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Showing posts with label global warming. Show all posts
Showing posts with label global warming. Show all posts
12/9/08
10/16/08
Just back from the grocery store
where the only sale posters anymore advertise beef and other meat, and I found this excellent take.
9/6/08
What's astonishing
is that the bar is set so low, and the shitstorm still erupts from meat producers.
8/21/08
Rice
that almost cooks itself. The whole gallery makes carrying a reusable bag seem like a very small gesture in a warming world.
7/14/08
6/30/08
6/23/08
Connecting the dots
The only mystery is why our dictator has not suggested raising giant rabbits that eat more than they yield. I would call this an exceptional read, but everything at Tomdispatch qualifies.
6/12/08
Fountains of pain
For all the horrors of my childhood, I did grow up drinking artesian well water. Two years ago I met a hydrogeologist from out my way who said the water coming out of the ground around Tucson was hot to the touch because the wells had to be drilled so deep. And now it's even worse: "Arizona is out: It now imports all of its drinking water." How about a few more golf courses, or swimming pools, in a region where swamp coolers always outperformed air conditioners?
6/11/08
Got Evian?
6/3/08
"In Spain, water is a new battleground"
Sounds grim, no?
But in America, doing something about it is "politically risky."
Who told this country it could have its cars and its future, too? While North Africa moves ever northward:
"The changes on the Almarcha family farm in Albanilla over the past three decades are a testament to that hotter, drier climate here. Until two decades ago, the farm grew wheat and barley, watered only by rain. As rainfall dropped, Carlo Almarcha, 51, switched to growing almonds.
But in America, doing something about it is "politically risky."
Who told this country it could have its cars and its future, too? While North Africa moves ever northward:
"The changes on the Almarcha family farm in Albanilla over the past three decades are a testament to that hotter, drier climate here. Until two decades ago, the farm grew wheat and barley, watered only by rain. As rainfall dropped, Carlo Almarcha, 51, switched to growing almonds.
"About 10 years ago, he quit almonds and changed to organic peaches and pears, 'since they need less water,' he explained. Recently he took up olives and figs, 'which resist drought and are less sensitive to weather'.''
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