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The Environmental Working Group released its annual list of non-organic produce with the most pesticides. Blueberries and green beans joined this year’s top 12. Source: 2023’s ‘Dirty Dozen’: The 12 fruits and vegetables with the most pesticides—and 4 tips for … Continue reading →

Source: Are your strawberries bland? Pesticides could be to blame 😂 Just start thinking about this. Then keep thinking about this. Then think about it again. Then start asking yourselves how many other things we don’t know about the effects … Continue reading →

Bats. They have a bad reputation. That’s why we decided to create a cutest bat contest. Let us know in the comments who should win! Source: The Cutest Bat Contest: Here Are The Winners Spread the Good News Below: Permaculture!    

Rio Verde, Arizona, a suburb just outside of Scottsdale, had its water supply shut off as a consequence of the mega-drought affecting the southwest. Source: A suburb outside of Scottsdale, Arizona has had its water shut off due to the … Continue reading →

A rise in demand for Adderall has triggered a shortage of the drug. Source: Adderall shortage puts U.S. on brink of public health crisis Just stunned…. There are 335 million people in the USA as of this date. And 41 … Continue reading →

Source:https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abn6350 Over the past decade, research has shown that microorganisms living on and inside eukaryotes—the microbiota—are drivers of host health. For plants, microbiota can greatly expand their genomic capabilities by enhancing immunity, nutrient acquisition, and tolerance to environmental stresses (1). … Continue reading →

Source: https://www.avweb.com/aviation-news/delta-abandons-appeal-of-pilot-suspension-award/ So I just got through giving a small permaculture talk in which I said that permaculture was simply not about “treating other people badly.” I’ll tell you what else permaculture is _not_, it is not about big self-entitled … Continue reading →

Source: Study shows hazardous herbicide chemical goes airborne “Dicamba drift”—the movement of the herbicide dicamba off crops through the atmosphere—can result in unintentional damage to neighboring plants. To prevent dicamba drift, other chemicals, typically amines, are mixed with dicamba to … Continue reading →

Source: https://amp.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/oct/23/environmental-toxins-neurological-disorders-parkinsons-alzheimers Doctors warn exposure to omnipresent yet poorly understood chemicals such as microplastics could play a role in dementia and the astronomical rise in neurological disorders like Parkinson’s disease and Alzheimer’s You think? Or as Homer Simpson would say … Continue reading →

If we Google something like:https://www.google.com/search?q=hydrogen+peroxide+to+control+algae We get a lot of pond and aquarium sites explaining how to use hydrogen peroxide to control algae. Some of these sites even explain what hydrogen peroxide is such as… Hydrogen peroxide is a colorless … Continue reading →