Years ago, for a job, I made a recipe card for Black Gold. It was distributed to the public and was a featured handout when we held elementary school Compost workshops – where we made soil.
Working with the kids was fun. We got our hands dirty planting flowers, planting trees, pulling weeds, making black gold. Through a grant we made to elementary schools [$5k total; 5 schools], we built 3-bin composters made of timbers, posts and wire. Parents and students built them, and there were community contributions for some of the materials. (Big bang for buck.)
Black Gold. The dark, almost sweet-smelling, rich loamy soil that one makes from carbon and nitrogen sources. When I built a composter in my yard, I’d take a 50 gallon metal drum in the truck, drive down the road a few miles to the chicken houses, where I’d backup under the shoot and fill the drum with fresh chicken manure, a premium let’s-go material.
Slope of Hope Blog Posts
Slope initially began as a blog, so this is where most of the website’s content resides. Here we have tens of thousands of posts dating back over a decade. These are listed in reverse chronological order. Click on any category icon below to see posts tagged with that particular subject, or click on a word in the category cloud on the right side of the screen for more specific choices.
EVs on the Cheap!
Drilling, Baby, Drilling
I’m often puzzled that the GOP paints a picture of America’s oil industry as having been chained to a rock, unable to drill for oil, until such time as they could be cut lose to “drill, baby, drill“. Oil production has been exploding higher since freakin’ 2010, so I’m not sure where the held-back part is.
Occasional Gas Pains
American Oil Buyers
This quilted-looking graphic has some surprises, including the fact that the Netherlands (of all places) buys more of our oil than China.
