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Geoff Lawton: Surviving Collapse, Designing your Way to Abundance
Garrett relation
The relationship between energy consumption and wealth.
By Tim Garrett
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garrett_relation?fbclid=IwAR1sV9kL6maxD6HK5i6yyWAQUC5dK-4T3ndpQXkg6lYtOjCftp8EHZFSl_E#/media/File:Garrett_Relation.tif
Another powerful message from Charles Hugh Smith!
"If we add in the loss of natural capital and the full lifecycle costs of our "growth"-dependent global system, we're losing ground and becoming poorer by the day. Having central banks create more "money" can generate a phantom wealth for a short time, but as the saying has it, Nature Bats Last. Counting on phantom wealth to power an unsustainable system is delusional."
Simply stated, we're eating up the planet!
And the following depicts our problem!
We will never change until we hit the wall!
sumi
An Essential Guide to Self-Sufficient Gardening with 17 Staple Crops
By Tasha Greer
https://morningchores.com/self-sufficient-gardening/
Do Earthworms Survive Winter?
By Joe Lamp'l
These are just a few of thousands of red wiggler worms residing in my worm bin and breaking down all the inputs into nutrient-rich vermicompost.
https://www.growingagreenerworld.com/do-earthworms-survive-winter/
It’s not the most common question I get, but as winter approaches, people want to know if earthworms can survive through winter in places such as worm bins, garden beds or compost piles.
Vermicompost and red wigglers-GrowingAGreenerWorld.com
These are just a few of thousands of red wiggler worms residing in my worm bin and breaking down all the inputs into nutrient-rich vermicompost.
It’s an understandable concern. We gardeners work so hard to create an environment to attract worms and promote their reproduction all through the year. The last thing we want to do is see it all come to an end as the weather turns frosty.
Specifically, the question that prompted me to write this article came from an urban gardener that was raising earthworms in his indoor bin—specifically under the sink in his kitchen. His wife had discovered his obsession and relegated the worms to an outside existence. Yet with no real garden in which to go, he was worried that his growing collection of apartment raised wigglers would meet their maker if his bin was relocated to the frigid outdoors.
This is one of those bad news, good news answers. My reply to this newbie worm farmer’s inquiry went something like this; “No Wally, your worms won’t survive winter,” I wrote. I went on to explain that all was not lost though.
Although worms can’t survive freezing temperatures, they lay eggs that are encased and protected by very small cocoons. They can survive through winter to emerge as tiny baby worms, once temperatures warm up again. The worms Wally was worried about losing would be replaced by a contingency plan, cleverly crafted my none other than Mother Nature herself. Wally would have new worms once the weather warmed.
Worldwide, there are approximately 6,000 earthworm species, while only about 30 are found in the United States. And the most popular of all in the garden are commonly known as red wigglers. Because they live primarily in just the upper layers of soil and amongst leaf debris, they’re a familiar sight in compost piles and gardens. Yet, because they never burrow far enough into the ground to avoid freezing temperatures, they don’t survive those conditions.
Fortunately, the eggs laid before their demise provide sufficient replacements next spring.
Other earthworms, such as the common night crawler can survive winter conditions by burrowing deep into the soil, below the frost line (the level below the soil surface in which groundwater freezes). That distance varies based on different parts of the county, ranging from zero to six feet in the coldest regions. Yet safely below the frost line, they live out the winter in small cavities or chambers.
Since night crawlers don’t truly hibernate, you may find them reemerging during a period of unseasonably warm weather and returning deep below ground once the weather turns cold again.
Escaping the cold is just part of what allows worms to survive through the winter. The other issue of course is in how they breathe. Worms don’t have lungs. Instead, they breathe through their skin, as long as it stays moist. To keep their skin moist through winter, they release fluid and mucous that coats their body for whatever time needed.
Under ideal conditions, scientists estimate the average lifespan of earthworms that survive winters at four to eight years while the most common garden varieties live only one or two years. So whatever time our subterranean friends have on this earth (or in it), let us celebrate all they do to improve the conditions of our soil and take comfort in knowing they’ll be back to help us in the garden, just about the time we need them most.
Composting Toilets Help Save the Planet
by Aidan Freeman
https://messengermountainnews.com/news/composting-toilets-help-save-the-planet/
Ron Patterson and Gail Tverberg are certainly two people well in the know of what's going on in the entire energy sector.
Had it not been for the shale revolution brought about by high fuel prices earlier this century, I had expected Peak Oil to occur around 2008.
Sadly the Hirsch report of 2005 [Feb.] officially titled "PEAKING OF WORLD OIL PRODUCTION: IMPACTS, MITIGATION, & RISK MANAGEMENT" written for the Department of Energy and giving recommendations for preparing for the future has been largely ignored. It's sad that 14 bonus years of preparation has been largely wasted.
The energy cataclysm, whenever it begins, will be too late for food and other preparation for 7-plus billion people. I can only hope for a slow decline, so that some degree of survival preparations can be accomplished, but governments seem not to want to confront reality.
HIRSCH REPORT
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hirsch_report
Thanks for the message!
Africa’s Booming Cities Are Running Out of Water
By Ekow Dontoh and Michael Cohen
March 18, 2019, 6:00 PM EDT Updated on March 19, 2019, 1:19 AM EDT
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-03-18/africa-is-running-out-of-water-as-cities-see-populations-boom?fbclid=IwAR23sBBQKp6WnWYNKDac_lFj12TTZ4cwHIfidt6RyIakUtrZ30iWsS2qS18
Solve this or you solve nothing (1)
03 19 2019
Tim Watkins on nonrenewable renewables aka green denial...
http://consciousnessofsheep.co.uk/2019/03/19/solve-this-or-you-solve-nothing-1/?fbclid=IwAR1m8nAb_dGyulbrQH1rD-rkxo-eZDWdogXQvuFAgT54KFK4wQAl5ktwQFI
2020: A Marker For Collapse
11/6/2017
http://articulatingthefuture.weebly.com/home/2020-a-marker-for-collapse#comments
‘It’s Probably Over for Us’: Record Flooding Pummels Midwest When Farmers Can Least Afford It
The Ruzicka family farm in Verdigre, Neb., on Monday. Farmers across Nebraska, Iowa, Wisconsin, Minnesota and South Dakota have lost livestock and livelihoods after record floods pummeled the region.CreditCreditMitch Smith/The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/18/us/nebraska-floods.html?fbclid=IwAR0N-TbJCP3eFPLQbtUrkWeNQf0nKyirxtQae4aKj8qmOcJyMjCWIcH9hvo
By Mitch Smith, Jack Healy and Timothy Williams
March 18, 2019
VERDIGRE, Neb. — Ice chunks the size of small cars ripped through barns and farmhouses. Baby calves were swept into freezing floodwaters, washing up dead along the banks of swollen rivers. Farm fields were now lakes.
The record floods that have pummeled the Midwest are inflicting a devastating toll on farmers and ranchers at a moment when they can least afford it, raising fears that this natural disaster will become a breaking point for farms weighed down by falling incomes, rising bankruptcies and the fallout from President Trump’s trade policies.
“When you’re losing money to start with, how do you take on extra losses?” asked Clint Pischel, 23, of Niobrara, Neb., whose lowland fields were flooded by the ice-filled Niobrara River after a dam failed. He spent Monday gathering 30 dead baby calves from his family’s ranch in this northern region of the state, finding their bodies under huge chunks of ice.
“There’s no harder business to be in,” Mr. Pischel added. “But with death and everything else, you’ve got to answer to bankers. It’s not our choice.”
Farms filing for Chapter 12 bankruptcy protection rose by 19 percent last year across the Midwest, the highest level in a decade, according to data compiled by the American Farm Bureau. Now, many of those farmers have lost their livestock and livelihoods.
The rail lines and roads that carry their crops to market were washed away by the rain-gorged rivers that drowned small towns, forced thousands of evacuations and killed at least three people. Some farmers say they have been cut off from their animals behind walls of water, while others cannot get to town for food and supplies for their livestock.
In Verdigre, also in northern Nebraska, the Ruzicka family has farmed for five generations, dating back to the homesteading days of the 1800s. The farmhouse is a total loss, a prized branding iron is missing and the family’s first tractor, a 1930s model that is still used sometimes, now sits overturned in a pond of mud, its red wheel pointed to the sky.
“There’s not many farms left like this, and it’s probably over for us too, now,” said Anthony Ruzicka, whose alfalfa and corn fields were filled with giant ice chunks. “Financially, how do you recover from something like this?”
The Ruzickas were still tallying the losses to their cattle herd. They scrambled to move cows to neighboring farms before the dam burst last week, but at least 15 newborn calves perished, and they believe the death toll is much higher.
“We didn’t know what to do with them. We never, ever expected anything like this,” Mr. Ruzicka said Monday. “We just ran out of time. It was either sacrifice them or sacrifice ourselves.”
Crisis has grown all too familiar for some people in the region. In Knox County, Neb., Hannah Sucha, 25, helped coordinate efforts to deliver emergency supplies including minerals, antibiotics and salt blocks to farmers hurt by the floods. Just two years ago, Ms. Sucha said, farmers and ranchers in the area were busy donating bales of their hay to ranches in Kansas and Oklahoma devastated by wildfires.
“It’s going to affect them for years,” Ms. Sucha said. “You’re not going to be able to sleep at night because you’ve got so much loss.”
A section of roadway was damaged by flooding from the Elkhorn River in Omaha.CreditJeff Bundy/Omaha World-Herald, via Associated Press
Farm experts said it was too early to quantify the full economic toll of the floods, but Steve Wellman, director of the Nebraska Department of Agriculture, said the disaster could cost the state’s livestock sector $400 million. Farm groups said it would take months or years to recover, and that residents across the region would need emergency federal aid.
“You’ve got a generation of young farmers on the verge of leaving; you’ve got a lot of mental health stress out there — and that was before the storm,” said Roger Johnson, president of the National Farmers Union. “You just pile this on top.”
As floodwaters slowly ebbed in some places on Monday, other cities, including Fargo, N.D., were getting sandbags ready and bracing for floods from rivers overflowing with snowmelt and late-winter rains. And farmers in flooded rural areas were just starting to calculate losses and consider whether they would be able to get their fields ready for spring planting.
In Holt County, Neb., Jerry Kohl, a rancher with 1,600 mature cows and 5,000 yearlings, lost dozens of cows over the past week, a loss in the hundreds of thousands of dollars. As he looked across his 30,000 acres on Monday, he saw more water than dirt.
Mr. Kohl said he had spoken by phone to more than a dozen other ranchers in the area in the past few days and concluded that the damage caused by floodwaters and the deep freeze that preceded the flooding would force a number of ranches out of business.
“I’m struggling, but there are others who have it a lot worse,” he said.
Mr. Kohl, 60, said he had not slept for more than two hours at a time in nearly a week and had not tried to leave his ranch. As much as 70 percent of the land in Holt County is flooded, he said; the roads and bridges to the south and north are washed-out. Farmers and ranchers also said they had lost miles of fences that pen in their livestock and bales of hay that feed them.
Jim Freeman, right, and his son, Chad, worked to clear thick ice slabs in Fremont, Neb.CreditNati Harnik/Associated Press
Ranchers are reluctant to acknowledge the death of their animals and blame themselves when it happens. But Mr. Kohl said he had lost about 40 calves during twin calamities of subzero cold and flooding. He said his son, two daughters and four hired workers had toiled in shifts to save as many animals as they could.
“We’re proud of raising cows and taking care of them,” he said. “We don’t like to admit to anyone we lost even one cow.”
Farmers said the losses were especially troubling because many cows were giving birth at this time of year, and the newborn calves came just as the blizzards were blowing and floodwaters were rising. Calves born under such conditions were at immediate and dire risk, Mr. Kohl said. “If you didn’t pick it up in 10 minutes, she wasn’t going to make it,” he said. “And we had all those babies out there.”
He said that each calf had to be taken by hand into one of his four heated sheds, which are large enough only for about 10 calves each.
Mr. Kohl’s focus now is on cows that are rejecting their calves because they were separated from them for as many as four days. “That’s telling her body she doesn’t need to make milk,” he said.
He said an old rancher’s trick to try to reunite mothers and their young was to rub vanilla on a cow’s nose and then liberally dose her calf with the same liquid. That mingling of the same smell, he said, often did the trick.
The future for cows without calves to care for is a bleak one.
So many calves have been lost that some ranchers have decided to cut their losses and sell them now, instead of caring for mature cows until they are pregnant again. As a result, prices have dropped precipitously, from about $1 a pound for a 1,100-pound cow to 60 cents a pound.
A cow that would have fetched $1,000 is now only worth $600.
“Everybody, me included, is going to show a loss,” Mr. Kohl said.
Mitch Smith reported from Verdigre, Neb., Jack Healy from Denver, and Timothy Williams from New York.
Peak soil: Industrial agriculture destroys ecosystems and civilizations. Biofuels make it worse.
Posted on August 31, 2017 by energyskeptic
http://energyskeptic.com/2017/peaksoil/
Book review of Dirt: the erosion of civilization
Posted on March 16, 2019 by energyskeptic
http://energyskeptic.com/2019/book-review-of-dirt-the-erosion-of-civilization/?fbclid=IwAR1Al4WMaGIPS9PD1jPR513SZWL7GEeLASvF3rSlHokEAue1gEBIA1bgZ1k
8 Tips for Growing Tomatoes from Seed
14 March 2019, written by Barbara Pleasant
https://www.growveg.co.uk/guides/8-tips-for-growing-tomatoes-from-seed/?fbclid=IwAR3YcmWdp__JIegRGAzrOwb--y718eOOACgbdGkIvGUPTTHvvzrfnWXcvbs
7 Vegetable Garden Shortcuts
24 March 2017, written by Benedict Vanheems
https://www.growveg.co.uk/guides/7-vegetable-garden-shortcuts/?fbclid=IwAR2jZTiFeUeo5yw1zBYpjVsHJj8eZo4xbqldf37XXrJCZiNgrqEPHStpxdM
Liebig's Law in Motion
In the previous discussion we tried to define Liebig’s Law of Minimums in a way that would be of practical use to a grower. “A chain is only as strong as its weakest link” is a popular way of stating this concept. In this discussion we will expand on the application of this concept and try to determine how it can help a grower to make better decisions concerning fertility choices, while remembering that the “law of the minimum” is much more concept than law, especially when it comes to biology.
Plants and animals will always try to overcome deficiencies in order to survive (and thrive if possible). Animals do this by expanding their feeding range – plants, by extending their root system.
https://earthwiseagriculture.net/liebigs-law-in-motion/
Liebig's Law of Minimums
Justus von Liebig’s famous “Law of the Minimum” principle implies that crop yield is proportional to the amount of the most limiting essential nutrient, whichever nutrient that may be. And although each nutrient is needed by the plant in different amounts, it is the relative amount of each nutrient available (usually expressed as a percentage of ideal) that may be limiting.
Below are some various representative explanations pulled from the internet of a simple principle that has expanded greatly in application over the years:
https://earthwiseagriculture.net/grower-s-toolbox/law-of-minimums/?fbclid=IwAR2UG0RAHF30WEtVCvyexVw6GtbTipJ182R7veYHtOx5939Xs2e9jwYNS40
moax!, long time, no see. Thanks for this most important post giving us the warning or the alert at what quality food we should be buying. Corporatism at its worth in poisoning people over time with GMOs!
IEA 2018 World Energy Outlook: Peak oil is here, oil crunch by 2023
Posted on March 10, 2019 by energyskeptic
http://energyskeptic.com/2019/iea-2018-world-energy-outlook-peak-oil-is-here-oil-crunch-by-2023/?fbclid=IwAR0o8YrlnPLgi7n5n3Ele9QEn9cYOtuvMfoDS1XuE4vGirg8SXFfcA5A09A
Stop being so focused or anxious about climate change
Posted in Tendenser på kollaps
Redaktören mars 9, 2019
http://kollapsologen.se/stop-being-so-focused-or-anxious-about-climate-change/?fbclid=IwAR2ciPbdI2np2yipFqSaXMo8uqNUaawIn-Qskw0ik2XMcm7fp0HgbBql_iU
Thanks for this and all of your postings to this board. I often use them to educate the idiots who pretend to know all about bees, but in reality are killing them off.
take care,
sumi
Spot The Peak Oil Denier Test Criteria (pt.1)
http://peakoilmatters.com/2011/11/15/spot-the-peak-oil-denier-test-criteria-pt-1/?fbclid=IwAR1JJEXDCsbTBuq3yBsM28eBsZ0XRB-lfzr_tzIh94MDB5vknGrTcPlCD9Y
Spot The Peak Oil Denier Test Criteria (pt.2)
http://peakoilmatters.com/category/hirsch-report/?fbclid=IwAR0riPVuvutqxSrIr1mwbaMF2hmBPXzYPfgxzYeRpHUxpqpJcWUN8dy7fpw
Crash Course by Chris Martenson
https://www.peakprosperity.com/crashcourse
"The Crash Course has provided millions of viewers with the context for the massive changes now underway, as economic growth, as we've known it, is ending due to depleting resources.
But it also offers real hope. Those individuals who take informed action today, while we still have time, can lower their exposure to these coming trends -- and even discover a better way of life in the process. We'll show you how."
MY THOUGHTS
Trends are occurring out of control that we, as individuals, cannot solve in their entirety.
The ECONOMY with its massive debt, now over $22 trillion, up particularly since 911, but with its seeds planted before that fateful day, will eventually destroy the dollar's worldwide reserve status. With it, Americans will have to self-finance the government operation now currently financed by foreign nations who must use "petrol-dollars," which requires purchases of oil in U.S. dollars. Russia and China have already abandoned the petrol dollar gimmick. See "Petro-yuan helps Russia & China dump US dollar in oil trade" [ https://www.rt.com/business/422472-russia-china-petro-yuan/ ] [ See Debt Clock - http://www.usdebtclock.org/ ]
The Era of PEAK CHEAP ENERGY in the U.S. and worldwide is about to come to an end. Oil is to the economy and blood is to the body. The grand wish of kicking the oil and other carbon habits and move to renewable sources of energy ignores the fact that oil and other natural resources are needed to fabricate solar panels, windmills, et al. and this fact will be learned once the calamity pans out.
The ENVIRONMENT has been vastly destroyed by American progress and copied by the rest of the world once America wired the world with the Internet. The world wants to live the American dream and they have switched their emphasis for its citizens. Modernization has affected the environment with increased overseas industrialization at the expense of mixed farming. Mono crop agriculture has replaced mix farming in a thrust to feed the world's population now at 7.6 billion people and growing. Fish quality has been affected by plastic being dumped in once pristine oceans. Eat fish and you might be eating plastic too.
In summary, examine all parts of the CRASH COURSE to understand the trends in place and make preparations. The members of this sustainability board are doing their part to prepare for the future, as best we can. With your annual growing and preserving food for the winter, Derrick, you are leading the league for survival of a calamity.
Ignore individuals of the past; they cannot put food on our tables in the future.
sumi
The Future is Rural: The Unexpected Consequence of Energy Descent
By Jason Bradford, originally published by Resilience.org
February 26, 2019
https://tinyurl.com/y4ps3kgh
The Future is Rural: The Unexpected Consequence of Energy Descent
By Jason Bradford, originally published by Resilience.org
February 26, 2019
https://tinyurl.com/y4ps3kgh
Be Wary Of Unrealistic Shale Growth Expectations
By Nick Cunningham - Mar 04, 2019, 4:00 PM CST
https://oilprice.com/Energy/Crude-Oil/Be-Wary-Of-Unrealistic-Shale-Growth-Expectations.html?fbclid=IwAR3ZK7Enieb0H1PQe0csUS9seLGk6XrA3ro5NMuKEHc1Ibw_CT8VOGIcKdI
We Might Not Have Enough Materials for All the Solar Panels and Wind Turbines We Need
We'll need to be mining a dozen times as many metals to meet demand for wind turbines and solar panels by 2050.
By Avery Thompson
Dec 13, 2018
https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/energy/a25576543/renewable-limits-materials-dutch-ministry-infrastructure/?fbclid=IwAR35N5g2R2IXTojieUCaKJ7D4PfjczOYSR75C_wc7Blpn60TzoJ6TEwRCig
Ginger Water: The Healthiest Drink To Burn All The Fat From The Waist, Back And Thighs!
Date: April 10, 2018
https://www.organichomeremedies.com/2018/04/10/ginger-water-the-healthiest-drink-to-burn-all-the-fat-from-the-waist-back-and-thighs/?fbclid=IwAR0JQbvfleSe5vjti419uvDS5s_g80iceSSbHtVtEkmoGKMwUSUMqGDTtQE
Although there are a lot of natural weight loss solutions on the Internet, not all of them provide the guaranteed results. However, the following recipe for ginger water you are about to see in this article will help you burn even the most difficult fats in the body and promote weight loss.
With this strong recipe, you will easily get rid of the fat from your waist, thighs, and hips. Besides slimming your body, this treatment will help you enjoy the most of its health benefits.
ALL OF THE HEALTH BENEFITS THAT GINGER WATER OFFERS TO YOUR HEALTH:
Regulates cholesterol: Ginger water lowers the high levels of cholesterol and prevents all related diseases.
Hypertension: Ginger water regulates the blood pressure and prevents blood clots formation in the arteries.
A strong anti-inflammatory agent: Ginger water soothes inflammation, treats rheumatism, relieves joint problems, and prevents osteoarthritis.
Powerful antioxidant: Ginger water fights free radicals, one of the major causes for cancer.
Anti-cancer agent: Due to its anti-inflammatory and antioxidant properties, ginger water is extremely powerful natural remedy that prevents and fights cancer.
HOW TO PREPARE GINGER WATER:
INGREDIENTS:
1 ginger root (cut in thin slices)
1.5 liters of water
Lemon juice (optional)
PREPARATION AND USE:
Boil the water and add the ginger slices. Leave it to simmer for 15 minutes and then remove it from the heat. After it cools, strain it and add the lemon juice. Drink 1 glass of it before breakfast and 1 glass before dinner, on a daily basis.
OTHER BENEFITS OF GINGER:
Improves blood circulation – Being rich in zinc and magnesium, which are of an essential importance for improvement of the blood circulation, ginger contains properties which prevents the bad cholesterol accumulation in the liver, too. Besides, ginger is useful for reducing sweating problems and fever too.
Improves nutrient absorption – Ginger guarantees an improved nutrients absorption in the organism, due to the stimulation of the pancreatic enzymes and the stomach secretion. Moreover, in case of appetite problems, all you have to do is to chew some ginger before meals, in order to stimulate it.
Prevents colds and flu – Having high content of antibiotic and expectorant properties, ginger prevents flu and cold problems effectively. In Asia, ginger root has been used as a potent treatment against colds, flu, and cough for centuries. The Medicine Department in the University of Maryland through conducted research that ginger tea reduces the symptoms of flu and colds in adults.
Improves digestion – Ginger relieves the abdominal pains triggered in case of stomach inflammation. Moreover, it combats constipation, promotes better digestion, and reduces intestinal gas.
Strengthens the immunity – If consumed on a regular basis, ginger strengthens the immunity and strengthens the body’s defense capacities against potential infections, coughs, flu, and colds. Also, it lowers the risk of a stroke and fights infections in the intestines.
Relieves joint pain -- Ginger is rich in anti-inflammatory properties which reduce inflammation and pain of joints, too.
Source: http://www.justherbalmedicine.com
Ginger Water: The Healthiest Drink To Burn All The Fat From The Waist, Back And Thighs!
Date: April 10, 2018
https://www.organichomeremedies.com/2018/04/10/ginger-water-the-healthiest-drink-to-burn-all-the-fat-from-the-waist-back-and-thighs/?fbclid=IwAR0JQbvfleSe5vjti419uvDS5s_g80iceSSbHtVtEkmoGKMwUSUMqGDTtQE
Although there are a lot of natural weight loss solutions on the Internet, not all of them provide the guaranteed results. However, the following recipe for ginger water you are about to see in this article will help you burn even the most difficult fats in the body and promote weight loss.
With this strong recipe, you will easily get rid of the fat from your waist, thighs, and hips. Besides slimming your body, this treatment will help you enjoy the most of its health benefits.
ALL OF THE HEALTH BENEFITS THAT GINGER WATER OFFERS TO YOUR HEALTH:
Regulates cholesterol: Ginger water lowers the high levels of cholesterol and prevents all related diseases.
Hypertension: Ginger water regulates the blood pressure and prevents blood clots formation in the arteries.
A strong anti-inflammatory agent: Ginger water soothes inflammation, treats rheumatism, relieves joint problems, and prevents osteoarthritis.
Powerful antioxidant: Ginger water fights free radicals, one of the major causes for cancer.
Anti-cancer agent: Due to its anti-inflammatory and antioxidant properties, ginger water is extremely powerful natural remedy that prevents and fights cancer.
HOW TO PREPARE GINGER WATER:
INGREDIENTS:
1 ginger root (cut in thin slices)
1.5 liters of water
Lemon juice (optional)
PREPARATION AND USE:
Boil the water and add the ginger slices. Leave it to simmer for 15 minutes and then remove it from the heat. After it cools, strain it and add the lemon juice. Drink 1 glass of it before breakfast and 1 glass before dinner, on a daily basis.
OTHER BENEFITS OF GINGER:
Improves blood circulation – Being rich in zinc and magnesium, which are of an essential importance for improvement of the blood circulation, ginger contains properties which prevents the bad cholesterol accumulation in the liver, too. Besides, ginger is useful for reducing sweating problems and fever too.
Improves nutrient absorption – Ginger guarantees an improved nutrients absorption in the organism, due to the stimulation of the pancreatic enzymes and the stomach secretion. Moreover, in case of appetite problems, all you have to do is to chew some ginger before meals, in order to stimulate it.
Prevents colds and flu – Having high content of antibiotic and expectorant properties, ginger prevents flu and cold problems effectively. In Asia, ginger root has been used as a potent treatment against colds, flu, and cough for centuries. The Medicine Department in the University of Maryland through conducted research that ginger tea reduces the symptoms of flu and colds in adults.
Improves digestion – Ginger relieves the abdominal pains triggered in case of stomach inflammation. Moreover, it combats constipation, promotes better digestion, and reduces intestinal gas.
Strengthens the immunity – If consumed on a regular basis, ginger strengthens the immunity and strengthens the body’s defense capacities against potential infections, coughs, flu, and colds. Also, it lowers the risk of a stroke and fights infections in the intestines.
Relieves joint pain -- Ginger is rich in anti-inflammatory properties which reduce inflammation and pain of joints, too.
Source: http://www.justherbalmedicine.com
James Burke BBC Connections - Technology Traps Scene
James Burke BBC Connections - Technology Traps Scene
James Burke BBC Connections - Technology Traps Scene
People are Starting to Sleep in Medieval “Box Beds” Again
Feb 25, 2019 Helen Flatley
Box bed
https://www.thevintagenews.com/2019/02/25/box-bed/?fbclid=IwAR3h-HceMWl01l9l0hT_ZxuG8SLY9duJ-DyS9denOGAHnlUiL8mLs1aDn8I
Perhaps my winter bed of the future!
Geoff Lawton: Surviving Collapse, Designing your Way to Abundance
Well done, Howard.
Since I met you on the Peak Oil board, I always think when "HowardHughs speaks." I ready everything you write two, three, or more times. Your words have incite me to think more and deeper.
The transformation in our nation that you mention in your last paragraph I have examined continually. It bothers me very much and I regret what has happened.
I use to ask my late Mom what was the best part of her life. ALWAYS she said The Great Depression. She was a young strong girl then. Working on a farm before and after school was fun to her. With her best girlfriend, the farmer's daughter, they would give the elders free milk and free eggs. The reason for this approach was because the elders taught them skills to survive and provided motivation to continue during difficult times.
Yes, we, as a nation, have become "materialistic and less spiritual" and it makes me dismal. I resort to growing my own food to a small extent and four years ago I began karaoke to make me more alive.
My new motto is "If we don't recreate ourselves, we become static, which guarantees failure." With forthcoming challenges, we cannot take anything for granted from the past and must prepare; no preparation guarantees failure, in my mind.
thanks
sumi
Nice to see your post, Derrick.
Each generation has their share of people who pursue a goal of being on the dole of the government or freeload off parents.
I've never been married, but I have tutored successfully children and adults. Anyone who was lazy, I told them that although they have the potential, I cannot tutor them because their laziness frustrates me. One young lady laughed me off and she lost a college scholarship to an institution in Boston. Those who went through my demands have turned out very successful in chosen fields.
I have two brothers who are neighbors. One was always interested in my gardens. I gave him eggplant in the past; he created a great tasting Eggplant Parmigiana. I advised him upon high school graduation to immediately become a chef, skip culinary school because they might ruin his style, and he now works in a top restaurant in New York City. He makes a few trips a year to Massachusetts. My garden is opened to him; if I'm not around, he can use the herbs for cooking. He goes from garden to garden to test taste the herbs, "Eddie, these are all restaurant quality." The chef has a brother who seems not to be able to keep a job; direct opposites.
My view of our society takes on a different view.
DIRECTION OF THE U.S.
“It has been a slow burn since 1945, when most of our food was grown on small farms and gardens [and I can vividly remember those gardens.]
Over the ensuing 10 years, the older gardeners began dying off and/or discontinued gardening because of the convenience of big box grocery stores and the movement of food by plane from California, Texas, and Florida.
Then in 1956 the Federal Aid Highway Act was passed thus adding new highways and widening existing highways; consequently more trucks began moving food to big box grocery stores.
Farms, large and small near large cities, began disappearing replaced by housing developments for a huge post World War II population expansion plus a flight from cities to the suburbs. Earliest was the first Levittown in 1947 on 1200 acres of potato fields on Long Island.
With many of these housing developments, the pesticides market no longer needed on disappearing farms was switched to the crazy notion that every new house needed a green lawn. Some kept making gardens, but it was my experience that the children did not often follow suit; growing food was no longer the “in thing.”
Also, along came the big box consumer stores located in large malls to be accessed with more roads and more cars. More farms succumbed to the “urgent need” to supply Americans a place to fulfill their consumerism supported by higher wages.
I recall the late 1950s and 1960s the period of when "Progress Began Regress" for the U.S. as it developed its foundation for further regress through excessive consumerism.
The 1970s included: Peak Oil on the continental U.S. 1970; abandoning the Gold Exchanged Standard in 1971 [due to costly guns and butter policies of the 1960s]; in 1973 Secretary of Agriculture, Earl Butz, advised farmers to "get big or get out … adapt or die," believing that bigger farms were more productive; plus Petrol Dollar recycling went into action in 1974 allowing the U.S. to expand its debt capacity aided by all oil contracts being made in U.S. dollars.
We now look back at a large societal destructive mess. Four percent of Americans now feed the other ninety-six percent, a dangerous situation. The U.S. nation debt exceeds $22 trillion and there is massive debt on all other fronts for unfunded liabilities, plus local, municipal, and state debts in most governmental units. PLUS our high and once mighty industrial system has been greatly transferred outside our borders, a national disgrace.
We on converging on many fronts of a collapse: we will again reach Peak Oil after the fracking fields dwindle out; we have Peak Water; Peak Soil; Colony Collapse Bee Disorder; Peak Infrastructure; and more." ES
SOLTION: RETURN TO OUR AGRARIAN PAST
“We had it way too easy. Abundant land, access to abundant energy, too much emphasis on petrol-chemical fertilizers, a mono-crop approach, great transportation from coast to coast, abundant water supplies, and more. Now we have to pay the piper for our excesses and wrong decisions of the past. A nation that strays too far away from its agrarian past becomes a vulnerable nation, in my opinion. A vast array and network of home gardens and small farms will cut transportation costs, grow better food, and mixed gardens and small farms are better for the bees, butterflies, and birds.” ES
OUTLINE OF FUTURE FOOD PRODUCTION IN THE U.S.
Places selling coffee and establishments with food scraps will save for pickup their "waste" to put into large composting areas that will feed the new gardens. People on the dole, will be assigned to this compost setup to pick up the food/coffee disposals and eventually become food producers, bee keepers, or stay in composting for their on-the-dole payments.
Local food supplies would eventually cut down on truck food deliveries, thus reducing trucking and plane deliveries. No more Caesar salads from California producers for eating in Boston.
There would be an increase in food producers higher than the current 4% supplying food to the other 96% of the U.S. population. Gardens will be perceived as food insurance!
The freshness of the produce would increase with foods grown locally and harvested just before consumption, as soil is nature's refrigerator thus assuring the aforementioned freshness.
The food would be grown more in raised beds that will be yearly refreshed with aged compost. Plowing the land destroys the natural microbes of healthy soil.
It will be learned over time that food is as cheap as dirt and more will be produced for all with by using the above approach.
AMERICAN SOCIETY 12 22 2018
[part of what follows describes my family]
“You just described my maternal Grandpa, who lost his contracting business due to the Great Depression. He self-taught himself engineering, drafting, designed a water district after securing a job in the water department. Eventually a bond issue was issued and a water tower was built; he became water commissioner. Luckily my Grandma was raised on a farm; she hacked out a large garden for survival. Grandpa's fishing and Grandma's gardening kept them alive. My Mom worked on a friend's father's dairy and chicken farm; she and her girlfriend, after chores and before school, gave away milk and eggs to the elders of the village.
I never lived a Leave it to Beaver boyhood because of the work ethic of my parents. They worked regular and extra jobs to save for my college education. I could have attended Yale and spend the college fund, but I told my parents to keep the money as I did want something so expensive that I did not earn. My Mom, however, would send me $10 a week for food and essentials. I had saved a lot by working during my boyhood. I went to a college with a work-study program; it took extra time, but I had a resume upon graduation.
College education is too expensive nowadays and many young people rush into meaningless degrees, an albatross to be paid off for two decades or more.
I sense that the education system philosophy over the decades has been diminished by administrators, many of whom never worked outside of schools. Auto and electrical high school emphasis and home economics has practically been eliminated. The move toward emphasizing mostly college preparation has short changed our society of people who should have gone into sectors of better job opportunities not needing college preparation. As I look back at alumni stories of 50 years ago, many people with the non-college prep in high school had established businesses; they started low and finished high. They went through apprentice type preparation.
As I look to the future, the U.S. and world's population continues to increase and the world's resources decline. This trend is not sustainable. It will determine where people will be needed more in the future. For example, a national emphasis should be directed to the small farm sector. There should be more agricultural high schools and through my gardening hobby, I have learned it can be quite challenging and rewarding.
As a nation, there should be no taxation of profits from small diverse farms plus no inheritance taxes when the primary farm owner passes, so long as a child or substitute farm takes over the farm management. This plan is basically a subsidy for a critical national purpose of producing quality food and preserving the soil and environment.
Recently I have seen a new organization called Fleet Farming, comprised of mostly young people in warm areas of the U.S., which contract to grow food in their newly constructed raised beds over lawns of homeowners. I see this organization as a logical and constructive approach to supplying food to our society plus providing jobs to young people. I know that focused young people can secure good careers, if they set objectives and sacrifice.
SHORT-TERM REACTION VERSUS LONG-TERM PREPARATION CONCLUSION
Living in New England with its winter rite of snow, whenever a large snow storm is predicted, people will react and empty food store shelves. This is an impulsive short-term reaction to avoid going hungry for a few days.
Most people are myopic, short-sighted, use to a seemingly assured existence, and finally too lazy to start a long-term preparation program of survival. The latter group will either starve or will attack those who do plan and have survival items. It seems best that small communities of like-minded people can possibly defend themselves, if located away from cities.
sumi
Thanks for reading my disjointed essay
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Mexico's Pemex crude output lowest since records began
February 22, 2019 / 7:33 PM / Updated 17 hours ago
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FILE PHOTO: An aerial view of Pemex's storage and distribution terminal on the outskirts of Mexico City, Mexico February 1, 2019. REUTERS/Edgard Garrido/File Photo
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexico’s Pemex produced 1.62 million barrels of crude per day in January, less than any month in almost three decades, the state-owned oil company said on Friday, underscoring the challenges facing a government that vows to pump far more in a few years.
The company’s crude output for the month was the lowest since at least 1990, when Pemex’s publicly available records begin.
The firm’s crude oil output has declined for 14 consecutive years since hitting a peak of 3.4 million bpd in 2004, as Mexico’s most prolific fields have dried up and new ones to replace them have not been discovered.
Pemex’s crude production averaged 1.81 million bpd in 2018.
The company’s crude oil exports also fell in January to total 1.07 million bpd, down nearly 10 percent from 2018 average shipments of 1.18 million bpd.
President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, who took office in December and ran on a promise of strengthening the ailing company, long a national treasure, has said he will grow its output to around 2.5 million bpd by the end of his six-year term in 2024.
Lopez Obrador has yet to fully outline how Pemex alone will be able to reverse the long-standing slide, but he did push through a larger budget for the company this year, in addition to a fresh capital injection from the government and lower tax bill.
The veteran leftist has canceled oil and gas auctions open to private and foreign oil companies and he has said he will not allow Pemex to enter into any additional near-term joint venture partnerships with other firms.
Both strategies were linchpins of the previous government’s efforts to grow oil output in Mexico from both Pemex’s operations as well as those of new entrants into the market like U.S.-based major Exxon Mobil and France’s Total .
Reporting by Ana Isabel Martinez; Editing by David Alire Garcia
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Fifty Shades Of Shale Oil
By Nawar Alsaadi - Feb 12, 2019, 6:00 PM CST
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The rise of U.S. tight oil production over the last several years has upended the oil market and challenged OPEC’s hold on oil prices. This seemingly relentless growth in U.S. tight oil production has created the impression that oil prices will remain forever capped as each price spike is met by a massive wave of US tight oil supply.
Overview
U.S. tight oil supply has grown from a mere 500K barrels in 2010 to just under 6M barrels in 2018. Following the oil crash of late 2014, U.S. tight oil growth experienced a brief pause in 2015-2016 before resuming its growth in 2017 and climbing to a new high by 2018. This latest growth spurt to a new record is even more impressive when we take in consideration the fact that WTI averaged $65 a barrel in 2018 as compared to $95 a barrel in the three years (2012-2014) preceding the oil crash.
(Source: OPEC WOO – 2018)
Most observers attribute this strong shale industry performance to technology and improved drilling and completion practices. We are told that American oil and gas companies have become more efficient. The widespread utilization of pad drilling, the introduction of longer laterals, pumping ever more sand per foot, closer and better well spacing, and smart fracture targeting are often mentioned as the driving factors behind the industry record beating performance. This narrative of technological prowess and innovation is an attractive one, but a deeper examination of the data reveals a different picture.
Analysis
This fallacious narrative of the U.S. tight oil industry overcoming the oil price crash of 2014 through innovation and better efficiency is the product of bundling various tight oil basins under one umbrella and the presentation of the resulting production data as a proof U.S. shale resiliency.
To properly understand the impact of the oil price crash of 2014 on U.S. tight oil production one must focus on shale basins with sufficient operating history prior to the oil price crash and examine their performance post the crash. To that end, the Bakken and the Eagle Ford are the perfect specimen. The Bakken and the Eagle Ford are the two oldest tight oil basins in the United States, with the former developed as early as 2007 and the latter in 2010. Examining the production performance of these two basins in the 4 years preceding the oil crash and contrasting it to the 4 years subsequent to it, offers important insight as to the resiliency of U.S. tight oil production in a low oil price environment.
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(Source: OPEC WOO 2018)
Both the Bakken and the Eagle Ford grew at a phenomenal rate between 2010 and 2014. The Eagle Ford grew from practically nothing in 2010 to 1.3M barrels by 2014, while the Bakken grew five fold from 190K barrels to 1.08M barrels. Following the collapse in oil prices in late 2014, the Bakken and Eagle Ford growth continued for another year, albeit at a slower pace, as the pre-crash momentum carried production to new highs. However, by 2016, both the Bakken and the Eagle Ford went into a decline and have hardly recovered since. It took the Bakken three years to match its 2015 production level, meanwhile the Eagle Ford production remains 22% below its 2015 peak. During the pre-crash years these two fields grew by a combined yearly average of 600K to 700K barrels from 2012 to 2014. Post the oil price collapse, this torrid growth turned into a sizable decline by 2016 before stabilizing in 2017. Growth in both fields only resumed in 2018 at a combined yearly rate of 210K barrels, a 70% reduction from the combined fields pre-crash growth rate.
The dismal performance of these two fields over the last few years paints a different picture as to U.S. tight oil resiliency in a low oil price environment. The sizable declines, and muted production growth in both the Bakken and the Eagle Ford since 2014 discredit the leap in technology and the efficiency gains narrative that has been espoused as the underlying reason beyond the strong growth in U.S. oil production. As we expand our look into other tight oil basins, it becomes apparent that it was neither technology or efficiency that saved the U.S. tight oil industry, although these factors may have played a supporting role. In simple terms, the key reason as to the strength of U.S. production since the 2014 oil crash is better rock, or rather, the commercial exploitation of a higher quality shale resource, namely the Permian oil field.
(Source: OPEC WOO 2018)
The Permian oil field, unlike the Bakken and the Eagle Ford, was a relative latecomer to the U.S. tight oil story. It was only in 2013, only a year before the oil crash, that the industry commenced full scale development of that giant field’s shale resources. Prior to 2013, the Permian lagged both the Bakken and the Eagle Ford in total tight oil production and growth. As can be seen from the preceding graph, the oil crash had only a minor dampening effect on the Permian oil production growth. By 2017, Permian tight oil growth resumed at a healthy clip, and by 2018, Permian tight oil production growth shattered a new record with production skyrocketing by 860K barrels in a single year to 2.76M barrels. This timely unlocking and exploitation of the Permian oil basin masked to a large degree the devastation endured by the Bakken and the Eagle Ford post 2014. In essence, the U.S. tight oil story has two phases masquerading as one: the pre-2014 period marked by the birth and rise of the Bakken and Eagle Ford, and the post-2014 period, marked by the rise of the Permian. To speak of the U.S. tight oil industry as one is to mistake a long-distance relay race for the accomplishment of a single runner.
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The performance divergence between the Bakken, Eagle Ford, and the Permian has major implications as to the likelihood of U.S. tight oil production suppressing oil price over the medium and long term. A close examination of U.S. tight oil production data leads to a single indisputable conclusion: without the advent of the Permian, the U.S. tight oil industry would have lost the OPEC lead price war. Hence, it’s a misnomer to treat the U.S. tight oil industry as a monolith, in many ways, the Bakken and the Eagle Ford tight oil fields are as much a victim of the Permian success as the OPEC nations themselves.
Implications
This discordant panoply of shale fields known as the U.S. tight oil industry has been the key source of global non-OPEC oil supply growth over the last several years and is expected to be for years to come:
Considering that the majority of U.S. tight oil production growth is generated by a single field, the Permian, changes in the growth outlook of this basin have major implications as to the evolution of global oil prices over the short, medium and long term. Its important to keep in mind that the Permian oil field, despite its large scope, is bound to flatten, peak and decline at some point. While forecasters differ as to the exact year when the Permian oil production will flatten, the majority agree that a slowdown in Permian oil production growth will take place in the early 2020s.
According to OPEC (2018 World Oil Outlook), the Permian basin oil production curve is likely to flatten by 2020, with growth slowing down from 860K barrels in 2018 to a mere 230K barrels by 2020:
(Source: OPEC WOO 2018)
There are many factors that can accelerate or delay the projected flattening phase, but there is no doubt that sooner or later Permian oil production will flatten. An eventual plateau in Permian oil supply effectively translates into a flattening of non-OPEC global oil supply, the importance of this event can’t be overstated. The year the Permian flattens is the year OPEC will regain control of the market, this seminal event will have major implications on long term oil prices. There is no doubt that Saudi Arabia and Russia are aware of the Permian growth and flattening dynamic and are co-managing their oil supply over the short term and medium term to allow for an orderly entrance of U.S. tight oil supply, aka Permian oil supply, into the market. It’s indeed telling that OPEC is attempting to extend its alliance with Russia for another three years, exactly the time window required for growth in the Permian oil field to flatten and for pricing power to return to it.
The U.S. tight oil story is far more complex than meets the eye, and the oil market, like any market, is prone to the appeal of simple narratives and false conclusions. Those willing to drill behind the headlines stand to capitalize on the treasures buried in the details.
By Nawar Alsaadi for http://www.Oilprice.com