Consider this…
Have you ever considered what life would be like without that very thin, fragile band of concentrated gases (concentrated in relation to what lays beyond it anyway) that we call our planetary atmosphere? How about that tenuous (meaning barely noticeable) magnetic field that reaches out into space to protect us from cosmic plasma and radiation? ... Continue Reading →
Thinking Local
France is introducing laws "requiring all of the nation’s “collective restaurants” (school cafeterias, hospital cafeterias, senior living communities, prisons and other state institutions) to source at least 40 percent of their food locally". "In addition to being locally sourced, the food served must be in season, organically grown and certified ecologically sustainable". This post inspired... Continue Reading →
Wrathful Planet? Hardly.
Image credit: Source unknown, except it was found on Facebook: Natural Cures Not Medicine I understand this sentiment, and the underlying idea and truth behind it, but we have to be careful in ascribing personality or personification to a totally natural, material object, subject to the laws of the physical realm, just as we... Continue Reading →
My Home Energy Project: Step 4 – Green Energy
Here's a bright idea, reblogged from 'L to the Aura': - Bullfrog Power (watch the video). It's a Canadian thing but we have the same (different company) going on in Australia too. Well, to be fair, it started in New Zealand and a couple of years ago landed on Aussie shores. Anyway, it's a great... Continue Reading →
Putin’s Angels
They may not be everyone's cup of tea, but they are people with a purpose. Image: Vladimir Putin with the Night Wolves’ Alexander ‘The Surgeon’ Zaldostanov. Photograph: Alexey Druzhinin/AFP/Getty Images Yes, they are bikers, with a typical biker mentality, and yes, you wouldn't want to take them home to meet your mother, but they have... Continue Reading →
Waiting For The Toast To Pop-Up
'The Shipping News Says the World Economy Is Toast'. Image Source: Shanghai Shipping Exchange via Bloomberg While the 'toast' thing may be something of an overstatement of the situation right now, the information presented here does make it very clear that 'stuff' is not being moved about around the world nearly as much as it... Continue Reading →
How Low Can You Go?
A contrast in democracy, between modern Norway and what modern America has come down to, by someone who has seen both worlds, and also experienced the battlefields of America's wars in the Middle East. Tomgram: Ann Jones, Social Democracy for Dummies Very revealing. Come on, read it. You know you owe it to yourself to... Continue Reading →
Be afraid. Be very afraid.
Image credit: A home in El Salvador being fumigated to prevent the spread of the Zika virus. Photograph: Marvin Recinos/AFP/Getty Images The Zika virus foreshadows our dystopian climate future - Bill McKibben I have long said, agreeing with others like Bill McKibben in this Guardian article, that the ravaging of our environment and climate... Continue Reading →
Not Something Else 