By Sara Tipton With the hottest days of summer quickly approaching for most of us, it’s important to know how to stay cool, especially when you’re working outside and doing those homestead chores. It’s really easy to get hot but here are a few inexpensive…
By Tyler Durden Fast-food chain Kentucky Fried Chicken (KFC) has debuted the “restaurant of the future,” one where automation dominates the storefront, and little to no interaction is seen between customers and employees, reported NBC News. After the chicken is fried and sides are prepped by humans, the order…
By Tess Pennington Living through a pandemic was not on anyone’s radar a few months ago. Sadly, when the world shut down, it caused our economy to shut down with it. Unemployment has skyrocketed and it’s safe to say we are all concerned about what…
By Sayer Ji, GreenMedInfo Sayer Ji reports on a new NPR investigation which reveals that despite $660 million in federal spending to set up 30+ field hospitals for the anticipated catastrophic case load from COVID-19, most of the emergency field hospitals had ZERO patients. The…
By Mayukh Saha The Kroger Co., aiming for #ZeroHungerZeroWaste, has launched a Dairy Rescue Program. The program will collect excess milk from dairy farmers and supply that to food banks. This is an effort to keep Americans in need fed during the Covid-19 pandemic crisis. Lockdown…
By Sara Burrows The American spirit lives on at a 300-year-old, cream-line dairy farm, where a farmer is working around the clock to bottle his own milk after his processor told him to dump it. Locals are lining up to support him. When Ben Brown’s…
By Anthony McLennan Farmers with excess supplies brought on by the coronavirus lockdown are cutting out the middle man and selling directly to consumers in order to minimise food waste. Lockdown regulations have resulted in the closure of many businesses and organizations which would usually…
By Elias Marat As the coronavirus pandemic continues to do damage to the United States economy, an increasing amount of working-poor and middle-class families are being pushed to the brink of poverty and food insecurity. However, the problem has also extended to farmers, who have…
By Tyler Durden Lebanon, the tiny Mediterranean country with hugely outsized debt, has become the first country in the Middle East to legalize the growing of cannabis in an unlikely precedent. The Lebanese Parliament approved a law on Tuesday which allows its growth for medicinal…
By Terry Trahan So, here we are, depending on location, a few weeks into this lockdown/stay at home madness. Above all else, I’m looking at this as an opportunity to look at where my plans have fallen apart, what went well in this first contact,…
By Anthony McLennan Platio Solar, a Budapest-based company, has come up with an innovative solution for alternative energy – solar pavers made from recycled plastic which can be built into driveways or pavements. According to the company’s website, a 20-square-meter system is able to generate…
By Dan Sanchez and Tyler Brandt Frustrated shoppers have reason to cry over spilled milk. Dairy farmers are dumping millions of gallons of the stuff. Meanwhile, some dairy products are sold out at many grocery stores across the country, due to intense demand for basic…
By Mac Slavo Toilet paper has become the hottest commodity of 2020 thanks to the panicked masses hoarding it in the hours after the coronavirus was dubbed a pandemic by the World Health Organization on March 11. But most preppers already had enough toilet paper,…
By Kara Stiff While the United States has halted much of its usual business due to COVID-19, my day-to-day life is pretty much unchanged. We never did eat out often or go to big public events, because we’ve deliberately crafted a home-based life. Oh, I…
By Neenah Payne Two kinds of fear are gripping America now. The first is held by people who believe the official story that COVID-19 started in a food market in China. Since they may be afraid of catching the virus and concerned about spreading it,…
By Anthony McLennan Outlets selling legal marijuana in the United States have shown huge increases in sales as the coronavirus spreads rapidly across the country. According to the cannabis data company Headset, sales in states where the purchase of marijuana is legal – including California,…
By Daisy Luther Whether you think the global pandemic is “just the flu” or you realize it’s the real deal, one thing is difficult to debate – many Americans are already feeling the economic pain being caused by the outbreak and the measures taken to…
By Neenah Payne Jon Morrow is the founder of Smart Blogger which offers courses to teach writers how to be successful. It is now the biggest site about blogging in the world! Jon has a dozen employees who work remotely from all over the world and…
By Neenah Payne The 2012 video “15-Yr-Old Kelvin Doe Wows M.I.T.” says Kelvin Doe is a 15-year-old engineering whiz from Sierra Leone. Kelvin taught himself to do very intricate things with very few resources. Kelvin created a battery to power homes because the electricity is…
By Michael Snyder We have already seen it happen all over the globe. In China it is becoming increasingly difficult for ordinary citizens to get essential supplies, there have been very long lines to buy face masks in Hong Kong and elsewhere, and in Italy…
