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Timothy Wilken, MD
writes: As Mr. Spock explained, The needs of the many ... outweigh the
needs of the few ... or the one. 
Tom Engelhardt of Tom Dispatch.com writes: Already climate change -- in the form of a changing pattern of global
rainfall -- seems to be affecting the planet in significant ways. Take
the massive, almost decade-long drought in Australia's wheat-growing
heartland, which has been a significant factor in sending [...]
BBC Ocean Science -- Declining fish stocks could be partly responsible for algal blooms in the oceans, researchers have found.
BBC Science --
Destruction of mangrove forests in Burma left coastal areas exposed to
the devastating force of the weekend's cyclone, a top politician
suggests.Big three-day series in the Seattle Times on Puget Sound launches today. Day one is great.
If you're time-pressed, here it is, shorter: Sprawl is the real killer of the sound. Cities--complete, compact communities--are the solution.
Fortuitously, that's exactly what Cascadia needs for jobs, health, energy independence, and climate security too.
[...]
I came across the following site and I just smiled. Here you will find a company dedicated to our four-legged friends. Paw Luxury, an online store, specializes in providing dogs with organic food and other eco-friendly products. From beds & mats to clothing, Paw luxury has all the bases [...]
Bill McKibben [search] writes in "Civilization's last chance" [ark] the best summing up of the known threats facing humanity now from climate change if major emission cuts are not pursued immediately. His latest campaign efforts highlight the number 350, [...]
Bill McKibben [search] writes in "Civilization's last chance" [ark] the best summing up of the known threats facing humanity now from climate change if major emission cuts are not pursued immediately. His latest campaign efforts highlight the number 350, [...]
By David Roberts
Though the nation's pundits have decided that the primary race is over, someone failed to get Clinton the memo -- she is determined to stay in to the bitter end.
The next primaries are in West Virginia and Kentucky, states where the number of poor whites [...]
By Kate Sheppard
In his remarks in Jersey City, N.J. on Friday, GOP presidential contender John McCain appeared to offer an off-hand endorsement of the Lieberman-Warner Climate Security Act. "I hope it will pass," he told the crowd, "and I hope the entire Congress will join in supporting it and the [...]
As incredible as it may sound, the world's oceans are running out of fish [ark]. Terribly wasteful and unsustainable industrial harvest of natural, wild fisheries [search] has led to much of humanity's swollen population eating ever smaller fish from inexorably [...]
Xinhua. New passenger car sales in China climbed 17.84% in the first four months of 2008, compared to the same period the prior year.
[...]According to the semi-official China Association of Automobile Manufacturers (CAAM), sales reached 2.46 million cars, including 1.81 million sedans, 75,500 mini-vans and 141,300 sport-utility vehicles.
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| Motorized vehicle sales in China. Click to enlarge. Source: J. Weinert et. al. (2008) |
The market for electric two-wheelers (E2Ws) in China is booming; by 2006, the annual sales of E2Ws—which were virtually non-existent in the 1990s—almost equaled those of gasoline two-wheelers (G2W) (see chart at right). [...]
Xinhua. China officially inaugurated its first jumbo passenger aircraft company in Shanghai on Sunday. The company, Commercial Aircraft Corporation of China Ltd.(CACC), will be responsible for researching, developing, manufacturing and marketing the made-in-China large passenger aircraft.
Zhang Qingwei, minister of then State Commission of Science, Technology and Industry for National [...]
Don't miss the launch of EconomistMom.com, the new blog by Diane Lim Rogers:
[...]... where she will comment on a range of issues, with fiscal responsibility prominent among them, using her dual credentials as a Ph.D. economist and mother of four.
She goes by so many names:
Mother Nature.
Mother Earth.
Mother Goddess.
Gaia.
She takes so many forms:
The dance of the seasons.
The ripples of a river.
The textures of a mountain range emblazoned by the morning sun.
The crash of a wave on sand.
She is very [...]
By Tom Philpott
Remember a couple of weeks ago, when a Brazilian soy magnate turned a voracious eye on the Amazon rainforest, marveling at how awesome it would be to raze more of it to plant soy? Blairo Maggi, known as Brazil's "soy king," said this:
With the worsening of [...]
