United Kingdom – Garden centres and DIY stores are way off track on meeting a government target to end peat use by amateur gardeners, figures show. Green experts said the rate at which peat is still being dug up means the UK’s gardens are helping to accelerate the climate crisis. Stores including B&Q and Wickes, as well as numerous websites, all sell peat products. Between 2015 and 2019, the amount […]
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Indigenous Knowledge Revives Ancient Clam Garden Practices By Monica Whitepigeon, Native News Online. October 23, 2020 Indigenous Knowledge Revives Ancient Clam Garden Practices2020-10-232020-10-23https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/10/swinomish_clamdistributiondiscussion_fb-e1603460032617.jpg200px200px Above photo: The Swinomish Department of Environmental Protection aims to protect and restore the natural environment, and the health and welfare of the Swinomish Indian Tribal Community. Facebook. La Conner, WA – Tribal communities are reviving 3,500-year-old eco-friendly practices to create sustainable beaches […]
Labor Secretary Eugene Scalia’s wife has tested positive for COVID-19—becoming at least the 13th person who attended a largely mask-free White House Rose Garden event to contract the coronavirus. Trish Scalia was seated next to Kellyanne Conway and right behind Melania Trump at the Sept. 26 ceremony to announce President Donald Trump’s nomination of Amy Coney Barrett to the U.S. Supreme Court. Conway and the first […]
Contact tracing for the Trumpworld COVID-19 outbreak is still in the early stages, but seven of those who have tested positive were at a packed event in the White House Rose Garden last weekend. Most in the crowd—invited to see President Trump nominate Amy Coney Barrett for the Supreme Court—were not wearing masks even though chairs were placed close together. Photos showed guests milling around and […]
Donald Trump’s high-rolling fundraiser at the Trump National Golf Club Bedminster, New Jersey, took place 1 October, and the next day the US President Donald Trump revealed that he and First Lady, Melania, had tested positive for COVID-19 and would go into quarantine. New Jersey authorities are scrambling to deal with the possibility of a surge in coronavirus cases in the aftermath of Donald Trump’s high-rolling […]
Less than three weeks after its official unveiling, first lady Melania Trump’s newly renovated Rose Garden is reportedly already falling apart, drawing the ire of netizens. “New Rose Garden is already undergoing repairs including poor drainage and sod in bad shape. #MelaniasRoseGarden,” one user wrote. “Yeah, I’m still pissed about the Rose Garden. And this isn’t helping,” another added. “Just 3 weeks after Melania ruined the […]
Obama v. Trump Melania gets rid of the memories, Jackie Kennedy, the cherry trees and we now have Slovenian landscaping. This is what communism looks like. She certainly showed America what she can do. We stand humbled, a new level of crass ugliness. Melania Trump has ‘renovated’ the Rose Garden in the White House (photo on the left) that was originally designed by Jackie Kennedy as […]
Like his predecessors, President Trump often uses the Rose Garden for ceremonies and news conferences. Evan Vucci/AP hide caption toggle caption Evan Vucci/AP Like his predecessors, President Trump often uses the Rose Garden for ceremonies and news conferences. Evan Vucci/AP There are many rose gardens, but in Washington, D.C., at least, there is only one capital-R capital-G Rose Garden. “It’s one of the few spaces at […]
Police and cadaver-hunting dogs are on the scene in a backyard in Hanover, Germany, where a secret sealed cellar has just been unearthed in the hunt for missing Briton Madeleine McCann. The cellar was once under a garden shed on property where German pedophile Christian Brueckner, the latest suspect in the missing-child case, once lived. The shed was torn down years ago, but neighbors said Brueckner […]
Amid a global pandemic that has killed 150,000 Americans and is slowing like a train that just started to choo choo over a cliff, 100 days from an election that is the fifth consecutive most important election in our lifetimes, first lady Melania Trump will begin the important work of renovating the Rose Garden to more closely resemble its original 1960s design. Finally! This is what […]
Matchroom Boxing promoter Eddie Hearn has unveiled ambitious plans to get around the COVID-19 restrictions currently decimating the global sporting calendar – by holding large-scale boxing events in his back garden. Hearn has revealed plans to stage successive boxing events on the grounds of his 15-acre mansion in Brentwood, Essex. The plan is understood to be in advanced stages and will cost in the region of £1 million […]
This week, new claims about the accuracy of the Garden of Eden story emerged online and in tabloid magazines. Professor Tom Meyer, a scripture expert known as the Bible Memory Man, argues that there are two artifacts—a 4,000-year-old seal and roughly 3,600-year-old stone—that provide evidence both for the location of the Garden of Eden and the Adam and Eve story. But do his claims add up? […]