February 2012
60 posts
equipntrip:
UK Traveler’s tweets get him & his friend banned from the USA | Travelllll.com @Travelllll http://ow.ly/9doDg travel
my god
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Plant Roots and Soil Life: Mutual Dependence in...
Root exudates create a booming economy in the root zone, the area right around the roots of plants and their mycorrhizal associates. Only a few millimeters to a few centimeters thick, the root zone contains the most life of any part of the soil: ten to fifty times the numbers of bacteria and many times the amount of fungi of soils outside the root zone. Between eleven thousand and fifteen...
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goals for 2012, on and off the farm
goals for 2012, on and off the farm no refrigeration: zeer pot for perishables, unwashed eggs (good for up to 5 weeks unrefrigerated), smoking meats no mosquitoes anywhere, no codling moths in orchard: bat houses permanent (mobile) residence: DIY Sioux-style 18-foot diameter Tipi (although I may have my mother stitch the canvas and lining; not my forte) raw milk, weed control, best friends: nubian...
Experts judge Obama's corporate tax proposal
wonklife:
Earlier Wednesday, the White House released its proposed principles for overhauling the corporate tax code — bringing the rate down to 28 percent, establishing a minimum tax, and expanding credits for R&D and manufacturing. It’s not a plan so much as a framework. But we asked a variety of experts what they think of the idea. Here are their e-mailed responses:
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75% of Americans will be overweight by 2020, the... →
“Belief? What do I believe in? I believe in sun. In rock. In the dogma of the sun...”
– Edward Abbey (via consciousbeing)
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“Before he died, I wondered, had he imagined that he could die?
Both sides, in...”
– Wendell Berry, Jayber Crow: The Life Story of Jayber Crow, Barber, of the Port William Membership, as Written by Himself
Ezra Klein's new tumblr! Hallelujah, we tumblr-ers... →
5 Amazing Places in the US in Danger of Being... →
climateadaptation:
Nice little article that ends with what I dream every environmental writer would do, answer the question: “What do we do now?”…
“In coming years, we will have to ask ourselves if public policies should be...”
– Bob Ward of the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change, in The Guardian’s, “Attacks paid for by big business are ‘driving science into a dark era” (via climateadaptation)
Fracking industry has spent $726 million on... →
solitaryforager:
A natural gas drilling rush is on in rural North Dakota. And with it, residents are reporting growing numbers of respiratory ailments, skin lesions, blood oozing from eyes, and the deaths of livestock and pets.
Elsewhere, residents of Texas, Pennsylvania, Colorado, Wyoming and other states who thought they’d hit the lottery by signing natural gas drilling leases have watched...
Guess what law goes into effect the same exact... →
“I think that a lot of radical environmentalists have it backwards. This idea...”
– Santorum criticizes ‘radical environmentalists’
(via solitaryforager)
from dusk till dawn: Afghan drug war debacle:... →
conspiracynews:
The West is losing the heroin war in Afghanistan – ten years after Tony Blair pledged that wiping out the drug was one of the main reasons for invading the country.
Despite spending £18billion and a conflict which has so far cost the lives of almost 400 British troops,…
“Genius is the recovery of childhood at will.”
– Arthur Rimbaud (via sun-hawk)
Video tours of natural homes →
fuckyeahpermaculture:
^^ You want to check this out, it’s really great.
Does anyone have any suggestions for other websites about natural homes/building? Or tumblrs on the subject?
Kris Payne: A Quick Note →
mpdrolet:
Hey people.
For what it’s worth, I purchased a National Parks and Federal Recreational Land Pass last July when I embarked on a kick ass road trip, and I do not believe I will be getting back out there again to use it before it expires. If any of you are planning some trips or…
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WatchPassive Water Pump
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Young Farmers: Farm Hacks →
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eric sloane - a reverence for wood
kadbudugorjeligradovi: