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Bringing the Sky Down to Earth
The image below is a habitat for Canadians. I am one of those. We build structures out of trees we allow to grow as weeds on indigenous land, and line them with products manufactured out of petroleum,...
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The Problem With Petrochemical Agriculture
It’s too easy to do it wrong. View of Spallumcheen Farm from Swan Lake A 10,000-year-old lakebed gets thrown up into the wind while boaters get ready to be pulled around at speed on a bird nesting...
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Time Travel Gone Bad
Petrochemical agriculture is a program that uses statistical risk assessment to balance the need of farmers to extract a capital profit out of farming commensurate with the profit to be extracted from...
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An Anthropocene Idyll in the Okanagan Petro State
Ah, lunchtime in the park. The joys of nature in the beautiful Okanagan Valley.Sure. New word: anthrobscene. (You know, you might disagree with me on that, but, really, if this is what nature is, we...
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Gardening in the Land of Peak Oil
How do we save the planet? By planting rocks in our gardens to “prevent global warming?” Isn’t that murder? Or by planting rhubarb? The second garden is mine, across the road from the firs, which is...
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Gardening in the Petro State…Is that Possible?
How do we save the planet? By planting rocks in our gardens to “prevent global warming?” Isn’t that murder? Or by planting rhubarb? The second garden is mine, across the road from the firs, which is...
View ArticleOkanagan Settlement Then and Now
Okanagan settlement, circa 1900. Nice. Belgian Rubber Money goes a long way. Okanagan settlement, circa 2010. Just as romantic. Global Petro Dollars go a long way! It is a pretty process only […]
View ArticleLabour, Luxury and Oil in Vernon
Apples are produced so cheaply in Washington on Mexican labour, and run so cheaply over huge packing lines, and sold so cheaply through integrated wholesale and retail sales chains, that here in […]
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