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A serious, but not too serious, discussion of the realities of sustainable living.
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Sunday Mar 06, 2022
Sunday Mar 06, 2022
In case you hadn't noticed, the climate is changing and plants are dying. How can homesteaders cope with extreme weather events and a changing ecology. Well, one way is to create an environment for their garden that they can control to a certain extent. This is where high tunnels come in.
A high tunnel, or hoop house is a greenhouse like structure where plants can be cultivated and raised under more controlled conditions.
Join Annie and Jay Warmke from Blue Rock Station for a discussion on their experience with high tunnels, building it, the grant process with the government, and plans for how they intend to use it in the future.
Sunday Feb 27, 2022
Sunday Feb 27, 2022
The NRCS, or Natural Resources Conservation Service, is an agency within the Department of Agriculture tasked with “Helping People Help the Land.”
They offer a number of grants and programs that are designed to help farmers preserve and protect the soil, water and other natural resources.
Join Annie and Jay Warmke from Blue Rock Station for a discussion with Laurie Ryan Griffin, SE Ohio District Conservationist for NRCS about the various programs her agency has available to farmers.
Sunday Feb 20, 2022
Sunday Feb 20, 2022
Education is the key to understanding. No wonder the planet is in such a mess – as we do a pretty terrible job in teaching about sustainability, in our classrooms as well as within society in general.
So what are the issues, how do we address them, and what would the world look like if we made making the planet better as high a priority as we do making more money?
Join Annie and Jay Warmke from Blue Rock Station for an uniformed rant about the state of education and how we get the message out regarding the greatest challenges facing our global society.
Sunday Feb 13, 2022
Sunday Feb 13, 2022
More and more corporations are promoting their net-zero or carbon-neutral goals. Is this more corporate greenwashing, or is it a real thing? Can the profit-driven corporate structure really shift to embrace a long-term impact-neutral process? And what does net zero really mean?
Join Annie and Jay Warmke from Blue Rock Station for a discussion about the impact of a truly net zero society.
Sunday Feb 06, 2022
Sunday Feb 06, 2022
We all know that recycling is good. Saves the planet, conserves resources. Well, maybe, and maybe not. It is much more complicated than that. Find out just what is the sorted truth about recycling.
Join Annie and Jay Warmke from Blue Rock Station for a discussion of the issues and challenges of trying to live a sustainable life.
Sunday Jan 30, 2022
Sunday Jan 30, 2022
For years, pretty much since their inception, electric vehicles (EVs) have been viewed by the general public and something of interest only to tree hugging liberals. All that is about to change.
2022 will see the release of a number of full size pickup truck EVs, first to be released will be the Ford Lightning (Ford's F150 pickup gone electric). This vehicle promises to turn the EV market on its head - and make electric the new "muscle car" of the coming decades.
Join Annie and Jay Warmke from Blue Rock Station for a look at the Ford Lightning and what that may mean to the automotive world and the world in general.
Sunday Jan 23, 2022
Sunday Jan 23, 2022
2021 witnessed a world in the grips of a second year of a global pandemic. What did we learn about how sustainable our culture and planet are or have become?
And what new technologies are coming in 2022 that will impact our ability to live lightly on the planet? Will they be a boon to resilience - or the seed of the next big challenge?
Join Annie and Jay Warmke from Blue Rock Station for a glimpse into the past and the future of sustainability.
Sunday Jan 16, 2022
Sunday Jan 16, 2022
We all know that recycling is good. Saves the planet, conserves resources. Well, maybe, and maybe not.
It is much more complicated than that.
Join Annie and Jay Warmke from Blue Rock Station for a discussion on the sorted truth about recycling.
Sunday Jan 09, 2022
Sunday Jan 09, 2022
The history surrounding the early days of electricity involved backstabbing, double dealing, huge egos battling it out in public – the electrocution of horses, dogs, people, and even elephants.
Dubbed “the battle of the currents”, this dis-information campaign pitted Thomas Edison against Tesla (and his boss, Westinghouse).
Another in our Dead White Scientists series – find out what happened just over 100 years ago that led us to the electrical system (largely unchanged since then) that we use today.
Sunday Jan 02, 2022
Sunday Jan 02, 2022
Just as tiny houses require all the limited space to be used efficiently for shelter – urban forest gardens use every bit of available space (side-to-side as well as up-and-down) to grow a mix of local produce. But farming in an urban setting present a unique set of challenges – from codes and zoning that may shut it down, to theft and vandalism, to tip toeing around utilities and easements.
Chad Cully, graduate student in Cornell University's Natural Resources and the Environment program joins Annie and Jay Warmke from Blue Rock Station for a discussion design challenges in creating an urban forest garden.