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Some of the world’s largest investment banks, pension funds and insurers, including Manulife Financial Corp.’s John Hancock unit, TIAA and UBS, have been depleting California’s groundwater to grow high-value nuts, leaving less drinking water for the surrounding communities, according to a Bloomberg Green investigation. Wall Street has come to Woodville, wringing it dry. Since 2010, six major investors have quadrupled their farmland under management in California, to almost 120,000 acres in all, equivalent to a third of all the cropland in Connecticut.
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This rush for water is an outgrowth of a decades-long bet on farmland by investors who see food cultivation as an asset class virtually assured of appreciating in a warming, more populous world. Globally, large investors and agribusinesses have snapped up about 163 million acres of farmland in more than 100 countries in the past 20 years. The land grab has given rise to a grab of an even scarcer global commodity: water. In a bid to ensure thriving investment portfolios, some of the world’s largest financial entities have amassed control over lakes, rivers and underground aquifers in places from California to Africa, Australia to South America, giving them outsize roles in managing an endangered resource that’s the basis of life on Earth. The trend has contributed to shifting hydrological patterns that stand to permanently disrupt communities’ access to fresh water. Local populations are paying the price in drained wells, high water bills and contaminated water supplies.
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In the past decade, parts of the San Joaquin Valley have dropped as much as a foot per year, according to the US Geological Survey. Subsidence, as the sinking is called, has damaged bridges, canals and other infrastructure that will cost billions of dollars to fix, the state says. The aquifers themselves are irreparable. Many groundwater basins, when drained, never recover their former storage capacity, hydrologists have found. “Groundwater in California has been treated as an extractive resource—you pump and hope for the best,” says Graham Fogg, an emeritus professor of hydrology at the University of California at Davis. “Capitalism is driving this. Investors don’t care, because in 10 years they can make all the money they want and leave.”
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queen-boudicca · 2 months
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Me when doing my environmental science homework, at every available opportunity:
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rotationalsymmetry · 6 months
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Apparently whether planting milkweed helps the butterflies is More Complicated than it seems, based on variables like where exactly you live and what type of milkweed it is.
On the bright side, I am being pointed in the direction of organizations I very much wanted to know about, like the California Native Plant Society and the Xerces Society (which is about insect/invertebrate conservation.)
Learning things is good, right?
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kp777 · 5 months
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Invasive flies threaten to decimate California agriculture industry
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eopederson · 11 months
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Date Garden, Oasis, California, 2023.
Below sea level (-43 m)!
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salonnierealexis · 9 months
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The waterway, called Mussel Slough, is a fragment of the natural channels that once fed the lake, a vestige of the ecosystem that was transformed into canals and farmland.
The Tachi are working on a restoration project, planning to plant more trees and put in walking paths. Sisco said restoring the slough can be an example for bringing back more natural waterways.
As he stood by the water, two dark birds floated on the surface — American coots, or mud hens. The tribe calls the birds tatsi and named themselves Tachi after them.
Other birds migrate and fly elsewhere, but the tatsi, like the people, stay.
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jess-abides · 2 years
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Today we went to the potato festival in a neighboring town and they gave away free potatoes!! Like whole bags of them, and today was the last day of the festival so they said take as much as you want…so we took like 6 bags lol I’m not gonna pass up free pantry staples in this economy.
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eljd2r2 · 1 year
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There is something special about living in an agricultural-centered place. The passage of time is noted through plants and animals and the people whose lives revolve around them.
In January, the dairies plant the alfalfa. Wide open fields of little green seedlings.
February is the loveliest time of year: when the almonds blossom. The entire valley is covered in a blanket of blossoms of white touched with red. They cluster on every branch. Bee boxes are put out on every row.
The end of March is marked by the tiny green almond leaves replacing the blossoms, and every car stirs up a storm of white.
With spring, comes the baby animals. Calves, foals, lamb, piglets, kids. The fields are green and ducklings swim in the canals.
The alfalfa is harvested in May. God help you if you are allergic to hay. Combines stir up dust filled with bits of hay, every breeze is filled with it. Trucks carrying bales of alfalfa fill the roads, trailing bits of green and brown as they go.
Corn is planted in the empty alfalfa fields. The dairies begin to store the feed. Walnuts gain their leaves. The almonds begin to grow.
The first crop of summer: strawberries, followed closely by cherries. Peaches, nectarines, apricots, last is the watermelon, the cantaloupe. Fruit stands on every corner. The corn grows ever higher.
Fall is the time of harvest. It starts with the almonds. Tractors fill the streets, shakers, sweepers, harvesters, forcing cars to swerve around them. Dust clouds fill the air, the plumes can be seen for miles. As September creeps into October, open trucks filled with almonds are everywhere you look. Then tomatoes, covering the roads when spilled. Potatoes, squash, onions, sweet potatoes, pumpkins, apples, pears. Walnuts. Corn. Then the vineyards begin to harvest. It is the busiest time of year.
It is also time for calves again.
October turns to November, and things begin to slow. The leaves fall. The almonds and walnuts are bare. With winter comes the rain, comes the oranges, comes the chard, the kale, the carrots. Pomegranate trees are in every yard, alongside the roads, drooping branches with ruby red fruit.
November turns to December, turns to January and the alfalfa is planted.
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necropsittacus · 2 years
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california court just ruled that bumblebees can be legally considered fish
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foodtellsastory · 2 years
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newlifewoodvinegar · 2 years
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  WHAT IS WOOD VINEGAR?
Wood vinegar, Pyroligneous acid, also called  wood acid, is a dark liquid produced by the destructive distillation of wood and other plant materials. The principal components of wood vinegar are acetic acid, acetone and methanol. It was once used as a commercial source for acetic acid. In addition, the vinegar often contains 80-90% water along with some 200 organic compounds.
 Wood vinegar is a byproduct from charcoal production. It is a liquid generated from the gas and combustion of fresh wood burning in airless condition. When the gas is cooled, it condenses into liquid. Raw wood vinegar has more than 200 chemicals, such as acetic acid, formaldehyde, ethyl-valerate, methanol, tar, etc. Wood vinegar improves soil quality, eliminates pests and controls plant growth, but is slightly toxic to fish and very toxic to plants if too much is applied. It accelerates the growth of roots, stems, tubers, leaves, flowers, and fruit. In certain cases, it may hold back plant growth if the wood vinegar is applied at different volumes. A study shows that after applying wood vinegar in an orchard, fruit trees produce increased amounts of fruit. Wood vinegar is safe to living matters in the food chain, especially, insects that help pollinate plants.
 HOW WOOD VINEGAR IS MADE
Organic biomass material is heated in an oxygen reduced environment leading to the thermal decomposition of materials and release of gases (called pyrolysis) – this exhaust smoke is condensed (cooled) into a liquid. The condensate then further separates and refined into Tar, Wood Vinegar and Bio-Oil. Production equipment can vary from basic metal drums or in ground fire pits covered in clay mud with cooled bamboo chimneys to state of the art industrial processors that are completely controlled continuous biomass converters.
 WOOD VINEGAR : DIFFERENT APPLICATION OF WOOD VINEGAR
Blend with water in a ratio of 1:50 (1 liter wood vinegar and 50 liters water), or up to a ratio of 1:800 (1 liter wood vinegar and 800 liters water). Spray it over plant shoots. Wood vinegar, like hormones, will be absorbed into twigs, trunks, or leaves. Plants will be stronger, and leaves will be greener and resistant to pests and diseases.
 WOOD VINEGAR: BENEFITS OF WOOD VINEGAR
 1. Farmers can produce wood vinegar from branches trimmed from trees.
2. Wood vinegar is safe to human beings, animals, plants, and environment.
3. Wood vinegar helps plants to grow better and stronger, and be resistant to pests and diseases.
4. Crop produce is high quality and safe.
5. Low cost of production attributed to savings from cost of chemicals.
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What is Wood Vinegar?
Wood vinegar has a wide range of applications, and it can be everything from a bio-fertilizer, to a seed germinator, to a growth enhancer, to a nematode treatment, and more. Wood vinegar is a light brownish liquid that is produced through the natural act of carbonization.  Wood vinegar has a low pH (around 3) and contains a variety of organic compounds, which include: organic acetic acids, phenols, alcohols, aldehydes, ester, acetals, ketone, formic acid, vitamin B1, B2, levorotatory dextran, and many others. These various elements can work synergistically for a greater outcome.
Wood vinegar has a long history of successful use throughout Asia as an organic growth booster and bio-fertilizer substitute in place of expensive fossil-derived agriculture chemicals.
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How does Wood Vinegar Work?
Wood vinegar reduces the cluster value of water to 1/3.  This means that the water is activated and can be easily absorbed by the plants, because water with a low cluster value is in a very small mass, which increases the penetration rate. Each of these masses will hold one or few mineral elements, and these elements can be easily taken into the crops.  This will greatly reduce the use of agrochemicals; however, the solution should not be used with alkaline chemicals. Order Wood Vinegar!
Has this product been tested?
Wood vinegar has been used by people for agricultural purposes for reportedly a thousand years, give or take.  It’s a product in use today by many countries like Japan and India, and it’s beginning to see more study and distribution in the United States and Canada.
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focusonthegoodnews · 2 years
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You can now tell Alexa to plant a tree
You can now tell Alexa to plant a tree
Good News Notes: “Starting today, customers in the US can donate $1 to plant one tree by telling Alexa-enabled devices, “Alexa, grow a tree,” Amazon announced today. Customers will be able to keep track of how many trees they’ve planted in their Amazon Pay account. Amazon also said that it’s donating $1 million to the environmental charity it’s partnering with on the initiative, called One Tree…
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selidor · 6 days
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Watsonville, California by Zf / 50mm f/2 APO-Lanthar
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kp777 · 2 years
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eopederson · 1 year
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Welcome to California, Agricultural Inspection Station, Interstate 10 at Blythe, 2023.
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