tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2464977109229359349.post1507868326368639304..comments2023-10-21T03:54:12.029-04:00Comments on A Gift Universe: More reasons to be agrarianSheilahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10853868724554947854noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2464977109229359349.post-33611841423286816542013-09-12T14:19:15.500-04:002013-09-12T14:19:15.500-04:00Real honey might be hard to find. Bees are dying ...Real honey might be hard to find. Bees are dying in droves lately and scientists are struggling to figure out why. Considering bees range all over, and a lot of fields are sprayed with insecticides, I don't think it should be such a difficult puzzle, but there it is.<br /><br />If you want to know what's in your food, you just have to know who made it. I wish that weren't such a difficult thing to do! I just did some research and found dozens of small sustainable farms fairly close to me -- but I can't understand why, then, our local farmers' market has only five stalls on an average Saturday.Sheilahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10853868724554947854noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2464977109229359349.post-61600219085559508892013-09-12T01:41:42.923-04:002013-09-12T01:41:42.923-04:00+JMJ+
Actually, stationary bikes attached to gen...+JMJ+ <br /><br />Actually, stationary bikes attached to generators already <i>have</i> been developed! There's a gym in New York where the spin class produces 10% of the electricity and a hotel in Copenhagen whose stats I don't know. Having discussed this technology with an engineer, however, I know hogw impractical it is. (The hotel has an electric fan next to one stationary bike. The engineer chuckled as he told me that no human could pedal fast enough to power the fan--even if it were all he needed to run.) And I'm impressed, in a grim way, whenever I think about my own family's energy consumption. <br /><br />It's health-related reasons which are getting me to look for alternatives to commercial products. I'm simply <i>floored</i> by all the weird chemicals that we can't seem to opt out of if we stay in the system. Take honey. I was not amused when I learned that some companies add (*Cue drumroll, please*) high fructose corn syrup to their honey and then never say so on the label. So now I'm trying to find a good local supplier.Enbrethilielhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03414765854670926854noreply@blogger.com