Drought
My new job hasn’t given me access to the ‘low side’ (i.e., Internet) yet and possibly not for weeks yet to come (possibly not at all). I have been going through a bit of a news withdrawal lately, been stuck …
Search Results for: aquaponics
Mmm mmm good!
Will your next burger be ground-up mealworms?
http://www.foxnews.com/science/2012/12/20/will-your-next-burger-be-ground-up-mealworms/
Having watched Survivorman a lot (I have been interested in survival since a kid, though seldom put any of my knowledge to test/use) I believe that the right bugs might actually be …
Are we really collectively that dumb?
A Simple Fix for Farming
http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/10/19/a-simple-fix-for-food/
I read many years ago about a rancher in the mid west that decided to forgo the hugely expensive and time consuming effort of clearing shrubs and bushes, killing ‘invasive’ browsers (like antelope) and …
Keys are good, but keyholes are bad
What Work Is Really For
http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/09/08/work-good-or-bad/
I found the above article and added it to my customary list of things-to-read-today. Reading it was interesting and made me think about my ‘utopia’ where I could simply spend time on the manifold …
More non-global warming human destruction
Bottom trawling flattens seafloor
http://www.latimes.com/news/science/sciencenow/la-sci-sn-bottom-trawling-20120905,0,6628384.story?track=rss
So, in addition to sterilizing the body of the ocean with drift nets, we are sterilizing the bottom as well. I wonder how much longer before all fishing crashes? Of course, my interest in …
Lost skills
I spoke earlier about my efforts to work on a personal project part-time, I have a rather depressing update to report. Though I did manage to design the algorithm and code the core of it, it seems my motivation problem …
Greenhouse/pool update
After much dilly dallying I finally got motivated to update the web site for our greenhouse / pool construction project:
http://sol-system.com/koxenrider/property/greenhousepool/spring12update/index.html
I am way more motivated now that I can see progress from each weekend’s worth of effort. There was …
Lack of grabbing
It isn’t that I am reading less, just that what I am reading is not triggering any need to blog about it. I don’t see any change on our accelerating slide down the slippery slope to the apocalypse and I …
It ain’t the cows or the termites!
Natural gas wells leakier than believed
Measurements at Colorado site show methane release higher than previous estimates
http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/338505/title/Natural_gas_wells_leakier_than_believed
I wonder if they will stop blaming cows and termites for the methane that might be the more proximal cause for the …
This is something I used to be really interested in
Genetically Engineered Stomach Microbe Converts Seaweed into Ethanol
A genetically modified strain of common gut bacteria may lead to a new technology for making biofuels that does not compete with food crops for arable acreage
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=genetically-engineered-stomach-microbe-turns-seaweed-into-ethanol
I am able to …