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Personal Climate Resilience: The Underground Greenhouse

Submitted by Gerrit on Fri, 03/25/2016 - 4:05pm

This is a follow-up from conversations here on c99 on runaway climate change. "Um, G, tell me you're not a nutbar survivalist." No. Well, not yet :=) I'll write more later on the various options or levels of personal sustainability for climate change. Here is a follow-up on structures for growing plants year-round in a climate-controlled greenhouse (in an economical and fairly low-tech manner.) There are a number of existing technologies. Our family has chosen the underground greenhouse as a forthcoming project. Saving up every loose penny! I've got lots of photos and some links below.

The most hated Presidential Field in modern political history - save one

Submitted by fladem on Fri, 03/25/2016 - 3:18pm

like history - and the history of polling in particular.  It's an odd field - not many worry about getting all of the 1984 Wisconsin Primary polls.

But you find out stuff - stuff no one else really gets. So I was plowing through the recent national numbers: and was actually pretty stunned.  

Hillary's numbers on average are actually getting worse - the numbers in this chart are new lows.  But Cruz is every bit as hated.  And Trump.

JAMA on mental health of trans women

Submitted by Robyn on Fri, 03/25/2016 - 2:07pm

The Journal of the American Medical Association published a new study on Monday: Psychiatric Diagnoses and Comorbidities in a Diverse, Multicity Cohort of Young Transgender Women

I. e.-- Are transgender women just inherently nuts or we get help to be that way?

Objective: To report the prevalence of mental health, substance dependence, and comorbid psychiatric disorders assessed via clinical diagnostic interview in a high-risk community-recruited sample of young transgender women.

Results: Of the 298 transgender women, 41.5% of participants had 1 or more mental health or substance dependence diagnoses; 1 in 5 (20.1%) had 2 or more comorbid psychiatric diagnoses. Prevalence of specific disorders was as follows: lifetime and current major depressive episode, 35.4% and 14.7%, respectively; suicidality, 20.2%; generalized anxiety disorder, 7.9%; posttraumatic stress disorder, 9.8%; alcohol dependence, 11.2%; and nonalcohol psychoactive substance use dependence, 15.2%.

BNR Editorials from TOP for 3-25-16

Submitted by MCUDemocracyFan on Fri, 03/25/2016 - 1:58pm

Today's BNR LTE roundup is early on account of Good Friday shutting down county offices early. (To which I say, if they're closing early on Good Friday, I should get Rosh Hashannah and Yom Kippur off.)

Please note: This is NOT BNR by LieparDespin over at TOP. This is ONLY the Letters to the Editor, a handful of videos and tweets that were posted in comments, mostly by LoneStarMike. Please keep LD tipped and recced over at TOP:

Bernie News Roundup by LieparDestin

All in for Tim Canova

Submitted by Arrow on Fri, 03/25/2016 - 1:42pm

What is a Tampa Bay progressive to do(besides phone bank for Bernie)?

I'm going all in for Tim Canova...canvas...phone bank...what ever it takes.

Maybe people can show him some love...
Donate here:
https://secure.actblue.com/contribute/page/timcanova2016

Maybe even make donation in the amount of (something).99 so they know where it came from.

Hellraisers Journal: Warning Sounded, "Hanging of Colorado Officials Would Cause Industrial War"

Submitted by JayRaye on Fri, 03/25/2016 - 12:30pm
The worm turns at last, and so does the worker.
Let them dare to execute their devilish plot and every state
in this union will resound with the tramp of revolution.
-Eugene V Debs

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Sunday March 25, 1906
From Nation's Capital: Reporter Warns, "Labor Is Stirred to Its Depths"

Here's a Thought about Bernie's Inevitability

Submitted by bondibox on Fri, 03/25/2016 - 11:35am

I read today that Elizabeth Warren may soon come out with an endorsement for a Presidential Candidate. And I thought 'that's curious' because an earlier endorsement would have made a big difference in the current standing of the race. So why would she withhold an endorsement until it would make a lesser impact?

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