The world warms, thanks to the atmosphere’s always-expanding volume of heat-trapping carbon dioxide. As President Biden said during a climate summit in Washington in April, “This is the decisive decade. This is the decade that we must make decisions to avoid the worst consequences of the climate crisis.” Avoiding C02 emissions altogether stands as an
Biden’s 100 days in office passed last week, and media outfits across the country issued report cards. The crackerjack team of research savants at Campfire Content World HQ read through many of the summations, taking note of achievements (and failures) on the green and climate fronts. The Biden Administration announced one fresh effort just yesterday.
Farmers leave behind hay straw. Manufacturers send sunflower husks and banana peels to the composter. Breweries and distilleries go through enormous volumes of grain; most of it never is consumed by humans, although plenty gets fed to livestock. Meanwhile, people and food service companies toss colossal volumes of food into the trash, most of which
For bees to survive, they need wild habitat rather than fields of crops; large-scale food production fails to provide homes for them. As Big Ag increasingly turns wilderness into manicured, mono-cropped fields of commodities, it eliminates more and more bee habitat. The trend has enormous implications for food, world economies and more according to a
I haven’t yet encountered bees in 2021. Once the snow melts this month, however, I will visit thousands of them. Shortly after the row cover shrouding mustard greens like arugula and kale at Black Cat Farm is removed, the plants begin producing blossoms. Honeybees will swarm. For many, it will be their first taste of
A few weeks ago Annie started talking about nachos. An image quickly commandeered the collective family imagination: corn chips, layers of molten cheese, pickled jalapeño slices, beans, homemade salsa, sour cream. Drool. We added nachos to the meal menu, and picked up ingredients during the weekly and masked swing through our markets. As the engines
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