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June 4, 2012 - Yes, it's June already.  Time passes quickly, and that brings me to an important question: what are you doing to prepare yourself for the coming changes?  Are you growing a garden this summer?  Have you purchased a vehicle that gets higher gas mileage?  How much of your outdoor water comes from rain barrels?  Hope you're learning to go easy on the air conditioning.  Make sure you've got fans available.  Stocking up on your basic food requirements?  Candles?  Soap?  Baking soda and vinegar?  Most important of all, have you talked to your kids about what lies ahead?  Let them know their future will require lots of planning - and lots of courage. You can use as your model the United States Department of Agriculture.  It appears they've been keeping their ear to the ground, because they've come up with a financial tool that's perfectly suited to the times in which we live.  Swarms of young peopl...

June 30, 2009 – First of all, my apologies for the dark print in my last post. I realize this is very difficult to read. I’m not sure what caused this! Perhaps enlarging the font will make it easier to read. Again, I’m sorry that happened. I referred, in my last post, to the Sahara and Gobi Deserts. When I said they were advancing I meant, of course, that they were expanding. The expansion, in both cases, is caused by irrigation and animal grazing, activities associated with farming. Different types of land can support different amounts of irrigation and grazing. Clay soils, sandy soils, cannot support as much as top soil containing humus. Dry soils which are over-irrigated become salty, then parched. Over-grazed land gradually loses the vegetation that holds soil in place. An over-abundance of these activities occurs when too many people are trying to eke a living out of soil meant to support fewer people. The result is desertification. This is what has taken place in both...

June 28, 2009 – Before proceeding to more serious matters, I really must mention the new, online version of The Ecologist magazine. What a gift! It’s ALL covered here: the global warming effects on housing, transporta-tion, energy use, family, education, farming, social effects, political effects, psychological effects and more, More, MORE: every facet of life and how it is or will be affected by the changing climate. The authors are not only passionate, but knowledgeable. The articles are, bless us, well written, and they convey an enormous amount of timely, useful information. I don’t understand why my blog link doesn’t go to their website, unless it’s because they’re overseas. However, you can definitely find this marvelous publication at www.theecologist.org . READ IT! By Julie Cart April 9, 2009 “Reporting from The Murray-Darling Basin, Australia -- Frank Eddy pulled off his dusty boots and slid into a chair, taking his place at the dining room table where most of the criti...