Crypto Currency as Legal Tender in El Salvador, and more…
El Salvador will start accepting Bitcoin officially in all transactions on Sept 7. What does that mean for Bitcoin in general, and for El Salvador and other countries? Lots of questions
When are Bird Feeders Bad Feeders?
The unintended consequences of helping out where help may not be needed: your fav garden birds. (Along the same line is humming birds, if you don’t keep the feeder water clean and safe, you might be endangering all those hummers you were trying to encourage.) Sustainability means doing the right thing, as well as making sure that you watch to see if things that you do, don’t do what you thought they were designed to….
World Bee Day, May 20
It’s World Bee Day, May 20th. There are lots of people worried about bees, and rightly so. To mix a metaphor, bees are the canaries in the coal mine. When bee colonies get wiped out (like colony collapse), it indicates that things are not right in the environment.  (When your canary dies in the coal mine, the methane levels are high enough to cut off oxygen, and to explode with any spark.) Pollinators like bees…
Composting Week & Food Waste
Compost Week 2021 Question: What Percentage of food goes to waste? This question is appropriate because this is International Composting Week, May 2-8, 2021, with a theme: Grow, Eat…COMPOST…Repeat. Some foods don’t make it out of the fields. Potatoes, corn, and tomatoes that are too small, or too ugly, may be left behind in the fields. In some cased, the farmers announce that the edible, but ugly, food is available for gleaning – all you have to…
Earth Day 2021 Quiz
Earth Day 2021 Quiz (April 22, 2021) Test your knowledge of a few Earth related topics on Earth Day. Note that when you Google some of these topics, you can get rather wide ranges of answers. Make sure you are looking at the US (if that is the target region), rather current information, and rather reliable sources. Or, just wait a day to see what we think the correct answer should be. Answers will…
Is Trade Secret a Good Strategy? A Trade Secret Assessment
The most widely identified Trade Secret is, of course, Coke Cola. (The original formula included caffeine and cocaine – thus the name – but that is a different discussion!) In 1903, cocaine was removed, leaving caffeine as the sole stimulant ingredient, and all medicinal claims were dropped. But the Coke-a-Cola trade secret lives on. Sections below: Most Widely Acknowledged Trade Secrets. Our Trade Secrets Assessment Tool. Trade secrets definition and law (UTSA). Most Widely Acknowledged Trade…