October 2011
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How to feed 7 billion of us without ruining the...
It turns out converted rainforest land is neither particularly productive as farmland nor climate smart, since creating it releases huge amounts of carbon sequestered in trees.Photo: Lawrence Baulch
Now that we’re surrounded by 7 billion of our closest friends, it’s probably a good time to talk about how we’re going to feed them. The government, along with corporations like...
“The Legend of “Stingy Jack”
People have been making jack-o’-lanterns at...”
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Dozens Treated After Bombardment of Displaced... →
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Dozens of people wounded in an aerial bombardment that hit a displaced persons camp in southern Somalia on Sunday were being treated by MSF. The camp, in the town of Jilib, was hit around 1:30 p.m. Sunday. The wounded were treated in the town of in Marere, in Lower Juba Region, where MSF provides medical assistance.
As of late Sunday afternoon, at least three people were...
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Tell the ASMFC to Protect Menhaden
Menhaden have been called “the most important fish in the sea” and it’s true—they are the most important fish for sustaining the Atlantic ecosystem. Fish we love to eat, like striped bass, and birds of prey, like the osprey, depend on menhaden for survival. Unfortunately menhaden are a severely depleted species with only 8% of their unfished levels left in our coastal waters....
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Hmm, where is the candy????
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Oscar Nominee David Strathairn�s Invitation to...
“President Obama is hearing voices.” That’s what Oscar nominee David Strathairn, referring to oil lobbyists, tells his viewers in a just released video in which he invites you to come to the White House on Nov. 6 to show President Obama that he has the people’s support if he stands up to Big Oil and denies a permit for a dangerous proposed oil pipeline, the Keystone...
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24 Signs Your Stress Glands are Overworked
Has the pace of life left you frazzled? Has balancing work, home, and family responsibilities left you overwhelmed? The stresses of our modern life can be too much for your stress glands to handle. The stress glands, primarily known as the adrenal glands, are two small, triangular-shaped glands that sit atop the kidneys. We don’t give them much thought until we start to experience symptoms...
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Skeptic finds he now agrees global warming is real
In this Friday, Oct. 28, 2011 photo, Richard Muller, left, and his daughter, Elizabeth Muller, right, pose with a map from their study on climate at their home in Berkeley, Calif. A new study of Earth’s temperatures going back more than 200 years finds the same old story: It’s gotten hotter in the last 60 years. What’s different is the scientist behind the latest study, Richard Muller. The...
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Thank you for helping to break the cycle of...
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Meaning of Halloween Symbols
This page is devoted to the meaning of Halloween symbols, but it should be understood these symbols come from a myriad of origins and traditions.
Indeed, every culture designates a special time of year to honor the other side of the Veil, a place where subtle energies do not reveal themselves by common or physical means.
Halloween is just one of infinite designations in the human calendar...
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Yes, It's Still Us, and It's Still Bad
Now that the Berkeley Earth Surface Temperature (BEST) study results are in, and have confirmed the accuracy of the surface temperature record (see here and here), those “skeptics” who spent years disputing the accuracy of the record despite all the evidence pointing to its accuracy are now shifting the goalposts.
Climate “skeptic” and WattsUpWithThat (WUWT) contributor...
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Air pollution tied to lung cancer in non-smokers
Century City and downtown Los Angeles are seen through the smog December 31, 2007. REUTERS/Lucy Nicholson
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - People who have never smoked, but who live in areas with higher air pollution levels, are roughly 20 percent more likely to die from lung cancer than people who live with cleaner air, researchers conclude in a new study.
“It’s another argument for...
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Map reveals stark divide in who caused climate...
The global north is at lower risk of global warming impacts and is better placed to cope than the global south, but globalisation means we are all affected Greater risk from increased extreme weather combined with limited social and financial ability to cope means the global south has the greatest vulnerability. Photograph: Maplecroft
When the world’s nations convene in Durban in November...
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Save The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge...And Its...
Big Oil’s drills could be the nail in the coffin for America’s vanishing polar bears.Goal: 20,000 • Progress: 4,596Sponsored by: Defenders of Wildlife Action Fund
The oil industry and its political allies are pushing harder than ever to industrialize the coastal plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, a move that would destroy the most important onshore denning habitat for our...
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Nuclear Power Still Blocks Clean Energy...
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Susan Corbett wants Americans to remember how serious the post-tsunami Fukushima nuclear disaster in Japan was…and still is.
“To say Fukushima cannot happen here is naive and foolish,” says Susan, the chair of the South Carolina Sierra Club.
“(The U.S. has) 23 of the same, identical GE Mark I reactors still in operation and several others in dangerous...
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10 Surprising Sources of MSG
Considering that monosodium glutamate, or MSG as it is more commonly known, is linked to many serious health conditions, including: hormonal imbalances, weight gain, brain damage, obesity, headaches, and more, you may be shocked to learn how prevalent it is. MSG is almost always found in processed, prepared, and packaged foods. But, here are some lesser-known food sources of this harmful...
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From Occupy Wall Street to Occupy Earth
This essay was originally published onTomDispatch and is republished here with Tom’s kind permission.
Photo: Eric Wagner
What if rising sea levels are yet another measure of inequality? What if the degradation of our planet’s life-support systems — its atmosphere, oceans, and biosphere — goes hand in hand with the accumulation of wealth, power, and control by that...
A BEAUTIFUL LIE: High-Tech Hydroponic Farm... →
ablorg:
On top of an old bowling alley in industrial northern Brooklyn sits an expansive translucent greenhouse. Inside, a bounty of produce thrives under the supervision of a computer-controlled network of sensors, motors and plumbing.
The 15,000-square-foot hydroponic greenhouse facility, called
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Prehistoric Greenhouse Data from Ocean Floor Could...
ScienceDaily (Oct. 27, 2011) — New research from the University of Missouri indicates that Atlantic Ocean temperatures during the greenhouse climate of the Late Cretaceous Epoch were influenced by circulation in the deep ocean. These changes in circulation patterns 70 million years ago could help scientists understand the consequences of modern increases in greenhouse gases.
New research...
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We Need Your Help to Save Elephants!
Help free elephants from the threat of ivory poaching!The first batch of signatures has been sent by IFAW to the US government. Please continue to sign for this important cause if you haven’t already!Goal: 80,000 • Progress: 65,852Sponsored by: IFAW
Twenty years ago elephants were being wiped out by poachers. Then international outcry halted the trade in ivory and elephant herds started to...
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Fairplay!
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Water Use Rising Faster Than World Population
A man walks along Lake Travis after water receded during a drought in Austin, Texas September 10, 2011. Photo: Reuters/Joshua Lott
Like oil in the 20th century, water could well be the essential commodity on which the 21st century will turn.
Human beings have depended on access to water since the earliest days of civilization, but with 7 billion people on the planet as of October 31,...
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10 DIY Ways To A Waste-Free Halloween
It’s time to pick up those heavy Halloween footprints and celebrate the holiday sustainably. Here’s why finding ways to honor our planet, is a ghoulish goal worth bobbing for:
According to the EPA, household waste increases more than 25 percent between Halloween and New Year’s Day. The US spends a whopping $6.5 billion on candy, costumes and decorations. That’s a whole lot of spooky and...
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Waters of change
An accidental experiment in America shows how evolution happens
Oct 29th 2011 | NEW YORK | from the print edition
IT IS not often that biologists have a chance to watch natural selection in action. The best-known cases—the evolution of resistance to antibiotics in bacteria and to pesticides in insects—are responses to deliberate changes people have made in the environment of the creatures...
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“Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight...”
– Plato
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Eruptions Could Create New Island in the Canaries
What would the island be called? And who would own it? Spewing magma and growing in height, an underwater volcano off the Canary Island of El Hierro has captured the imagination of locals in recent weeks. It could eventually rise from the sea to create a new part of the archipelago.
It hasn’t yet reached the surface, but residents of the Canary Islands have taken to the internet to...
