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04/30/2018 / By Tracey Watson

A new, supposedly “bee-friendly” pesticide found to impair taste, learning, memory of the critically necessary insects

Honeybees are in trouble – BIG trouble. Bee populations have been dwindling all around the globe at an alarming rate in recent years, and some species have even made it on to the endangered list. Scientists have been scrambling to find out what is causing this alarming trend, but Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, and […]

02/26/2018 / By Zoey Sky

Understanding how a solar oven works, and how to use it

Preppers like to think outside the box, and they know how useful a solar oven can be, especially during an SHTF scenario. Thanks to technology, solar ovens have helped preppers all around the globe to harness sunlight to cook food in an eco-friendly way. (h/t to SmartPrepperGear.com) How does a solar oven work? There are many […]

02/25/2018 / By Edsel Cook

Living beyond our means: We are burning through the planet’s resources, living an unsustainable way of life

“The world has enough for everyone’s need, but not enough for everyone’s greed,” warned Mahatma Gandhi. And yet nations are practicing an unsustainable way of life at the cost of burning up Earth’s resources, reported The Daily Mail. The study comes from Leeds University, where researchers boiled down the requirements for a “good life” into 11 items. Basic needs […]

02/14/2018 / By Edsel Cook

Food waste is costing us all: The environmental and financial cost of spoiled food

You wouldn’t suspect bananas, apples, tomatoes, salad, sweet peppers, pears and grapes to be the primary culprits of a costly crime. Yet according to an AlphaGalileo article, a Swedish research team identified those aforementioned fresh produce to comprise nearly half of the food that goes to waste on the shelves of retail stores. Researchers from […]

01/03/2018 / By Zoey Sky

How about plastic for dinner? It is showing up in mussels from the Arctic to China, and ending up on our plates

While some moules et frites (mussels and fries) sounds delicious, the dish probably wouldn’t be as appetizing if every other bite had plastic in it. According to a recent study, mussels from the European Arctic to China are contaminated with “tiny bits of plastic.” Mussels in Arctic waters contain the most plastic of all specimens […]

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