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"In the new Congress, we are encountering a severe backlash against essential environmental safeguards. Under the guise of reining in federal spending, anti-environmental forces are attempting to gut the enforcement of federal protections and to put the brakes on EPA just as it was beginning to make real progress...." - Frederick Middleton, Southern Environmental Law Center, US
"Writing this Report has been a disheartening process. ...the bad and the positively ugly indisputably outweigh the good. At this stage, the likelihood of the Coalition Government living up to its 'Greenest Government Ever' pledge is vanishingly remote. ...it is clear that that the 'growth at all costs' lobby has won out over the advocates of 'sustainable economic development'.... " - Jonathon Porritt, Forum for the Future, UK
"For 17 years, officials from nearly 200 countries have gathered under the auspices of the United Nations to try to deal with one of the most vexing questions of our era — how to slow the heating of the planet. ... Every year they fail to significantly advance their own stated goal of keeping the average global temperature from rising more than 2 degrees Celsius ...above preindustrial levels." - John Broder, New York Times
It's a grim situation.
Environmentalists are making some progress, like reducing local pollution, setting aside conservation parts, and saving some species from extinction. At the international level we've solved the stratospheric ozone hole problem. This was a tremendous victory.
However, we are winning a few battles but losing the war.
The sad truth is that traditional approaches like grassroots campaigns, lobbying for stricter regulations, enforcement of existing laws, and trying to elect "better" politicians are simply not working on the sustainability problem as a whole.
So what can we do?
We can take a different approach by changing how we solve problems.
The approach begins with the realization that:
A root cause is the deepest cause in a causal chain that can be resolved. If the deepest cause in a causal chain cannot be resolved, it's not a real problem. It's the way things are.
Millions of people have worked on the sustainability problem for generations. Countless and frequently brilliant solutions have been tried. While some have worked at the local level, and a few have worked at the international level like the ozone hole problem, none have worked at the systemic level.
Because popular solutions do not resolve root causes.
Systemic means affecting most or all of a system rather than a small portion of the system. Nearly the entire human population is behaving unsustainably, so the sustainability problem is clearly a systemic problem. It therefore requires systemic solutions, ones that makes deep fundamental changes to the system by resolving the root causes. There is no other way.
Systemic solutions resolve root causes. A systemic solution is the same thing as a root cause solution. Systemic solutions change the fundamental way a system works by changing the structure of its key feedback loops. For example:
The solution to the autocratic ruler problem was democracy. The root cause of despicable autocratic rulers like kings, warlords, and dictators was there was no easy way for an oppressed population to replace a bad ruler with a good one. Democracy resolved the root cause with addition of the voter feedback loop.
Consider the recurring wars in Europe problem. Its root cause was excessive competition over limited resources. This was resolved by the European Union, which created feedback loops binding all members of the union together, primarily via free trade within a single common market.
Note how popular sustainability solutions are nowhere near as fundamental as the above two solutions. Also note the elegant simplicity of the two solutions.
A grassroots activism campaign is not a systemic solution. Neither is lobbying to get new regulations passed. Neither is enforcement of existing laws to get polluters to clean up their act. These are not systemic solutions because they don't change the system in a fundamental manner by resolving root causes. Instead, they change one little thing in the system. They are thus incremental solutions that whack away at intermediate causes.
They are also symptomatic solutions, because they treat the symptoms rather than the root causes. For example, the Sierra Club's Beyond Coal campaign in the US seeks to end construction of new coal power plants and retire the rest. It's a symptomatic solution because all those coal plants are symptoms of a deeper problem. WHY isn't industry aggressively looking for more sustainable energy? WHY do environmental NGOs have to sue to get existing laws enforced. Isn't that something government should be doing?
Questions like these reveal there are deeper causes. A series of additional WHY questions would ultimately lead to the root causes of the sustainability problem. These are the causes environmentalists need to be addressing because all problems arise from their root causes.
Systemic problems requires systemic solutions, because only a systemic solution can resolve a root cause.
Let's put on our systems thinking hats and get started on finding those solutions.
The graph shows we're not doing too well on solving the environmental sustainability problem. The world's ecological footprint crossed what one planet can support sometime in the 1970s. It's now at about 50% overshoot and growing, with not the slightest sign of turning downward.
The six dots show some of the world's best efforts to solve the problem. But despite these efforts the footprint keeps right on marching upward. Footprint growth has become as unstoppable as a runaway elephant.
Why is this? Why, despite over 40 years of prodigious effort, has the human system failed to solve the sustainability problem?
That's the question Thwink.org asked in 2001 when we begin working on the problem. After quite a struggle due to the overwhelming complexity of the problem, we've come to a conclusion. The reason for solution failure is the right tools are not being applied. Fortunately this is easily corrected by switching to the right tools, just as so many fields of science and business have done once they figured out what tools they needed to solve their central problems.
Thwink.org offers a comprehensive approach to solving the sustainability problem. It's an analytical, tool driven, systemic approach. Here's a comparison of the present approach and the analytical approach:
Present Approach
1. Intuitive due to its strategy of:
- Find the truth (the direct solutions)
- Promote the truth (about the solutions)
- If that fails, magnify the truth (inspiration)
2. Not working because it doesn't resolve the root causes of the problem.
3. No deep analysis of the complete problem, so solutions must be intuitively derived.
4. Leads to superficial solutions that tend to fail because they target intermediate rather than root causes.
Analytical Approach
1. Analytical due to use of appropriate tools:
- Root cause analysis
- Process driven problem solving
- Model based analysis
2. Can work because it resolves the root causes of the problem.
3. Deep analysis of the complete problem, so solutions can be rationally derived.
4. Leads to systemic solutions with a high probability of success because each solution resolves a systemic root cause.
To summarize, present approaches use an intuitive approach that stops at intermediate causes. This leads to pushing on low leverage points with superficial solutions. By contrast the analytical approach uses analysis to find the root causes. This leads to pushing on high leverage points with systemic solutions. The global environmental sustainability problem is clearly a difficult systemic problem if there ever was one, so only the analytical approach can solve it.
If you feel the present approach can work then you will find little of interest on this website, because absolutely nothing here takes the intuitive approach.
On the other hand, if you feel an analytical approach could do better, and possibly a lot better, then you will find Thwink.org to be an information rich, educational storehouse of knowledge designed to help you solve your problems. But beware. The new approach is completely different from the old one. It's as different as alchemy and science, and the Dark Ages and The Renaissance. That's why we say:
Welcome to a Whole New Way of Thwinking
What follows is a brief introduction to the analytical approach:
Solving a problem begins with defining it. In 1972 The Limits to Growth project and book defined the global environmental sustainability problem so convincingly it provoked the world into thinking about the TOTAL problem and the necessity of solving it. The key analysis tool was system dynamics modeling. This allowed understanding system behavior that had never been deeply and correctly understood before.
The first step - The Limits to Growth took the all-important first step of defining the sustainability problem in its totality. However, four decades later our problem remains unsolved. It continues to grow worse with no overall solution in sight, despite countless attempts at local, national, and international levels to solve the problem.
The second step - The work at Thwink.org is an effort to help break this impasse by introducing the novel use of a few key tools. This will allow us to take the next step and solve the problem. One of these tools is system dynamics modeling, because buried in the human system is behavior so complex and counter-intuitive it cannot be understood without modeling.
On the left are the core feedback loops of the World3 model of The Limits to Growth. These loops are the ones causing exponential growth and, for most scenarios after a period of overshoot, collapse.
On the right are the core feedback loops of the Dueling Loops model. These two loops appear to explain why the human system has so far been unable to solve the sustainability problem. Fortunately these loops can tell us much more. By expanding the model to include more relevant detail, we can drill down to the fundamental layer of the problem and find its root causes. That data, once refined and confirmed by further research, will lead to solution.
Here's the big picture of what the preliminary analysis at Thwink.org has found. The most important conclusions center on:
The Four Subproblems and Their Root Causes.
Overcoming change resistance is the crux of the problem because as long as the system resists change, the other subproblems cannot be solved.
The root cause appears to be effective deception in the political powerplace. Too many voters and politicians are being deceived into thinking sustainability is a low priority and need not be solved now.
Too many large corporations are dominating political decision making to their own advantage, as shown by their opposition to solving the sustainability problem. This indicates the top two social life forms, Corporatis profitis and Homo sapiens, are improperly coupled. The right feedback loops are missing.
The root cause appears to be mutually exclusive goals.
The model of problem solving that governments use to keep problems like sustainability solved has drifted so far from effectiveness that political decision making can no longer solve problems like sustainability.
The root cause appears to be low quality of political decisions.
The world's economic system is excessively degrading the environment. This indicates the economic system and the environment are improperly coupled. The right feedback loops are missing.
The root cause appears to be high transaction costs for managing common property sustainably.
The great benefit of looking at the problem this way is we can see why we've been unable to solve it. Popular solutions (like carbon taxes, stronger pollution laws, corporate social responsibility campaigns, and promotion of The Three R's of reduce, reuse, recycle) have not come anywhere close to addressing the root causes of the problem. They have instead, as Henry David Thoreau wrote in Walden in 1854, been "hacking at the branches of evil." These are the intermediate causes. One must instead "strike at the root."
A more precise analytical approach like this is the future of environmentalism.
Einstein told humanity that "A new type of thinking is essential if mankind is to survive and move toward higher levels." If we are to solve the greatest problem of our time, that new type of thinking requires a complete overhaul of how environmentalism works, one just as radical as when science said goodbye to alchemy and adopted the Scientific Method.
To help you and your organization solve the more difficult problems you're working on, Thwink.org offers:
A set of powerful tried-and-true tools, adapted to fit difficult social problems
An in-depth analysis performed with the tools
The four root causes shown above
Twelve sample solution elements for resolving the root causes
One ready-to-implement solution. This is Common Property Rights.
Comprehensive approaches like this have worked extraordinarily well for science and business for centuries. It's just a matter of time before environmentalism does the same.


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She was preceded in death by her husband, J.L. Porter; parents, Dee Weathers, Sr. and Edith Trigg Weathers; daughter, Helen Jeanette Porter; brother, Marshall "Duke" Weathers; three sisters, George Ella Montgomery, Mary Ollie Logan and Edith Logan.
Leaving to mourn and celebrate her memory are her children; three sons, Edgar Porter, of Lexington, KY, Joseph Porter and Harvey Porter, both of St. Marys, KY; five daughters, Madia White and Dorothy Porter, both of Lexington, KY, Clara Porter, of Louisville, KY, Marsha Scholl, of Phoenix, AR, Mary Caldwell, of Campbellsville, KY; brother, Dee Weather, Jr, of Louisville, KY. Also surviving are thirteen grandchildren, eight great-grandchildren along with a host of aunts, uncles, nieces, nephews and friends.
A Mass of Christine burial will be held at 11:00 a.m. Wednesday, May 31, 2017 at St. Charles Catholic Church. Interment to follow in the church cemetery.
Visitation will be held from 5:00 to 8:00 p.m. Tuesday, May 30, 2017 at Bosley Funeral Home with prayer services at 7:00 p.m.

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February 2, 2018
MARVIN JAVIER RUIZ-ESCOBAR, Petitioner,v.JEFFERSON B. SESSIONS, III, Respondent.
Kay Roses, with whom Michael P. Martel and Law Office of
Michael P. Martel, Esq. were on brief, for petitioner.
B. Leung, Iris Gomez, and Massachusetts Law Reform Institute
on brief for Massachusetts Law Reform Institute, Greater
Boston Legal Services, Political Asylum/Immigration
Representation Project, Catholic Social Services of Fall
River, amici curiae.
F. Stanton, Trial Attorney, Office of Immigration Litigation,
Civil Division, U.S. Department of Justice, with whom Chad A.
Readler, Acting Assistant Attorney General, Civil Division,
and Claire L. Workman, Senior Litigation Counsel, Office of
Immigration Litigation, were on brief, for respondent.
Lynch, Circuit Judge, Souter, [*] Associate Justice, and Selya,
Circuit Judge.
Javier Ruiz-Escobar sought withholding of removal
("WOR") and protection under the Convention Against
Torture ("CAT"), claiming that he had experienced
past persecution and faced a clear probability of future
persecution in Honduras on account of his family membership.
He had
an evidentiary hearing before an Immigration Judge
("IJ"). There, he presented evidence that, he
alleged, established that a narcotrafficking gang called Los
Cachiros had killed a number of his family members in
Honduras. The IJ denied Ruiz-Escobar's request for
relief, finding that he failed to establish that he had
suffered -- or was likely to suffer in the future -- harm
that was both (1) sufficient to constitute persecution and
(2) related to his family membership. The Board of
Immigration Appeals ("BIA") affirmed in a decision
described below.
timely petitioned for review in this court. We also describe
below the arguments in the petition. As none of the claims
have merit, we deny his petition for review.
a native and citizen of Honduras, first entered the United
States illegally in May 2013 by crossing the Hidalgo, Texas
border. He was apprehended, detained by the border patrol for
several weeks, and interviewed by immigration officials in
June 2013. In a Record of Sworn Statement from that
interview, which he signed, Ruiz-Escobar indicated that he
had entered the United States to work and live in Boston, and
that he had no fear of harm if he were returned to Honduras.
On the basis of this information, the Department of Homeland
Security ("DHS") removed Ruiz-Escobar to Honduras
on June 18, 2013, pursuant to an expedited removal order.
November 2013, Ruiz-Escobar again entered the United States
illegally. This time, he eluded the border patrol and found
his way to Massachusetts. On or about July 21, 2016,
Ruiz-Escobar was taken into custody by Immigration and
Customs Enforcement officers after he was stopped by
Massachusetts police for driving without a license. The next
day, DHS notified Ruiz-Escobar of its decision to reinstate
the prior removal order. In August 2016, an asylum officer
interviewed Ruiz-Escobar and found that he had expressed a
reasonable fear of harm upon return to Honduras.
counsel, Ruiz-Escobar filed an application for WOR and for
protection under CAT. In support of his application,
Ruiz-Escobar submitted, inter alia, affidavits from himself
and his sister; death certificates of his deceased relatives;
and reports detailing conditions in Honduras.
At the
merits hearing on his application, Ruiz-Escobar testified
that a number of his family members -- including his mother,
his father, four uncles, and a cousin -- had been killed or
"disappeared" in Honduras by a narcotrafficking
group called Los Cachiros.[1] Ruiz-Escobar said he had heard from
relatives that Los Cachiros had shot and killed his father in
1994 (the year before he was born) for refusing to sell them
a piece of land, which they had wanted to use as a landing
strip for their cocaine-transporting planes.
Cachiros also purportedly held a grudge against
Ruiz-Escobar's stepfather, Camilo Ruiz
("Camilo"), stemming from Camilo's refusal to
become a bodyguard for Lucio Rivera, a Los
Cachiros-affiliated narcotrafficker. Ruiz-Escobar claimed
that Los Cachiros had attempted to kill Camilo in 2010 by
cutting the brakes of his car. According to Ruiz-Escobar, the
resulting car accident killed his mother, but Camilo
survived. Camilo relocated to the United States in 2011,
where he currently is located, and testified at
Ruiz-Escobar's hearing.
rebut Ruiz-Escobar's testimony that Lucio Rivera had been
targeting his family members, DHS counsel "Googled"
the name "Lucio Rivera" at the hearing and found a
Spanish-language article from a Honduran newspaper stating
that Lucio Rivera had been convicted of three murders and
sentenced to 104 years in prison by a Honduran court.
Ruiz-Escobar's counsel objected to the admission of the
article on the basis that she had not seen it. DHS counsel
responded that she would "go upstairs and print it
out." The IJ allowed the court interpreter to translate
the article into the record.
also described the deaths of four of his uncles: Andres
Felipe Ruiz Mayen ("Andres"), Jose de Jesus Ruiz
Mayen ("Jose"), Santos Ruiz Mayen
("Santos"), and Hector Porfirio Sevilla Cabrera
("Hector"). He claimed that Andres was murdered in
1998 for refusing to sell the Ruiz family's land to Los
Cachiros. According to Ruiz-Escobar, the land was eventually
sold to a cattle rancher, but Los Cachiros ultimately
obtained possession of the land after killing the rancher.
The second uncle, Jose, died in 2005. While Ruiz-Escobar did
not have "personal knowledge" regarding the
circumstances of Jose's death, he noted that "some
people in [his] family" thought that drug traffickers
"were possibly responsible" for Jose's death,
even though an initial report indicated that Jose had been
killed by a falling tree. The third uncle, Santos, has been
missing since 2011. Ruiz-Escobar speculated that Los Cachiros
had kidnapped Santos to obtain information about Camilo's
location and "disappeared" Santos to
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ABUJA—-PRESIDENT Muhammadu Buhari has advised Senators elected on the platform of the All Progressives Congress, APC, not to follow the footsteps of the leadership of the outgoing eight senate, describing the relationship between the senate and executive as regrettable.
Mr President gave the advice when he hosted a dinner for serving APC senators and the Senators-elect for the ninth senate as well as Governors elected on the platform of the party at the Presidential Villa, Abuja, on Monday night.
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He frowned at what he described as deliberate and persistent delay in passing the nation's annual budget by the national assembly and challenged the in-coming 9th national assembly to do things differently from the outgoing 8th senate so as to enable his administration achieve its target of transforming the nation.
According to him, "This is my fifth and last time of standing for an election – for that reason I'll like to leave something behind.
"And what I want to leave cannot be successfully done without your support.
"So, that is why I'm appealing for your support. What happened in the last senate and so on is regrettable because I still feel it shouldn't take seven months to pass a budget. You have a very, very serious job ahead of you.
"So, what I'm appealing is that any major decision you are going to take please reflect more on the country than yourself as a person – what effect will it have on the country."
He promised to work and partner with the 9th national assembly in promoting peace, stability and economic prosperity in the country.
In his remarks at the dinner, National Chairman of APC, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole boasted that the party would not share any of the leadership positions especially, the position of presiding officers with the opposition Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, as was the case in the eight Senate where the position of the deputy senate President was taken by the opposition.
He said leadership of the ninth assembly would be unadulterated, adding, "we are far ahead the main opposition in the parliament. 223 out of 360 we have all the numbers required to make all the laws in the national assembly."
He also said, "Only one out of 16 APC senators that decamped to the opposition won election, it is the way God wants to punish them for us. The one that God allowed to remain (in apparent reference to Senator Dino Melaye) was for him to entertain his colleagues.
"Nigerians chose to bless us with huge majority in the National Assembly because they want a vibrant government. God has given us the numbers to support your change government so that Nigerians especially the poor can benefit.
"We need to look inward and learn the right lesson from what happened in 2015. This time around, the strategic committees which were in the hands of opposition, we will ensure our members take charge.
"To do so, we thought it is important to sit down with you as our father to discuss how the leadership of the national assembly will emerge. The purpose is to congratulate you and to provide a platform for the senators elect to interact with you.
"We want to produce a leadership that is purely APC and the one that will cooperate with the executive. we narrowly loss Sokoto State, I am very confident we will win in court because INEC changed the rule of the game half-way.
"We're hopeful of winning Adamawa governorship polls. We have greater spread in 2019 compared to 2015. Areas that we had four percent, now we have over 30 percent."
Also Speaking to State House correspondents after the dinner, Oshiomhole said the whole purpose of the event was to bond the new and old senators, to establish a new relationship between the executive and the legislature.
He said, "The system talks about the separation of powers between the executive and legislature and the two must handshake for things to happen.
"And when you have a president that is determined to drive changes, fundamental changes that will affect our habits, our life style, review the economy, deal with the security situation, fight corruption as fiercely as he is trying to do, he will need a very supportive legislative arm of government.
"And happily, the Nigerian people have given us the number in the legislative arm of government.
"All we have agreed today is that we will use these numbers as a functioning whole to determine the leadership of the senate in a way that we are not going to go to the floor of the senate and allow the opposition dictate who becomes the senate president.
"Because, we have comfortable majority to drive that, what we have to do is to manage that majority.''
Also Speaking, the Plateau State Governor, Simon Lalong said, "What the president has done today, I think is the right step in the right direction.
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"The last time, we did not have the opportunity of this politics but today, Mr. President invited us because, we are governors and we also dialogue with our senators.
"Mr President said in order to avoid rancour, let me lay the way forward and we are very happy he has laid the way forward and because of that we are all going to work towards achieving the desire of Mr President for the good of this country.''
On his part, Governor Abdulaziz Yari of Zamfara State said: "We took a step back to 2015 and reviewed what happened in the Senate and House of Representatives.
"Now, we want to go as one APC family notwithstanding our brothers from the other party. We are now talking about Nigeria first. The President requested that we all work for the betterment of Nigeria.
"As regards the leadership, the president requested that we work hand in hand to ensure that we come out as one family, so that what belongs to majority goes to majority and what belongs to minority goes to minority.
"We assured him of full cooperation to ensure we revamp economy, tackle insecurity and fight corruption. We assured him that the ninth Assembly will work in harmony with the executive arm."


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Common and Russian Dandelions: Nutrition, Latex, and Rubber
Edible and Useful Weeds
Dandelions are often considered to be annoying weeds, especially when they grow on lawns. Some people deliberately cultivate common dandelions in order to experience their nutritional and culinary benefits, however. The plants have another interesting benefit in addition to their edibility. They produce a thick liquid called latex, which can be turned into rubber. The Russian dandelion has the potential to become an excellent source of commercial rubber.
The use of Russian dandelions to produce rubber could soon become very important. Natural rubber is a valuable commodity because it has useful properties that synthetic rubber lacks. Unfortunately, there's a problem with the current supply of natural rubber from the para rubber tree. The Russian dandelion could be the answer to this problem.
Dandelions belong to the plant family known as the Asteraceae. This family was previously known as the Compositae. The latter term refers to the composite nature of the flower, which is really an inflorescence made of many smaller flowers, or florets.
Nutritional and Culinary Benefits of the Common Dandelion
The scientific name of the common dandelion is Taraxacum officinale. The plant has bright yellow flowers that are made of many tiny florets. The dandelion's name comes from the French phrase "dent de lion", which means "lion's tooth". The phrase refers to the deeply divided leaves of the plant.
The leaves make a nutritious but bitter salad green. Cooking the leaves reduces their bitterness. They are a good source of vitamin A (in the form of beta-carotene) as well as vitamin C. Vitamin C is destroyed by heat, however. The leaves are also rich in potassium, calcium, and iron. They are a diuretic, a substance that increases urine production and fluid removal from the body.
Dandelion flower heads are sometimes used to make a wine. The flowers are mixed with oranges, lemons, sugar, water, and yeast (natural or purchased) and then fermented. Raisins and cloves are sometimes added to the mixture. The flowers are also dipped in a flour mixture and fried to make fritters. Some people make an infusion or tea from the flower heads or from the leaves. The roots can be cooked like a root vegetable or roasted and ground to make a coffee extender.
As is the case with any wild plant, it's important to be absolutely certain of a dandelion's identification before using it as food. Multiple plants have flowers that resemble those of dandelions. In addition, plants picked for food should be grown in an area that is free of pesticides and pollution.
Common dandelions are edible and are often used as food. Some other species of Taraxacum are also eaten. It's unknown if all dandelion species are edible, however, or if all parts of every species are edible. This is one reason why plant identification is essential when foraging for food.
Common Dandelion Latex
If the flower head of a common dandelion is removed or if the flower stem is broken, a milky white fluid exudes from the wound and coagulates after being exposed to air. The fluid is known as latex.
A dandelion's latex is made by specialized cells called laticifers, which form long chains inside the plant. The laticifers are perforated to form latex vessels, through which the fluid travels.
Latex is a complex, sticky mixture made of polymers and other substances dispersed in water. A polymer is a long molecule made of smaller molecules joined together. The components of latex include proteins, carbohydrates, oils, resins, and gums. It's thought that the function of the material is to seal wounds and to protect the plant from insect attack and infection by microbes.
Latex is produced by other flowering plants besides the common dandelion, including the rubber tree. Most rubber today is made from the latex of the para rubber tree. The population of this plant is decreasing, however, along with the world's rubber supply. In several countries, people are planning to make rubber from the latex of the Russian dandelion, which is a relative of the common dandelion.
Researchers say that about ten percent of flowering plants produce latex. The exudate is generally white in colour but is sometimes colourless, yellow, orange, or red.
Producing Rubber From Common Dandelions
It's possible to make rubber from the common dandelion. The process is sometimes carried out as a science experiment in schools. The experiment should be avoided by people who are allergic to latex. It's thought that since dandelions are very different plants from rubber trees, it's unlikely that anyone with rubber latex allergies will also be allergic to dandelion latex. In fact, dandelion latex is believed to be hypoallergenic. It's probably best to wait until this is absolutely certain if someone knows that they have an allergy, however.
To make the rubber, part of a finger is coated with dandelion latex. Several freshly-picked dandelions are needed to collect a sufficient quantity of the secretion. The latex is allowed to coagulate to form rubber and is then carefully rolled off the finger. (Body heat helps the rubber to form.) The dandelion rubber is stretchy but quite delicate. It's fun to play with the material. The product isn't good enough to use commercially, however. Luckily, the rubber from Russian dandelions is suitable for commercial use.
Natural Rubber Production
The para rubber tree is also known as the Brazilian rubber tree and has the scientific name Hevea brasiliensis. In traditional rubber production, the tree is wounded with a diagonal cut and the dripping latex is collected. (The tree recovers to be tapped again in the future.) The coagulation process is sped up by the addition of formic acid. The moist chunks of rubber are pressed into sheets and dried. The drying process often involves the rubber being placed in a smokehouse. The video below describes how natural rubber is made.
In commercial rubber production, liquid latex is collected from the rubber tree and is shipped in air-tight containers to factories. Placing ammonia in the collection tanks prevents coagulation. In the factories, the latex is shaped into sheets or placed in molds and solidified.
Sulphur and heat are often used to "vulcanize" rubber. The chemical reaction between the rubber and the sulphur makes the rubber stronger and resistant to temperature changes. Without vulcanization, rubber tends to melt in hot weather and become brittle in cold weather.
The World's Rubber Supply
Most of the South American population of the para rubber tree has been destroyed by fungus. The tree now grows mainly in Southeast Asia. The Asian population of the tree is decreasing too, however, due to a combination of factors. These include fungal infection, political instability, loss of habitat, and possibly climate change.
Rubber is used to form thousands of different products, but the majority is used to make tires. As the number of cars and other vehicles in the world is increasing, the demand for rubber is also increasing. Another problem is that natural rubber is becoming more expensive. A synthetic product can be produced, but vehicles require at least some natural rubber in their tires to provide elasticity. Some types of tires must be made entirely of natural rubber.
Some people grow a plant called Ficus elastica in their home or garden. The plant is sometimes known as a rubber plant or a rubber tree. It does produce a latex that can be turned into rubber. However, it's not the same "rubber tree" that's used to produce commercial rubber.
History of Russian Dandelion Rubber
A high-quality rubber can be produced from Taraxacum kok-saghyz, the Russian dandelion. Some researchers say that Russian dandelion rubber is as good as the rubber produced from the para rubber tree. Russian dandelions look much like common dandelions and are native to Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan, two republics that were once part of the Soviet Union.
During the second world war, the rubber supply to parts of Europe and the United States was blocked. Russian dandelions were used to make rubber instead. The extraction of latex from the plants was an expensive process, however. Another problem was that the latex coagulated very soon after its release from the plants. Once the para rubber supply was restored, the process of making rubber from dandelions ended.
Extracting Latex From Russian Dandelions Today
Recently researchers have once again become interested in making rubber from Russian dandelions. The cultivation of the Russian dandelion (and perhaps of other latex-producing plants) may be the solution to the world's rubber supply problem. The roots of the plant produce most of its latex.
Improved methods of latex removal have been created to tackle the problem of rapid coagulation after a dandelion is wounded. Researchers are also trying to increase the yield of latex and to decrease the cost of rubber production.
The latex is removed from sliced roots by solvent extraction and/or the use of a centrifuge and then processed into rubber. The exact details of the process are being kept secret by the companies involved, however. There could be a lot of money at stake in the production of dandelion rubber.
Increasing the Latex Yield
Scientists have found a way to block the quick coagulation of Russian dandelion latex, increasing the amount of the secretion that can be removed. The latex coagulates when exposed to air due to the rapid production of polymers, a process called polymerization. An enzyme called polyphenoloxidase (or polyphenol oxidase) is responsible for the polymerization.
Scientist can stop the action of polyphenoloxidase by infecting the dandelion with a genetically engineered virus. The virus removes the section of genetic code in the dandelion's DNA that is responsible for the production of the polymerization enzyme. The genetically altered plants provide four to five times as much liquid latex as the plants that are not genetically altered.
The scientists involved in the research are said to be breeding the altered plants and trying to create large populations of dandelions that lack the problematic segment of DNA. The report of their discovery is quite old, however. I haven't seen any recent reports describing how their efforts to breed improved dandelions are going. This might be due to the desire to keep certain discoveries a secret.
Some researchers are trying to improve the yield of latex from the Russian dandelion in a different way. They look for natural strains of the plant that produce slightly more latex than other strains and then selectively breed the high-latex producers with other high-latex producers. They repeat this process in each generation of the plant.
The video above describes Russian dandelion rubber production by a German company. People in other countries are also growing the dandelions on an experimental basis, including some in the United States and Canada.
Inulin Production From Russian Dandelions
Russian dandelions are being cultivated for other reasons besides their ability to make latex. They contain a large amount of inulin, a carbohydrate that is being added to a growing number of processed foods. Some people confuse inulin with insulin, but they are different substances. Inulin is a carbohydrate while insulin is a hormone that regulates the blood sugar level. At the moment, most commercial inulin is produced from chicory, a relative of dandelions.
Inulin is a type of fibre. It isn't digested in our stomach and small intestine, but it is digested by some of the helpful bacteria in our large intestine. It's classified as a "prebiotic" rather than a probiotic. Probiotics contain useful bacteria; prebiotics support their growth.
Inulin is mildly sweet but doesn't raise the blood sugar level. This makes it useful for diabetics. It can improve the taste and texture of foods and is sometimes used as a sugar or fat substitute. The substance also promotes calcium absorption and is used in a medical test that assesses kidney function. In addition, it can be fermented to make ethanol, which can then be used as a fuel.
It seems that most people rarely think about dandelions, except when they're annoyed when the plants appear where they're not wanted. I think this is a shame. The plants have many uses, both for individuals and for society. The Russian dandelion and possibly other types of dandelions may well become very important economically in the next few years.
- Nutrients in raw dandelion leaves from the USDA (United States Department of Agriculture)
- Latex in plants from the USDA Forest Service
- Natural rubber production from dandelions from the phys.org news service
- Rubber from Russian dandelions from Wageningen University
- Rubber and inulin from dandelions from Wageningen University
- Wahler D, Gronover CS, Richter C, et al. Polyphenoloxidase Silencing Affects Latex Coagulation in Taraxacum Species from the Plant Physiology journal
Questions & Answers
Is rubber from Russian dandelions commercially viable? What would be the yield in kg/hectare and the production cost compared to the rubber from Hevea?
I don't know the yield or the production cost of rubber from Russian dandelions. You could contact someone involved in the production of the rubber to find out. They may not give you all of the answers that you would like, however, either because they are still trying to discover the answers themselves or because they don't want to share the knowledge because they are trying to start a business.Helpful 2
What is the chemistry that is used for the formation of latex and inulin from dandelions?
This question would require a long article in order to answer it properly. These articles written by scientists may help you.
Information about the chemistry of dandelion latex
Information about the inulin pathway in Russian dandelion
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/p...Helpful 1
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Hi Linda, thanks for sharing useful information about dandelions, we in Pakistan have wide distribution of Taraxacum officinale, and trying to extract rubber and inulin from this species of dandelion, if some know simple procedure for extraction of these substance, we will be greatfull if he/she share
Well you learn something new every day! I wish I could turn all the dandelions in my yard into a set of tires.
Voted up and interesting!
So interesting to learn about this thanks
So interesting to learn about this--thanks!
Knowing that dandelions are beneficial to have in our diets, as well as pretty in salads, I've tried to think of ways to cultivate them without having them take over all my other plants. Family and friends will no longer laugh at my ideas when I show them this! :)
Ok....sounds like we have become herbivores here....lol
Looks like we might see the next millionaire in dandelion latex manufacturing...lol
Brilliant hub! Voted up and awesome...what a fascinating topic. I was unaware that the world's rubber was on the decline.
Happy New Year.
We actually ate dandelion leaves and also roots (after I learned that they were edible) many years ago in Wisconsin Rapids, Wisconsin where we had a half acre of land and many dandelions. Had no idea that rubber could be harvested from them. Such an interesting and useful hub! Thanks!
Such an interesting hub, I had no idea rubber came from these, you learn something new every day I guess! :) Thanks for sharing, voted up and interesting!
I knew some folks eat dandelions which many of us just consider as weeds. But rubber? Who knew? Thanks for enhancing my dandelion education, Alicia, with this very informative and beautiful hub. Voted up, m'dear.
Very interesting article indeed!, Thanks for the great article and smooth flow.
I didn't know dandelions had so many beneficial uses. We had a lot in our lawn, but have weeded them out so the lawn would grow. I know people use them in salads and we thought about harvesting ours, but wasn't sure if ours would be good in a salad. Great hub! Maybe I could grow dandelions and sell them to the latex industry!
Very interesting article! It is fantastic that it is possible to use Dandelions for extracting latex. Even though Dandelions are beautiful with their bright yellow color it is considered to be a weed. The only thing that sounds a bit scary to me is the genetically engineered virus. One never know how a virus behave and what the consequences might be if it comes out in nature.
Either way, this is a very interesting article and total news to me! Voted up, interesting,
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Representatives from unions and employer unions, the Finnish Immigration Service (Migri), the retail chains and the Regional State Administrative Agencies joined in the round table. The discussion focused on practical measures for preventing exploitation of seasonal migrant workers in agriculture, berry picking and fruit gardens.
"Many of the farms or employers are small family businesses, who do not have the resources to read long leaflets or instructions," said Miika Ilomäki, executive director of the Fruit and Berry Farmers Union of Finland. "We need easy materials."
IOM Finland has recognized this and already last summer produced a two-page-leaflet, directed at those employing berry and fruit pickers, with tips on how to recognize signs of human trafficking in their workers. It has raised a lot of interest at the level of the national unions and in the retail sector.
The number of seasonal workers coming to pick forest berries has hovered around 3,500 for many years, but the numbers dropped last year. Most of these workers come from Thailand. There have been some cases of human trafficking in the berry sector – in January, for instance, a man was sentenced to jail for trafficking 26 Thai berry pickers.
The forest berry industry has been taking steps to prevent exploitation and has introduced a voluntary contract to safeguard the migrants' rights. The contract has been signed by most of the employers in the industry.
The Finnish law on seasonal migrant workers changed at the beginning of the year because of EU directives. The government agencies are expecting an influx of applications before summer. The number of seasonal migrant workers is usually around 6,000-7,000 yearly. These categories of migrant workers stay in the country for more than three months, and they need work contracts and temporary residence permits.
"We have received 200 applications so far," said Ansa Mäntysola, Inspector at the Finnish Immigration Service.
Since the new law came in to force at the beginning of the year, there has been a clear rise in the number of recruitment agencies in Ukraine offering services to seasonal migrant workers to Finland. Ukraine is the country of origin for most seasonal agricultural migrant workers coming to Finland.
"The recruitment is the most vulnerable part of the process," said Hannah Plumb, from the Labour and Human Development Department from IOM Headquarters. "Recruit as directly as you can." Plumb presented IOM's international initiatives on ethical recruitment (IRIS) and on Corporate Responsibility in Eliminating Slavery and Trafficking (CREST) at the meeting.
Leaflet on preventing exploitation of seasonal migrant workers (in Finnish):
Leaflet on managing the risks in Labour Supply Chains (by FIBS and IOM):
Migration, human trafficking and forced labour: How to avoid risks and increase transparency in labour supply chains
IOM's International Recruitment Integrity System
IOM's Corporate Responsibility in Eliminating Slavery and Trafficking (CREST)
Present regulations on working in Finland:
IOM and FIBS's publication:
Migration, human trafficking & forced labour: how to avoid risks and increase transparency in labour supply chains
For more information please contact: Jaana Sipilä at IOM Finland, Tel: +358 9 684 11522 Email: email@example.com


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When using Fiddler crabs, what type hook should I use and how do I hook the crab?Dear Captain"When using Fiddler crabs, what type hook should I use and how do I hook the crab?"
Fiddler crabs are great bait for all fish, especially Redfish, Sheepshead, Black Drum, Pompano and many others. Below is how you will hook them. You can use anything from #2 to about 2/0 sized hook. Circle or J-Hook is fine. I do like to use a hook that has a cutting point over a needle point. The cutting point seems to penetrate the fiddler crab better without cracking its shell too much.
Since fiddler crabs are small, you want to make sure the hook size is not too large. A great way to expand the overall look and size of the fiddler crab is to put it on a jig-head. You can use different sized weighted jig-heads depending on the tide you are fishing and the depth of the water. Otherwise, I would use a fish-finder rig for fishing in water that is deeper than six feet and for anything less, just a free-lined fiddler crab with a split shot crimped about a foot or more up on my leader.
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Megabass Magdraft | Megabass Swimbait Fishing With Chris Zaldain
There are fewer specialists these days touring the larger bass fishing tournament trails than in previous decades. There was a time when the Denny Brauers and Tommy Biffles of the world made a good living with one rod on the deck. In both their cases, a flipping stick. For others it may have been a crankbait or a frog. But now you have to be versatile to even survive on tour, much less thrive.
It seems though that those who win more often than not still have the edge on some technique. Though they can do it all, they still have the upper hand given the right situation. As versatile as Kevin VanDam is, should a crankbait come into play, he can still lock it in his hand and kick in the teeth of the competition. If you can get one blow up on a frog, Dean Rojas can get 10 and bury you with his expertise.
So can be said about Chris Zaldain when it comes to a swimbait, his favored Megabass Magdraft to be exact. As diverse and good of an all-around fisherman as Zaldain is, let the conditions align for his swimbait to leave the deck and enter his hand and you'll be in for a home run hitting highlight reel. We sat down with Zaldain to discuss the ins and outs of his favorite technique.
Chris, tell us about the Megabass Magdraft swimbait.
Megabass Magdraft | Selecting the Right Size
"There are 3 sizes to a Magdraft: 6, 8 and 10 inches. Being the tournament fisherman I am, the 6-inch Magdraft gets the most play because you get the most bites on it. It catches big ones still, but it also catches numbers. I catch a lot of 3-to-5-pound bass on that size. The 8-inch I mostly bring out as a tournament fisherman when we go to a fishery that has an abundance of gizzard shad in the system. Places like the Tennessee River or any of the big fish lakes in Texas. Every time I set the hook on the 8-inch Magdraft it's likely to be in the 4-to-10-pound range.
I typically bring out the 10-inch version only when I'm trophy hunting outside of tournaments. This is my 8th year as a professional tournament fisherman and I may have broken out the 10-inch version a couple of times in a tournament situation.
The two main colors I throw are the albino in stained water and then the white back shad in clear water.
When most people think of swimbait fishing they think of only clear water. But because of the Magdrafts signature head to tail wiggle it gets a lot of bites in stained water too. The 2019 Bassmaster Classic in Knoxville was a great example of that. The water clarity was maybe 2-1/2 feet but because of that wiggle the fish were able to feel my swimbait and search it out in the water and once they got close they were able to see that albino color and come up and eat it.
Megabass Magdraft | Do Bigger Baits Really Draw Bigger Bites?
Absolutely. We've all heard 'the bigger the bait, the bigger the bass' and that's absolutely true. A great example of that happened in the Bull Shoals/Norfork Elite Series a few years ago. I had a really good limit on the 6-inch version and to see if I could get a bigger bite I broke out the 8-inch version and I ended up catching a big one.
I rarely catch a 3-pounder on the 8-inch, those bites are usually over 4. But I do get less bites on the 8-inch for sure. I don't care what bass lake it is in the country, if I throw the 6-inch Magdraft all day, I think I can get at least 8 bites on it. But if I throw the 8-inch all day, I might get 1 or 2 bites. So there are a lot fewer bites on the 8-inch but they are going to be big.
Megabass Magdraft | What Are Your Ideal Conditions for Throwing a Magdraft?
The Magdraft light comes on in mind when it's sunny to partly cloudy and about a 10 mph wind. The more sun penetration I have, the more those fish are going to be able to see it. If a fish is 20 feet away from a swimbait and it's cloudy, they just don't see it as well. I don't care if the water is crystal clear, they just don't see it as well if it's cloudy. So the optimal conditions is a 7-to-10 mph wind so it breaks up the light penetration but there's still plenty of light and sunny with just a couple of clouds in the sky.
As far as cover, I fish the most obvious stuff in the whole lake.
Yes, a million boats have fished that spot before me, but 99 percent of those anglers fish a spinnerbait or jig or crankbait. Still to this day not a lot of people throw a swimbait. So when I introduce a bait that isn't thrown often to a spot that is fished often, my chances of catching the big one have gone up tremendously. That obvious spot obviously has fish on it, it's a community spot for a reason. But you have to show them something different.
I don't care if it's spawn, pre-spawn or post-spawn, main lake points are what to look for. I'm a big believer that the biggest fish in the lake relate to the main lake. So I'm always going to start on the main lake then just fish the most visible stuff as possible like I said earlier.
Megabass Magdraft | How Do You Fish the Bait?
Slow and steady retrieve, just enough to keep the head and tail wiggling. I'll hardly ever burn it. Whenever I can, I like to position my boat close to the bank almost like I'm fishing from the bank. Then I cast my bait out to deeper water and let it sink towards the bottom.
As I reel my bait in, it stays in that deeper water and in that strike zone longer.
I also have a lot of fish follow the bait when I'm fishing a swimbait. And I get a lot more of those followers to commit when I'm fishing the bait deep to shallow than any other way. I feel like the fish thinks it has trapped that baitfish and a lot of times it will go ahead and commit.
Megabass Magdraft | Do You Ever Modify Your Magdrafts?
One thing I'll do is weight the swimbait down a little if I want to fish it a little deeper. I don't weight the 8 inch at all. Never have. But for the 6-inch version I'll use an Eagle Claw Pagoda Nail Weight in the belly if I want to get the bait just a little deeper.
Straight out of the package, the 6-inch Magdraft works best in 4 to 6 feet of water. I'll use a 1/16th ounce tungsten nail weight in the belly to get it to go deeper. A 1/16th ounce weight doesn't sound like much when you're talking about a bait that weighs more than an ounce but it's just enough to throw the balance of the bait off and when you do that it will stay down in the 8 to 10 feet range.
Zaldain's Megabass Magdraft Gear
Megabass Magdraft 6-inch
Megabass Magdraft 8-inch
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