published June 3, 2010 and has No Comments
Blueberries. Image credit: NH Farmers Market Association. University of New Hampshire researchers have analyzed the economic impact of their State's locally produced food system. Local food or farm market sales - known as 'direct marketing' - accounts for 12 percent of New Hampshire's farm food sold, compared to just half a percent nationally. In consequence, overall economic performance of ...
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published June 3, 2010 and has No Comments
Blueberries. Image credit: NH Farmers Market Association. University of New Hampshire researchers have analyzed the economic impact of their State's locally produced food system. Local food or farm market sales - known as 'direct marketing' - accounts for 12 percent of New Hampshire's farm food sold, compared to just half a percent nationally. In consequence, overall economic performance of ...
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published June 1, 2010 and has No Comments
Seascape from Virginia Beach VA. Image credit: Destination360.com It's a third of a continent away but somehow the continuous gusher the Gulf of Mexico - rebranded lately as the ' Gulf of BP ' - has both Democratic and Republican gubernatorial candidates in Maryland whistling lively new political tunes. According to the Baltimore Sun , Democratic Governor "...O'Malley has ...
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published June 1, 2010 and has No Comments
Gulf leak oil slick. Image credit: Reuters A New York Times news analysis reminds us that James G Watt, Interior Secretary Under President Reagan, formed the US Minerals Management Service back in 1982. This is the same James Watt who was once awarded a plaster foot with a bullet hole in it for his tendency to mouth off and ...
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published May 30, 2010 and has No Comments
Offshore Surface Oil Forecast Deepwater Horizon MC252, for Monday 31 May, 2010. Image credit: NOAA, DeepwaterHorizonResponse.com Most of the criticisms I've seen so far of how the Obama Administration was responding to the Gulf oil spill have been ill-informed 'Monday Morning Quarterbacking' by people with no field experience or background in engineering or chemistry. So I pretty much ignored ...
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published May 29, 2010 and has No Comments
" People are visible Wednesday, June 6, 2007, on the beach in Dauphin Island, Ala., where a section of the $4 million protective sand berm was washed away by higher-than-usual tides over the weekend. An intact section of the berm can be seen in the background." Image & caption credit: Mobile Press-Register This is not some inter-party squabble over ...
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published May 29, 2010 and has No Comments
Warm core eddy formation in the Gulf of Mexico. Image credit:Texas A&M. Dept of Oceanography, Quarterdeck Online TAMU.edu As reported in the Miami Herald, physical oceanographers are tracking a notable change in the Gulf 'loop current.' "...over the last two weeks, a counter-current on the outside of the loop began pushing east and may force the current into a ...
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published May 25, 2010 and has No Comments
Alfred Lord Tennyson, poet & author of Charge of the Light Brigade. Image credit: Wikipedia. A British-owned company has failed publicly and massively in sovereign US waters, having outsourced an ill prepared charge into dangerous underwater territory. (Hence the reference to Lord Tennyson's "Charge of the Light Brigade" - Light Crude Brigade...get it? While it is hard to imagine ...
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published May 23, 2010 and has No Comments
" Cam Slocum digs holes to plant tomatoes on his backyard farm ". Image and caption credits: Katie Falkenberg/Los Angeles Times . Time Magazine occasionally offers useful insights. Their Important Trends series has one on The Dropout Economy that which deserves attention. It's about a future that spans coming armies of unemployed MBA's and ever increasing numbers of high ...
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published May 22, 2010 and has No Comments
" A combination of state and city laws being considered would force all dispensaries to offset 100 percent of their electricity use with wind or solar power. " Image and caption credit: Marty Caivano, Daily Camera Boulder Colorado City Council has recently passed an ordinance regulating production and sales of medical marijuana. It's got all the usual stuff you'd ...
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