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Documentary Movie The Cove – Shallow Water. Deep Secret.

August 10, 2009 By 2 Comments
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[UPDATE: Dolphin Slaughter in Taiji's 'Cove' Suspended] A seemingly paranoid, ex-dolphin trainer slowly drives through a foreign land while being pursued by police and other locals may appear to be the start of a riveting spy thriller and in some cases that’s exactly what this film is but instead of drawing from the mind of Robert [...]

The Beetles Invasion: Taking a Bite out of Water-sucking Weeds

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More than 200,000 yellow-striped Diorhabda beetles, Diorhabda elongate, are coming to the rescue in Colorado.  In order to take a great big bite out of tamarisk, 100,000 leaf-eating Chinese beetles have already been released along the banks of the Arkansas River. 

Cook Food: A Manualfesto for Easy, Healthy, Local Eating

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Cook Food: A Manualfesto for Easy, Healthy, Local Eating
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When I was in college I briefly dated a boy whose idea of a meal was eating cold meat chili from an open can. In retrospect, how and what he chose to feed himself provided a very telling insight into his character and values. How and what we eat shapes our lives and who were [...]

Brown Clouds – Not CO2 – Melting Himalayan Glaciers

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Brown cloud near Pune, India The legendary glaciers of the Himalayan and Hindu Kush mountain ranges have been losing volume at an increasing rate over the past twenty to thirty years. And over this same time period, much data has piled up confirming the role of increased CO2 emissions in global warming trends. Given this, [...]

7 Steps to Becoming a “Green Being”

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John Willoner’s Eco-House at Findhorn (UK). Turf roof, passive solar, solar panel. “Is it possible to affect the environment?” That was one of the questions that confronted me on one on-line questionnaire I took over a year ago. As a naturalist and former instructor of natural science and ecology (grades 1 – 9), I found [...]