The Future of Man As we approached the year 2000 many people pronounced the end of the world was upon us because our modern technology depended upon computers using software did not have provisions for representing the date beyond the year 1999. Running Eskimo North, an Internet Service Provider, and being familiar with the internals… (read more)

I took Sustainable Living News out of the sidebar because nothing new was showing up and I didn’t care for the general approach they seem to be pushing for a sustainable future. The direction the articles seemed to be taking was that it is necessary to live a very simple impoverished life in order to… (read more)

Hemp is efficient at turning sunlight into biomass. It can produce up to four times more fiber per acre than trees. It’s a very durable fiber and industrially useful fiber. The US Constitution was written on hemp paper, unfortunately, the text of the constitution hasn’t survived as well as the paper has. The text has… (read more)

I found this post by dave b and the calculations contained therein to be interesting. Clearly, weather patterns are changing but they aren’t changing in a globally consistent manner. In Alaska and the northern hemisphere in general; it’s hard to believe it’s all global warming. I talked to a fisherman that fishes off of Sitka,… (read more)