I own an iPhone that rarely has a signal in my area. Nevertheless, iPhones have some cool apps. For instance, Double Dog Studios has an app called I.D. Wood. It’s available through the iTunes store and puts pictures and information on more than 150 woods at your fingertips. I.D. Wood allows a user to quicklyContinue reading “iPhone app for wood”
Monthly Archives: May 2010
Africa, organic doesn’t work
Nearly one-third of the world’s hungry are in Africa and the Green Revolution has yet to reach the most of the African continent. They farm using organic methods. [Many repeat] “the mantra that ‘sustainable food’ in the future must be organic, local, and slow. But guess what: Rural Africa already has such a system, andContinue reading “Africa, organic doesn’t work”
Weekend Postcard from the Napa Valley
I’ve shown you this picture before. It’s of a vineyard in the Napa Valley less than an hour from where I live. And, it’s an example of deforestation because deforestation is the conversion of the land’s use from growing trees to not growing trees. Farther north and up State Route 29 is Robert Louis StevensonContinue reading “Weekend Postcard from the Napa Valley”
Nullius in Verba 