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01/03/2017 / By Daniel Barker

Oregon’s criminalization of rainwater collection is now complete: Saving water runoff will get you thrown in jail

Officials in Jackson County, Oregon have again shown their disrespect for private property rights, telling a local couple they must tear out a 40-year-old two-acre pond located on the property they bought two years ago. Jackson is the same county that recently imprisoned and fined another area landowner, Gary Harrington, for illegally collecting rainwater – […]

12/06/2016 / By Daniel Barker

Svalbard Global Seed Vault: 860k seed samples stored for survival in case of a global extinction event

You may have heard about the Svalbard Global Seed Vault – a huge underground concrete structure dug into the side of a frozen mountain in a remote archipelago halfway between the Norwegian mainland and the North Pole – but is the facility really there to benefit mankind by protecting crop diversity, or does it serve […]

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