Fossil Fuel based growth has ended: This is the best place to learn about the future
A recent piece on the BBC website entitled “What is climate change? A really simple guide” is good until you reach the end: The piece says: What can individuals do? Significant changes need to come from governments and businesses, but scientists say some minor changes in our lives can limit our impact on the climate: …
Further to my piece on the 55 uses of Biochar I have been surprised to find how much it is known about and used. Never before have I come across something which has been going on for thousands of years, and is still alive throughout the world. Moreover, it is something which can contribute to …
55 uses of biochar [Updated to 60] Acknowledgement of the original work The 55 uses of biochar work was originally created by: Schmidt HP, Wilson K: The 55 uses of biochar, the Biochar Journal 2014, Arbaz, Switzerland. ISSN 2297-1114 www.biochar-journal.org/en/ct/2 Version of 12th May 2014 Some of the uses detailed already use activated carbon as …
Copied from Bloomberg UK How E-Bike Rebates Will Make Cycling Safer in Denver In April 2022, the city began offering residents $400 off a new electric bike or $900 off an e-cargo bike, with low-income residents eligible for an additional $800 discount. The program was a sensation: Over 4,700 Denverites snapped up a voucher in …
Our heat pump reached the end of its life last year. 25 years old, which is better than expected. It will cost £15,000 to replace. At our age, in our 80s, not worth doing. So, we are using electric radiators in the kitchen and bedroom and an open fire (Baxi) in the lounge, at weekends. …
I am becoming less convinced about conventional thinking about keeping ourselves warm. Here is a example from the No Tech Magazine: Forgotten Clothing: Hip Scarves
This comment by Tim Morgan, on his Surplus Energy Economics blog is interesting. The link is to the piece where this comment appears, which will be of particular interest to investors. drtimmorgan on January 2, 2023 at 2:16 pm said: I think my general point is about affordability compression. It’s ceasing to be possible for …
Increasing energy bills have created the perfect conditions for mould Blistering energy prices have created the perfect conditions for the rise of a particular blight across the country. Surveyors have reported a tenfold increase in calls from worried landlords and homeowners who have discovered damp and mould hiding in their properties – and threatening to …
The Renewable Energy Transition Is Failing This reinforces my view that we should switch spending from producing renewables to preparing for global warming.
To put it in terms that even an economist might grasp, all energetic systems – including industrial economies – eventually burn themselves out. Ours is no different. That is how Tim Watkin’s latest post finishes. Which set me thinking afresh about the future. Maybe we should think about the end of our industrial economy. Rather …
Beware the vampires. Energy vampires are sneaky power-suckers that utilize energy even when you think they’re not. … The future must be less complicated. Nate Hagens’s excellent podcast The Great Simplicatiion says it all. It is: …..a podcast that explores the systems science underpinning the human predicament. Conversation topics will span human behaviour, monetary/economic systems, …
The title of this piece is taken from Tim Morgan’s latest blog. This is an important piece, which should be circulated widely. Not necessarily to be believed that this is how things are, but rather to rise awareness that this view exists. Whether you agree or not with the information presented in the piece, depends …
Another interview by Nate Hagans in his wonderful series entitled “The Great Simplification”: Religious scholar Mary Evelyn Tucker unpacks the entanglement of religion and ecology from an academic perspective. She and Nate discuss what the roots of environmental ethics in religions all over the world look like and how they’ve been evolving in the face …
Vanishing crop varieties, permaculture and food forestry benefits, and three sisters gardening