In the dark

The world Often upsets me More than it should? I overreact Don’t know how to act Should accept What is? When the brain Has been washed Of the brain washing When you can think Clearly The world is burning Cities are flooding People are suffering No they aren’t? And if they are So what? Laugh, …

Why I Went Vegan

Reasons to go Vegan Please note that there are even more reasons to go vegan than are listed here but these are the ones that resound most with me. A. Environment • Animal agriculture contributes 51% of all greenhouse gases. Where as transportation is responsible for 10-15% of all greenhouse gases. • Animal agriculture is …

Extinction

You: Humanity will eventually Go extinct Anyways No point Stressing Over recycling Me: Eventually yes But By the same argument Why bother eating? When you are going To die eventually A waste of energy Of food Just to prevent The inevitable You: What difference Does any of it Make When other countries Pollute more than …

Unity

To save the earth First we must work together. To work together We must first stop fighting. We fight each other In line for the next deal, For rights not given or taken away, Over who should stand up And take responsibility. Outraged At lines too long, At the struggle Over disease, Famine, War, Those …

House On Fire

Blur I realize that The house is on fire Our house The one we all live in And I need help To put out the flames. Some don’t believe Me, the alarmist, Crazy about protecting The fragile wood The structure Of our home. When how could it burn It has been here so long, When …

To Bee or Not To Bee

Why are bees important? Most people know that bees provide honey and beeswax but by far the most important service bees provide is the pollination of crops. Approximately 80% of the crops in the US are reliant on bees.  They pollinate a lot of the fruits, vegetables and legumes we take for granted. They also …

The Smog We Breathe

What is smog? Smog is a combination of two words ‘smoke’ and ‘fog’. Smog is a hazy smoke like substance that is caused by air pollution. It occurs when gases, dust or other particulates and water vapor combine and is usually worse on a hot sunny day. Most occurrences of smog are caused by the …

Phytoremediation: Using Plants to Clean Contaminated Soils

In various areas of the world we are seeing more and more sites being polluted from industrial chemicals from factories to petrochemicals from oil refineries it is near inevitable that some of it will leach into surrounding soils and waterways. Even if we halted the processes that cause these problems there is still the question …

The effects of large scale agriculture on soil health

Introduction There are 13 billion hectares of soil on earth but only 1.4 billion can be used for agriculture. The rest are in some way unfit for use such as too rocky, too steep or contaminated. Over a third of all arable land is used for farming so the effects of intensive agriculture on soil …