Compost requires labour and tillage. In other words, it is a renewable input. It is one that mimics natural processes, or interjects materials into them. I guess it is a bit like […]
Note the crack in the ice covering this melt water pool. Right now hydroelectric power comes from turbines running on liquid water. Here is a different energy source, which we would do […]
Really. Really. These are effects created by winter heating, freezing and melting. In other words, the nutrients released by lichens in late winter are created by stones heating in the winter cold, […]
Global Warming? Old news here. Apparently, though, global warming is palatable in the first few days after the snow leaves it. We’re talking about cheat grass, the green haze riding over the […]
Up on the hill, where it is cold, there is snow. There are also rocks, which heat in the sun. The hot rocks melt the snow, making lakes of ice, and then […]
Some of it is urban off-gassing. Ouch. You can see thin blue exhaust over the lake in the distance, wafting north from Kelowna, and more of it in Shorts Creek Canyon in […]
Literally. It’s done with fishing line in wet winter air. We can send rovers to Mars to find water and life, and we can figure out how to harvest water from a […]
Scientific American reports that with the shift of animal habitat due to climate change, 60% of plants are stranded without the ability to move, because they rely on animals to move their […]
With a few changes in environmental legislation in the current weed desert in which we plant houses in the catastrophically failing Okanagan grasslands, we can live in a land of plenty instead […]
Welcome to the 21st century! In this century, we’ve finally learned that a grassland is nothing without flowers. Here’s why: That’s right, bees, 500 kinds of wild bees and wasps that live […]
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