Archive for the 'Environment' Category
North Mountain Pastures
January 27th, 2012Via: Kickstarter: If you love traditional European salume, charcuterie, cured meats, air-dried meats, or artisan meats by any other name, then you have come to the right place! North Mountain Pastures is me – Brooks, my wife Anna, and our two children, Kaj and Leila. We’ve been farming together on leased land for over 6 […]
Researchers Drilling Thousands of Meters Into Frozen Antarctic Lake
January 19th, 2012Via: Science Magazine: Along with all the festivities surrounding the anniversary of explorer Robert Falcon Scott’s reaching the South Pole on 17 January 1912, Antarctic researchers are at the edge of their seats waiting for news that will merit another celebration. The centennial coincides with an expected new landmark: This week, a Russian team drilling […]
Arnold Gundersen: Fukushima Update
January 9th, 2012This is Dr. Helen Caldicott interviewing Arnold Gundersen. The audio is from Fairwinds Associates on December 26, 2011. Hint: This is very grim. Related: Dr. Helen Caldicott
Japan ‘Dream Project’: 600 Acre Farm with Autonomous Robot Workers
January 7th, 2012Does anyone understand how LEDs are supposed to replace pesticides? Under an agriculture ministry plan, unmanned tractors will work fields where pesticides will have been replaced by LEDs keeping rice, wheat, soybeans, fruit and vegetables safe until robots can put them in boxes. Anyway, this sounds like it could have been lifted right out of […]
DYI Radiation Scanning in Japanese Grocery Store
January 1st, 2012Via: The Japan Times: But on a street just six minutes from JR Kashiwa Station, the Bec-Miru facility that Motohiro Takamatsu opened in October is turning heads by offering residents a chance to scan their own groceries, garden soil and other items for radiation. “To have Kashiwa become contaminated with radiation, that was a big […]
FDA Won’t Regulate Use of Antibiotics in Healthy Livestock Intended for Human Consumption
December 30th, 2011Via: Guardian: Environmental and consumer groups have condemned the US Food and Drug Administration’s move to renege on its long-held policy to regulate the use of human antibiotics in animal feed. Last week, the agency quietly announced it was withdrawing its plan to limit the use of antibiotics fed to healthy livestock intended for human […]
Rootworms Becoming Resistant to Monsanto’s Genetically Modified Corn
December 29th, 2011Via: AP: One of the nation’s most widely planted crops — a genetically engineered corn plant that makes its own insecticide — may be losing its effectiveness because a major pest appears to be developing resistance more quickly than scientists expected.
Taiwanese Rice Headed to Japan
December 28th, 2011Via: Taipei Times: A shipment of Taiwanese rice bound for Tokyo departed central Taiwan yesterday, the second in a series of three deliveries of the biggest rice order received from Japan in eight years. A ceremony was held in Changhua County’s Pitou Township , where the rice supplier, Union Rice Co, is based, to mark […]
FBI Says Activists Who Investigate Factory Farms Can Be Prosecuted as Terrorists
December 21st, 2011Via: Green Is The New Red: The FBI Joint Terrorism Task Force has kept files on activists who expose animal welfare abuses on factory farms and recommended prosecuting them as terrorists, according to a new document uncovered through the Freedom of Information Act.
14,000 U.S. Deaths Tied to Fukushima Reactor Disaster Fallout [???]
December 21st, 2011Update: Editor at Scientific American Claims This Research Is Flawed —End Update— Via: Press Release / International Journal of Health Services: An estimated 14,000 excess deaths in the United States are linked to the radioactive fallout from the disaster at the Fukushima nuclear reactors in Japan, according to a major new article in the December […]
