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[thisoldhouse]

Read This Before You Remodel a Kitchen

Don't visit a showroom or meet with a pro without our expert advice on creating the cook space you've always coveted

See details at the This Old House website

Photograph by Helen Norman

[orionlancasterr]

I’ve never felt more seen than the first time I’d listened to The Magnus Archives and Jon was talking about how when he was a kid he’d read anything. It didn’t matter as long as it engaged his brain and he wouldn’t reread books or often finish series because he found it boring once he figured out an authors patterns.

[madewithonerib]

TIME: Climate Change is Coming for Your Bananas

Affordable and nutritious, bananas have long been a supermarket staple for consumers around the globe. But that could soon change, as climate change is contributing to a global shortage of the world’s most consumed fruit.  

Shifting climate patterns—including warming temperatures and humidity—are exposing crops around the world to diseases. “This has been going on for many, many years,” says Mohammad Abu-Ghazaleh, chairman and CEO of the agriculture company Fresh Del Monte. “It hasn't happened overnight.”

Two known diseases, Black Sigatoka and Tropical Race 4, are already present in key growing regions around the world, including Colombia and Peru, and experts expect that further spread of disease will have a large impact on supply over time. “This is a trend which will continue to accelerate,” Abu-Ghazaleh says. He estimates it will take about two or three decades for supply chains to be majorly disrupted, “unless there is some solution to the diseases that are overtaking the plantations in many parts of the world.”

The banana industry employs more than one million workers globally— and is expected to be hard hit by the climate crisis. A study published in March in Nature Food found that rising temperatures and socio-economic constraints such as access to export markets and government subsidies could reduce the areas suitable for growing by 60% in Latin America and the Caribbean. Currently, the two regions are responsible for 80% of banana exports for supermarkets around the world.

Bananas are the fourth most important food crop globally, with more than 400 million people relying on the fruit for 15% to 27% of their daily calories, and they’re not the only crop at risk. The looming banana shortage is just one way that climate change is going to threaten food security over the next several decades. Other staple crops, including corn, soybeans, rice, and wheat are likely to face shortages as hotter days reduce yields. 

“Very hot days… even for small amounts of time during the entire growing season, can cause large losses in the yield you get from a given plot of land at the end of the growing season,” says Andrew Hultgren, assistant professor of agricultural and consumer economics at the University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign. 

Climate models show that mitigation efforts are the best ways we can reduce climate impacts on our food supply. “Mitigation of warming, mitigation of our fossil fuel consumption, is probably one of the most effective things we can do to protect the future of global agriculture,” says Hultgren.

How do you eat banana bread?

C01: With my hands, like a piece of toast R01: Do you put anything on it or just eat it as it is? R02: @alumiiinium I personally don't, but I have seen some people put butter on it R03: Agree, like a croissant is pre-buttered toast, a banana bread is pre-jammed.

C02: what would you use as a substitute for banana if they go extinct? R01: Plantain, which is a type of banana but not really a banana. anximushroom R02: @anximushroom I feel like we may become like Fry one day, someone somewhere will have a forgotten stash of bananas which has somehow been preserved thru dehydration & rediscovered at a time when some conglomerate invents a way of replicating the unique banana taste thru genetic cloning or some sci-fi trick generating zillions of dollars which they will stop at nothing to prevent anyone else from going gangbusters with also..thus knocking out its closest competitors like the plantain. We already know ppl love the taste of banana & chocolate together, long line-ups at the fairs in the Summer proves this out. But what is one to do with cravings?

C03: Rip and tear until it is done. aceinuppercase C04: You slice the bread thinly and serve with milk/plant milk. oldpristineartproject

[ktrosesworld]

"Tony Tyler had always known his big sister Rose to be sad. Ever since he could remember, she had been distracted and lonely, often just sitting in the garden by herself. The four year old didn't quite understand it, other than his Mummy explaining that Rose had lost someone before he was born, someone she loved very, very dearly."

[mandmiracle]

Coming back to home

It is crazy that everything is just the same when you come home. And you realize how much you have changed. 

[fuckyeahrandyorton-blog]

Did you know?

Back in the day, It was John Cena who suggested to Randy that he should get a hair cut because according to him, "short and clean hair attracts the girls."