The Grass-Fed Myth
This is a really excellent lecture on the relationship between animal agriculture and sustainability.
This is a really excellent lecture on the relationship between animal agriculture and sustainability.
I took some trash to the dump today. It was a cool, wet day, and the black hillocks of wood chips in the “leaf and limb” section were steaming madly. It reminded me that a compost pile can get very hot, sometimes so hot that it catches fire. Perhaps it’s not surprising that people have [...]
Imagine a world where a hamburger does not require hyperconfinement, slaughter, or taking babies away from mothers. No suffering. The hamburger is still delicious. Now imagine a slightly different world. In order to obtain that tasty burger, you must kick a dog. There’s a machine that dispenses hamburgers. Under the dispensing chute, there’s a caged [...]
A technology that I’m surprised I had not encountered until now. It seems like a tower like this could be combined with the “mirror field” solar heat collectors we have currently in the Southwest US. That is, the low-grade heat wasted in the process of making steam could then be used to drive wind turbines [...]
Come to this event. (I’ll have a couple of experimental soundscapes in the mix as a part of Our New Silence.) +++++++++++++++++++++++++++= Please join us and treat your friends and relations of all ages to an evening of EcoLocoGlobaCosmic Wonder and Fun! Kosmos, Oikos, and New Echoes Multimedia Experience and Party with musical guest Our New [...]
I’ve been looking into small eco prefab houses lately and ran into Dan Phillips, a builder of modest houses made from 85% or so free recycled material that was headed for the landfill. He builds these houses for $20-$50 k, too, which he then applies toward helping lower income families own a home. Some of [...]