BBC News – The goats fighting America’s plant invasion: A different approach to invasives. That would be Kudzu. I wonder how it works with balsam pear in Florida? How about the melaleuca? Old school, but an effective approach to attach invasive plants is the old goat trick. What I didn’t realize before reading this article, is that the double chew and strong processing of the stomach reduce the changes of seed making the passage through…
Garbage-patch tale as flimsy as a single-use plastic bag – SFGate: So the GREAT Pacific Garbage Patch is not real… Or maybe not nearly as big as originally expected. Saunders does a great job of attaching the myth behind the original reports of “the size of Texas” and such. Great sources of info included. But now I’m really worried. The amount of plastic floating in the oceans amount to only (right, only) 7,000 to 35,000…
Nordic Poles Boost Artery-Disease Patients’ Walking – WSJ: Lots of studies show that simply getting up and about several times a week can be really, really good for you. This is pretty cool. The use of Nordic poles significantly helped patents go longer… Okay, that’s pretty obvious… BUT it also worked the body 23% harder than normal walking. The prob with walking (and running) is that you don’t really work the upper body, so it…
All, World water day slipped by without a splash! http://www.unwater.org/worldwaterday/ Check the blog here on the topic: World Water Day 2014 blog post. Most people don’t realize the Nexus of water and energy. Most people don’t realize the Nexus of water and energy and plastics. Most people don’t realize the Nexus of water and energy and paper. Most people don’t realize the Nexus of water and energy and trash. Most people don’t realize the Nexus of water…
Here’s and interesting little video — sales pitch really — related to growing your own food. Of course you need to buy the book to really get started. I really don’t like the high-level hyperbole, but the underlying concepts are probably okay. Crisis Education, however, implies how dooms-day and shrill it sounds. I like the idea of concentrated farming, urban farming, and in-side (making your house greener) grow. Kinda makes you wander if they aren’t…
The Energy Roadmap – The Edison of our Age: Stan Ovshinsky and the Future of Energy [Video Interview Part 1]: Ovshinsky is compared to Edison as a prolific inventor… He hold patents on NiMH batteries. His solar cells power the MIR space station. Good question on Cobasys and the restrictions on next-gen batteries by the patents held within the company.!:-) The batteries that have become so critical in the next generation of batteries, electric cars,…
