INDOOR FARMING

With the amount of farmable acreage seemingly shrinking all the time, access to fresh fruits and vegetables can be hard to come by. Small-scale produce can be prohibitively expensive, and cheaper options from far-flung corners of the globe carry a hidden environmental cost. But one well-funded startup called Plenty believes that its technology harbors the secret to bringing “backyard quality” produce to the masses, and hopes that its newest indoor growing facility in Kent, Washington, will prove it.

At just 100,000 square feet, Plenty’s new facility will be 99 percent smaller than a typical American farm. But Plenty’s goal is to optimize every inch of that available space for ideal cultivation. Fruits and vegetables grow on 20-foot-tall towers, bathed in LED lights and connected to a wealth of data-collecting microsensors.

VICTORY AT SEA X 2

Naz, November 8th There is a guy on this one. Click on it to enlarge.

whaaooo

My assessment: YOU'RE CRAZY

Steps / Tres beach yesterday

I love this place and that is why is does my heart and soul good to see it's put back together.
Rincon, PR November 10, 2017

Trump Bodyguard Sent on McDonald’s Runs Because White House Food Not Yummy Enough

 The Black Swan motor yacht

A NEW LIBRARY IN CHINA

More millennials are venturing outdoors than any other age group

“The great news for millennials is that their generation is realizing what the outdoors has to offer — a healthier, more active lifestyle that allows you to try new experiences with friends,” Christine Fanning, executive director of the Outdoor Foundation, told GrindTV.

The early twenty something's had me worried there for a few years.

OCTOBER 31, 2017

Pelicans, MELBOURNE, FLORIDA

Melbourne Beach

Putting Rincon back together

Rincon Surf Report – Friday, Oct 20, 2017

Thank you all for your donations and continued support! It’s been about a month and here’s where we’re at - some places have water from pumping stations running on diesel generators, there is food to buy at the grocery stores, there is gasoline with no wait, the roads have been cleared pretty well. Everyone has been working hard to clean up this town. Rincon is awesome. Still no electricity anywhere in Rincon and still only one working LTE tower that gives working data on Claro phones. Voice and text on ATT and T-Mobile seems to be improving at random and more towers are coming on by generator power. It seems rebuilding is now the next phase and that is what we will do! 

Dr. Walter Munk

The Father of Surf Forecasting Turns 100

Dr. Walter Munk, the world's greatest living oceanographer, reaches the century mark

Surfers the world over have the world's greatest living oceanographer to thank for creating the knowledge base that surf forecasting and wave models are built upon. But not only surfers are grateful for Dr. Munk's century spent on Earth, millions across Europe are thankful they still speak their native tongue today -- his ability to forecast storms and waves allowed his successful planning and direction of Allied Forces through the D-Day invasion, leading to the liberation of Europe

Dr. Munk and the Dalai Lama

Dr. Munk with the Surfline forecast team. 

BEAUTIFUL STUFF

GO BRUCE !

From a recent photo essay on SURFLINE

 Anchored here in the early seventies.  There are two deserted beaches with two entry points. One is a 3 day hike the other being by boat. Nui Pali Coast, Hawaiian Islands.

Photo: Pete Saloutos. When it comes to photography my bumper sticker says "YOU CAN'T BEAT PETE" 

IT'S SANTANA WINDS NOT SANTA ANNA.

You balk at the so-called evolution of language

Like Larry in Curb, who excoriates people who say “LOL” instead of actually laughing, or find yourself enraged by the fact you can no longer merely order a coffee, but must instead ask for a “vanilla bullsh*t latte cappa-thing” in Starbucks, you’ve become an lingua-pedant of the highest degree. You still pointedly order “chips” anywhere that deigns to sell you “fries,” and correct people who say “upmost” instead of “utmost”. You also hate anyone who uses the rising inflection at the end of each sentence, or who preface every second word with “like”.