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Who Needs A Watch When They Have A Cell Phone?

February 10, 2011

Suunto Core Wrist-Top Computer Watch with Altimeter, Barometer, Compass, and Depth Measurement (Light Green). Image and caption credit:Amazon.

Fashion watches will soon disappear from department stores, extirpated by the same thing that’s wiping ou…

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"Peak Fertilizer" To Make Manure A Valuable Commodity

December 6, 2010

Manure, runny. Image credit:USDA

Synthetic fertilizer is likely to become significantly more costly for US farmers. This trend will make manure a valuable commodity once again (as it was prior to the 1950s). There are two main reasons for the antic…

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‘Top Public Companies Responsible For A Third Of All Environmental Damage’ In The World

October 5, 2010

Annual environmental costs in 2008 attributable to top 3,000 publicly traded companies. Image credit:Trucost PLC, via Environmental Leader.

The UN recently hired a consultant named “Trucost” to quantify adverse environmental impacts of cultural pract…

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OPEC Economies Doing Fine – Our Double Dip Is Their Double Peak

September 11, 2010

OPEC Net Oil Export Revenues. Image credit:USEIA

Based on projections from the EIA report, September 2010 Short-Term Energy Outlook (STEO), members of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) could earn $731 billion of net oil ex…

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Vandana Shiva Accuses World Bank of Creating Global Food Crisis

August 16, 2010

Economist Dr. Vandana Shiva explains how the World Bank and the IMF are complicit in the food crises across the globe. Through the structure of their debt relief, these organizations pushed developing countries to stop growing staple foods, and to instead grow cash crops and commodities, like flowers and lettuce, for export to unstable international markets.

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Curry Spices In Livestock Feed Could Significantly Cut Methane Emissions

July 19, 2010

Watch out for curry-laden ricochets! Image credit:Kalebeul.

This is one of those classic good news / bad news stories which makes you wonder if the scientists working on it have all their marbles. The ‘good news’ discovery is this: coriander and …

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"As Close as Lips and Teeth:" China Sends Fans to Cheer North Korea at World Cup

June 15, 2010

Since China itself failed to qualify for the World Cup, it is sending fans to cheer for its best buddy, totalitarian North Korea.  The North Korean team did qualify for the World Cup tournament, but since North Koreans are dirt…

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Biodiversity Takes Center Stage at WED in Rwanda

June 3, 2010

Mount Sabyrino in Rwanda

It is a great honour that Rwanda has been chosen by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) to host this year’s World Environment Day (WED) on 5th June 2010. This year WED is designed to celebrate the Year of Biodiversity; communities around the world are encouraged to take action to protect the millions of species and ecosystems upon which the global community’s livelihoods rely.

Why Biodiversity Matters and What You Can Do on World Environment Day

May 23, 2010

Fast is not always good. Species are becoming extinct at the fastest rate known in geological history, and most of these extinctions are tied to human activity. This year is the UN Year of Biodiversity and it seems as if in the blink of an eye, we are already half-way through it. This was a year that many of us had long looked forward to, perhaps with a mixture of excitement and trepidation.

This was the year we had set a collective alarm clock as the deadline to achieve a significant reduction in the rate of loss of biodiversity. Now it is ringing rather loudly. All assessments of progress indicate that we are far from reaching the goals we set in 2002.

Not Your Average Climate Bill

May 19, 2010

Why it matters:
This is the nation’s first real step toward climate action in years.
Recap:
“I’m just a climate bill. Yes, I’m just a climate bill. And I’m sitting here on Capitol Hill.”
Okay maybe it’s not as catchy as the original, but [...]

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Who Needs A Watch When They Have A Cell Phone?

"Peak Fertilizer" To Make Manure A Valuable Commodity

‘Top Public Companies Responsible For A Third Of All Environmental Damage’ In The World

OPEC Economies Doing Fine – Our Double Dip Is Their Double Peak

Vandana Shiva Accuses World Bank of Creating Global Food Crisis

Curry Spices In Livestock Feed Could Significantly Cut Methane Emissions

"As Close as Lips and Teeth:" China Sends Fans to Cheer North Korea at World Cup

Biodiversity Takes Center Stage at WED in Rwanda

Mount Sabyrino in Rwanda

Why Biodiversity Matters and What You Can Do on World Environment Day

This was the year we had set a collective alarm clock as the deadline to achieve a significant reduction in the rate of loss of biodiversity. Now it is ringing rather loudly. All assessments of progress indicate that we are far from reaching the goals we set in 2002.

Not Your Average Climate Bill

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