Posted: Feb 12, 2021 11:34 PM CT | Last Updated: February 13
Kathleen Napokesik stays in bus shelters to keep warm, sometimes sleeping there overnight. During the day, she and her friends ride Winnipeg Transit to escape the brutal cold.(Gary Solilak/CBC)
Armed with a pile of blankets and a backpack on her lap everything she owns Kathleen Napokesik is taking shelter inside a freezing, unheated Winnipeg bus shack, even though she knows she might die there. No income, no place to live, just homeless … and it hurts. Especially being in a wheelchair, she said.
The 47-year old has a spinal cord injury and trouble moving her legs. It s –30 C, but she and her nephew have already spent several hours huddled together inside the bus shelter on Portage Avenue in front of the Mountain Equipment Co-Op.
Corn field in Black Hawk County, Iowa.
Iowa State University agronomy professor Matthew Liebman has been experimenting with crop rotation as a means of reducing waterway-polluting fertilizer usage, according to a recent article in National Geographic.
Liebman used a three- and four-crop rotation – consisting mostly of corn, soy, oats, and alfalfa – across 22 acres. The study concluded that crop rotation not only reduced nitrogen levels – a byproduct of fertilizers that pollute waterways – but also produced higher corn yields. These pollutants contribute to contamination in the Mississippi River which has lead to a virtual organic “dead zone” where the river empties into the Gulf of Mexico.