Nov 14, 2011
Nov 11, 2011
Nov 6, 2011
Oct 30, 2011
Oct 22, 2011
Denver Art Runs Deep:: Robert Adams photographic wake-up calls
Oct 20, 2011
Oct 19, 2011
Women Unite: Together, We Can Beat Breast Cancer
Women Unite: Together, We Can Beat Breast Cancer Take back the power from the industrial-medical complex, ladies!
Oct 17, 2011
Oct 15, 2011
Oct 11, 2011
Oct 8, 2011
Oct 7, 2011
Oct 6, 2011
Oct 3, 2011
Koch brothers shady and illicit bus dealings
"What many people don’t know is how the Kochs’ anti- regulation political ideology has influenced the way they conduct business."
Sep 30, 2011
Sep 28, 2011
Tech time: Kindle quick review
Tech Time: Kindle quick review:
Yes.
That's it, in a word. Great for travel anywhere. Great for home use.
How does it compare with the iPad? Don't compare it. You can't expect a $199 (yes!) device to do everything that a $599 device can.
But that said, the Kindle Fire has some amenities that the iPad lacks. Such as: FLASH!
Why the low price point? It seems to me that Amazon's Jeff Bezos, being a smart guy, realizes that this is a smart move to boost sales of content -- Amazon content. Good move.
It's a buy.
More info here: http://www.amazon.com/forum/kindle%20customer%20service%20q%20and%20a?_encoding=UTF8&cdForum=Fx1GLDPZMNR1X53&cdThread=Tx8JRF3BB4TRDE
Yes.
That's it, in a word. Great for travel anywhere. Great for home use.
How does it compare with the iPad? Don't compare it. You can't expect a $199 (yes!) device to do everything that a $599 device can.
But that said, the Kindle Fire has some amenities that the iPad lacks. Such as: FLASH!
Why the low price point? It seems to me that Amazon's Jeff Bezos, being a smart guy, realizes that this is a smart move to boost sales of content -- Amazon content. Good move.
It's a buy.
More info here: http://www.amazon.com/forum/kindle%20customer%20service%20q%20and%20a?_encoding=UTF8&cdForum=Fx1GLDPZMNR1X53&cdThread=Tx8JRF3BB4TRDE
Sep 27, 2011
Knowing the bears, childrens, cows, and "the others"
Sep 25, 2011
Sep 24, 2011
Your complicity in daily brutality....
Sep 19, 2011
Arsenic used by factory chicken farms for faster growth, "pink" appealing color
"Every year about two million pounds of arsenic-containing chemicals have been fed to chickens in the United States. Why would the industry do such a thing? When tens of thousands of birds are crammed into filthy, football field-sized sheds to lie beak-to-beak in their own waste they can become so heavily infested with internal parasites that adding arsenic to the feed to poison the bugs can result in a dramatic increase in growth rates. Also, arsenic can give the carcass a pinkish tinge, which consumers prefer." Read this important article re: Dr. Oz and Dr. Geiger insights. http://nutritionfacts.org/blog/2011/09/19/dr-oz-apple-juice-and-arsenic-chicken-may-have-10-times-more/
Saving the speared swimmer at The Turtle Hospital
Sep 18, 2011
Sep 17, 2011
Sep 16, 2011
Sep 15, 2011
Sep 10, 2011
Sep 8, 2011
Buffalo Spotted in Washington DC - new exhibit
China's energy & food consumption...not enough resources
http://www.earth-policy.org/data_highlights/2011/highlights18
Among the key commodities such as grain, meat, oil, coal, and steel, China consumes more of each than the United States except for oil, where the United States still has a wide (though narrowing) lead. China uses a quarter more grain than the United States. Its meat consumption is double that of the United States. It uses three times as much coal and four times as much steel.
READ THE WHOLE ARTICLE - click the LINK.
What China is teaching us is that the western economic model—the fossil-fuel-based, automobile-centered, throwaway economy—will not work for the world. If it does not work for China, it will not work for India, which by 2035 is projected to have an even larger population than China. Nor will it work for the other 3 billion people in developing countries who are also dreaming the "American dream." And in an increasingly integrated global economy, where we all depend on the same grain, oil, and steel, the western economic model will no longer work for the industrial countries either.
The overriding challenge for our generation is to build a new economy—one that is powered largely by renewable sources of energy, that has a much more diversified transport system, and that reuses and recycles everything. We have the technology to build this new economy, an economy that will allow us to sustain economic progress. But can we muster the political will to translate this potential into reality?
READ THE WHOLE ARTICLE - click the LINK.
The overriding challenge for our generation is to build a new economy—one that is powered largely by renewable sources of energy, that has a much more diversified transport system, and that reuses and recycles everything. We have the technology to build this new economy, an economy that will allow us to sustain economic progress. But can we muster the political will to translate this potential into reality?
Sep 4, 2011
Mortgage interest deduction - costs taxpayers $1 trillion
Beloved by the public and the real estate industry, the deduction will cost the government more than $1 trillion over the next decade.
Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/09/03/MN101KRFD4.DTL#ixzz1X1zrT6By
Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/09/03/MN101KRFD4.DTL#ixzz1X1zrT6By
Sep 3, 2011
Sep 2, 2011
How "livestock" cows are treated: 2 must-see videos
How cows are mistreated routinely at factory farms - dairy and beef.
Fear at the salughterhouse:
Fear at the salughterhouse:
Habit Makes Bad Food Too Easy To Swallow
Habit Makes Bad Food Too Easy To Swallow -- how to break those habits? One tip: “It’s not always feasible for dieters to avoid or alter the environments in which they typically overeat,” Wood said. “More feasible, perhaps, is for dieters top actively disrupt the established patterns of how they eat through simple techniques, such as switching the hand they use to eat.”
Sep 1, 2011
Aug 31, 2011
Nestle makes money off bashing organics
http://www.grist.org/organic-food/2011-08-30-nestles-chairman-wants-you-to-be-scared-of-organic-food Dishealth creates wealth...for the already mega-rich.
Aug 30, 2011
Amazing candid photos of animals, and poacher, in the wild
Amazing candid photos of animals, and a poacher, in the wild, found on a hidden NY Times environment news subpage today. http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2011/08/19/science/earth/20110819-mammals-7.html
Penn State study shows more modest economic impact from shale gas - News - The Times-Tribune
Penn State study shows the economic impact from shale gas was greatly overstated to benefit industrialists and gain approval despite environmental/health hazards.
Mercer County judge to hear Monsanto case - News - The Charleston Gazette - West Virginia News and Sports -
Mercer County judge to hear Monsanto case - bought by citizens affected by the company's pollution.
How climate change affects hurricanes
OK to buy soda with food stamps?
http://www.grist.org/food/2011-08-23-you-shouldnt-be-able-to-use-food-stamps-to-get-soda On Friday, the USDA rejected New York City's proposal to restrict the use of food stamps to buy soda. According to The New York Times, there was much rejoicing:
The decision was a victory for the soft-drink industry, which had lobbied against the proposal, and for advocates for the poor and underfed, who had argued that the government should not stigmatize them by taking away their right to shop like other consumers...
Aug 29, 2011
Dog training mistakes: Correct yourself before traveling with your dog
Top Seven Training Mistakes - Outside Magazine -- Dog training mistakes: Correct yourself before traveling with your dog
Monsanto GMO corn crop failure - losing bug resistance
Widely grown corn plants that Monsanto Co. genetically modified to thwart a voracious bug are falling prey to that very pest in a few Iowa fields, the first time a major Midwest scourge has developed resistance to a genetically modified crop. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424053111904009304576532742267732046.html
Aug 28, 2011
Wine vs. Salmon: Water Wars Hit Sonoma County - The Bay Citizen
Vineyards' water use threatens endangered fish, authorities and environmentalists say
Wine vs. Salmon: Water Wars Hit Sonoma County - The Bay CitizenAug 27, 2011
In Defense of Wilderness
The idea of preserving wilderness needs no defense. But wilderness needs defenders.
Aug 26, 2011
Chattanooga's epic green revival
Read about Chattanooga's green revival, from downtown to new hip hoods to nature trails.Aug 25, 2011
"Green" coalition pitching huge subsidy cuts to balance US budget
Interesting story here re: huge tax breaks and subsidies to oil/gas multinational corporations and other big business. http://www.nytimes.com/gwire/2011/08/24/24greenwire-oil-arpa-e-top-list-of-subsidy-cuts-urged-by-s-57924.html
Aug 24, 2011
Pres. Clinton shares his healthy diet secret
http://yourlife.usatoday.com/fitness-food/diet-nutrition/story/2011-08-23/Bill-Clinton-declares-vegan-victory/50111212/1?csp=hf&loc=interstitialskip Balanced vegan diet is tops for health, vitality.
Saving the Last Wild Places - including oceans
Aug 23, 2011
Don’t Like Green Competitio? No Problem, Just Sue 'Em
Three large plastic bag makers—Hilex Poly Company, LLC; Superbag Operating, LTD; and Advance Polybag, Inc. have filed a lawsuit in South Carolina. They are suing the ChicoBag Company, claiming that it has caused harm to their businesses. How? By stating facts: Plastic grocery bags are not biodegradable. They clog waterways, spoil the landscape, pollute the soil and water (and therefore us), and choke birds and marine mammals who mistake them for food. Once they end up in landfills, they may take 1,000 years or more to break down into ever smaller particles that continue to pollute the environment. (Free speech only for big businesses! No room for the true job creators: the independent companies trying to get into the bully-run market. Well, we'll continue just saying No to the bags at checkout, and use our cloth bags...and will look for ChicoBag)
Don't wanna pay more for organic meat? Eat less meat.
Genetically modified crops ad claims busted
GMO marketers who pay their messages way into government offices and the media falsify "evidence" to support claims of efficiency, safety and health. This article from a journalist disputes the claims with science and sense: "So while we hear from GMO proponents about the wonders of these crops, the proof is in the fields.According to the FAO, sustainable practices have helped to “reduce crops’ water needs by 30 percent and the energy costs of production by up to 60 percent.” In one of the largest studies [PDF] of ecological farming, in 57 countries, researchers found an average yield increase of 80 percent. In East African countries, yields shot up 128 percent." Read on: http://www.grist.org/industrial-agriculture/2011-08-20-why-gmos-wont-save-world-nina-federoff-new-york-times
Real lives of pigs - at Play! Living natural lives - video
Watch pigs playing - intelligent and expressive animals when allows to live outside of horrific tiny metal cage-pens! More info at http://www.cok.net/blog/2011/08/hidden-lives-playful-pigs
Turn poachers into farmers = produce food and save wildlife
Aug 22, 2011
Invention, destruction cycles reflected in art "Hall of Wonders"
Aug 20, 2011
Perry hawked pesticide interests, killed enviromental protections, as TX ag sec
http://www.nytimes.com/gwire/2011/08/19/19greenwire-presidential-candidate-perry-championed-pestic-66284.html http://www.nytimes.com/gwire/2011/08/19/19greenwire-presidential-candidate-perry-championed-pestic-66284.html
Ellen speaks truth to power about factory farm abuse of animals
How does it affect your mnd and body to consume a once-living being who lived confined and deprived of living as God intended, and who died with terror and suffering?
Aug 19, 2011
Aug 18, 2011
US Govt buying $40 million worth of surplus chicken with tax dollars
Blue Ridge wine pairs well with mountain views
Human diseases spreading to wildlife, destroyed coral reefs
A new study finds that humans spread disease to wildlife, with grim results. A bacterium from our guts is now rampaging through coral reefs in the Caribbean. Those reefs were already in slow decline, but they took a huge hit starting in 1996, when a disease called white pox appeared in the Florida Keys.
Records suggest a vote for Perry = a vote for polluted water, land, air
Gov. Perry is an advocate of and has ties to large fuel and other corporations that pollute water, land and air and destroy ecosystems for profit and "jobs." He's against green-minded initiatives, saying they want jobs for sustainable ventures. The corporations aren't going to hire any more people with the extra profits that come from being excused from environmental responsibility and protections; their record shows most profits go to increasing executive salaries, bonuses and retirement packages. Which have increased exponentially, and continued increasing during economic downturns. Now for the report: http://www.iwatchnews.org/2011/08/18/5816/what-expect-president-perry-environment-some-texas-sized-clues
The skinny on Pres. Clinton's vegan diet
Aug 17, 2011
Aug 16, 2011
Forks Over Knives: Help for taking control of your health and life
Overfishing, bycatch killing: waste and possible extinction
Aug 15, 2011
Swap meat for nuts, put the kabosh on diabetes
What the average human looks like...and to some extent, acts like
Cool, insightful National Geographic video
Factory farm run-off poisoning beaches, killed animals, sickened humans
The Plage de Saint-Maurice could be one of 100 pretty inlets on the north Breton coast except that, on a sunny August day, there was not a soul walking on the sand, not a single sunbather, not a single child with a bucket or spade. This summer, the beach is the symbol of an ecological calamity which has been 40 years in the making.
In the sand and mud of this narrow estuary, 38 wild animal corpses have been discovered since mid-July – a coypu, a badger and 36 wild boar. Killed by polluted seaweed that has been washing ashore along the Breton coast in great, stinking heaps since the 1970s. Only in the last few years has it been officially admitted that the proliferation of this primitive form of weed has been caused by nitrogen pouring into streams and rivers and then the sea, from the scores of intensive pig and cattle and maize farms in the heart of the Breton peninsula. In truth, the role of nitrogen pollution is not yet fully admitted. It is denied, against all the scientific evidence, by the farming industry and by the powerful French agri-pharmaceutical lobby.
How to Prevent Dog Bites - great illustrated poster
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