How to start tackling your home’s water and climate footprint Tik Root (Michael Parking for The Washington Post) In 2014, engineer Shahzeen Attari asked 457 university students to draw a picture of how they thought water reached the taps in their homes, and where it went after that. Nearly a third of the diagrams missed the water treatment plant, and almost two-thirds forgot the wastewater treatment plant. On one, the pipes going into the house were labeled “magic.” Most of the time it
does feel like magic. But Attari, an associate professor at Indiana University who studies the psychology behind energy use, wants to see a better public understanding of the mechanics behind the mystique. “If you don’t understand it, you might not value it,” she says. “And if you don’t value it, you might not understand why it’s important to conserve.” How our brains make it hard to solve climate change
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Between Arizona, Mississippi, Montana, South Dakota and New Jersey – all states who have expanded medical and/or adult-use cannabis legalization statewide – there are over 143 million acres of agricultural land for over 20 million Americans.
But what about the cannabis environmental impact?
The economic possibilities may have investors and entrepreneurs and seeing green, but as climate disasters ravage the United States with floods, fires and storms, one must not forget the impact cannabis mass cultivation can have on local ecology.
The connotation that marijuana is grown by hippies up in the mountains with only the most holistic, organic practices is a far cry from a multibillion dollar industry that packages everything in child-proof plastic while competing against a robust black market where cultivation, manufacturing and testing standards can be circumvented.