https://websoilsurvey.nrcs.usda.gov/app/
Use this tool. Click the green button on the webpage, search up your location, on the toolbar click on the red square and draw a box around your yard, click soil map. On the left of the screen, you’ll see a list of soil types on your property with their textures
That’s awesome! What sorts of lessons have you learned in navigating that transition?
That’s kind of what I was getting at, I think both have their strengths and weaknesses, and I think the discourse should reflect that.
Yeah, I think given current trajectories somewhere between RCP 3.4 and 4.5, with emissions peaking around 2050. Given technological and political headwinds, I just can’t see emissions peaking in 2080 or 2100 with growth rates already slowing globally and peaking in North America and Europe
Who wouldve thought hosting COP in a petrostate would’ve led to a conflict of interest!?
I do think insects as an ingredient in other foods, such as crackers, could be a more successful approach in increasing adoption. Taboos will be quite hard to change tho, I agree
Choosing more appropriate crops for specific environments is so important. The State departments VACS initiative is a good start to promoting more resilient crops for Africa.
https://foodtank.com/news/2024/01/vacs-is-going-back-to-basics-for-a-climate-resilient-future/
Some bills republicans are spending their legislative energy on: Liberty in Laundry Act, Refrigerator Freedom Act, Stop Unaffordable Laundry Standards (SUDS) Act.
I especially feel for those who work in government. When the Trump admin placed restrictions on the use of certain terminology, it must really be hard to balance ones need for employment and doing good work and remaining true to scientific principles.
In terms of legal structures, look to see if your local jurisdiction has a social benefit or public benefit corporation that you can legally register as. They’re like an LLC, but place a social mandate of some kind above profit making. This is legally built into the charter of the business, meaning it can be enforced in the courts if later on the business attempts to violate that mission. It also allows such businesses to qualify for certain grants.
Poplars and willows are fairly fast growing. Plus there are perennial grass feedstocks
Municipal scale infrastructure to capture waste, treat it, and extract nutrients to be redistributed or sold as fertilizer. This is usually an activity undertaken by and fit into existing municipal waste infrastructure.
The atomization of decision-making allows entrenched interests to disrupt progress. If you’ve ever been to a city planning meeting, you can see how NIMBY homeowners block transit upgrades or affordable housing. Sometimes consensus is impossible
Also, lots of state and local governments in the US have strong renter protections.
You’d probably site them on higher ground outside of the flood plane. Add in flood walls, etc. if storm surge is a concern
A go to lunch for me is overnight oats. The night before I throw half a cup of oats and water into a container, add a spoon full of peanut butter, a tbsp of chia seeds, and handful of frozen blueberries
For sure. I think trying to preserve these tools is a bit of a waste of time. But extending their lifespan is always a win in my book
When the damage is presented in spreadsheets and charts its easy to ignore the cost, especially for those pushing the piles of money around.
Ooooh interesting, good to know! I suppose inoculation is a process that is not particularly complex that a localized society could also achieve.
The only references I can find for such soils are when there are highly stratified C horizons where a component may be sandy clays, like the Lohmiller series, at least that’s my interpretation of the description
https://soilseries.sc.egov.usda.gov/OSD_Docs/L/LOHMILLER.html