Sustainable Living?

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It is best to live in a community and to be part of a civil society. A place where people care about the well-being of others. Other ways of life seem uncivil or harsh, regardless of their sustainability:

Apollo 11 F-1 Engine Recovery (Rocket Science)→

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Bezos Expeditions:

“The F-1 rocket engine is still a modern wonder — one and a half million pounds of thrust, 32 million horsepower, and burning 6,000 pounds of rocket grade kerosene and liquid oxygen every second. On July 16, 1969, the world watched as five particular F-1 engines fired in concert, beginning the historic Apollo 11 mission. Those five F-1s burned for just a few minutes, and then plunged back to Earth into the Atlantic Ocean, just as NASA planned. A few days later, Neil Armstrong stepped onto the moon.”

A 1950s engine remains a marvel of invention. Sometimes we need to explore the past to help us in the present. Evolution of this rocket science:

Lots of Cars and Trucks, No Traffic Signs or Lights: Chaos or Calm?→

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Sarah Goodyear, reporting for Altantic Cities:

“No traffic lights. No traffic signs. No painted lines in the roadway. No curbs. And 26,000 vehicles passing every day through a traditional village center with busy pedestrian traffic.”

Watch the video. Mitigating the dependence of vehicles through town.

About a third of US rivers contaminated with agricultural runoff→

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Scott K. Johnson, reporting for Ars Technica:

“A new survey of streams and rivers, performed by the EPA, provides a greater sense of the scale of the challenge. While industrial pollution, like mercury, remains a concern, agricultural runoff, in the form of sediment and fertilizers, is now far more widespread.”

This use of land as large unintended consequences.