The Joule Box

04/21/2026

https://youtube.com/shorts/Ban7o0Oa5vo?si=hkr01CtHlGoZD_yQ

04/17/2026

How to fill a garden bed. The Onions prevent root eating nematodes from destroying the strawberries 🍓

After building many raised beds over the years, trying different materials and approaches, this is the method that's worked best me.Layering wood, organic ma...

09/14/2024

We have an impact everywhere we go.

A recent park visitor to Carlsbad Caverns National Park in New Mexico dropped a bag full of Cheetos that created a “huge impact” on the cave’s ecosystem, rangers said.

09/13/2024

Apparently, this waterproof, dense mushroom was grown into a boat 🛶 Now she’s working on making furniture and packing materials to replace styrofoam 🤓

“Mushrooms are here to help us — they’re a gift,” college student Katy Ayers said. “They’re our biggest ally for helping the environment.”

09/13/2024

Here’s a genius and basically free idea for a self watering pot that you can forget about four weeks 🤩 also perfect for vacations 😍

There are lots of tutorials showing how to make a self-watering planter, but most methods make pretty ugly pots from 5-gallon buckets. So we figured out how to turn ANY pretty pot into a self-watering planter.

11/18/2023

Perfect potatoes… that are covered in a pesticide that makes them inedible for 6 weeks while they off-gas 😲

11/18/2023

Here is an example of how an arid, rocky, degraded desert landscape with little rainfall /per can be regenerated 🌱

The final update from Al Baydha Project Co-founder Neal Spackman, 9 years in. How desertification resulted from the loss of an indigenous land management sy...

04/10/2023

04/01/2023

Yay! One of my favorite things I do each year!

03/29/2023

This is an excellent video. The photographer did an excellent job of editing the video too, so there were no extra wasted times because of awkward gaps. Bravo 👏 

What happens when a plain patch of grass is rewilded with a pond, native wildflowers, and lots of brush piles and tall native grasses for local birds to

03/27/2023

On Monday and Tuesday, you may be able to catch a glimpse of Jupiter, Mercury, Venus, Uranus and Mars all at once.