Most of the attention on water supplies in the Southwest as to do with the region's exploding population. Fair enough, and I'm not sure the fountains at the Bellagio are exactly a necessary use of scarce water in a desert. But the real water hog...
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With fire season upon us and the now annual plumes of smoke everywhere, pouring into our lungs and making us forget what summer in the Northwest used to be like,.
As the Bundys and their merry band of fascists descend on the Klamath River to try and start another war with federal officials there, the reality is that the Klamath.
We have known for a long time that the lightly regulated pollution in American agriculture was deleterious to human health. Now we have some data to help us understand just how many lives this costs a year: The smell of hog feces was overwhelming, Elsie...
This is the grave of Cyrus McCormick. Born in 1809 in Virginia's Shenandoah Valley, he grew up a tinkerer. His father was an inventor of agricultural machines. The father had.
The plight of farmers of color is finally getting a little attention in America. There was a lot of consternation over Biden picking Tom Vilsack to return to Agriculture since.
I've long written about working and living conditions in American agriculture. Like with everything else, COVID-19 has only exacerbated the inequality being farmworkers and consumers. The terrible, crowded, dirty, poisonous living conditions before COVID now added pestilence to the list. And the impact was deadly:...
I've always gotten a certain amusement about the banality of corn. I am not the only person who feels this way. If you watch Conan O'Brien written episodes of The.
One of the worst parts of the grotesque and false right-wing attacks on Shirley Sherrod back in 2010 is that she had been an activist for Black land ownership for.
This 1946 General Electric film is an attempt to get rural communities to invest in building or expanding their electric supply infrastructure. I'm not going to lie--this is pretty boring. Like 21 minutes of 2020 time frame boring. Let me wake up from that. OK,...
This is an interesting little article on automation and farming. Most of the buzz surrounding vehicular automation and autonomy is found in the circles of transportation, where technophiles tout driverless.
On January 3, 1931, farmers converged on England, Arkansas to demand poverty relief. This led to Will Rogers' poverty tour and a greater national conversation about conditions in rural America.