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05/06/2022
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By Zoey Sky
Home gardening tips: A beginner’s guide to composting
Composting at home is good for your garden, the soil, your crops and the planet. It is a great way to repurpose food waste and improve soil quality in your home garden. If you’re curious about composting, read on for tips on how to get started. (h/t to Milkwood.net) Composting refers to the process of actively feeding many microorganisms […]
09/07/2021
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By Virgilio Marin
Survival navigation: Using nature to navigate the wilderness
Natural navigation is an important survival skill that will come in handy when you’re bugging out. It is the art of finding your way using nature, allowing you to determine direction without the aid of navigation devices like a GPS or compass. But as all skills go, it requires practice to be able to wield it effectively. How […]
07/06/2021
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By Divina Ramirez
This fascinating off-grid lamp is powered by photosynthesis
Dutch designer Ermi van Oers has created an off-grid lamp that uses a living plant to produce light. The device, dubbed “Living Light,” uses microorganisms of plant origin to convert the chemical energy that a plant naturally produces during photosynthesis into an electric current. The lamp is fully self-sufficient, meaning it doesn’t have to be plugged […]
03/15/2021
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By Virgilio Marin
Solar storms, magnetic pole shift loom as hundreds of dolphins and whales wind up dead worldwide
Hundreds of dolphins and whales are recently washing up dead on different shores across the world in what might be an ominous sign of the times. Experts are still investigating the cause of death, but there is speculation that intense solar activity and Earth’s weakening magnetic field likely contributed to the deaths. Mass die-offs in the sea Eighty-six dolphins […]
03/05/2021
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By Virgilio Marin
5 innovative water harvesting techniques for dry, off-grid areas
Clean water is a scarce resource in dry, off-grid environments. In these areas, conventional water sources such as snowfall, rainfall, river runoff and groundwater are rare if not completely absent. But innovative water sourcing methods could help address that scarcity. In an article for the Conversation, environmental scientists Manzoor Qadir and Vladimir Smakhtin, both from United Nations University […]
02/26/2021
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By Divina Ramirez
Federal regulators plan to investigate Texas power outages
Millions of Texans were without power for two straight days after a historically cold winter strained the state’s electricity grid, triggering a public health emergency in the country’s second-most populous state. The power outages earlier this week prompted the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) to open an inquiry into the incident. The agency said it would […]
11/10/2020
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By Virgilio Marin
Home gardening basics: When should you plant fruit trees?
Your location determines many of your gardening habits. It directly affects what and when to plant, as well as how to grow a fruit tree. If you’re new to home gardening, you first need to know your location’s hardiness zone. The Department of Agriculture‘s Hardiness Zone Map divides the U.S. and Canada into 13 zones. Zone 1 is […]
10/02/2020
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By Virgilio Marin
Impending nuclear winter: A 1-week nuclear war between India and Pakistan could kill 50-125 MILLION people – and starve the rest, warn experts
The heated tension between Pakistan and India has been boiling up to a simmer in recent years. Numerous cross-border shelling incidents and ceasefire violations have occurred between the two nuclear-armed states, prompting concerns of a nuclear war. A recent study published in the journal Science Advances imagined what would happen in the event such a war broke […]
09/09/2020
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By Franz Walker
Department of Energy issues emergency order to help California avoid blackouts
The Department of Energy (DOE) has issued a rare, seven-day emergency order to help preserve the reliability of California’s bulk power system. The order came after the California Independent System Operator (CAISO) made a request to the DOE on September 6. The DOE’s order authorizes three natural gas-fueled power stations to operate at their maximum […]
10/13/2019
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By Ethan Huff
California’s massive power outages remind us all why electric cars are useless when the grid goes down
Earlier this week, officials from Pacific Gas and Electric (PG&E), California’s largest electricity provider, publicly announced that the company would be shutting off people’s electricity on purpose as a preventative measure to mitigate wildfire risk. But what’s to become of Californians’ electric cars during this time? The “environmentally friendly” solution to the traditional combustion engine […]
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