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Lemurs and Baby Pandas 19 y
PHOTOS! TOO CUTE! New lemur species discovered in the rain forests of Madagascar; bug-eyed aye-aye lemur; newborn baby pandas
Photograph by Robert Zingg Photo in the News: New Lemur Species Discovered
August 9, 2005—You’re a good man, Microcebus lehilahytsara —quite literally. The German and Madagascan scientists who discovered the new lemur species named it for U.S. lemur expert Steve Goodman (”lehilahytsara” is Malagasy for ”good man”). They announced the discovery of this and another new lemur species (not pictured) today.
Surprisingly, the scientists discovered Microcebus lehilhytsara not in some shrouded jungle but in one of the most studied rain forests on the African island of Madagascar. Then agai ... read more Vegan Sex Shop?!? 19 y
Vegan sex toys and lubricants? A solar powered vibrator? What will they think of next? Sex for the eco-conscious!
This is no joke! Although I did get a good laugh at these real vegan sex toys and sex aides--
solar powered vibrator! https://vegsexshop.com/product.php?productid=11&cat=5&page=1
vegan lubricants! https://vegsexshop.com/home.php?cat=2
check out this stuff and more at ”the Veg Sex Shop”! https://vegsexshop.com/home.html
What was I doing looking at this website? I got this info from Grist on-line, really I did!
Grist Magazine: Environmental News and Commentary©2005. Grist Magazine, Inc. All rights reserved. Gloom and doom with a sense of humor®. grist@grist.org
read more Genetically Modified Rice? 19 y
Scientists have mapped out the genetic blueprint for rice, a food staple that feeds 1/2 the world's population. This crop is now vulnerable to genetic manipulation by agribusiness, yet resistance to genetically modified foods is growing worldwide.
Christian Science Monitor http://www.csmonitor.com/2005/0815/p01s03-ussc.html
USA > Society & Culture
from the August 15, 2005 edition
UNDER SCRUTINY: A Greenpeace activist shows off rice for sale in southern China. The group claims local rice was genetically modified without government approval.
ELIZABETH DALZIEL/AP
A food revolution beckons, but few show up
By Peter N. Spotts | Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor
It’s the kind of breakthrough scientists often dream about.
They have unraveled the complete genetic b ... read more MCS & Cleaning Products 19 y
Not all "Green" or nontoxic cleaning products, homemade or otherwise, are healthy for people with Multiple Chemical Sensitivity
RE: My blog regarding homemade cleaning products: http://curezone.com/blogs/m.asp?f=309&i=87
First, let me state that I am very chemically sensitive.
I use organic apple cider vinegar to kill mold in my house. I even use it in home-made salad dressing. I seem to tolerate it very well. As for soap, I use scent-free, biodegradable dishwashing liquid (I prefer Seventh Generation or Planet brands) to clean my house. I use Bon Ami as the "scrubber". I stated all of this in my blog.
Dr. Dorothy Calabrese is an environmental medicine specialist in Laguna Hills, Cal ... read more Germany Goes "Green" 19 y
Germany to end its use of nuclear power and gear up renewable energy to provide 1/5 of the country's energy needs by 2020. Germany has already cut its carbon emissions contributing to global warming by 19%, well over the 8% called for by the Kyoto agreement. The United States, take note!
Grist > News & Analysis > Main Dish
Excerpt; to read the whole article go to: http://www.grist.org/news/maindish/2005/08/12/levitin-germany/index.html?sour...
Nein Lives
Germany says auf Wiedersehen to nuclear power, guten Tag to renewables
By Michael Levitin
12 Aug 2005
For a people as addicted to order as the Germans, this country is floundering in uncertainty. The economy has sputtered to a post-World War II record 5 million unemployed. (The)only thing most Germans are sure about right now is the dire need to abandon nuclear power. Tough policies ena ... read more Homemade Cleaning Supplies 19 y
Liora's List: Homemade cleaning products use four simple ingredients: vinegar, soap, a "scrubber", and water. Oh, and don't forget the "elbow grease"! Read on for "green" cleaning in your home!
Why make your own? As alternatives to most commercial cleaning products, these homemade ones don’t cause indoor air pollution in your home, are less likely to harm the environment, and can be less expensive than commercial products.
I use Bon Ami or baking soda as the scrubber. Bon Ami is made out of calcium carbonate and is a biodegradable detergent containing no phosphates, chlorine, perfume or dye. I’ve been using it for years as an alternative to Ajax (chlorinated). It is readily found in the cleanser section of grocery stores.
Baking soda is sodium bicarbonate, a ... read more Find Good Wood/Save Trees 19 y
Buy wood and wood products that are Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) certified, meaning that the wood was carefully harvested from a natural forest maintaining its cultural, environmental and economic sustainability.
What You Can Do: Find Good Wood
COOP AMERICA
Woodwise: Economic Action to End Deforestation
The Hall of Biodiversity at the American Museum of Natural History is an especially forest-friendly place. The wood used in the floor, benches, and exhibit stations is Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) certified, meaning that it was carefully harvested from a natural forest maintaining its cultural, environmental and economic sustainability.
The story behind wood is important. Take your front door, for instance. Perhaps all you know for sure is that it started as a tree ... read more Stop Junk Mail/Save Trees 19 y
The average American adult receives almost 560 pieces of junk mail each year. One hundred million trees are ground up every year to produce the 4.5 million tons of solicitations that clutter our mailboxes. Read on for what YOU can do to stop junk mail and save trees.
COOP AMERICA
What You Can Do: Stop Junk Mail
Here is ten key checklist of ten actions to dramatically reduce the amount of junk mail you receive:
Get off of the Junk Mailing List. Visit the Direct Marketing Association’s consumer opt-out services
and follow their instructions for removal.
Stop getting credit card junk mail. Most credit card companies use a central service to screen out people who don’t want to receive their mailings. To avoid getting most most credit card junk mail, call 888-567-8688. (You will be asked for your social security numbe ... read more African Shaman Visits 19 y
I met Mandaza Kandemwa last year. At the time, the Zimbawean Nganga, or Shaman, told me I had "rain spirits", "healing hands" and an "open heart". I've pondered his words ever since. I'm planning on meeting with him again this year. Don't miss an opportunity to meet this extraordinary, warm-hearted, and powerful healer!
Zimbabwean Nganga Mandaza Kandemwa returns to the U.S. and Canada Aug. 17 - Oct. 25
The tour will take Mandaza to California, Wisconsin and British Columbia
Mandaza Kandemwa is a nganga, a Bantu shaman or medicine man, in the Shona and Ndebele traditions of Zimbabwe, initiated into the ngoma of the water spirits. He carries with great heart the Central African tradition of healing. And it is this tradition and his skill as a healer and initiator he offers to us individually and in community during his fourth visit to the United States and Canada.
This visit is an opportunity to ... read more Nuclear Waste-Guaranteed! 19 y
TRUST THE GOVERNMENT? EPA guarantees that nuclear waste storage site at Yucca Mountain in Nevada will have limited radiation releases for ONE MILLION YEARS! Who's gonna be around that long to make sure health standards are met?
The New York Times http://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/10/politics/10yucca.html?ei=5090&en=5d5c87... August 10, 2005 Million Years of Safety Are Sought for A-Waste By MICHAEL JANOFSKY WASHINGTON, Aug. 9 - The Environmental Protection Agency said Tuesday that it had revised its health standard for the proposed nuclear waste storage site at Yucca Mountain in Nevada to limit radiation releases for a million years. The new standard is a response to a federal appeals court ruling 13 months ago that said the previous standard, for 10,000 years, did not go far enough. The revision includes an add ... read more Otters Endangered 19 y
Alaskan sea otters being added to endangered species list.
Suffering population declines that are baffling scientists, the sea otters of southwest Alaska are being designated a threatened species under the Endangered Species Act, which entitles the furry marine mammals to stronger federal protections. Government biologists plan to investigate why their numbers have plummeted from tens of thousands in the late 1980s to less than 9,000 today. Hungry orcas alone probably don’t account for the steep population decline, say many scientists, and typical factors like disease and starvation don’t fully explain it either. "The loss of sea otters is an ... read more Pot Pollutes Public Lands 19 y
California's Sequoia National Park has become prime cropland for armed pot growers who colonize isolated wilderness areas, causing massive ecological damage. Rangers and law enforcement say federal authorities and environmental groups aren't taking the problem seriously enough.
August 9, 2005 Los Angeles Times
War of the Weed
by Joe Robinson, Times staff writer
FAMED for the biggest trees in the world, Sequoia National Park is now No. 1 in another flora department: marijuana growing, with more land carved up by pot growers than any other park.
Parts of Sequoia, including the Kaweah River drainage and areas off Mineral King Road, are no-go zones for visitors and park rangers during the April-to-October growing season, when drug lords cultivate pot on an agribusiness-scale fit for the Central Valley.
”It’s so big that we have to focus our resources on one ... read more Good Karma 19 y
Some good rules of life from the Dalai Lama
Violence Against Women 19 y
Daily in the United States, 4 women are murdered by their significant others. Join women and men across the country in making sure that the Violence Against Women Act is reauthorized by Congress before it expires in September. Please help! Millions–that's right, MILLIONS—of women, children and families will be better off as a result!
Sign the original petition at http://www.700women.org/site/c.feIJLOOsGlF/b.854229/k.ADBB/Sign_the_Petition/... and/or become a citizen-sponsor (see below) of this legislation designed to help protect women from violence.
Sponsored by Amnesty International.
Become a Citizen Co-Sponsor of the Violence Against Women Act!
Dear All, In the last two weeks, we have been so touched and excited by the number of people who have visited 700women.org. More than 48,000 people have already taken action!
It’s time to build on our momentum. Now that you’ve ad ... read more Hiroshima Revisited 19 y
60 years ago today, an atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima. Three days later, another bomb destroyed Nagasaki. Many Americans believe that the bombs ended World War II. The authors of this article assert that the atomic bombings were unnecessary; the Japanese government was already seeking peace.
Peace Memorial Park in Hiroshima
August 5, 2005 latimes.com : Print Edition : Editorials, Op-Ed Print
The myths of Hiroshima
By Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin, KAI BIRD and MARTIN J. SHERWIN are coauthors of ”American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer,” published earlier this year by Knopf.
SIXTY YEARS ago (today), an atomic bomb was dropped without warning on the center of the Japanese city of Hiroshima. One hundred and forty thousand people were killed, more than 95% of them women and children and other noncombatants. At least half of the victims ... read more "Green"Laundry/Cleaning Products 19 y
Liora's List: Earth-friendlier Cleaning and Laundry Products I recommend, free of chlorine bleach and artificial fragrances, made without nonrenewable petroleum-based chemicals, with no optical brighteners or dyes, and biodegradable!
NEW! Organic Laundry Detergent! http://curezone.com/blogs/fm.asp?i=2039179
Ecover http://www.ecover.com
Mountain Green http://mountaingreen.biz/
Planet http://www.planetinc.com
Seventh Generation http://www.seventhgeneration.com
Where to Buy: Whole Foods, Trader Joes, Mother’s Market and your local health food store.
Planet is also sold in a lot of what I call ”Toxic Wasteland” large chain stores that will not be named here. You can check out the list in your area on their website. Planet will soon sell their products direct to the consumer, s ... read more Toxins in WildOats Market!! 19 y
I was appalled to discover that Wild Oats Natural Marketplace has put toxic cleaning/laundry products on their shelves right next to environmentally responsible ones! TAKE ACTION: Buy enviro-friendly cleaning/laundry products! Express your concerns to W.O. corporate headquarters!
Right next to Seventh Generation laundry detergent were spaces for "Tide" laundry detergent. I say "spaces" for Tide because the Tide was sold out!!
Also on the shelf was "409" all-purpose cleaner, and "Lysol", right next to "Seventh Generation" all-purpose cleaner!
As a person with chemical sensitivity, I could smell the chemicals from these toxic products right through the packaging, and after standing there too long gaping in disgust and shock, I had to flee the cleaning products aisle due to a sudden attack of headache and anx ... read more |