published by mother nature network | March 05, 2010
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May
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May
11
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You’d Never Know He’s a Sun King
By TODD WOODY | The New York Times | May 7, 2010
AMID the $6 million homes perched on a beachfront cliff in this conservative Southern California enclave, the seven-year-old Honda Civic hybrid with the Obama bumper sticker is the giveaway.
It’s not the usual drive of choice for wealthy former hedge fund managers like David Gelbaum. [...]
Apr
26
2010
26
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What Climate Change Means for Wine Industry
By Mark Hertsgaard | Wired Science | April 26, 2010 | 6:28 pm
John Williams has been making wine in California’s Napa Valley for nearly 30 years, and he farms so ecologically that his peers call him Mr. Green. But if you ask him how climate change will affect Napa’s world famous wines, he gets [...]
Apr
19
2010
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2010
Annie Leonard: The Story of Stuff. An Interview with Tavis Smiley
Annie Leonard has spent nearly 20 years and visited more than 40 countries working on environmental health and justice issues. She currently directs The Story of Stuff Project, which includes an animated Web-film about the life-cycle of material goods—used as a teaching tool in schools and meetings across the globe—and a published book version of [...]
Apr
6
2010
6
2010
Aral Sea Almost DRIED UP: UN Chief Calls It ‘Shocking Disaster’
The Huffington Post | First Posted: 04-4-10 01:00 PM | Updated: 04-5-10 03:10 PM
NUKUS, Uzbekistan — The drying up of the Aral Sea is one of the planet’s most shocking disasters, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said Sunday, as he urged Central Asian leaders to step up efforts to solve the problem.
Once the world’s fourth-largest lake, [...]
Mar
26
2010
26
2010
New way of fish farming could help fix environment
Biologists study whether sea creatures could be used to counteract damage to ecosystems
By Randy Shore | Vancouver Sun | March 24, 2010
New designs for fish farms could keep them in the ocean and help restore damaged marine environments at the same time, says a biologist working on a five-year nationwide aquaculture project.
Marine biologists in [...]
Mar
25
2010
25
2010
THE NANOTECH GAMBLE: Bold Science. Big Money. Growing Risks.
Regulated or Not, Nano-Foods Coming to a Store Near You
Second in a Three-Part Series
By Andrew Schneider | AOL Special Report | March 24, 2010
(March 24) — For centuries, it was the cook and the heat of the fire that cajoled taste, texture, flavor and aroma from the pot. Today, that culinary voodoo is being crafted [...]
Mar
17
2010
17
2010
THE PARABLE OF THE ELECTRIC BIKE
Series By Alan During | Sightline Daily | March 15-19, 2010
Imagine an electric bike. Zipping through the city. Surging up hills without gasping for breath. Riding in business dress and arriving fresh and dry. Healthy, moderate exercise. No traffic jams. Free parking. Huge load-hauling potential. Near-free fueling. Zero emissions. Breeze in your face. Appealing! So, [...]
Mar
12
2010
12
2010
Smarten Up or Die
‘Ecological Intelligence’: Do humans have what it takes to survive?
By Daniel Goleman | TheTyee.ca | March 11, 2010
[Editor's note: The following is excerpted from the new book Ecological Intelligence by Daniel Goleman, published by Broadway Business, an imprint of The Crown Publishing Group, a division of Random House, Inc. Reprinted with permission. Copyright © 2010 [...]
Mar
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2010
Fears of Undersea Methane Leaks Already Coming True
By Sid Perkins, Science News | Reported in WIRED | March 4, 2010
Prodigious plumes of planet-warming methane are bubbling from sediments across a broad region of Arctic seafloor previously thought to be sealed by permafrost, new analyses indicate. The resulting increase of methane gas in the atmosphere may accelerate climate warming, scientists say.
Read More: http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2010/03/fears-of-undersea-methane-leaks-already-coming-true/