Tag: bioaeroponics

It’s common knowledge that drought, monoculture, overuse of chemical fertilizer and pesticides, and excessive plowing have created “dead soil” in which growing nutritious food crops is becoming increasing difficult.  But exactly how? 

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I’m on the Outer Banks of North Carolina for the wedding of my eldest nephew.  I’d never been here before, and I was expecting a stretch of land so desolate that I’d have trouble getting online or finding a good …

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Here’s a very solid and accessible article on population growth and sustainability from the World Future Society, though I’m not sure it provides any “new news.”    Yes, we’re consuming resources at an unsustainable rate, and that rate will only …

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I’ve been thinking about my up-coming meeting with Dr. Raj Pachauri, who, among other things, serves as the chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).  Pondering this in advance of the meeting, I wonder what I would do, …

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I recommend that everyone track with the wisdom of Jeremy Grantham, chief investment strategist of Boston-based institutional money manager GMO LLC. I’ve written about Grantham many times, because I think his viewpoints on global warming are so insightful. He has …

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A friend sent me this video on eco-friendly tomato farming (she says “tomawto,” I say “tomayto”). What these people are doing is wonderful, but trust me, the reduction in carbon footprint associated with this does not stand up well against …

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Thanks to 2GreenEnergy aeroponics guru Rafael Quezada for sending me this recent piece on climate change in Popular Science. This sums up the picture very nicely, in my estimation. Bottom line: The outlook isn’t brilliant.

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