Environment

Fast & Curious: Short Takes on Random Things

Fast & Curious: Short Takes on Random Things

March 31, 2023 at 11:45 am

Poker Face I haven’t enjoyed a TV series as much as I enjoyed Natasha Lyonne’s Poker Face in a very long time. It’s not a “Golden Age of TV”-style show like Deadwood or The Sopranos or Mad Men (all of which I also enjoyed very much), it’s a throwback toRead...

Cold frame, James Gardens Toronto, 1974. (Photo by WayneRay, own work, CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0)], via Wikimedia Commons)

Gardening Tips: Greenhouse-Keeping

March 29, 2023 at 11:30 am

Editor’s Note: This column first appeared on 28 March 2018.   What to do this week If you have a greenhouse, that perfect place that will be housing some of those seedlings from the crowded windowsills very soon, this week is a great time to get it cleaned up andRead More

Onion seedlings (Photo by Madeline Yakimchuk)

Gardening Tips: Much To Do

March 22, 2023 at 12:00 pm

Editor’s Note: This column first appeared on 21 March 2018.   What to do this week This week is a good time to talk about a couple of things you might want to get to around the garden soon. One of those things is any plants you might have broughtRead More

Globe artichoke. (Photo by Madeline Yakimchuk)

Gardening Tips: Time to Prune

March 15, 2023 at 10:30 am

Editor’s Note: This column last appeared on 14 March 2018.   What to do this week This week, we have a success report from Madeline about her globe artichoke overwintering experiment, and some encouragement to think about the early spring pruning of your trees and bushes. Let’s start with pruning.Read More

Soil blocks. (Photo by Madeline Yakimchuk)

Gardening Tips: Playing in the Mud

March 8, 2023 at 12:45 pm

Editor’s Note: Today’s column first appeared on 7 March 2018.   What to do this week I’m back after a short break. Thank you all for your patience. I hope your onion seedlings are started! If they are not, you can do them in soil blocks. If you have themRead More

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For Love of a Mountain in Montenegro

March 1, 2023 at 1:51 pm

The whole frame of geopolitics…seeks to manage tensions and power struggles among those who rule, while the vast majority of people—as well as plants, animals, land, and water—are controlled, confined, or killed to serve those interests.—Ray Acheson, ‘Abolishing Geopolitics and Building a World Without State Violence,’ Metapolis, September 2022  Read More

Gardening Tips: Down with Lawns!

Gardening Tips: Down with Lawns!

March 1, 2023 at 1:45 pm

Editor’s Note: This column last appeared on 3 March 2021   What to do this week I really think people shouldn’t have lawns. Lawns are for grazing sheep. So that is my rule of thumb: your lawn should be either big enough to graze sheep, or small enough to cutRead More

Anatomy of a Tank Car

Anatomy of a Tank Car

February 22, 2023 at 11:51 am

Editor’s Note: I have discovered a Spotify playlist called “Songs About Trains” which I recommend you listen to while reading this article. Also, Part I of this series is here.   In the second part of this brief series on rail safety, we’re going to talk about rail tank cars,Read More

The Hard Math of Green Hydrogen

The Hard Math of Green Hydrogen

February 22, 2023 at 11:49 am

Editor’s Note: I could not find a “Green Hydrogen” playlist on Spotify but there is a “Songs About Wind” list that might pair well with this piece.   EverWind Fuels has secured the necessary permits from the province of Nova Scotia to begin converting the former oil storage and marineRead...

Train Safety, Then and Now

Train Safety, Then and Now

February 15, 2023 at 2:35 pm

The train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio had me pulling on so many different threads this week, there’s no way I can weave them all back into a coherent whole, so I’m going to divide the resulting article into two parts to give me more time to track down someRead More