Three Giant Dams Destabilizing the World Food Supply. More than 70 percent of humanity’s fresh water goes to agriculture. And so, as humanity outruns it’s water supply the response has been to build ever larger water projects for agriculture and ever more complex distribution corridors to transport that agriculture thousands […]
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3 Giant Dams affecting the World food supply Part 2 of 4 Dam Number 1 China’s 3 Gorges Dam, Continent: Asia. Completed in 2006. World’s largest hydro electric dam. 600 feet high. 1.5 miles across. Reservoir 370 miles long. Impounds Asia’s longest river the Yangtze. Raised water level in the […]
Dam Number Two. America’s Glen Canyon Dam Continent: North America Finished in 1963. 710 feet tall. One quarter mile wide. 10 million tons of concrete vs. over a billion tons of water and silt in the reservoir. Built on sandstone. Location: About due south of Salt Lake City, Utah, just […]
3 Dams on 3 continents in 3 minute reads Continent: Africa. Location: Due East of Djibouti, just inside Ethiopia’s border with Sudan. Impounds: The Blue Nile. The U.S. Bureau of Reclamation identified the dam site in the 1950’s but it has just been built and is being filled in the […]
Predator Control: Be strong, families. You can do this. Reasons to trap cats: Definition: “Stray” (noun) domestic animal that is wandering at large. There are over 60 million pet cats in the US many of which roam loose, plus there are 70 million feral cats that are all strays. Getting […]
Predator Control: Be Strong Families. You can do this. Get comfortable with the idea that this is not personal. Rather, it’s your yard. You pay the mortgage. You pay the taxes. You pay for the upkeep. You–not a stray cat, not an irresponsible cat owner. Some cat lovers online will […]
The Last Resort: “From the standpoint of abstract justice, the stray cat has just as much right to kill and eat the robin which builds in the vine on my porch as the robin has to pull and eat the earthworms from my lawn; but the place is mine, and […]
“To shelter stray, abandoned, and surrendered pets and find them loving homes.” from the Juneau Animal Rescue Mission Statement It’s satisfying at a deep level to hear birds singing in the early morning and feel you had a small part in their survival. If you ever need bucking up, […]
Q: What will people say if I trap cats? It may surprise you how much of the response is overwhelmingly positive. Story 1. A friend asked what I’d been up to. Told her (with some reservation about how she’d react-she’s a church lady) that I’d just taken another cat to […]
Was out walking the dog today when a friend working in her garden mentioned that a big black bear had just walked by between our place and hers. I was happy to hear it. It’s been some time since we’ve had one in the neighborhood. We’ve always had bears until […]
India: Cremation fires, the coming monsoon, riders on the storm “When the monsoon fails to blow, India starves and dreams of Nirvana.” Will Durant. Our Oriental Heritage. 1935 May, 2021. India contemplates itself shimmering in heat waves of pandemic where days and bodies are over a hundred degrees F. Last […]
There were two excellent natural gas articles in the paper at the end of February. One was that AEL&P/Avista’s plan to bring natural gas to Juneau is on hold indefinitely. AEL&P is Alaska Electric Light and Power, our hometown power company that has been phenomenal since 1893. They’ve been innovative. […]