the dangerous rise of religious nationalism”
- Fox news estranges millions of families and instills hate and fear in its cult members
- Book review of “Deer Hunting with Jesus” Best book on why people vote for Trump
- Population growth creates climate crisis, says environmental scientist
- Book review of “Democracy in Chains”, the history of how extremist Republicans stealthily stole our Democracy
- Net Energy Cliff & the Collapse of Civilization
Tag Archives: fruit
Book review of Fruits of Eden: David Fairchild & Americas Plant Hunters
Preface. Botanist David Fairchild is one of the reasons the average grocery store has 39,500 items. Before he came along, most people ate just a few kinds of food day in day out (though that was partly due to a … Continue reading
Posted in Agriculture, Farming & Ranching
Tagged agriculture, botany, fruit, garden, vegetables
Comments Off on Book review of Fruits of Eden: David Fairchild & Americas Plant Hunters
Fruit and nut crops decline as climate change melts fog
Fimrite, P. May 22, 2014. As Central Valley fog disappears, fruit, nut crops decline. San Francisco Chronicle. California produces 95% of U.S. fruit and nut crops that depend on disappearing Tule fog. The soupy thick tule fog that regularly blanketed … Continue reading
Posted in Climate Change, Peak Food
Tagged agriculture, fog, food, fruit, nuts
Comments Off on Fruit and nut crops decline as climate change melts fog