January 2011
37 posts
Sharks in the Sea, Not in the Soup. Take the... →
Future posts for this weekend
Books you should check out at some point
Places to check out in Pennsylvania if you’re ever in this area of the United States
Some videos on E-Waste. If I can find it, I’ll post a video or link to an episode of CurrentTV’s Vanguard. It’s a great show, and this episode on E-Waste is extremely eye-opening.
An article from National Geographic’s September 2010 issue...
Hi all!
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WatchTED: Ideas Worth Spreading
Naomi Klein: Addicted to Risk
“About this talk
Days before this talk, journalist Naomi Klein was on a boat in the Gulf of Mexico, looking at the catastrophic results of BP’s risky pursuit of oil. Our societies have become addicted to extreme risk in finding new energy, new financial instruments and more … and too often, we’re left to clean up...
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100 percent Renewable Energy Possible by 2030!!! →
mohandasgandhi:
realcleverscience:
smarterplanet:
New research has shown that it is possible and affordable for the world to achieve 100 percent renewable energy by 2030, if there is the political will to strive for this goal.
Achieving 100 percent renewable energy would mean the building of about four million 5 MW wind turbines, 1.7 billion 3 kW roof-mounted solar photovoltaic systems,...
akio@tumblr: "BP's spilled oil is washing up in... →
ubiquitousamericana:
Good lord. Good thing the whole thing is over and there’s nothing more to see here and everybody’s just fine, right?
This month the Louisiana Environmental Action Network released the results of tests performed on blood samples collected from Gulf residents….
13.7 million birds are dying every day in the U.S. →
mohandasgandhi:
At the beginning of this month when about 5,000 red-winged blackbirds fell from the sky in one night in Arkansas, biologists were called on to put a damper on public speculation about pesticides and secret military tests by reminding everyone how many birds there are and how many die. They often do so as a result of human activity, but in far more mundane and dispiriting...
Jellyfish Lake, Palau
Jellyfish Lake, located on one of the uninhabited Rock islands in Palau. The lake was cut off from the ocean 12,000 years ago, the jellyfish trapped in the lake evolved so that they lost their sting. Now completely harmless, tourists can swim amongst them and come out of the water unscathed.
The Story of Stuff →
11 Animals That Mate for Life →
Gibbons, Swans, Black Vultures, French angelfish, wolves, albatrosses, termites, prarie voles, turtle doves, schistosoma mansoni worms, bald eagles
Mohandas Gandhi: Climate change to continue to... →
a-space-odyssey:
New research indicates the impact of rising CO2 levels in the Earth’s atmosphere will cause unstoppable effects to the climate for at least the next 1000 years, causing researchers to estimate a collapse of the West Antarctic ice sheet by the year 3000, and an eventual…
WTF? More Dead Birds Fall from the Sky in Sweden,... →
“So when it’s yellow, let it mellow and when it’s brown, flush it down.”
– Wesley Chan (What the Flush?!)
First Falling Birds, Now Dead Fish in Arkansas →
timetruthhumor:
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. - Wildlife experts are trying to solve a mystery that evoked images of the apocalypse: Why did more than 3,000 red-winged blackbirds tumble from the Arkansas sky shortly before midnight on New Year’s Eve? Scientists are investigating whether bad weather, fireworks or poison might have forced the birds out of the sky, or if a disoriented bird simply led the...
