Article: As Clouds Head for the Poles, Time to Prepare for Food and Water Shocks
What do you do to prepare? http://www.wri.org/blog/2016/07/clouds-head-poles-time-prepare-food-and-water-shocks
Article: Dragonflies
In the words of B: “You’ll learn that each dragonfly—such an inconsiderable creature!—is a work of so much delicacy, perfection, and complexity that it makes a digital computer look like
Article: ‘Digital Heroin’ – How Screens Turn Kids Into Psychotic Junkies
So technology is neutral, huh? Tell me again how “smart” your kid is because of using an iSomething at a young age. http://nypost.com/2016/08/27/its-digital-heroin-how-screens-turn-kids-into-psychotic-junkies/
Article: Millions at risk as deadly fungal infections acquire drug resistance
Thank you industry, thank you agriculture, thank you science for creating yet another life-threatening problem while trying to “improve” our condition and urging “progress”. Well done. But hey, soon science
Book: The One-Straw Revolution (Masanobu Fukuoka)
With his book “The One-Straw Revolution” permaculturalist Masanobu Fukuoka created one of the most important books about natural farming methods.
Article: How NASA Thinks Society Will Collapse
Apparently, NASA also realized that this megalomaniac madness we call civilization can’t exist much longer. Still, I do not understand how they can’t see the obvious – it is civilization
Article: We need to stop sanitizing everything
Our culture is obsessed with cleanliness and fears the most natural things such as “dirt”, thinking it would make them sick. Well, new research suggests that it is exactly this
Article: The Scientists Who Make Apps Addictive
The long read: We are increasingly being enslaved in a quite serious fashion by the very machines designed (or at least intended) to help us. We are powerless, it is
Article: Another Major Source of Greenhouse Gases
Like Hayduke from Edward Abbey’s famous novel ‘The Monkey Wrench Gang’ we are for the destruction of every single dam – we are for setting the rivers free. Look at
Article: Robots Instead of Bees
Among many other byproducts of industrial civilization, GMO’s and pollution kills off the bees, which are essential also for our own survival, since they pollinate the crops we eat. Instead