Archive for the 'Environment' Category
Freak Beijing Storm Turns Day Into Night
June 16th, 2009Via: ABC: China correspondent Stephen McDonell and ABC cameraman Rob Hill saw day turn into night as a freak storm swept across the capital Beijing today. “It was pitch black outside and you could see people looking out from the office towers across the road from us,” McDonell said. “In a couple of the photos […]
New Cloud Formations?
June 7th, 2009Must see gallery. I don’t think these clouds are new, though. Look at the sky above Mordor. 😉 Via: BBC: A cloudspotter from Somerset believes he has identified a new type of cloud. Gavin Pretor-Pinney, from Somerton, who also founded the Cloud Appreciation Society, wants recognition for what he has named the asperatus cloud. He […]
Mission to Break up Pacific Island of Trash Twice the Size of Texas
May 8th, 2009This one always gets to me, not matter how many times I read about it. Via: Times Online: A high-seas mission departs from San Francisco next month to map and explore a sinister and shifting 21st-century continent: one twice the size of Texas and created from six million tonnes of discarded plastic. Scientists and conservationists […]
The Vegetarian Myth: Food, Justice and Sustainability by Lierre Keith
May 5th, 2009I’ve listened to a few of Lierre Keith’s radio appearances and talks. This information will be nothing new to those of you who are involved with producing your own food in ways that build top soil. To the rest of you, this will be deep, chilling doom… for your belly. Lierre Keith is absolutely NOT […]
Russia to Build Floating Arctic Nuclear Stations
May 4th, 2009Ok, I’ll write it to save you from having to post it as a comment: WHAT COULD POSSIBLY GO WRONG? Via: Guardian: Russia is planning a fleet of floating and submersible nuclear power stations to exploit Arctic oil and gas reserves, causing widespread alarm among environmentalists. A prototype floating nuclear power station being constructed at […]
Monsanto Sues Germany Over GM Ban
April 26th, 2009Via: Food Production Daily: Monsanto has filed a lawsuit against the German government after the EU member state banned planting of its genetically modified MON810 maize last week. MON810 maize is genetically engineered to produce Bacillus thuringiensis, which is toxic to the corn borer pest. Permitted in Europe since 1998 for animal feed, it is […]
Food, Inc: “A Civilized Horror Movie”
April 20th, 2009Via: Variety: With a constituency limited to anyone who eats, “Food, Inc.” is a civilized horror movie for the socially conscious, the nutritionally curious and the hungry. Yes, it has a deceptively cheery palette, but helmer Robert Kenner’s doc — which does for the supermarket what “Jaws” did for the beach — marches straight into […]
Obama Looks at Climate Engineering
April 9th, 2009Related: Council on Foreign Relations on Planetary Geoengineering The best way to deal with the fascist fart taxers and Dr. Strangelove geoingineering maniacs is to simply let them talk about their alleged “solutions.” The masks that fake environmentalists are wearing come off at that point, revealing the diabolical element underneath. You don’t hear much about […]
St. Francis of Afece and Craptonite: Meet the Sodfather
April 7th, 2009This is a long article about an old time compost freak, nothing more, nothing less. I enjoyed it. One problem: About making compost, the article says, “no meat, cat, dog or human poop.” Please see The Humanure Handbook for clarification on this. You can compost that stuff, no problem, if you know the rules. If […]
Italy Muzzled Scientist Who Foresaw Quake
April 6th, 2009Via: Reuters: An Italian scientist predicted a major earthquake around L’Aquila weeks before disaster struck the city on Monday, killing dozens of people, but was reported to authorities for spreading panic among the population. The first tremors in the region were felt in mid-January and continued at regular intervals, creating mounting alarm in the medieval […]
