Organic Food is Better
There?s more good news about organic foods. In recent study, scientists from the Agricultural Research Service in Albany, California analyzed 13 different ketchup brands for their lycopene content…
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Plan Twice, Plant Once
From this week’s Green Energy
The mail order nursery companies certainly have done their marketing research! Extravagently colored catalogs arrive during the darkest, coldest months of the year, tantalizing us with promises of warm weather and beautiful gardens.
The phrase ‘impulse purchase’ was likely coined by the marketing department of one of these companies. In my travels [...]
THE DEATH OF ENVIRONMENTALISM: Global Warming Politics in a Post-Enviromental World
This is an extremely important discussion for anyone who is interested in saving our planet for future generations. Yes, we all should be interested, but we’re not…why?
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Monsanto fined $1.5 Million for Bribe
On January 6, 2005, the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced a settlement with Monsanto over a complaint filed in US District Court that a company manager bribed an Indonesian environmental official over Genetically Engineered crops.
Spreading their poison throughout the lands.
Monsanto sues farmers, calls them “seed technology pirates”
SAN FRANCISCO – Monsanto Co.’s “seed police” snared soy farmer Homan McFarling in 1999 and the company is demanding he pay it hundreds of thousands of dollars …
Monsanto wants to tell us what to eat and how to grow it. Read the article. Pretty scary!
22 Below!
At 22 degrees below zero, the only way to keep a hole in the ice is to direct the pump directly into the pond. The pump discharge is disconnected from the line to the waterfall and directed, with appropriate fittings, out of the skimmer. In this photo, the flow is encased in a tube of [...]
January Issue of Green Energy
The high temperature tomorrow may reach 3 degrees. Lows will range from minus 5 to minus 20 over the next few days. BRRR!
Our January newsletter is now online here.
Pond Waterfall at Night
The ice sculptures are especially dramatic at night with backlighting. This photo was shot during a light snow. I tried to tweak the manual settings on my Nikon CoolPix 885, but was unable to capture the essential detail of the ice.
Predicted subzero temps will force me to shut down the waterfall and direct the pump [...]
Ice Sculpture
We’re wondering if we’ll get any substantial snow this winter, but cold weather has definitely arrived. The 100 watt pond heater is keeping a small hole in the ice near the skimmer, but when it gets below zero for any length of time, I will have to redirect the pump outflow into the pond to [...]
A Winter Visitor
This Cooper’s Hawk paid us a visit recently. It sat for quite awhile on the bench just outside the living room, and then posed for this photo just outside the office window.
