Charity with fewer mechanisms of control from the donator

Unfortunately I have been proven wrong :/

One counterexample I would like to point out is the Medicaid expansion under Obamacare seems to have made that program another one of the ‘third rail’ policies alongside Social Security and Medicare

I think ocean iron fertilization has some promise to it, and it has the benefit of being able to be experimented with at a small scale and subsequently scaled up responsibly to measure effects. Aerosols are kind of a one and done solution, and if for any reason its suspended, their is a boomerang effect that drives warming even higher

Its definitely the plot of termination shock

It’s also ridiculous how many products are just trucking water around from one place to another with a little big of active solution mixed in. We need more ‘just add water’ products available.

Definitely a valid critique of Mondragon in the modern era, its commitment to the 10% ratio has atrophied somewhat. It’s still something that ebbs and flows, for example there is a current push to transfer 35,000 non-member workers in their retail coop into full members (from a total of 50,000 workers). From numbers I’ve seen, 85% of employees are still members, which is pretty good.

Yeah, I think its useful to continue trialing out the technology and see if it can hold up to snuff. But at the same time banking on this idea as our only approach to decarbonizing protein (which is what the beef industry would prefer) is short sighted, imo

Are there any mechanisms where landlords can be driven to adopt the alternatives that homeowners are utilizing?

Fusion power doesn’t utilize uranium or plutonium, it uses hydrogen. Any radioactive outputs have short half-lives, making storage less of a concern.

It is a good sign that in some countries where leasing is still open, oil companies are buying a lot fewer permits

There’s this idea called World Systems theory, that divides the world into core and peripheral countries, with the core countries extracting resources (natural, financial, or labor) and sends pollution back. This is maintained by military and/or economic power. That’s the framework where this would be considered colonial. Personally, I prefer the term neocolonial

Regarding irrigation, while it’s not automation related, I enjoy Water for Every Farm: Yeomans Keyline Plan. In terms of charting and weather monitoring, I can share some different formulas and methods for calculating and tracking water budgets. I’ve written some R scripts to automate modeling water availability in my yard and can share how I did so if you’re interested!

Also, I write a blog about agriculture, landscapes, and sustainability, if you’re interested!

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

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