https://hacking.earth/blog daily 1.0 2026-02-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63baa23797fc6b2ebb5ca6e6/d5e59753-9532-439b-b145-7f5eb103ac3c/BookCover_Earth.png https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63baa23797fc6b2ebb5ca6e6/6ef5c906-c724-4913-8bb3-9f5012b8d20d/BookCover.png https://hacking.earth/blog/paris-1919 monthly 0.5 2026-02-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63baa23797fc6b2ebb5ca6e6/61b500eb-241e-42df-8d3c-7bf2ddd5a6c6/Halkin5Aaronsohn%5B1%5D.jpg Blog - Paris, 1919 - Indeed, Aaron Aaronson, a leading agronomist and early Zionist, leader may have been the first to formulate boundary requirements based specifically on future water needs. He considered that including the Hermon within the boundaries of Palestine was a strategic necessity, because of its contribution to the headwaters of the Jordan. He also believed that the Litani would play a role in the water balance of the future state of Israel. In those pre-desalination days, it was viewed as “essential for the necessary economic foundation of the country” by the World Zionist Organization. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63baa23797fc6b2ebb5ca6e6/6a278d15-b373-46be-be16-7a04f1b4fb99/426933.jpg Blog - Paris, 1919 - Make it stand out David Ben-Gurion meeting with Albert Einstein at Princeton University, in 1951. Ben Gurion had offered Einstein the presidency of Israel, but felt he “had to offer the post to him because it’s impossible not to. But if he accepts, we are in trouble”. Einstein, while supportive in the hope “of correcting a flagrant wrong”. was eager to refuse and claimed he lacked “both the natural aptitude and the experience to deal properly with people” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63baa23797fc6b2ebb5ca6e6/88357304-900b-4b9e-a842-6eda3ded231d/PASSIA_Map_PalestineUnderBritishMandate_1923-48%5B1%5D.gif Blog - Paris, 1919 - Make it stand out “Starting on the North at a point on the Mediterranean Sea in the vicinity south of Sidon [Saida], and following the watersheds of the foothills of [Mount] Lebanon as far as Jisr El-Karaon [The location of the present day Qaraoun dam] thence to El-Bire… …following the dividing line between the two basins of the Wadi El-Korn and the Wadi Et-Teim, thence in a southerly direction following the dividing line between the Eastern and Western slopes of the Hermon, to the vicinity west of Beit Jenn, then eastward following the northern watersheds of the Nahr Mughaniye close to and west of the Hedjaz Railway. In the east, a line close to and west of the Hedjaz Railway terminating in the Gulf of Akaba. In the south, a frontier to be agreed upon with the Egyptian Government. In the west, the Mediterranean Sea." https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63baa23797fc6b2ebb5ca6e6/c0ea0241-2bb7-46fc-9a76-474ee8f60c92/Suweida.png Blog - Paris, 1919 - By 2026, Israel may be closer to such a demand. The Arab cause isn’t helped by Jolani’s attempted genocide in Syria, and Suweida’s betrayal reminded the Druze of the Amorite ancestor’s & the old Kingdom of Bashan. To be fair, Israel was forced into supporting the Druze. It has little choice in the matter; it owes them “more than gratitude”… https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63baa23797fc6b2ebb5ca6e6/09bda4bd-adaf-4d79-a768-e1f30416743f/Huckabee_s.png Blog - Paris, 1919 - Make it stand out Summary of Huckabee’s theological nonsense at Tucker’s Interview. He must have read it in the Bible, in the original english. https://hacking.earth/blog/ai-brains-and-brawn monthly 0.5 2025-12-05 https://hacking.earth/blog/sueida-arab-stalingrad monthly 0.5 2025-12-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63baa23797fc6b2ebb5ca6e6/fcdc45f4-7c6d-43e9-9560-a5dcec772969/Ataturk.gif Blog - Sueida: Arab Stalingrad - It all felt rushed. Maybe because a lot more was at stake there. For the new Syrian regime and its Turkish patrons, Suwayda controls the old TAPLINE route. That route is the shortest link between Arabia’s oil and gas fields and Europe’s energy hungry markets. It is only real competitor to Turkey’s Ceyhan route, which now exports only Kurdistan’s oil. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63baa23797fc6b2ebb5ca6e6/87155e5c-0b18-4d39-afcb-1fda593c9cb8/HRS.png Blog - Sueida: Arab Stalingrad - It mattered little that Suwayda’s Druze opposed the previous Assad regime and helped his overthrow. That was yesterday. Even before, Suwayda’s Sultan Basha El-Atrash fought for Syrian independence from the French. But past deeds are just like money in the bank; they get inflated away in the heat of modern politics. What really matters is that Suwayda’s population is inconvenient to the new regime. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63baa23797fc6b2ebb5ca6e6/69b6e619-6dc0-41a8-b634-e94cdae72f97/Paulet_Newcombe_25_October_1920.png Blog - Sueida: Arab Stalingrad - Their supply lines were exposed to counter attacks. But what really saved the day was the TAPLINE. Both Ibn Saud and the US State Department had insisted on avoiding Palestine, a land that “may be, for at least another generation, a land of bitter Arab-Jewish conflict”. So, under Saudi pressure, the American and French pressured Israel to withdraw. They stayed at the Franco-British 1923 “Paulet-Newcombe” line, and even signed their only border demarcation agreement with the Lebanese. https://hacking.earth/blog/juststopoilbackseat monthly 0.5 2025-12-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63baa23797fc6b2ebb5ca6e6/9cccac0e-8325-4750-80c8-a24019e54a25/petrochemicals-fractionating-column-600.png Blog - Beyond “Stop Oil”? - Those lighter fractions then migrate upward There, they become trapped, which is why we often find them in igneous (volcanic basalts) & metamorphic (mantle) rocks. In addition, Lab experiments demonstrated the mechanism, and they explain why they tend to contain comparatively more helium… and how else did all those hydrocarbons end up on Titan & Neptune? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63baa23797fc6b2ebb5ca6e6/f0dfd593-970d-4286-8229-54b83f5335be/the-circular-flow-of-economic-activity%5B1%5D.png Blog - Beyond “Stop Oil”? - Civilization needs a mixture of energy sources. Our modern civilization rests on nine “energy pillars”, We get sustained power from heat-based sources (hydrocarbons: coal, oil, and natural gas; nuclear), as well as hydropower, geothermal, and biomass. We supplement those with intermittent power comes from wind and solar. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63baa23797fc6b2ebb5ca6e6/1a03f51f-a780-436e-b8d2-69ef7decf96d/12353909%5B1%5D.jpg Blog - Beyond “Stop Oil”? - Hydrocarbons alone act like a “population multiplier” Their combined energy is equivalent to that deployed by 10 workers serving every person on the planet, working 24 hours, seven days a week. With oil, a single farmer could feed 30 people in 1930, and can now feed more than 100 persons. Without oil, we give up on technology. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63baa23797fc6b2ebb5ca6e6/8df57253-b651-4078-b403-f96654acd718/Debate.png Blog - Beyond “Stop Oil”? - in an exchange with Ireland’s Mary Robinson, Sultan Ahmed Al Jaber, president of the summit, said: “You’re asking for a phase out of fossil fuel. Please show me a road map for a phase of fossil fuel that will allow, that will allow for sustainable socio-economic development. Unless you want to take the world back into caves.” https://hacking.earth/blog/the-ceiling-meets-the-floor monthly 0.5 2025-12-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63baa23797fc6b2ebb5ca6e6/53867f8d-ebad-4846-82c0-b244ef1bae3c/Map-of-locations-bombed-in-Lebanon-July-2006-Source-Adapted-from-Samidoun-Media-Team_W640%5B1%5D.jpg Blog - The “Ceiling Meets the Floor” - The 2006 war had ended in a stalemate: a tactical defeat for Israel, a strategic setback for Lebanon, and a strategic victory for Hezbollah. On August 11, 2006, the cease-fire was formalized by United Nations Security Council Resolution UNSC 1701,. It proved to be a resolution far more honoured in the breach than the observance; tension remained high, with Hezbollah (and Iran) consolidating positions in Southern Lebanon, and Israel carrying out frequent overflights, collecting information. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63baa23797fc6b2ebb5ca6e6/c3f4a48a-c837-4fa5-af0e-c2b11cb8749b/Lebanon-Israel-Maritime-Border-1024x796%5B1%5D.png Blog - The “Ceiling Meets the Floor” - And that’s a bit harder to settle. There, Israel’s control over Southern Lebanon would grant it full access over the largest offshore gas fields in the Eastern Mediterranean. It would also give it control over the most cost-effective export hub for Middle East oil and gas; the coast of the Southern Levant. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63baa23797fc6b2ebb5ca6e6/40133806-105f-4021-baef-1042bc016592/20160815_R44591_images_de3434b6e102b45f7cbf6f1fe257af58a42cff49%5B1%5D.png Blog - The “Ceiling Meets the Floor” - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://hacking.earth/blog/localism-a-closer-look monthly 0.5 2024-06-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63baa23797fc6b2ebb5ca6e6/9450651f-471f-4e29-ac60-999caf1dc43d/IDFDruzeFuneral.jpeg Blog - Localism: paying the price - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63baa23797fc6b2ebb5ca6e6/483897cd-b653-467d-854e-575406ffa5b8/500px-PikiWiki_Israel_8781_statue_of_sultan_al-atrash_in_hurfesh%5B1%5D.jpg Blog - Localism: paying the price - Bani-Ma3rouf, known as the Druze, have always been true to freedom. Their Freedom. They learned from persecution that Freedom was always local; it means land, control over one’s land. In disputed territories, how can the community remain? https://hacking.earth/blog/manageddecline monthly 0.5 2024-05-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63baa23797fc6b2ebb5ca6e6/ccccc258-5f2e-4b9e-8b1a-cefab78bc7f4/Complexity.png Blog - Managed Decline - Make it stand out Networks: Centralized, Decentralized, Distributed https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63baa23797fc6b2ebb5ca6e6/9ea59290-1d33-480e-807a-960590aaf944/War_Spain1936_POUM.jpg Blog - Managed Decline - Recall the 1936 Spanish Civil War: The Trotskyite-Marxist P.O.U.M Militia, a bunch of goons so terrible even Stalin "purged" them... but he "missed" George Orwell who went on to tell the tale, and foretell our tale https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63baa23797fc6b2ebb5ca6e6/45818993-c5ee-4e39-b05f-ba28dc2954da/Complexity_ArchaeVBacteria.png Blog - Managed Decline - Ever since the Archean Age, microorganisms evolved ways to exchange resources and information. Structure of Archaea and Bacteria Pilus https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63baa23797fc6b2ebb5ca6e6/86430107-e44a-49cc-8764-72b72e472d64/Fungus_MalheurNatForest.jpg Blog - Managed Decline - Make it stand out Extent of Malheur National Forest's "Humungous Fungus" https://hacking.earth/blog/decentralization-chaotic-rise monthly 0.5 2024-05-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63baa23797fc6b2ebb5ca6e6/fcb83355-3bf9-4f7a-a61f-c5d9cef4b6ba/Feudalism.png Blog - Decentralization: Chaotic Rise - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63baa23797fc6b2ebb5ca6e6/d3e0d826-3031-4ea7-a4f6-914914ed17d2/BarriersToEntry.png Blog - Decentralization: Chaotic Rise - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63baa23797fc6b2ebb5ca6e6/2eba2455-af08-44fa-a31d-fcaa047a0f31/GM1lrRaWgAAipTH.jpeg Blog - Decentralization: Chaotic Rise - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://hacking.earth/blog/tools-the-perils-of-foregetfullness monthly 0.5 2024-05-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63baa23797fc6b2ebb5ca6e6/db9a90a5-5392-4665-a30a-ea28fc226133/781d5cb69a933fbff147a302100b91b0%5B1%5D.jpg Blog - Tools: the Perils of Foregetfullness - Make it stand out Fire hawks in Australia's Northern Territory https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63baa23797fc6b2ebb5ca6e6/9fc38ba5-59ae-4e4f-9284-c7131b357321/2352352352ff5%5B1%5D.jpg Blog - Tools: the Perils of Foregetfullness - Make it stand out Fogbank https://hacking.earth/blog/deep-water-the-other-water-cycle monthly 0.5 2023-12-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63baa23797fc6b2ebb5ca6e6/c91109ca-5a24-4ee2-ae39-1eb7f1742832/EarthSTR_06.png Blog - Deep(er) Water - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63baa23797fc6b2ebb5ca6e6/734c67a4-09dd-4c72-9d7b-2bcb50b8b887/Map_Large-igneous-provinces-of-the-world-including-continental-fl-ood-basalt-provinces.png Blog - Deep(er) Water - Make it stand out Igneous Provinces https://hacking.earth/blog/xx0904r41tgnitic1vom9mfal9yqrr monthly 0.5 2025-11-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63baa23797fc6b2ebb5ca6e6/183fd463-9355-4fa1-a545-4c555c086fca/94933862c19edf233dcdc67123a8abcf%5B1%5D.jpg Blog - Fahrschulwanne - Make it stand out Luftwaffe: horses pulling a Dornier Do-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63baa23797fc6b2ebb5ca6e6/ed9edab9-78a1-4ff5-917a-eebf3cfa8c4f/Barbarossa-map-22June-25Aug%5B1%5D.jpg Blog - Fahrschulwanne - Make it stand out Operation Barbarossa: the Opening Gambit https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63baa23797fc6b2ebb5ca6e6/5fc13852-9843-4f25-9ff7-a8081b151232/War_Tank_Pzkpfw-1-Fahrschulwanne.png Blog - Fahrschulwanne - For war machines… …they accelerated synthetic fuel production; the "Fischer–Tropsch" process that produced high-quality diesel and lubricating oil, waxes, and some lower-quality motor gasoline, and the "Bergius" coal hydrogenation for high-quality aviation and motor gasoline.. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63baa23797fc6b2ebb5ca6e6/924cfcb5-6ebc-49e5-a6dc-cafae41fd000/gaz_210%5B1%5D.jpg Blog - Fahrschulwanne - France, under German occupation, had already done so. Trucks adapted with systems like Berliet's "Imbert" system moved goods and services at a brisk... 20 to 25 kmh. It was clunky, dirty, and slow, but good enough for wartime civilian use. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63baa23797fc6b2ebb5ca6e6/3fa96b0e-e9d3-4e75-afe9-5fdfcda673fb/War_Tank_Fahrschulpanzer-II.png Blog - Fahrschulwanne - Gazogene To the Werhmacht, those gazogene-powered tanks would have been useless in battle, but they were good enough to familiarize recruits with the equipment... https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63baa23797fc6b2ebb5ca6e6/1700450043608-9XCGPGMS5WAZPO2VE1K3/panzer-1-gas%5B1%5D.jpg Blog - Fahrschulwanne https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63baa23797fc6b2ebb5ca6e6/1700450141741-FETOHX7JHE29UMSW8HNR/fahrschulpanzer-V-tank%5B1%5D.jpg Blog - Fahrschulwanne https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63baa23797fc6b2ebb5ca6e6/1700450159376-XAO1P2SYGBC9G7605OKT/fahrschulepanzerwagen-VI-tiger-stadgas%5B1%5D.jpg Blog - Fahrschulwanne https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63baa23797fc6b2ebb5ca6e6/1700450176045-3923HJ13C6UZ539IM4HJ/fahrschulepanzerwagen-VI-tiger-tank-stadgas%5B1%5D.jpg Blog - Fahrschulwanne https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63baa23797fc6b2ebb5ca6e6/1700450218103-IPR6G0UHMSYQYKAYOOMJ/Ot866pe%5B1%5D.jpeg Blog - Fahrschulwanne https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63baa23797fc6b2ebb5ca6e6/1700450285239-V2UJIF7ENPDLIYY8DTJ6/Fahrschulwanne-panzerjager-38t-marder-III%5B1%5D.jpg Blog - Fahrschulwanne https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63baa23797fc6b2ebb5ca6e6/1700450305722-2NCOT2X4HQZKHNOC3A38/Fahrschulepanzerwagen-halftrack-sdkfz-250%5B1%5D.jpg Blog - Fahrschulwanne https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63baa23797fc6b2ebb5ca6e6/d773fb7b-2d39-4c27-a5ef-6c16575cd9fa/War_Tank_T34-KV1-a.png Blog - Fahrschulwanne - Within a year, the Soviets had rebuilt a good size tank force, with new T34 and KV1 models that were also far superior to Germany's Pzkpfw III and IV. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63baa23797fc6b2ebb5ca6e6/fdeacace-f70a-449b-af72-144363259c2d/Pennington1%5B1%5D.jpg Blog - Fahrschulwanne - Within a year, the Soviets had mobilized 8 times more forces than what Germans had expected. To face Germany's 138 divisions, and pin down the 31 divisions of Japan's Kwantung Army in Manchuria, the Soviets mobilized 800 Divisions. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63baa23797fc6b2ebb5ca6e6/94cd5751-d379-44ce-8618-2ca3628d9ba2/War_Tank_T34-KV1.png Blog - Fahrschulwanne - Plentiful coal and oil… …allowed the Soviets to speed through the industrial revolution. Energy, by itself, was not enough. So they squeezed the populations under their care; the factories captured by the Wehrmacht, were "gargantuan" in size, some employing "more than 60.000 workers [...] who nevertheless live like animals and such" https://hacking.earth/blog/the-golan-peace-park monthly 0.5 2023-11-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63baa23797fc6b2ebb5ca6e6/ab0ed7a9-2df5-4fcc-8b37-37809da3e5dd/Map_GolanHeights_Hydrostrategic2.png Blog - Israel-Syria: the Golan’s “Peace Park” - In the absence of cooperation to solve “the water problem”, Israeli strategic thinkers consider that “there can be no security arrangements”, in which case “Israel must do all it can to safeguard its existing water assets in the territories”. The non-paper has a “peace park” as its centerpiece. It has Four notable elements. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63baa23797fc6b2ebb5ca6e6/fae4fb26-f77e-4e02-b160-49c2447cb2a5/Water+Boundary+-+s.JPG Blog - Israel-Syria: the Golan’s “Peace Park” - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63baa23797fc6b2ebb5ca6e6/fe1e5b7f-94bd-4972-8881-8c101072fb8c/Map_ShebaaFarms.jpg Blog - Israel-Syria: the Golan’s “Peace Park” - In the Shebaa farms… Shebaa Farms in Context https://hacking.earth/blog/virtual-neighbors-when-outsiders-become-insiders monthly 0.5 2023-11-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63baa23797fc6b2ebb5ca6e6/ca87a8b2-a2d4-476d-b0b0-4d5c16f6bd6f/lend_lease_act_picture%5B1%5D.jpg Blog - Virtual Neighbors: When Outsiders Become Insiders - It’s another “Lend-Lease” In the past, this "lend-lease" program worked out well for the British... they only had to give up their accumulated wealth, and much of their secrets. Will Ukraine be similarly stripped? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63baa23797fc6b2ebb5ca6e6/0a2d3b60-2c18-4bd6-bad3-06069bbc6b04/32236466241_ca459d1dd9_b%5B1%5D.jpg Blog - Virtual Neighbors: When Outsiders Become Insiders - This, in turn, implies a US claim on the resources of the Dniepr, which roughly separates Ukraine from Moldova and Belarus. Which makes the United States a Virtual Riparian State of the Dnieper, the main watershed that feed Ukraine's fertile soils. This could complicate things... https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63baa23797fc6b2ebb5ca6e6/2dfb1f25-149d-46a0-8027-148b474933c4/Map_Iraq_Petroleum.png Blog - Virtual Neighbors: When Outsiders Become Insiders - ..and this cools down tempers a bit. As oil-importing countries involve themselves in the hydropolitics of the region, their status as “virtual riparian states" cools down tensions; shipments have to be made, one way or another. In Mesopotamia, this volatile “hydropolitical-security complex” is paradoxically keeping local “Water Wars” at bay. https://hacking.earth/blog/cbdc-unsustainable-money monthly 0.5 2023-11-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63baa23797fc6b2ebb5ca6e6/be50fcca-3be6-41cb-a7a8-21221bc72299/130344_iStock-507724227%5B1%5D.jpg Blog - CBDC: Unsustainable Money - A person could only count or “number” what belonged to them. None of the rulers of this world could justifiably carry out a census, since none of them owned the land, its resources, or its people. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63baa23797fc6b2ebb5ca6e6/ba847a8c-c462-402c-8ea9-a424efb18616/Boolean-Logic-model-1024x535%5B1%5D.jpg Blog - CBDC: Unsustainable Money - The real world is an “analog” system. In the real world, things can be many things at once, even contradictory. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63baa23797fc6b2ebb5ca6e6/6fb83a1f-74d3-473d-9335-911015cd438b/NINTCHDBPICT000631161486%5B1%5D.jpg Blog - CBDC: Unsustainable Money - A lioness' mouth is both a powerful killing tool that tears down prey, and a solid grip with which it carries its young An ever-hungry ruthless killing beast can chill and enjoy the sunset, or even adopt a potential prey. Even at the smallest level; inoffensive proteins can turn into a deadly prions once it folds differently. Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63baa23797fc6b2ebb5ca6e6/2e9c5290-bd93-42fd-b73e-2f3bae9967ca/fig1%5B1%5D.jpg Blog - CBDC: Unsustainable Money - Make it stand out how Chirality Changes things https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63baa23797fc6b2ebb5ca6e6/4de54c9c-1e4e-412e-81fa-793b429cfd3b/Gorbachev%2520broken%2520soviet%2520union%5B1%5D.jpg Blog - CBDC: Unsustainable Money - Make it stand out 1991: Mikhail Gorbachev dismayed at the shattered Soviet Union (Edmund S. Valtman) https://hacking.earth/blog/resource-wars-land-for-peace monthly 0.5 2023-11-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63baa23797fc6b2ebb5ca6e6/775b551d-729b-46f5-93a9-63ab1673499e/levantottoman%5B1%5D.jpg Blog - Resource Wars: Land for Peace? - In the Levant, the “land” was hard to define. To Israel, the territories conquered in 1967 were "disputed" and not "occupied". Any final peace agreement would require Israel to relinquish land. . https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63baa23797fc6b2ebb5ca6e6/23546bda-d014-4487-8735-2c955dd64c3b/Groundwater-Basins-and-Exposed-Aquifer-System%5B1%5D.jpg Blog - Resource Wars: Land for Peace? - Following the 1990’s and the recommendations of the "Schwarz-Zohar" report, hydrological studies delimited West Bank aquifers in three sectors, depending on their "pumping potential". In Sector "A", around Hebron, as well as from Ramallah to Mount Gilboa, pumping is either impractical or too costly. Sector "B" had "low pumping potential"; the average thickness of aquifers is less than 200 m, and soil permeability is too low. Sector "C" had "high pumping potential"; average thickness of aquifers can reach 600 m, and soil permeability is higher https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63baa23797fc6b2ebb5ca6e6/77da5b2f-43cf-493d-beee-3270b048171e/Map_WestBank_3.png Blog - Resource Wars: Land for Peace? - Then came the “Security Barrier”. Its construction follows the water. It began in 2000, effectively formalizing those divisions. By 2005, 55% of the territory of the West Bank were under Israeli control, in particular the zone "C" areas. While those “facts on the ground” guaranteed more than a quarter of Israel’s water needs, it reduced any possible Palestinian state to a confetti of dried up Bantustans. https://hacking.earth/blog/resource-wars-gaza monthly 0.5 2023-10-27 https://hacking.earth/blog/permanent-agriculture monthly 0.5 2023-07-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63baa23797fc6b2ebb5ca6e6/6a9bc2cb-310f-48af-95af-50f139cfc1c1/Portrait_RichardFeynman.jpg Blog - Permaculture: the Real Reset - To misquote Richard Feynman… …there is more “space” at the small-scale. This is demonstrated by approaches like permaculture, regenerative agriculture. At the scale where they are applied, they can be as productive than large-scale farmingMake it stand out https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63baa23797fc6b2ebb5ca6e6/4e72872b-fd38-4859-b854-fa0293b8cb7a/big-agribusiness.jpg Blog - Permaculture: the Real Reset - Make it stand out Agribusiness v Small Farms https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63baa23797fc6b2ebb5ca6e6/3f87d588-1597-4ff7-b651-dd1025d783ab/monoculture-pic.jpg Blog - Permaculture: the Real Reset - Make it stand out Monotonous culture… https://hacking.earth/blog/are-megacities-sustainable monthly 0.5 2023-07-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63baa23797fc6b2ebb5ca6e6/f61ef1e7-e557-47a6-b8ca-4638a97c997c/aerial-view-of-dubrovnik-old-town-surrounding-by-wall-croatia-AAEF05996.jpg Blog - France’s Riots: Rise the Megacity? - Make it stand out Dubrovnik: Inside & Outside the city walls. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63baa23797fc6b2ebb5ca6e6/fcf5abd1-24d7-4586-ad57-47d63802315f/EdgeEffect_wetland.jpeg Blog - France’s Riots: Rise the Megacity? - Make it stand out Ecosystem in the edge zone https://hacking.earth/blog/a7cfcs2yl55sl241hmawo86gmj394a monthly 0.5 2023-07-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63baa23797fc6b2ebb5ca6e6/3b448fce-97c4-4d86-a461-a0f76b763669/Map_ancient_silk_road.jpeg Blog - Trade and Sustainability - Make it stand out Ancient Silk Road https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63baa23797fc6b2ebb5ca6e6/a5b67fba-fbbf-46d5-a7b2-d81915a21fe3/Zenobia_1.png Blog - Trade and Sustainability - Around the Palmyra Oasis, an innovative civilization flourished, powered by the resources that travelled the fabled Silk Road. As a key trading node between the Parthian Empire and Rome, this Aramaic settlement had often sheltered Arabic nomadic raiders. It then rapidly grew into a unique city that combined Greco-Roman and Persian culture. As long as resources came, the city mitigated growing soil salination, and land degradation. When the Silk Road moved away, so did most of the inhabitants, especially that the groundwater was being depleted. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63baa23797fc6b2ebb5ca6e6/e6db15ad-7c5e-4f1e-96f5-0060f3aaf4c9/PolynesianExpansion.png Blog - Trade and Sustainability - Indeed, genetic analysis of the lowly sweet potato strongly suggest that it spread from the Peru-Ecuador region and into Polynesia since prehistoric times. And the first Europeans report seeing chicken, an Indochina domesticate, on Easter Island. Rapa Nui may have been an important hub, for a while. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63baa23797fc6b2ebb5ca6e6/70babadf-02ae-4906-a47c-a7868566f4ce/RapaNui_Timeline.jpg Blog - Trade and Sustainability - Make it stand out New Timeline for the history of Rapa Nui https://hacking.earth/blog/2023 monthly 0.5 2023-01-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63baa23797fc6b2ebb5ca6e6/7b565a22-95e7-40d1-a7eb-5aea29ffd94d/s-Traffic.JPG Blog - Twenty-Twenty-Twoo, too https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63baa23797fc6b2ebb5ca6e6/ba848888-21de-4a5c-bf4a-c5f7e94fb4e2/TAMU+-+The+Bat+-+Tobacco.jpg Blog - Twenty-Twenty-Twoo, too - In its search for the “greater good”, the “nanny-state” evolves. I morphs into a “security-state”, a “pharma-state”. In the search for a “green economy” that could only evolve from the ground-up, The central state moves into a top-down “eco state”. It is unable to offer solutions, too impatient to nurture them. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63baa23797fc6b2ebb5ca6e6/355e1310-2c6d-4040-b5c3-c017fc3a0cd5/Zizanie.JPG Blog - Twenty-Twenty-Twoo, too - The Daawa is not uniform. 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The effect causes the air flow that enters the Qanat's access shaft to attach itself to the surface of the water. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63baa23797fc6b2ebb5ca6e6/51d1da29-fe0d-4eb8-ac9d-b75df265ee7c/Geothermal_3_Windcatcher.png Blog - Geothermal: "Puits Canadien" - Make it stand out Simplified Layout of a Qanat Windcatcher https://hacking.earth/blog/energiewende monthly 0.5 2023-06-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63baa23797fc6b2ebb5ca6e6/4d4ec25d-46f1-4f21-9d5d-916e290bd2ea/fig10-germany-energy-mix-energy-sources-share-primary-energy-consumption-2020.png Blog - EnergieWende - Still, German engineers persevered. 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