SchwartzReport: Lethal Pesticides – Neonicotinoids

01 Agriculture, 03 Economy, 03 Environmental Degradation, 06 Family, 07 Health, 07 Other Atrocities, 10 Transnational Crime, 11 Society, 12 Water
Stephan A. Schwartz
Stephan A. Schwartz

Neonicotinoids have passed off the stage of media attention, but they have not gone away. This is both bad and good news. Bad for Santa Barbara, California, and other cities where industrial agriculture is practiced in the surround area. Good news in that those same cities are finally being forced to address this issue. Perhaps finally the death — in all sense of that word — grip of the chemical companies is loosening, at least at the local level.

Neonic’ Poison Found Throughout City

Creeks Division Testing After Rains Discovers Insecticide Fatal to Bees

SchwartzReport: Plastic Pipe Transforms Salt Water into Fresh Water

12 Water
Stephan A. Schwartz
Stephan A. Schwartz

I am always on the outlook for new technologies that could help with what is coming as a result of climate change. Here is a very interesting one, a plastic that can be made into pipes and other things that simply by the nature of the plastic converts saltwater to fresh.  It holds promise as at least a partial solution to some of the problems of drought in agricultural areas.

A Special Kind of Plastic Pipe Could Be the Solution for California’s Water Woes

A new irrigation system takes saltwater and transforms it into pure water vapor to grow crops.

Sepp Hasslberger: Graphene Revolutionizes Energy

05 Energy, 12 Water
Sepp Hasslberger
Sepp Hasslberger

Membranes of graphene – single atom layer carbon “sheets” – have unexpected and rather unusual properties that seem set to enable several new technologies

Scientists predict green energy revolution after incredible new graphene discoveries

The breakthrough raises the prospect of extracting hydrogen fuel from air and burning it as a carbon-free source of energy in a fuel cell to produce electricity and water with no damaging waste products.

GMO (Monsanto) Destroying World’s Water (Acquifers)

01 Agriculture, 07 Health, 12 Water
Berto Jongman
Berto Jongman

Is GMO Farming Poisoning The World’s Drinking Water?

Monsanto’s Herbicide Linked To Groundwater Contamination

In a groundbreaking study published in the journal Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry last year, evidence surfaced that glyphosate, the active ingredient in the Monsanto’s patented herbicide Roundup, is flowing freely into the groundwater in areas where it is being applied.1 The researchers found that 41% of the 140 groundwater samples taken from Catalonia Spain, had levels beyond the limit of quantification – indicating that, despite the manufacturer’s claims, glyphosate herbicide does not break down rapidly in the environment, and is accumulating there in concerning quantities.

Berto Jongman: Global Groundwater Collapse = Global Food Collapse

01 Agriculture, 03 Economy, 11 Society, 12 Water
Berto Jongman
Berto Jongman

Global Groundwater Supply Crisis

A disturbing article coming from Natural News regarding the global groundwater supply.  This comes just one week after we posted about the coming global crisis in the works as a result of the drought – (Click here to read first).  The article states:  Shocking findings reported by NASA show that the problem of diminishing groundwater is poised to lead to the collapse of the food supply, where there could be devastating consequences.

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