A rise in demand for Adderall has triggered a shortage of the drug.
Source: Adderall shortage puts U.S. on brink of public health crisis
Just stunned….
There are 335 million people in the USA as of this date.
And 41 million prescriptions of adderall as of last year. Over 10% …. I am just stunned. Sometimes you think you actually know how evil the biomedical industrial complex is and then you realize you don’t have a clue.
Source:https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abn6350
Over the past decade, research has shown that microorganisms living on and inside eukaryotes—the microbiota—are drivers of host health. For plants, microbiota can greatly expand their genomic capabilities by enhancing immunity, nutrient acquisition, and tolerance to environmental stresses (1). More than ever, plant microbiota are being considered as a lever to increase the sustainability of food production under a changing climate.
Sustainability is not being dependent on chemical fertilizers and yet glyphosate and neem oil are both likely to increase our dependence on chemical fertilizers as they are toxic to the soil food web. It’s likely many other biocides are also toxic to the soil food web and even our beneficial microbes. The increased use of chemical fertilizers may be part of the reasons behind the next quote.
For example, the domestication of legumes, combined with long-term nitrogen fertilization, has been linked to the evolution of less mutualistic rhizobia (nitrogen-fixing soil bacteria that form nodules in the roots of legumes), and legume varieties that are less able to discriminate between rhizobia that provide nitrogen to the plant versus those that do not (4, 8).
Source: https://www.avweb.com/aviation-news/delta-abandons-appeal-of-pilot-suspension-award/
So I just got through giving a small permaculture talk in which I said that permaculture was simply not about “treating other people badly.”
I’ll tell you what else permaculture is _not_, it is not about big self-entitled businesses paying for the science that they want. And it’s not about crooked doctors and scientists being bought and sold. Since businesses are now people, let’s all start calling the business Karen’s of the world “Delta airlines.”
Thought some of you might enjoy this. I’m embarrassed that I forgot to mention Diane Kennedy and awesome Finch Frolic Garden www.vegetariat.com/ at the beginning. I’ll do better next time :-) The best to everyone.
www.puravidaaquatic.com/
Source: Study shows hazardous herbicide chemical goes airborne
“Dicamba drift”—the movement of the herbicide dicamba off crops through the atmosphere—can result in unintentional damage to neighboring plants. To prevent dicamba drift, other chemicals, typically amines, are mixed with dicamba to “lock” it in place and prevent it from volatilizing, or turning into a vapor that more easily moves in the atmosphere.
Now, new research from the lab of Kimberly Parker, an assistant professor of energy, environmental and chemical engineering at Washington University in St. Louis’ McKelvey School of Engineering, has shed new light on this story by demonstrating for the first time that these amines themselves volatilize, often more than dicamba itself.
Do you think that the chemical pesticide industry has just closed up shop because they lost a few small skirmishes over Roundup? While we were “winning”, their sales went up as much as _five fold_. Who really won? It is easy to be negative. Permaculture is hard. It is hard to come up with possible solutions. But here is something positive that I believe is doable. I would like to see the Sierra club, World Wildlife fund, the Audubon Society, native plant groups, environmental, permaculture and sustainability groups, even local Garden clubs, and scouting groups, get together and eliminate pesticide use in our national parks. The parks are for our native wildlife and plants. We should not be using pesticides in them in the first place. And then…. maybe a 5 Mile pesticide exclusion zone around them. Which would double down on protecting the animals and plants in our national parks and allow people to move to a pesticide reduced environment.
Best to everyone!
Doctors warn exposure to omnipresent yet poorly understood chemicals such as microplastics could play a role in dementia
and
the astronomical rise in neurological disorders like Parkinson’s disease and Alzheimer’s
You think? Or as Homer Simpson would say d’oh.
They could have left out the microplastics. And just left it as Omnipresent yet poorly understood chemicals. When our young people were growing up most insecticides were neurotoxins- couldn’t possibly have had any effect on us. And I just want to comment that in the next great round of pesticides some of them are designed to be molt inhibitors that can targeting DNA regulatory systems. And as a molecular geneticist I think that this is an exquisitely bad idea.
So what can we do? It is easy to just walk away or just throw up your hands and say I can’t do anything. But, I just gave a permaculture talk where I reminded people that permaculture was hard (If it was easy everyone would doing it well). So I have a suggestion that I think is doable; hard, but doable. I would like to see our national environmental groups the Sierra Club, World wWldlife Fund, the Audubon Society, etc. get together with more local groups; sustainability clubs, permaculture organizations, gardening clubs and scouting groups and _end_ the use of pesticides in our national parks. I think this is small enough that we could accomplish it. Our national parks are supposed to be for our wildlife anyway, why in the world are we spreading so many pesticides and toxins around them? It would be great if we could incorporate say a 5 mile exclusion zone around them also where people could go live under a reduced pesticide load. I think that the big pesticide chemical conglomerates might not be as enthusiastic as we might be with this idea, but I believe that it is doable; hard, but doable. The best to everybody out there.
ramonaevents.com/events/sustainable-ramona-harvest-festival/
I am going to speak briefly on permaculture shortly after 11:00 am. I will post a synopsis of my talk in a couple of days. Best to everyone.
www.puravidaaquatic.com/
This coming October 22nd I’m going to give a little 10 minute talk on my views of permaculture at the Ramona Harvest festival. There will be musicians and other talks as well. The particulars are as follows. And more information can be found on sustainable Ramona’s Facebook page. Or here. ramonaevents.com/events/sustainable-ramona-harvest-festival/
Sustainable Ramona and The Community Garden Present
Harvest Festival, Saturday, Oct. 22, 2022, 11:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.
Music and Speakers’ Schedule
11:00 -11:05 Opening Remarks
11:10–11:20 Bob Lloyd, PuraVidaAquatic
“Permaculture – What Is It & Why Should You Know About It?”
10 min Sound Check
11:30–12:00 Garden Variety Band (incl “My Favorite Vegetable” at noon)
12:00–12:10 Kids’ March of the Vegetables – (With GVBnd at noon)
12:15–12:25 Rene Roman, Certified Arborist, Member San Diego
Professional Tree Care Asso., San Diego Horticultural Society,
Calif. Native Plant
“Sustainable Fruit Tree Care and Harvest”
10 min Sound Check
12:35–1:25 Sentimental Journey
1:30-1:40 Kit Medina, I Love a Clean San Diego
“What to do with Halloween Pumpkins–& Other Food Scraps”
10 min Sound Check
1:50 – 2:40 Frank & Rob
2:50 – 3:00 Diane Stoltz, Ramona Municipal Water District
“Greywater: Save on Water Bill, Save Water!”
10 min Sound Check
3:05 – 3:55 The Waits
3:55 – 4:00 Closing Remarks. www.puravidaaquatic.com/ 310-429-8477
Hello my fellow gardeners, Most all community garden members are great, great, great neighbors. They are genuinely concerned about toxic chemicals, friendly, and happy to talk to you about what they’re growing, and how they are doing it. And I congratulate those of you who _work_ at being good neighbors as it does require work. And I would like to provide a couple of tips for maybe even being better neighbors. In my opinion a community garden is a small copy of homeowner neighborhoods.
A good neighbor doesn’t allow their behavior to impact their neighbor’s property in any way. While it may seem incredibly trivial to be worried about stepping quickly into another person’s garden plot to look at their beautiful flowers, or to allow the water you’re using to water to also spray into your neighbors plot. It should be. It is extra work to walk around with the hose to make sure to spray only into your plot but that is work to make a community.
Your neighbor may have very delicate seedlings planted in the ground and spraying with a hose (or looking at their flowers) tramples them. Maybe there are some who say that; “Well they shouldn’t have seedlings that delicate in their garden. They should start them in their own house or so.” But that is exactly the point of being a good neighbor. It is not our responsibility or right to say how others should garden on their plot. It is their plot and theirs _alone_ to do with as they want while they are a member. It is our responsibility to _work_ (even if it means 10 seconds longer and 4 ft to move the hose) at being good neighbors. The best to everyone. Bob
If we Google something like:https://www.google.com/search?q=hydrogen+peroxide+to+control+algae
We get a lot of pond and aquarium sites explaining how to use hydrogen peroxide to control algae. Some of these sites even explain what hydrogen peroxide is such as…
Hydrogen peroxide is a colorless natural liquid similar to water.
It’s made up of two molecules of hydrogen and two molecules of oxygen, with a chemical symbol of H2O2. [1]
They even give it a footnote to make it look scientific. It would actually be nice if the people that quote things like this had the first inkling of anything to do with chemistry.
This is just the first of several examples of extremely poor information on some of these websites. There are an awful lot of snake oil salesmen on the web selling you products through their links and affiliates.
My first comment about “natural” is that arsenic is also natural, and so is plutonium, and rattlesnake venom. Secondly if you paid attention in high school chemistry hydrogen is not a molecule it’s an atom unless you’re talking about H2. And oxygen is not a molecule it’s an atom, again unless you’re talking about 02. Hydrogen peroxide is not made up of molecules it is itself a molecule made up of atoms. If they can’t figure out that basic chemistry are you really interested in having them tell you how it’s chemically safe for your pond?
Enough about the quote. Here is a reason why you might not want to use hydrogen peroxide in your pond or aquarium. Hydrogen peroxide generates reactive oxygen species. Similar to ozone generators and other systems that generate toxic oxygen radicals. Hydrogen peroxide kills algae by being toxic. My PhD was on how these same chemicals damage DNA and are thus mutagens and carcinogens. So the long-term effect is that you are increasing the mutagenic and carcinogenic processes in anything that lives in, drinks from, or bathes in your water feature. This affect may be relatively small. Algaecides and other commercial toxins are far worse IMO. It also may be more dangerous for a bird to have The neighbors cats in its environment then to drink from your system. There is just no way to do a cost benefit analysis for every living organism that might drink from it. It is probably more important at this level for animals to have water in their environment then that water be entirely non-toxic. That said there might be other ways of approaching that water feature down the road.
Snails and other aquatic life that actually eat the algae instead of kill it might be an answer _if it does not dry out or heat up_ in the afternoon sun. If it does tend to dry up or heat then finding something to shade it might be part of a solution. The permaculture point of view is to not decide you have to kill _everything_ that’s in your way. And bees really don’t care if there’s a little bit of algae and are happy to use it as a landing pad.
There are ways to outcompete the algae. But also, IMO hydrogen peroxide is much much better than algaecide (AKA algaefix). Be well!
