Tag Archives: regenerative waste
Pearls from Phosphorous
[Map of Aquatic Dead Zones and human population density (altered), courtesy of NASA Earth Observatory] The irony of peak phosphorous is that while there is a perceived shortage, there is an excess amount of phosphorous found throughout the human-influenced environment, exactly where we don’t want it and which we mostly don’t know what to do […]
Archipelagos of Discards (Foundational Forests III)
[Array of islands in the Florida Everglades overlaid with contemporary networks of dykes and roadways. Landsat courtesy of NASA] According to paleoecologist Gail Chmura, the paramecium-shaped islands rising from the flat expanse of the Everglades are “just one of a number of cases where people and human disturbances played a major role in landscape development.” […]
