Category: natural systems

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Arkansas and the Gulf Dead Zone

Posted by:admin Posted On:13 Jul 2024

Is Arkansas to blame for the Gulf of Mexico Dead Zone? If you pay attention to ecology and conservation…and especially if you listen to me, you are aware of the dead zone in the Gulf of Mexico that usually gets

The Dead Zone movie poster with haunting picture of shadowy man standing at the edge of a grey stormy sea

2024: The Dead Zone

Posted by:admin Posted On:27 Jun 2024

Oh snap! You weren’t looking for a horror movie were you? Do you want the good news or the bad news first? Oh snap again! There is no good news here. There is something you should be horrified by though.


Explaining Dead Zones

Posted by:admin Posted On:26 Apr 2024

I have talked a lot about what I am trying to do with the River Refugium Project, and a little about the actual problem. To clearly illustrate what is happening so that the need for my system is understood, I


River Refugium Flow Chart

Posted by:admin Posted On:21 Apr 2024

This post will serve as a more visual description of the River Refugium process from a high level. Individual operations will vary according to nutrient density, local needs, value of crops locally, and other considerations. We start with our nutrient

using cotton to fix the environment

Using COTTON to fix the environment

Posted by:admin Posted On:14 Apr 2024

Seem like an improbability? Given the cold hard facts that cotton production uses massive amounts of water, requires heavy use of pesticides and herbicides, depends on intensive farming practices which are devastating to the soil, AND is a constant threat


The Evaporation Greenhouse

Posted by:admin Posted On:8 Apr 2024

Why we need an evaporation greenhouse and how it works. When considering my design to use aquaponics to remove excess nutrient and other pollutants from our river system and reduce apoxia levels and the dead zones at the mouth of