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• About - Return to Now

  Return to Now is a news blog dedicated to helping humans live fully in the present, by gleaning tips from our primitive ancestors to help us create a more harmonious future. Topics include permacultur...

• The Spiraling Environmental Costs of Lithium Batteries Could Rival Fossil Fuel

  Without a renewable alternative to lithium batteries, electric cars will be no friendlier than fossil fuel As we move into the era of “renewable” electricity, let us remember that the minerals used to...

• Why Permaculture is the Future of Food, if There is a Future of Food

  
 Permaculture is not only sustainable, it’s regenerative, and can heal the damage caused by conventional agriculture. When someone claimed to have a “sustainable” farm, the late biologist and permacu...

• New Nanofiber Membrane Removes 99.9% of Salt from Seawater Cheaply and Efficiently

  Korean engineers develop nanofiber material that desalinates 15 times more efficiently than conventional saltwater distillers   Korean scientists have taken microfiber to a new level – nanofiber – and...

• 15 Longest Living Perennial Flowers That'll Bloom Year After Year and Never Need to be Replanted

  Perennial flowers also make excellent cover crops for your veggie garden, improving soil and keeping pests away! Why plant annual flowers every year, when you can plant once and be done? Perennials ar...

• 7 Easy Ways to Live Without Disposable Plastic

  Time to evolve beyond disposable plastic. Here’s how: Plastic is piling up in our landfills, oceans, beaches, drinking water, food and bodies. It’s destroying our health and our planet, and it’s never...