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6 Jun 2008 IN HOME & GARDEN | COMMENTS
Having a garden can be a fun, rewarding, green experience, especially in the summer, when everything blooms and all your hard work brings beauty (and maybe even some food). If you want it to stay green, though, almost every garden is going to require some watering, but it doesn't have to send your...+ READ MORE
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27 May 2008 IN WORK & CONNECT | COMMENTS
This post is part of a series in which we look at why those basic things that we take for granted--such as water, food, and fuel--are getting expensive and scarce, all at once.Demand for products made from metals is exceeding production capacity; copper mines are expensive and environmentally...+ READ MORE
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14 May 2008 IN HOME & GARDEN | COMMENTS
The headline in our local paper today: Natural gas bills to soar by 20 per cent What is going on?Conservation: The biggest use of gas is for heating; as the price increases there will be greater incentive to change to more efficient appliances.I changed a 50 year old furnace and water heater for a...+ READ MORE
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13 May 2008 IN TECH & TRANSPORT | COMMENTS
This post is part of a series in which we look at why those basic things that we take for granted--such as water, food, and fuel--are getting expensive and scarce, all at once.The existing production, transmission and distribution system is incredibly inefficient, as are most existing houses and...+ READ MORE
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1 May 2008 IN HOME & GARDEN | COMMENTS
This post is part of a series in which we look at why those basic things that we take for granted--such as water, food, and fuel--are getting expensive and scarce, all at once.In Australia, soil scientist Dick Haynes is making synthetic soil from fly ash, biproducts of aluminum processing, poultry...+ READ MORE
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30 Apr 2008 IN FOOD & HEALTH | COMMENTS
This post is part of a series in which we look at why those basic things that we take for granted--such as water, food, and fuel--are getting expensive and scarce, all at once.Stop subsidizing water-hogging agriculture; re-work the distribution among the southwestern states; fix the distribution...+ READ MORE
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29 Apr 2008 IN FOOD & HEALTH | COMMENTS
This post is part of a series in which we look at why those basic things that we take for granted--such as water, food, and fuel--are getting expensive and scarce, all at once.When the governments of India and Vietnam saw the prices of grain skyrocket, they put in export restrictions to protect the...+ READ MORE
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24 Apr 2008 IN WORK & CONNECT | COMMENTS
The first in a series where we look at why those basic things that we take for granted, like water, food and fuel are getting expensive and scarce, all at once.The economic boom of the last thirty years has lifted billions out of poverty around the world, and people are using their newfound wealth...+ READ MORE
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