The Economist The Economist provides a nice overview discussing the significance of the new World Bank Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Resarch report, which assigned recent extreme summer temperatures to climate change. This study concluded that since the 1980s, corn production is 3.8 percent lower and wheat production is 5.5 percent lower than it would [...]
This week I received an email from a representative of Landscape Architecture Magazine to inform me about their November 2012 issue which features a cover story titled, “The Dead Zone Starts (or Stops) Here” by Anne Raver. I read the article from this quality publication and it is superbly written and the study has a [...]
Note that I took the above photo of ditch irrigation at a Boulder County Open Space Farm Tour in July 2012. This month the USDA came out with a report titled, “Water Conservation in Irrigated Agriculture: Trends and Challenges in the Face of Emerging Demands” by Glenn D. Schaible and Marcel P. Aillery. What Did [...]
