A View From the Edge

Imagine a clothes’ line, you know, where you hang laundry. Go to one end and wiggle it a little… see the ripple going down the line, reaching the end and rippling back to you? Did you see that the line moved more in the middle than where you started the ripple?

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and state health departments are busy trying to get you to vaccinate, wear protective masks and generally stop this pandemic. With all the tools they are offering, you would think people would wise up and get protected if only to save their neighbors and family.

As any New Englander will tell you — especially farmers — mitigation of risks, avoiding obvious pitfalls of pretending it’ll all be alright on the day, and especially assuming anything when it comes to outside influences (you know the saying… assume makes an “ass out of U and me”) — these are the only ways to keep your business thriving and your

Thirty years ago, Denmark was the first country to build offshore wind turbine farms. Fifteen years or more before that wind farms popped up all over America, Texas and California especially. In fact, it was the U.S. Energy Commission in 1975 that asked NASA to come up with a commercial design for wind turbines.

Since most of us love to travel — by air when we can — some of the fallout of the COVID shut-downs globally on the airline industries is now only just becoming clear and the news is seriously worrying.

Calculating the inflation rate using “a bundle of consumer goods” the government has always gotten this wrong. For a start, their CPI (Consumer Price Index) never takes into account shortages of components and, more critically, local variations in costs because of staffing, supply, or even need.

Food and nutrition are being looked at in an entirely new way. It is not so much a case of what’s in your food, but what has been done to it. Here’s a really simple example: In the ‘50s Crisco used to be vegetable lard. Now it is processed vegetable lard, partially hydrogenated (to increase mouth feel and flavor boost).

There is an ongoing discussion around the world — and I listen in to at least four language broadcasts outside of the USA — about whether mankind is about to terminate all life on this planet — sooner or later.