By PAUL WHEATON Keep those branches, twigs, rotten logs, and Christmas trees! That stuff is gardener’s gold! Organic matter! Winter is the season for pruning trees. Sometimes taking out dangerous trees. I am mystified when people haul the wood away and in the sping they spend money for mulch. And equally mystified by people that rent an obnoxious,

A magazine reporter was asking about eco cleaning tips.  After sending off a quick response, I thought I would copy and paste it here along with some links to threads at permies where we talk about it a bit more. 1)  never ever use bleach again.  That stuff is outright poison. 2)  for fighting mold,

Diligent recycling enthusiasts have set new targets to eliminate waste being sent to landfill sites. After years of recycling products like paper, cans, plastic and clothes, the new goal is to get to zero waste; to stop the garbage truck from visiting your neighborhood. Zero waste projects are popping up all over the world and

The history of energy use in human civilisation is generally summarised as follows: from Antiquity until the start of the Industrial Revolution, people made use of the manual labour of both animals and humans, as well as biomass, sun, water and wind. Next, all these renewable energy sources were replaced by fossil fuels: first coal, and later oil and gas. Uranium completed the picture in the second half of the twentieth century. While this historical summary is basically correct, there were some – rather important – exceptions. Almost all

Researchers have discovered a way to capture and harness energy transmitted by such sources as radio and television transmitters, cell phone networks and satellite communications systems. By scavenging this ambient energy from the air around us, the technique could provide a new way to power networks of wireless sensors, microprocessors and communications chips. “There is