Awakening this morning I saw the large white flakes drifting down into the skylight and wondered if spring would ever come to Wyoming. WE are more than a week into spring and the snow pack remains stable at 24”. We are eager to move manure and compost to the fields, start a new hoop greenhouse,Continue reading “Blow up the TV!”
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A Slow Motion Train Wreck
Well here we are closing out the last full week of March 2020. The bogus stock market had 3 up days this week and is now down 3-4% on the last day of the week. Infection curves remain exponential worldwide and a few political figures have contracted the virus. The more the merrier in myContinue reading “A Slow Motion Train Wreck”
Farming and the Collapse of Complex Societies
Meanwhile down on the farm………….I will try to do a little farm blogging as time permits. Last week was not a good one as we lost 2 lambs to Clostridium Perfringens, a killer of lambs who aren’t vaccinated. Clostridium lives in the soil. One variety causes Tetanus as well as food poisoning.. WeContinue reading “Farming and the Collapse of Complex Societies”
The Collapse of America
We are approaching the Ides of March 2020 .The Corona Virus is all the rage here in the US. The markets are crashing, the president is babbling and the virus is setting up house keeping here in the New World. The chaotic brain of the of the Tweeter in Chief is on full display lurchingContinue reading “The Collapse of America”
Covid -19 Community Preparedness
Covid-19 : Supply Chains and Disaster Preparedness. We here in Jackson Hole are way past starting a discussion on instituting disaster preparedness for the upcoming Corona Virus which is likely to pay us an unwelcome visit this year. I have discussed supply chains and how they impact life here in my blogs and in previousContinue reading “Covid -19 Community Preparedness”
The Plastic Problem
In previous posts I have covered decarbonization of energy and it is high time to continue to look at the complex interconnected global industrial system focusing on one of its dominant components: Plastics. It is past time to cover Dematerialization of plastics. Who can forget the key line of the 1967 movie TheContinue reading “The Plastic Problem”
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Katie’s new Ewe lamb 2019
Growth is the Cause of Global Climate Change
It is time to get serious about Global Climate Change by looking at the root cause: GROWTH. Global climate change/Warming has been the focus of world wide demonstrations primarily by the youth kickstarted by Times’s person of the year, sixteen year old Gretta Thunberg. Children like Gretta will inherit this mess. Most adults don’tContinue reading “Growth is the Cause of Global Climate Change”
Some very puzzling and contradictory data has been spilling out of my trusty Dell Precision 390 desktop of late. In November or December there was a report from the Oil industry rag Oilprice.com on a slowdown in fracksville. Then the WSJ put out a similar story within the last month. Ditto on a blog fromContinue reading
Review of OIL, POWER, and WAR by Matthieu Auzanneau
In this post I am just pasting a review of an amazing book about Oil. The author is a French citizen and the book is a translation recently released. It is far more than just a history of the oil industry such as Yergin’s The Prize published in 1990. I submitted this review to AmazonContinue reading “Review of OIL, POWER, and WAR by Matthieu Auzanneau”
