The sky IS falling.
posted by St. Jim the Composter at 6:33 AM
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Wednesday, April 11, 2007
Monday, April 09, 2007
Inertia
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We've got to turn this ship around. It's easier, more profitable, and suicidal for all of us to deny we're in a whole system total emergency. It reminds me of that song that went something like, "...cocaine...They tell me it'll kill me, but they don't say when..."
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Pacific Institute http://www.pacinst.org/press_center/press_releases/20070421.html
...interdisciplinary analysis has shown...that solutions abound...
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Wrong turns we have made and are making:
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"...we are already locked in to significant changes in weather patterns for the foreseeable future due to the impacts of past emissions..."
Ahmed Djoghlaf, Executive Secretary
UN Convention on Biological Diversity
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http://corpwatch.org/article.php?id=14435
...more than 150 new coal-fired power plants planned to go into production in the U.S. by 2030...
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A Sewer is a Mistake
by Victor Hugo 1867 from Les Miserables
http://compostingtoilet.com/LITRACK/vic_hugo.pdf
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Who Killed the Electric Car
http://ichblog.eu/content/view/1313/1
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From:
It's not just about climate
by Ahmed Djoghlaf
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/6408789.stm
...another equally pressing crisis humanity has brought upon itself: the biggest reduction in the variety of life on Earth since the demise of the dinosaurs 65 million years ago...unless biodiversity loss and climate change are tackled together and with equal priority, the impact of both on the lives of future generations could be very much worse...by taking determined action to ease the pressures on the planet's ecosystems, we have it within our power to reduce and even eliminate some of the worst threats posed by a warmer and less stable climate...whatever action is taken now to reduce the greenhouse gas emissions linked to global warming, we are already locked in to significant changes in weather patterns for the foreseeable future due to the impacts of past emissions...reduction of biodiversity implies a threat to services as basic as the provision of food, fibre, medicines and fresh water, the pollination of crops and protection from flooding...
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http://911pressfortruth.org
http://911independentcommission.org
http://complete911timeline.org
http://rightwingwatch.org
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http://humintech.com/001/environment/information/company.html
http://progressive.org/links
http://www.campusi.com/keyword_Kuwait_History.htm
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Web of Deceit: The History of Western Complicity in Iraq, from Churchill to Kennedy to George W. Bush
by Barry M. Lando 2007
http://twf.org/News/Y2005/1011-SecretWar.html
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A Pretext for War: 9/11, Iraq, and the Abuse of America's Intelligence Agencies
by James Bamford 2004
http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig6/zeese1.html
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Kucinich
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U2XLM6EQZEM
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http://www.planetark.com/dailynewsstory.cfm/newsid/41970/story.htm
http://www.planetark.com/dailynewsstory.cfm?newsid=41493&newsdate=23-Apr-2007
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The vicious cycle of rainforest destruction
http://reporter.leeds.ac.uk/516/s5.htm
...researchers from the Leeds Earth and Biosphere Institute...think we may be at the start of a vicious cycle, where global warming causes the rainforests to shrink, so increasing the amount of carbon in the atmosphere, raising the earth’s temperature and magnifying the impact on the rainforests..."...As it gets warmer and drier the rainforest gets invaded by savanna, which has fewer trees and holds less carbon in the soil. Savanna also doesn’t recycle water in the same way as rainforest, so the carbon loss from the savanna is greater and the atmosphere becomes drier.”...
http://earth.leeds.ac.uk/ebi/news.htm
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From:
Thermodynamics of the Corn-Ethanol
Biofuel Cycle
Critical Reviews in Plant Sciences
http://petroleum.berkeley.edu/papers/patzek/CRPS416-Patzek-Web.pdf
...more fossil energy is used to produce ethanol from corn than the
ethanol’s calorific value...
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911weknow.com
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-6708190071483512003
Eric Hufschmid
thermate
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-6708190071483512003
smallstorm
http://truthring.org
http://urnotfree.com
Jane Standley
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thompson "the terror timeline" "the jersey girls"
http://911pressfortruth.org
http://www.farmsanctuary.org/campaign/index.htm
http://portland.indymedia.org/en/2007/04/357536.shtml#256753
http://carnicom.com
http://911busters.com/chem_trails/WMV/aerosol_crimes.asx
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http://www.whitedogcafefoundation.com/fairfood.html
http://www.ento.psu.edu/extension/sustainableAg/
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Bush "Larry J. Kolb"
http://www.denverpost.com/books/ci_5759844
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From:
Greens Call for a Massive National, Global Conservation Effort to Curb Global Warming
4/13/7
http://gp.org/press/pr_2007_04_13.shtml
Carl Romanelli, Pennsylvania Green Party, 2006 US Senate candidate:
"...We need to stop burning oil and coal..."
Starlene Rankin, Lavender Green Caucus delegate to the Green Party of the United States:
"We need to develop clean and safe alternative forms of energy, such as wind and solar power, but alternative energy sources cannot sustain our way of life as global warming progresses and fossil fuel use is dramatically limited. We must learn to conserve energy. We can start with a massive investment in trains, electric trains, and various forms of electrified mass transit, to replace car traffic and curb sprawl. We need to consume locally grown food, instead of relying on food driven hundreds or thousands of miles across the US in trucks and grown with petroleum-based fertilizers and pesticides. We need to enact carbon taxes, and to do so without placing the major burden on working people. We can use conservation projects, as well as alternative energy development, to generate new jobs all across the US."
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Monsters, Inc.
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A Chronology of Fluoridation
http://users.rcn.com/mgfree/Medical/Fluorine/FluorineHistory.html
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http://www.truehealth.org/climlink.html
http://www.truehealth.org/bioslink.html
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http://fluoridealert.org/news/861.html
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Fluoride from the faucet
Decades after the cavity fighter was first added to public water, the debate continues
Thursday, May 23, 2002
By Susan Jacobs
http://www.post-gazette.com/neigh_north/20020523ncover0523p2.asp
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"sources of" "bone cancer" nephrosis scleroderma
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soy
http://www.vrg.org/journal/vj2003issue3/vj2003issue3hotline.htm
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Dryland Forests Could be a Major Carbon Sink
http://www.truehealth.org/bionew01.html
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http://mindcontrolforums.com/pro-freedom.co.uk/part_6.html
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pittsburgh fluoridation 2007
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Scientific Facts on Fluoride
http://www.greenfacts.org/en/fluoride/fluorides-2/02-environment.htm
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Argentina's bitter harvest (what GM soya has done for Argentina)
crop geek | 15.04.2004 19:23 | Bio-technology
repost of an article from New Scientist on the impact of GM soya on farmers in Argentina
Argentina's bitter harvest
New Scientist, 17 April 2004
http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2004/04/289323.html
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Fluoride in Diet
http://www.wpxi.com/dietandfitness/6863230/detail.html
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Toxicology and Carcinogenesis Studies of Sodium Fluoride...in F344/N Rats and B6C3F1 Mice (Drinking Water Studies)
http://ntp.niehs.nih.gov/index.cfm?objectid=0709411C-E355-A12E-DBB6666806CB8DB2
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http://10000friends.org
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"Cultivators of the Earth are the most valuable citizens. They are the most vigorous, the most independent, the most virtuous, and they are tied to their country and wedded to its liberty and interests by the most lasting bands."
~Thomas Jefferson
Farm Aid: a Song for America
page 88
http://farmaid.org/site/PageServer?pagename=store_book
http://rodaleinstitutestore.org/store/customer/product.php?productid=2003&cat=302&page=1
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"albedo feedback"
"incidental take permit"
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discussion of military/industrial complex
http://forums.plentyoffish.com/datingPosts6853859.aspx
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The terrorist we tolerate
by Rosa Brooks 5/11/7
http://www.freethefive.org/usTerrorism/USTerrTolerate51107.htm
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Miami Mafia attacks peaceful demonstration
http://www.freepeoplesmovement.org/fpm/page.php?266
... a group belonging to the Miami Mafia (the noisy group of mostly white, rich Cubans in Miami who left Cuba soon after its revolution in 1959 – because they could no longer exploit the population of the country for their own benefit – and their decedents) staged a protest in Miami, Florida calling for the release of former CIA agent and admitted terrorist Luis Posada Carriles...
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Robert Mario Sensi
Richard Marshall Hirschfeld
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http://www.hfstival.com/yabbse/index.php?PHPSESSID=51ec669e3d3f72cf5bc6f27d08db428a&topic=23405.msg688860
http://www.namebase.org/sources/SS.html
http://www.totse.com/en/politics/central_intelligence_agency/162602.html
http://www.namebase.org/main4/Robert-Mario-Sensi.html
"Robert Mario Sensi"
"Grey Eminence" Kolb
"America at Night" Overworld Kolb
"thierry meyssan" excerpt "9/11: The Big Lie"
http://insertsilence.com
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Kruger, Henrik. The Great Heroin Coup: Drugs, Intelligence, and International Fascism. Boston: South End Press, 1980. 240 pages. (Originally published in Denmark as "Smukke Serge og Heroinen" in 1976.)
http://www.namebase.org/sources/GA.html
...Nixon's war against the Turkey-Marseilles heroin allowed Trafficante's marketing "coup" using heroin from Southeast Asia, and for Kruger it appears that there may have been passive collusion in high places...
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America at Night
The True Story of Two Rogue CIA Operatives, Homeland Security Failures, Dirty Money, and a Plot to Steal the 2004 U.S. Presidential Election - by the Former Intelligence Agent Who Foiled the Plan
http://www.larryjkolb.com/author.html
http://www.totse.com/en/politics/central_intelligence_agency/162602.html
http://johnkerry.com
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hursday, May 24
10 am - 12 pm
Allegheny County Office of the Pennsylvania State Cooperative Extension Service
400 North Lexington Street
Pittsburgh
Cost: Free
RSVP: mcm2@psu.edu
This meeting will focus on the legacy of contaminants stored in Pittsburgh soils. All are welcome to attend. However, please note this is primarily a research meeting, meant to disseminate and discuss research results, so discussion will be structured to facilitate this process. Dr. Daniel Bain will be moderating the meeting. If you would like to add topics/questions to the discussion, please contact him at your earliest convenience. If you would like to learn more about the Research Working Group, please contact Mike Masiuk (Penn State Cooperative Extension email: mcm2@psu.edu ).
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http://www.myspace.com/imadeitpgh
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locavore
animal vegetable mineral kingsolver locavore
http://nabooksdaily.blogspot.com/2007/05/my-favorite-new-word-locavore.html
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Title:
Planning for a Deep Eology workshop
Event Date:
5/18/2007 6:30 PM
End Date:
Description:
There will be a meeting May 18 at 6:30 p.m. at the Thomas Merton Center, 5125
Penn Ave. to plan for the deep ecology workshop using the work book from
Northwest Earth Institute. We only need to agree on day and time and I need to
collect $15 from each participant to order the work book for the workshop. If
there are enough of us and we cannt reach consensus on one day and time we may do
two workshops simultaneously. If you have questions either email me or phone
number is 412-795-7078. DO NOT CALL MERTON CENTER as I am the responsible
person and i am not there except thursdays 2-5 p.m. Thanks for your interest. I
look forward to this workshop.
Location:
Thomas Merton Center, 5125 Penn Ave, Garfield
Contact:
412-795-7078
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animal vegetable mineral kingsolver locavore
http://fossilfreefuel.com
http://fossilfreefuel.com/partners.htm
http://nabooksdaily.blogspot.com/2007/05/my-favorite-new-word-locavore.html
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"Steve Gillon" "The Men Who Killed Kennedy"
"Malcolm Wallace" "Mac Wallace" "The Men on the Sixth Floor" by "Glen Sample" and "M. Collum"
"Edward Clark" "Barr McClellan" "Billy Sol Estes" "Johnson business associate" "Josepha Johnson" "John Douglas Kinser" "John Kinser" "Henry Marshall" "George Krutilek" "Ike Rogers" "Harold Orr" "Coleman Wade"
"Donald Thomas"
Box 13 stolen 1948 election
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stolen "1948 election" "Box 13" Clark
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http://www.fas.org/sgp/eprint/gibbs.html
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http://greensangha.org/links.html
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http://pittsburgh.indymedia.org/news/2007/04/27247.php
AMIDST THE RUINS BRADDOCK BLAZES THE BIOFUELS PATH
by Colin Huwyler Saturday, Apr. 21, 2007 at 1:47 AM
colin@fossilfreefuel.com (email address validated) 412-894-8184 223 Braddock Ave Braddock PA 15104
Braddock finds itself home to many new biofuels projects including: Fossil Free Fuel, a vegetable oil fuel system company, Braddock Biofuels CO-OP, a community scale biofuels cooperative fueling station and a biofuels resource center.
Fossil Free Fuel LLC
223 Braddock Ave
Braddock PA 15104
Phone: 412-894-8184
Email: colin@fossilfreefuel.com
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 4/11/07
AMIDST THE RUINS BRADDOCK BLAZES
THE BIOFUELS PATH
Braddock finds itself home to many new biofuels projects including: Fossil Free Fuel, a vegetable oil fuel system company, Braddock Biofuels CO-OP, a community scale biofuels cooperative fueling station and a biofuels resource center.
The once flourishing Borough of Braddock was home to 20,000 residents, movie theaters, breweries and had a flourishing business district; that time however is long gone. Braddock's existence now sits among ruins, home to only a small fraction of its original population and its business district now defunct. Not a pretty picture but the present image of Braddock is on its way out. Braddock has begun its chrysalis; transforming from dwindling municipality to once again flourishing community. Land-marking this change began with the election of Mayor John Fetterman and his efforts to revitalize the area. In addition to the influx of artists, urban farmers and community organizers, Braddock has now become the regions biofuels hotspot. Fossil Free Fuel is a noteworthy new presence revitalizing the face of Braddock's historic business district.
Fossil Free Fuel designs and installs fuel systems for vehicles (and equipment) with diesel engines to allow them to operate on waste vegetable oil. Proprieted by Colin Huwyler and David Rosenstraus, Fossil Free Fuel has been in business since 2003 in the Allentown area and recently relocated to Braddock. When asked about Braddock Huwyler said, "It was difficult to uproot the business and move across the state. However once we came and met with John, toured the area with Nathaniel Doyno of Steel City Biofuels (a biofuels education nonprofit) and spent some time in Braddock, we knew what potential the area had. We knew we needed to be here to help carve the new Braddock. As a society we need to transform our current dependence on imported fossil fuels to locally produced renewable fuels and I can't see a better place to begin that transition than Braddock. It's pioneering a new vision of urban revitalization. As a business we're working to establish a new vision of community, and reshape the car culture perspective towards a path to a sustainable future. Through biofuels, arts, sustainability, and community, Braddock is becoming an example for neighborhoods everywhere."
Fossil Free Fuel will be opening its doors May 1st at 223 Braddock Ave. The 9,000sf location will be home to Fossil Free Fuel's operations which include a design studio for system engineering and testing, fabrication shop for their custom components, two full service automotive bays' for system installation and vehicle maintenance as well as a retail storefront and customer lounge. This location will also host partner projects including a biofuels resource center with library, educational classroom and community biofuels cooperative. Fossil Free Fuel hopes to partner with a local university for biofuels research; plans are currently underway for an onsite biofuels lab to monitor emissions, performance, and testing of new biofuels technology.
Upcoming events:
April 30th from 6-9pm "Meet and Greet"
Fossil Free Fuel will be opening its doors with a ceremonial ribbon cutting at 6pm followed by a brief informational overview; an installed example of their fuel system will be on display. This event is for anyone interested in learning more about Fossil Free Fuel's system and operations, biofuels in general, synergistic projects in the region and the new developing face of Braddock. Come enjoy beverages and light snacks while becoming active in the pursuit of a sustainable future.
May / July / September - Basic Mechanics and Biofuels For Women
Class instructor and director Gina Favano received a Seed Award from the Sprout Foundation in support of a three-tiered workshop series. The first session will focus on basic maintenance and repair, with an overview of the differences between bio-diesel and straight vegetable oil technology. This class will be offered free of charge. The next two classes, which will take place in the summer and fall, offer a more intensive alternative fuels concentration and will involve a small fee. Participants in the second class will convert a vehicle to run on waste vegetable oil. Participants in the third class will build a small bio-diesel processor. The three classes, which are each divided into four weekly sessions, begin with the basics and segue into an intro to straight vegetable oil conversions and bio-diesel production. Participants will receive a foundational understanding of alternative fuels mechanics empowering them to further pursue interests they may have in the field of this exciting, emerging technology. The classes, all of which take place on weekends, are being hosted by Fossil Free Fuel in their new space at 223 Braddock Avenue.
If you'd like more information about Fossil Free Fuel, or to schedule an interview, please contact Colin Huwyler at 412-894-8184 or e-mail Colin at colin@fossilfreefuel.com
For more information on Braddock visit http://www.15104.cc
www.fossilfreefuel.com
http://steelcitybiofuels.org
http://steelcitybiofuels.org/links.html
http://ecojustice.net/document/ejlinks.htm
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http://www.chatham.edu/centers/index.cfm
"Green Millenium Children's Garden"
http://theclimateproject.org
http://tompaine.com
http://amleft.blogspot.com
"carbon dioxide sequestration potential" algae
"Bush family" proves "crime pays"
http://prissypatriot.blogspot.com
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From:
Animal Extinction - the greatest threat to mankind
By the end of the century half of all species will be extinct. Does that matter?
4/30/7 by Julia Whitty
http://news.independent.co.uk/environment/article2494659.ece
...Scientists recognise that species continually disappear at a background extinction rate estimated at about one species per million per year, with new species replacing the lost in a sustainable fashion. Occasional mass extinctions convulse this orderly norm, followed by excruciatingly slow recoveries as new species emerge from the remaining gene-pool, until the world is once again repopulated by a different catalogue of flora and fauna.
From what we understand so far, five great extinction events have reshaped earth in cataclysmic ways in the past 439 million years, each one wiping out between 50 and 95 per cent of the life of the day, including the dominant life forms; the most recent event killing off the non-avian dinosaurs. Speciations followed, but an analysis published in Nature showed that it takes 10 million years before biological diversity even begins to approach what existed before a die-off.
Today we're living through the sixth great extinction...
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http://www.gpoac.org (local)
http://gpofpa.org (state)
http://gp.org (national)
Location:
Citizen Power, 2121 Murray Ave., 2nd Floor - Squirrel Hill
Contact:
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Hutto prison:
http://www.aclu.tv/hutto
http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=FiftyState
real id
http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=acluvideos
minutemen
http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=undocumented
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SANCTUARY
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/04/22/BAGADPDGNF18.DTL
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[beyond-oil] Why Nuke Power is not clean power Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2007 15:35:01 -0400
From: Amy Hendrickson Add to Contacts
To: CCAB@yahoogroups.com, beyond-oil@yahoogroups.com, peaceworks
http://www.mothersalert.org http://www.mothersalert.org/moreinfo.html
Videos On Nuclear, Renewables: http://www.envirovideo.com
By Karl Grossman
There's again a move on to "revive" nuclear power. Every decade
or so those with a vested interest in this deadly dangerous technology seek
to get the public to swallow the nuclear pilland that's happening again.
The promotion has consistently been based on falsehoods. For
example, in a heavy push years backduring a gasoline shortage that included
lines at gas pumpsthe claim was that if we had nuclear power somehow this
wouldn't happen. In fact, only 3% of electricity in the United States is
generated with oil. Nuclear power has nothing to do with oil or gas.
Currently, the big pitch as the global warming crisis is
acknowledged (after years of the vested oil interests denying it): nuclear
plants don't emit greenhouse gasses and contribute to global warming.
In fact, the overall nuclear cycle necessary has significant
greenhouse gas emissions that contribute to global warming. This so-called
"nuclear fuel chain" includes uranium mining and milling, enrichment, fuel
fabrication, use in nuclear reactors and disposal of radioactive wastes.
Moreover, notes Linda Gunter, project director of the Nuclear Information
and Resource Service, "clean air is not just about greenhouse gases. All
nuclear reactors emit radiation."
Recently, Matthew Cordaro, a top executive of what was once the
Long Island Lighting Company and a main LILCO figure in pushing for its
Shoreham nuclear plant, wrote an op-ed piece in the New York Times lamenting
Shoreham never going into operation.
He cited global warming and dismissed the accident threat.
"Sure," said Mr. Cordaro, "there are those who say they sleep better at
night because there is no Shoreham, but this false sense of security is
derived from a fear of an extremely unlikely piece of Hollywood fiction."
Illuminating here is a letter-to-the-editor that Mr. Cordaro
wrote the News-Review of Riverhead in 1979 stating: "Even if the worst
credible accident happened at Shoreham, and the decision was made to
evacuate.in fact, they could return shortly after the accident had been
terminated. Any emissions to the atmosphere following the loss-of-coolant
accident.would form a plume, similar to smoke from a chimney [and] once the
plume passed, it would be safe to come back to the area."
Tell that to the people from the "exclusion zone" around
Chernobyl!
Since the explosion in 1986 at that nuclear plant spewing tons
of radioactive poisons out into the environment, people have been unable to
live in the radiation-laden "exclusion zone" which forms a circle with a
30-kilometer radius around the plant. That dead zone will need to remain
uninhabited for centuries.
Meanwhile, now 21 years after the Chernobyl disasterno
"Hollywood fiction," as Mr. Cordaro put it, but the reality of what happens
in a nuclear plant accidentsolid data has come through about long-term
health impacts.
A book on those consequences has just been completed by Dr.
Alexey Yablokov, president of the Center for Russian Environmental Policy
and former environmental advisor to the late President Yeltsin. Total deaths
from the fall-out from Chernobylwhich spread far from the "exclusion
zone"has been 300,000, he finds.
And the life expectancy in Russia, which had been the same as
that of the United States, is now 59 for men and 64 for women which Dr.
Yablokov attributes principally to Chernobyl. "You see longevity dropping
precipitously right after 1986 and the accident," he told me on a recent
visit here.
Still, some in media don't seem to get it.
I was surprised at a 60 Minutes segment on which Steve Kroft of
North Haven served as correspondent on this month passing on, unquestioning,
another piece of nuclear establishment baloney: nuclear power has been a
success in France.
Totally ignored, among other things: studies finding
radioactivity in the sea and marine life contaminated off Normandy where La
Hague, the French reprocessing center sits, and leukemia clusters in people
living along the coast; massive demonstrations last month in French cities
protesting construction of new nuclear power plants by AREVA, the
government-supported nuclear giant; the immense subsidies the French public
have been paying for nuclear power; claims of a new reactor with "no
meltdowns" when, in fact, such a "pebble bed" reactor underwent a major
accident in Germany causing its permanent closure. Downplayed were safe,
clean energy technologies here now.
"There are faster, safer and cheaper ways to meet our energy
needs including renewable resources," said a statement challenging the 60
Minutes piece from Alden Meyer, strategy and policy director of the Union of
Concerned Scientists.
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www.africaproject.net
www.invisiblechildren.com/displaceme
www.invisiblechildren.com
www.myspace.com/icpittsburgh)
http://sudandivestment.org
http://miafarrow.org
http://edge-studio.com/
http://mediamatters.org
http://whiterosesociety.org
http://ltradio.blogspot.com
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http://www.mothersa lert.org http://www.mothersa lert.org/ moreinfo. html
: http://www.envirovideo.com
By Karl Grossman
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http://midwifecenter.org
http://smartgrowthamerica.org
http://erweb.org
http://envirovideo.com
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http://tellusthemission.org
http://robertgreenwald.org
http://thesamburuproject.org/contributors.htm
http://www.thionediop.com/recordings.html
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http://trafficos.com/id/2707/
sharkmonstersmom@hotmail.com
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Adapting to Climate Change:
Natural Resource Management and
Vulnerability Reduction
Background Paper to the Task Force on
Climate Change, Adaptation and Vulnerable Communities
http://www.iisd.org/pdf/2002/envsec_cc_bkgd_paper.pdf
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Integrating Biodiversity into Climate Change Adaptation Planning
http://adaptation.biodiv.org
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http://worldenergy.net
http://bushcommission.org
http://thebushagenda.net
http://alleghenyuu.org
http://warfire.org/articles/Articles.htm
http://cmuptm.blogspot.com/search/label/Announcements
http://foxattacks.com
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High Tunnel Research and Education Facility
http://plasticulture.cas.psu.edu/
http://www.sare.org/highlights/2004/tunnels.htm
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http://blackberrymeadows.com
http://agmap.psu.edu/businesses/3085
http://harvestvalleyfarms.com
http://kretschmannfarm.com
mildred's daughters
http://growpittsburgh.org/community.html
localharvest.org/farms/M10233
m3289
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honeybee disappearance theories
http://newsdesk.org/archives/004251.html
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http://myspace.com/newvoicespgh
http://oilonice.org
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Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora
http://cites.org/eng/resources/links.shtml
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http://greencustoms.org
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United Nations Environment Programme
http://unep.org
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http://www.nukebusters.org/19.0.html
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Nuclear Power is Not the Answer
http://helencaldicott.com
http://www.nukebusters.org/122.0.html
http://www.iran-daily.com/1385/2756/html/energy.htm
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http://earthnewswire.com ?
http://www.who.int/uv/publications/en/
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http://www.womenshealthpittsburgh.org
Green Millennium Children's Garden 1313 Sherman
Avenue on the North Side.
fossilfreefuel.com
Biofuels at http://www.steelcitybiofuels.org/ .
http://greendrinks.org
Allegheny Mountains.
http://www.amgf.org
http://www.pointoflight.com
http://www.rachelcarsonhomestead.org
http://alleghenyfront.org
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Future of Food
http://webcast.berkeley.edu/event_details.php?webcastid=19147
http://michaelpollan.com
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth_Day
http://earthday.envirolink.org/history.html
http://unexplainedstuff.com
http://gaianation.net
http://adbusters.org/the_magazine/66/How_Do_We_Win_the_Planetary_Endgame.html
http://planetsave.com
http://unexplainedstuff.com/Mediums-and-Mystics/Rolling-Thunder.html
http://davidrovics.com
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http://industrialsocietydestroys.blogspot.com/
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From:
Working Group II Contribution to the
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
Fourth Assessment Report
Climate Change 2007:
Climate Change Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability
Summary for Policymakers
http://www.ipcc.ch/SPM6avr07.pdf
...Over the course of this century net carbon uptake by terrestrial ecosystems is likely to peak before midcentury
and then weaken or even reverse11, thus amplifying climate change...
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http://solvingpoverty.com/The_Book.htm
http://tomdispatch.com
http://pittsburghthoughts.blogspirit.com
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June 2006
Experimental Weather Modification Bill Fast Tracking for Passage in U.S. Senate & House of Representatives
http://californiaskywatch.com/ca_agriculture_2002-2003/index.html
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trees
http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/medicalnews.php?newsid=36105
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Can We Stop Storms?
With brutal hurricanes on the rise, scientists turn to far-out technologies to fight them off
by Michael Behar | November 2005
http://www.popsci.com/popsci/science/c955700641f87010vgnvcm1000004eecbccdrcrd.html
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http://twnside.org.sg
http://www.livescience.com/globalwarming/
http://www.livescience.com/environment/060727_global_critic.html
http://weatherwars.info/links.htm
http://rawstory.com
http://climeshift.org
http://newfrontier.com/2/friends.htm
http://tvnewslies.org/html/important_sites.html
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http://theweathermakers.com/resources
http://realclimate.org/index.php/archives/category/climate-science/geoengineering
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Northwest Earth Institute
http://nwei.org
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We need a U.S. Truth and Reconciliation Commission
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Was Dag Hammarskjold killed by the West?
8/28/98 by Kathryn Green
http://www.h-net.org/~africa/threads/#Hammarskjold
...it is nothing new to suggest that Hammarskjold's plane was deliberately brought down...
http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0022-278X%28199303%2931%3A1%3C163%3ADHTUNA%3E2.0.CO%3B2-Y&size=LARGE&origin=JSTOR-enlargePage
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Google
"U.S. Senate" "Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders"
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Killing Hope: US Military and CIA Interventions Since World War II.
by William Blum
http://members.aol.com/bblum6/American_holocaust.htm
...If you flip over the rock of American foreign policy of the past century, this is what crawls out:
invasions...bombings...overthrowing governments...suppressing movements for social change...assassinating political leaders... perverting elections...manipulating labor unions...manufacturing "news"...death squads...torture...biological warfare...depleted uranium... drug trafficking...mercenaries...
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http://urbangardenerpgh.com
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http://nrc-recycle.org/programs.aspx
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Those acting "on our behalf" who killed JFK:
http://saintjohnhunt.com
http://prisonplanet.com/articles/january2007/150107ciaman.htm
http://rollingstone.com/politics/story/13893143/the_last_confessions_of_e_howard_hunt
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Thoreau Center for Sustainability
http://thoreau.org
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National Agricultural Biotechnology Council
http://nabc.cals.cornell.edu
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Center for Science in the Public Interest
Urges FDA to Ban Grain Imports from China
4/24/7
http://www.cspinet.org/new/200704241.html
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21st anniversary Chernobyl 4/26/7
http://www.crestofthewave.com/blog/index.php?itemid=138&catid=3
...from Karl Grossman in his 4 26 2007 article page A13 Southampton Press Eastern Edition:
"A book on the consequences [of Chernobyl] has just been completed by Dr. Alexey Yablokov, president of the Center for Russian Environmental Policy and former environmental advisor to the late President Boris Yeltsin. Total deaths from the fallout from Chernobyl, which spread far from the "exclusion zone" [designated as a circle with a 30-kilometer radius surrounding the now-closed Atomic Station], has been 300,000, according to Mr. Yablokov.
And the life expectancy in Russia, which had been the same as that of the United States, is now 59 for men and 64 for women, a fact that Dr. Yablokov attributes principally to Chernobyl: "You see longevity dropping precipitously right after 1986 and the accident."
Does this jive with nuclear power being “safe and clean?” Or the misleading falsehood that some brazen proponents of nuclear power continue to regurgitate, that only 31 people died at/from Chernobyl? What do these people think? That the effects from all those curies of radiation released have produced no cancers or deaths, nor will they in the future? Or are they just foolish liars, pushing their nuclear power agenda ideologically, at the expense of all living things on this Earth?
“Radiation health experts working for the National Academy of Sciences [state that] most cancers that result from radiation exposure do not develop until 10-20 years after exposure. The highest incidence of cancer is expected to occur over the next 5-10 years [from 2006], and therefore no accurate assessment of Chernobyl’s overall impact can be made until this period has expired.”[*19]...
http://www.pensoft.net/treesubj/n139.stm
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http://envirovideo.com
http://lipmagazine.org
http://peacemakergame.com/links.php
http://www.dieoff.org/index.htm#climate
http://earth911.org
http://nabc.cals.cornell.edu/resources.html
http://postcarboncities.net
http://tessitorformayor.com
http://thegreatstory.org/links.html
http://healthcare-now.org
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This to me is treason - to sell the right to build roads or public transportation near roads to be sold as part of the contract:
From
Allegheny Sierran Spring 2007
http://alleghenysc.org
More Turnpike News
by
Marilyn Skolnick
Transportation Chair
Governor Rendell's December call for proposals resulted in 48 companies interested in buying the Pennsylvania Turnpike. Indiana, Virginia, and Chicago have done so, and according to the latest reports, New Jersey is considering it. The public's reaction to the privatization has been very negative, according to all reports. Many investing companies have been very interested because they can make lots of money, given the restrictions they placed in their contracts. The restrictions vary, but they prohibit the building of roads nearby or transit lines because they would be in competition with the toll road. Senator Orie is now working on legislation to make the Turnpike Commission a part of PennDOT. That is an interesting turn of events.
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http://gaianation.net
http://adbusters.org/the_magazine/66/How_Do_We_Win_the_Planetary_Endgame.html
http://planetsave.com
http://unexplainedstuff.com/Mediums-and-Mystics/Rolling-Thunder.html
http://davidrovics.com
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for http://hazelwoodhomepage.com
Despair is not an option
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Looking at all the problems in the world, it can seem logical to become afraid. Things look bleak. People can't even agree what the problems are, though we all agree there are plenty of them. We each have a different angle on what would solve our problems. One blames the government; another blames the corporations; others blame Christians, Jews, Muslims, or non-believers. Different definitions for the problems generate different solutions. And some think our problems are basically no different than the problems we've had all through history. Some, recognizing climate change, blame God, some blame humanity. The media exaggerate some problems and under-report others. And some just want to get out of the way of the coming changes. But this is a whole system problem, involving the whole Earth, and holistic solutions are the only ones possible.
I think we live in a crucial time in history - when the decisions we make will have effects far into the future.
We are daily besieged by conflicting desires - seek relatively comfortable stability in the present status quo or work toward a more sustainable future by making changes now while there's still time. Let's take an example: a young person's decisions upon graduating from high school. If one thinks that the climate is likely to continue to become more unstable, or if one believes the job market is down due to corporate consolidations, layoffs, and/or the resource wars we've become more and more bogged down in - wouldn't that make for post-graduate decisions different than ones made by other more optimistic generations? And to what extent are we causing the problems by our own conceptions of them? If you're a glass-half-full kind of person, you might be overly optimistic about our ability to use new scientific advances to solve some of these amazingly complicated problems. If you're a glass-half-empty type of person, you'd be well aware of the massive complexity of our problems and the unpredictability of outcomes with which to base decsions on. There are just so many variables.
The changes are all around us and impossible to get a good wide-angle look at. So we have to lay our money down and take our best shot at how to make a good future. A half-full glass is also half-empty. Look at the whole glass.
Take the atmosphere, for instance. Carbon dioxide is not the only problem ingredient of our air that's increasing in quantity. And stopping the combustion of coal is not even going to solve the carbon dioxide problem, since combustion generally makes both carbon dioxide and other problem substances. Building more coal plants to get us off of our addiction to oil is pea-brained. They both make carbon dioxide. But building more nuclear power plants because they don't make carbon dioxide is just as small-minded. We have tried very hard over the years to put out of our minds the continuing and increasingly severe side effects of the nuclear industry, in part because there is so much money to be made with it in Pittsburgh. But, just as the assumption that nuclear weapons are all right (when the United States holds them, because we will use them more wisely) is a wrong assumption, so is the assumption that business as usual in the nuclear industry is going to be o.k. in the long run.
With the present federal administration and it's simple-minded way of looking at conflict and environmental problems, we're building toward both: the building of many more coal and nuclear power plants; and space war. This willingness to roll with the status quo has got to stop.
The way to avoid despair is to keep on trying.
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From:
Working Group II Contribution to the
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
Fourth Assessment Report
Climate Change 2007:
Climate Change Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability
Summary for Policymakers
http://www.ipcc.ch/SPM6avr07.pdf
...Over the course of this century net carbon uptake by terrestrial ecosystems is likely to peak before midcentury
and then weaken or even reverse11, thus amplifying climate change...
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honeybee disappearance theories
http://newsdesk.org/archives/004251.html
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http://myspace.com/newvoicespgh
http://oilonice.org
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From
Environmental Investigation Agency
http://eia-international.org/links
Turning Up the Heat
Linkages between ozone layer depletion and climate change:
The urgent case of HCFCs and HFCs
http://www.eia-international.org/files/reports127-1.pdf
...While good progress has been made to address both ozone depletion and climate change, these two issues have generally
been treated as separate problems with separate solutions. This has resulted in outdated and uncoordinated policy
responses. Of particular importance...is the unchecked and excessive product ion of certain
HCFCs (hydrochlorofluorocarbons) and their by-product, HFCs (hydrofluorocarbons), which have global warming
potentials...ranging from 1,000 to over 10,000 times that of carbon dioxide...
HCFCs were introduced under the Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer as ozone-layer-safe
replacements for CFCs (chlorofluorocarbons), once it was determined that CFCs were largely responsible for depletion
of the ozone layer. The problem is that some of these chemicals, notably HCFC-22 and its HFC-23 by-product,
contribute significantly to global warming.
With countries such as China and India set to produce millions of metric tons...of HCFCs over the next 10-20 years,
and with phaseouts decades off, failure to address this policy short fall will radically undermine the international
community’s efforts to address climate change. If the Montreal Protocol continues on its present course, HCFC and
HFC emissions in 2015 are predicted to have over twice the impact on the climate than the required greenhouse
gas reductions under the Kyoto Protocol.
It is now abundantly clear that ozone depletion and climate change are not only inextricably linked in terms of their
causes and mechanics, but also in their solutions...the
Parties to the Mont real and Kyoto Protocols have an opportunity to make a significant contribution to the global effort to
stop climate change through international cooperation. This would be an ext raordinary achievement , and part icularly
appropriate as the Montreal Protocol enters its 20th anniversary as a model mult ilateral environmental agreement . If...both conventions fail to address the HCFC and HFC issues together, it will be a shameful example of sheer
avoidance or inter-convention squabbling over “jurisdiction.”...
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Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora
http://cites.org/eng/resources/links.shtml
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http://greencustoms.org
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United Nations Environment Programme
http://unep.org
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http://www.nukebusters.org/19.0.html
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Nuclear Power is Not the Answer
http://helencaldicott.com
http://www.nukebusters.org/122.0.html
http://www.iran-daily.com/1385/2756/html/energy.htm
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http://www.who.int/uv/publications/en/
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http://solvingpoverty.com/The_Book.htm
http://solvingpoverty.blogspot.com
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weather modification
http://californiaskywatch.com/ca_agriculture_2002-2003/index.html
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trees
http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/medicalnews.php?newsid=36105
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Can We Stop Storms?
With brutal hurricanes on the rise, scientists turn to far-out technologies to fight them off
by Michael Behar November 2005
http://www.popsci.com/popsci/science/c955700641f87010vgnvcm1000004eecbccdrcrd.html
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http://twnside.org.sg
http://www.livescience.com/globalwarming/
http://www.livescience.com/environment/060727_global_critic.html
http://weatherwars.info/links.htm
http://rawstory.com
http://climeshift.org
http://newfrontier.com/2/friends.htm
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From:
The Media and 9-11
by Dennis L. Cuddy 10/5/6
...a June 2001 Reuters report that it was a race between the U.S. and Osama bin Laden as to who would attack first...
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http://transcend.org
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http://www.celsias.com/blog/2007/03/15/bee-colony-collapse-disorder-where-is-it-heading
...the huge number of plants that don’t need honeybees at all.
Honeybees are invasive to North America, displacing the pollinators that native plants need.
NO PLANT native to the Americas needs, or wants, honeybees.
This includes tomatoes, potatoes, peppers, cucumbers, corn, most kinds of beans, peas, squash, pumpkins, yams, and many more...
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colony_Collapse_Disorder
http://maarec.cas.psu.edu/
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Developing Ecological Consciousness for a Planet in Peril
http://woodstock.georgetown.edu/publications/report/r-fea87e.htm
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natural beekeeping
http://www.itsnoteasybeinggreen.org/forum/viewtopic.php?start=60&t=5120
http://biobees.com
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http://www.celsias.com/blog/2007/03/15/bee-colony-collapse-disorder-where-is-it-heading/#comment-17254
... Ellen Anderson says:
March 16th, 2007
I am a beekeeper (whose bees are not yet dead.) I think there is plenty of indication that the neonicitines (imidacloprid) is responsible and I am worried since all of the garden aisles are full of it this year. It goes by the name of Merit (also Gaucho) and is made by Bayer Crop Science. It is advertised to control grubs and ticks in lawns, virtually all insects on fruit trees, etc. etc. It is also used to control termites. The symptoms, advertised by Bayer, of poisoned termites sound just like the symptoms seen in bees - ie overgrowth of disease and loss of memory. It was banned in France but we Americans get no news from abroad anymore. HELP!!! ...
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A Power Governments Cannot Suppress
by Howard Zinn 2007
http://citylights.com/CLpubRE.html#4758
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http://solarliving.org/resources
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The Price of Fire: Resource Wars and Social Movements in Bolivia
http://boliviabook.com
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http://myspace.com/seditionbooks
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This century's lesson: We're All/One
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
From the Museum of Science in Boston
http://www.mos.org/topics/cst
Pollution-fueled storms [evidence that increased coal-burning air pollution in India and China is increasing the intensity of Northwest U.S. storms]
... a study showing that pollution from Asia is changing the weather as far away as Alaska,...[and] a new way to make hydrogen for fuel using only water and sunlight.
http://www.mos.org/topics/cst?events_activities/podcasts&d=1653
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space-based biotech
http://www.mos.org/topics/cst
http://205.149.4.69/bbpo/biobeyond.php?pg=links
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Heated space race under way in Asia
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070415/ap_on_sc/asia_in_orbit;_ylt=ApGXL.G6qNCD5DW2D1snrs5xieAA
and
Chinese satellite kill challenges U.S.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070414/ap_on_sc/china_space_challenge;_ylt=AtTTgTY4nKr4TcMpU5AulNNoWrEF
by Eric Talmadge 4/14/7
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Collapse of Honey Bees in U. S., Canada and 9 European Countries
by Linda Moulton Howe 4/6/7
http://earthfiles.com/news/news.cfm?ID=1230&category=Environment
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http://foodnews.org/
http://www.pasafarming.org/links.html
http://sierraclub.org/pa/
http://www.sierraclub.org/community/pittsburgh/
http://greenlabor.org/
http://www.thisishappening.com/
http://nowarnowarming.org/
We've got to turn this ship around. It's easier, more profitable, and suicidal for all of us to deny we're in a whole system total emergency. It reminds me of that song that went something like, "...cocaine...They tell me it'll kill me, but they don't say when..."
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Pacific Institute http://www.pacinst.org/press_center/press_releases/20070421.html
...interdisciplinary analysis has shown...that solutions abound...
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Wrong turns we have made and are making:
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"...we are already locked in to significant changes in weather patterns for the foreseeable future due to the impacts of past emissions..."
Ahmed Djoghlaf, Executive Secretary
UN Convention on Biological Diversity
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http://corpwatch.org/article.php?id=14435
...more than 150 new coal-fired power plants planned to go into production in the U.S. by 2030...
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A Sewer is a Mistake
by Victor Hugo 1867 from Les Miserables
http://compostingtoilet.com/LITRACK/vic_hugo.pdf
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Who Killed the Electric Car
http://ichblog.eu/content/view/1313/1
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From:
It's not just about climate
by Ahmed Djoghlaf
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/6408789.stm
...another equally pressing crisis humanity has brought upon itself: the biggest reduction in the variety of life on Earth since the demise of the dinosaurs 65 million years ago...unless biodiversity loss and climate change are tackled together and with equal priority, the impact of both on the lives of future generations could be very much worse...by taking determined action to ease the pressures on the planet's ecosystems, we have it within our power to reduce and even eliminate some of the worst threats posed by a warmer and less stable climate...whatever action is taken now to reduce the greenhouse gas emissions linked to global warming, we are already locked in to significant changes in weather patterns for the foreseeable future due to the impacts of past emissions...reduction of biodiversity implies a threat to services as basic as the provision of food, fibre, medicines and fresh water, the pollination of crops and protection from flooding...
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http://911pressfortruth.org
http://911independentcommission.org
http://complete911timeline.org
http://rightwingwatch.org
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http://humintech.com/001/environment/information/company.html
http://progressive.org/links
http://www.campusi.com/keyword_Kuwait_History.htm
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Web of Deceit: The History of Western Complicity in Iraq, from Churchill to Kennedy to George W. Bush
by Barry M. Lando 2007
http://twf.org/News/Y2005/1011-SecretWar.html
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A Pretext for War: 9/11, Iraq, and the Abuse of America's Intelligence Agencies
by James Bamford 2004
http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig6/zeese1.html
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Kucinich
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U2XLM6EQZEM
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http://www.planetark.com/dailynewsstory.cfm/newsid/41970/story.htm
http://www.planetark.com/dailynewsstory.cfm?newsid=41493&newsdate=23-Apr-2007
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The vicious cycle of rainforest destruction
http://reporter.leeds.ac.uk/516/s5.htm
...researchers from the Leeds Earth and Biosphere Institute...think we may be at the start of a vicious cycle, where global warming causes the rainforests to shrink, so increasing the amount of carbon in the atmosphere, raising the earth’s temperature and magnifying the impact on the rainforests..."...As it gets warmer and drier the rainforest gets invaded by savanna, which has fewer trees and holds less carbon in the soil. Savanna also doesn’t recycle water in the same way as rainforest, so the carbon loss from the savanna is greater and the atmosphere becomes drier.”...
http://earth.leeds.ac.uk/ebi/news.htm
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From:
Thermodynamics of the Corn-Ethanol
Biofuel Cycle
Critical Reviews in Plant Sciences
http://petroleum.berkeley.edu/papers/patzek/CRPS416-Patzek-Web.pdf
...more fossil energy is used to produce ethanol from corn than the
ethanol’s calorific value...
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911weknow.com
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-6708190071483512003
Eric Hufschmid
thermate
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-6708190071483512003
smallstorm
http://truthring.org
http://urnotfree.com
Jane Standley
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thompson "the terror timeline" "the jersey girls"
http://911pressfortruth.org
http://www.farmsanctuary.org/campaign/index.htm
http://portland.indymedia.org/en/2007/04/357536.shtml#256753
http://carnicom.com
http://911busters.com/chem_trails/WMV/aerosol_crimes.asx
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http://www.whitedogcafefoundation.com/fairfood.html
http://www.ento.psu.edu/extension/sustainableAg/
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Bush "Larry J. Kolb"
http://www.denverpost.com/books/ci_5759844
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From:
Greens Call for a Massive National, Global Conservation Effort to Curb Global Warming
4/13/7
http://gp.org/press/pr_2007_04_13.shtml
Carl Romanelli, Pennsylvania Green Party, 2006 US Senate candidate:
"...We need to stop burning oil and coal..."
Starlene Rankin, Lavender Green Caucus delegate to the Green Party of the United States:
"We need to develop clean and safe alternative forms of energy, such as wind and solar power, but alternative energy sources cannot sustain our way of life as global warming progresses and fossil fuel use is dramatically limited. We must learn to conserve energy. We can start with a massive investment in trains, electric trains, and various forms of electrified mass transit, to replace car traffic and curb sprawl. We need to consume locally grown food, instead of relying on food driven hundreds or thousands of miles across the US in trucks and grown with petroleum-based fertilizers and pesticides. We need to enact carbon taxes, and to do so without placing the major burden on working people. We can use conservation projects, as well as alternative energy development, to generate new jobs all across the US."
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Monsters, Inc.
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A Chronology of Fluoridation
http://users.rcn.com/mgfree/Medical/Fluorine/FluorineHistory.html
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http://www.truehealth.org/climlink.html
http://www.truehealth.org/bioslink.html
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http://fluoridealert.org/news/861.html
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Fluoride from the faucet
Decades after the cavity fighter was first added to public water, the debate continues
Thursday, May 23, 2002
By Susan Jacobs
http://www.post-gazette.com/neigh_north/20020523ncover0523p2.asp
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"sources of" "bone cancer" nephrosis scleroderma
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soy
http://www.vrg.org/journal/vj2003issue3/vj2003issue3hotline.htm
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Dryland Forests Could be a Major Carbon Sink
http://www.truehealth.org/bionew01.html
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http://mindcontrolforums.com/pro-freedom.co.uk/part_6.html
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pittsburgh fluoridation 2007
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Scientific Facts on Fluoride
http://www.greenfacts.org/en/fluoride/fluorides-2/02-environment.htm
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Argentina's bitter harvest (what GM soya has done for Argentina)
crop geek | 15.04.2004 19:23 | Bio-technology
repost of an article from New Scientist on the impact of GM soya on farmers in Argentina
Argentina's bitter harvest
New Scientist, 17 April 2004
http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2004/04/289323.html
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Fluoride in Diet
http://www.wpxi.com/dietandfitness/6863230/detail.html
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Toxicology and Carcinogenesis Studies of Sodium Fluoride...in F344/N Rats and B6C3F1 Mice (Drinking Water Studies)
http://ntp.niehs.nih.gov/index.cfm?objectid=0709411C-E355-A12E-DBB6666806CB8DB2
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http://10000friends.org
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"Cultivators of the Earth are the most valuable citizens. They are the most vigorous, the most independent, the most virtuous, and they are tied to their country and wedded to its liberty and interests by the most lasting bands."
~Thomas Jefferson
Farm Aid: a Song for America
page 88
http://farmaid.org/site/PageServer?pagename=store_book
http://rodaleinstitutestore.org/store/customer/product.php?productid=2003&cat=302&page=1
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"albedo feedback"
"incidental take permit"
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discussion of military/industrial complex
http://forums.plentyoffish.com/datingPosts6853859.aspx
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The terrorist we tolerate
by Rosa Brooks 5/11/7
http://www.freethefive.org/usTerrorism/USTerrTolerate51107.htm
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Miami Mafia attacks peaceful demonstration
http://www.freepeoplesmovement.org/fpm/page.php?266
... a group belonging to the Miami Mafia (the noisy group of mostly white, rich Cubans in Miami who left Cuba soon after its revolution in 1959 – because they could no longer exploit the population of the country for their own benefit – and their decedents) staged a protest in Miami, Florida calling for the release of former CIA agent and admitted terrorist Luis Posada Carriles...
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Robert Mario Sensi
Richard Marshall Hirschfeld
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http://www.hfstival.com/yabbse/index.php?PHPSESSID=51ec669e3d3f72cf5bc6f27d08db428a&topic=23405.msg688860
http://www.namebase.org/sources/SS.html
http://www.totse.com/en/politics/central_intelligence_agency/162602.html
http://www.namebase.org/main4/Robert-Mario-Sensi.html
"Robert Mario Sensi"
"Grey Eminence" Kolb
"America at Night" Overworld Kolb
"thierry meyssan" excerpt "9/11: The Big Lie"
http://insertsilence.com
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Kruger, Henrik. The Great Heroin Coup: Drugs, Intelligence, and International Fascism. Boston: South End Press, 1980. 240 pages. (Originally published in Denmark as "Smukke Serge og Heroinen" in 1976.)
http://www.namebase.org/sources/GA.html
...Nixon's war against the Turkey-Marseilles heroin allowed Trafficante's marketing "coup" using heroin from Southeast Asia, and for Kruger it appears that there may have been passive collusion in high places...
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America at Night
The True Story of Two Rogue CIA Operatives, Homeland Security Failures, Dirty Money, and a Plot to Steal the 2004 U.S. Presidential Election - by the Former Intelligence Agent Who Foiled the Plan
http://www.larryjkolb.com/author.html
http://www.totse.com/en/politics/central_intelligence_agency/162602.html
http://johnkerry.com
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Cost: Free
RSVP: mcm2@psu.edu
This meeting will focus on the legacy of contaminants stored in Pittsburgh soils. All are welcome to attend. However, please note this is primarily a research meeting, meant to disseminate and discuss research results, so discussion will be structured to facilitate this process. Dr. Daniel Bain will be moderating the meeting. If you would like to add topics/questions to the discussion, please contact him at your earliest convenience. If you would like to learn more about the Research Working Group, please contact Mike Masiuk (Penn State Cooperative Extension email: mcm2@psu.edu ).
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locavore
animal vegetable mineral kingsolver locavore
http://nabooksdaily.blogspot.com/2007/05/my-favorite-new-word-locavore.html
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Title:
Planning for a Deep Eology workshop
Event Date:
5/18/2007 6:30 PM
End Date:
Description:
There will be a meeting May 18 at 6:30 p.m. at the Thomas Merton Center, 5125
Penn Ave. to plan for the deep ecology workshop using the work book from
Northwest Earth Institute. We only need to agree on day and time and I need to
collect $15 from each participant to order the work book for the workshop. If
there are enough of us and we cannt reach consensus on one day and time we may do
two workshops simultaneously. If you have questions either email me or phone
number is 412-795-7078. DO NOT CALL MERTON CENTER as I am the responsible
person and i am not there except thursdays 2-5 p.m. Thanks for your interest. I
look forward to this workshop.
Location:
Thomas Merton Center, 5125 Penn Ave, Garfield
Contact:
412-795-7078
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animal vegetable mineral kingsolver locavore
http://fossilfreefuel.com
http://fossilfreefuel.com/partners.htm
http://nabooksdaily.blogspot.com/2007/05/my-favorite-new-word-locavore.html
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"Steve Gillon" "The Men Who Killed Kennedy"
"Malcolm Wallace" "Mac Wallace" "The Men on the Sixth Floor" by "Glen Sample" and "M. Collum"
"Edward Clark" "Barr McClellan" "Billy Sol Estes" "Johnson business associate" "Josepha Johnson" "John Douglas Kinser" "John Kinser" "Henry Marshall" "George Krutilek" "Ike Rogers" "Harold Orr" "Coleman Wade"
"Donald Thomas"
Box 13 stolen 1948 election
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stolen "1948 election" "Box 13" Clark
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http://www.fas.org/sgp/eprint/gibbs.html
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http://greensangha.org/links.html
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http://pittsburgh.indymedia.org/news/2007/04/27247.php
AMIDST THE RUINS BRADDOCK BLAZES THE BIOFUELS PATH
by Colin Huwyler Saturday, Apr. 21, 2007 at 1:47 AM
colin@fossilfreefuel.com (email address validated) 412-894-8184 223 Braddock Ave Braddock PA 15104
Braddock finds itself home to many new biofuels projects including: Fossil Free Fuel, a vegetable oil fuel system company, Braddock Biofuels CO-OP, a community scale biofuels cooperative fueling station and a biofuels resource center.
Fossil Free Fuel LLC
223 Braddock Ave
Braddock PA 15104
Phone: 412-894-8184
Email: colin@fossilfreefuel.com
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 4/11/07
AMIDST THE RUINS BRADDOCK BLAZES
THE BIOFUELS PATH
Braddock finds itself home to many new biofuels projects including: Fossil Free Fuel, a vegetable oil fuel system company, Braddock Biofuels CO-OP, a community scale biofuels cooperative fueling station and a biofuels resource center.
The once flourishing Borough of Braddock was home to 20,000 residents, movie theaters, breweries and had a flourishing business district; that time however is long gone. Braddock's existence now sits among ruins, home to only a small fraction of its original population and its business district now defunct. Not a pretty picture but the present image of Braddock is on its way out. Braddock has begun its chrysalis; transforming from dwindling municipality to once again flourishing community. Land-marking this change began with the election of Mayor John Fetterman and his efforts to revitalize the area. In addition to the influx of artists, urban farmers and community organizers, Braddock has now become the regions biofuels hotspot. Fossil Free Fuel is a noteworthy new presence revitalizing the face of Braddock's historic business district.
Fossil Free Fuel designs and installs fuel systems for vehicles (and equipment) with diesel engines to allow them to operate on waste vegetable oil. Proprieted by Colin Huwyler and David Rosenstraus, Fossil Free Fuel has been in business since 2003 in the Allentown area and recently relocated to Braddock. When asked about Braddock Huwyler said, "It was difficult to uproot the business and move across the state. However once we came and met with John, toured the area with Nathaniel Doyno of Steel City Biofuels (a biofuels education nonprofit) and spent some time in Braddock, we knew what potential the area had. We knew we needed to be here to help carve the new Braddock. As a society we need to transform our current dependence on imported fossil fuels to locally produced renewable fuels and I can't see a better place to begin that transition than Braddock. It's pioneering a new vision of urban revitalization. As a business we're working to establish a new vision of community, and reshape the car culture perspective towards a path to a sustainable future. Through biofuels, arts, sustainability, and community, Braddock is becoming an example for neighborhoods everywhere."
Fossil Free Fuel will be opening its doors May 1st at 223 Braddock Ave. The 9,000sf location will be home to Fossil Free Fuel's operations which include a design studio for system engineering and testing, fabrication shop for their custom components, two full service automotive bays' for system installation and vehicle maintenance as well as a retail storefront and customer lounge. This location will also host partner projects including a biofuels resource center with library, educational classroom and community biofuels cooperative. Fossil Free Fuel hopes to partner with a local university for biofuels research; plans are currently underway for an onsite biofuels lab to monitor emissions, performance, and testing of new biofuels technology.
Upcoming events:
April 30th from 6-9pm "Meet and Greet"
Fossil Free Fuel will be opening its doors with a ceremonial ribbon cutting at 6pm followed by a brief informational overview; an installed example of their fuel system will be on display. This event is for anyone interested in learning more about Fossil Free Fuel's system and operations, biofuels in general, synergistic projects in the region and the new developing face of Braddock. Come enjoy beverages and light snacks while becoming active in the pursuit of a sustainable future.
May / July / September - Basic Mechanics and Biofuels For Women
Class instructor and director Gina Favano received a Seed Award from the Sprout Foundation in support of a three-tiered workshop series. The first session will focus on basic maintenance and repair, with an overview of the differences between bio-diesel and straight vegetable oil technology. This class will be offered free of charge. The next two classes, which will take place in the summer and fall, offer a more intensive alternative fuels concentration and will involve a small fee. Participants in the second class will convert a vehicle to run on waste vegetable oil. Participants in the third class will build a small bio-diesel processor. The three classes, which are each divided into four weekly sessions, begin with the basics and segue into an intro to straight vegetable oil conversions and bio-diesel production. Participants will receive a foundational understanding of alternative fuels mechanics empowering them to further pursue interests they may have in the field of this exciting, emerging technology. The classes, all of which take place on weekends, are being hosted by Fossil Free Fuel in their new space at 223 Braddock Avenue.
If you'd like more information about Fossil Free Fuel, or to schedule an interview, please contact Colin Huwyler at 412-894-8184 or e-mail Colin at colin@fossilfreefuel.com
For more information on Braddock visit http://www.15104.cc
www.fossilfreefuel.com
http://steelcitybiofuels.org
http://steelcitybiofuels.org/links.html
http://ecojustice.net/document/ejlinks.htm
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http://www.chatham.edu/centers/index.cfm
"Green Millenium Children's Garden"
http://theclimateproject.org
http://tompaine.com
http://amleft.blogspot.com
"carbon dioxide sequestration potential" algae
"Bush family" proves "crime pays"
http://prissypatriot.blogspot.com
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From:
Animal Extinction - the greatest threat to mankind
By the end of the century half of all species will be extinct. Does that matter?
4/30/7 by Julia Whitty
http://news.independent.co.uk/environment/article2494659.ece
...Scientists recognise that species continually disappear at a background extinction rate estimated at about one species per million per year, with new species replacing the lost in a sustainable fashion. Occasional mass extinctions convulse this orderly norm, followed by excruciatingly slow recoveries as new species emerge from the remaining gene-pool, until the world is once again repopulated by a different catalogue of flora and fauna.
From what we understand so far, five great extinction events have reshaped earth in cataclysmic ways in the past 439 million years, each one wiping out between 50 and 95 per cent of the life of the day, including the dominant life forms; the most recent event killing off the non-avian dinosaurs. Speciations followed, but an analysis published in Nature showed that it takes 10 million years before biological diversity even begins to approach what existed before a die-off.
Today we're living through the sixth great extinction...
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http://www.gpoac.org (local)
http://gpofpa.org (state)
http://gp.org (national)
Location:
Citizen Power, 2121 Murray Ave., 2nd Floor - Squirrel Hill
Contact:
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Hutto prison:
http://www.aclu.tv/hutto
http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=FiftyState
real id
http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=acluvideos
minutemen
http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=undocumented
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SANCTUARY
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/04/22/BAGADPDGNF18.DTL
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[beyond-oil] Why Nuke Power is not clean power Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2007 15:35:01 -0400
From: Amy Hendrickson Add to Contacts
To: CCAB@yahoogroups.com, beyond-oil@yahoogroups.com, peaceworks
http://www.mothersalert.org http://www.mothersalert.org/moreinfo.html
Videos On Nuclear, Renewables: http://www.envirovideo.com
By Karl Grossman
There's again a move on to "revive" nuclear power. Every decade
or so those with a vested interest in this deadly dangerous technology seek
to get the public to swallow the nuclear pilland that's happening again.
The promotion has consistently been based on falsehoods. For
example, in a heavy push years backduring a gasoline shortage that included
lines at gas pumpsthe claim was that if we had nuclear power somehow this
wouldn't happen. In fact, only 3% of electricity in the United States is
generated with oil. Nuclear power has nothing to do with oil or gas.
Currently, the big pitch as the global warming crisis is
acknowledged (after years of the vested oil interests denying it): nuclear
plants don't emit greenhouse gasses and contribute to global warming.
In fact, the overall nuclear cycle necessary has significant
greenhouse gas emissions that contribute to global warming. This so-called
"nuclear fuel chain" includes uranium mining and milling, enrichment, fuel
fabrication, use in nuclear reactors and disposal of radioactive wastes.
Moreover, notes Linda Gunter, project director of the Nuclear Information
and Resource Service, "clean air is not just about greenhouse gases. All
nuclear reactors emit radiation."
Recently, Matthew Cordaro, a top executive of what was once the
Long Island Lighting Company and a main LILCO figure in pushing for its
Shoreham nuclear plant, wrote an op-ed piece in the New York Times lamenting
Shoreham never going into operation.
He cited global warming and dismissed the accident threat.
"Sure," said Mr. Cordaro, "there are those who say they sleep better at
night because there is no Shoreham, but this false sense of security is
derived from a fear of an extremely unlikely piece of Hollywood fiction."
Illuminating here is a letter-to-the-editor that Mr. Cordaro
wrote the News-Review of Riverhead in 1979 stating: "Even if the worst
credible accident happened at Shoreham, and the decision was made to
evacuate.in fact, they could return shortly after the accident had been
terminated. Any emissions to the atmosphere following the loss-of-coolant
accident.would form a plume, similar to smoke from a chimney [and] once the
plume passed, it would be safe to come back to the area."
Tell that to the people from the "exclusion zone" around
Chernobyl!
Since the explosion in 1986 at that nuclear plant spewing tons
of radioactive poisons out into the environment, people have been unable to
live in the radiation-laden "exclusion zone" which forms a circle with a
30-kilometer radius around the plant. That dead zone will need to remain
uninhabited for centuries.
Meanwhile, now 21 years after the Chernobyl disasterno
"Hollywood fiction," as Mr. Cordaro put it, but the reality of what happens
in a nuclear plant accidentsolid data has come through about long-term
health impacts.
A book on those consequences has just been completed by Dr.
Alexey Yablokov, president of the Center for Russian Environmental Policy
and former environmental advisor to the late President Yeltsin. Total deaths
from the fall-out from Chernobylwhich spread far from the "exclusion
zone"has been 300,000, he finds.
And the life expectancy in Russia, which had been the same as
that of the United States, is now 59 for men and 64 for women which Dr.
Yablokov attributes principally to Chernobyl. "You see longevity dropping
precipitously right after 1986 and the accident," he told me on a recent
visit here.
Still, some in media don't seem to get it.
I was surprised at a 60 Minutes segment on which Steve Kroft of
North Haven served as correspondent on this month passing on, unquestioning,
another piece of nuclear establishment baloney: nuclear power has been a
success in France.
Totally ignored, among other things: studies finding
radioactivity in the sea and marine life contaminated off Normandy where La
Hague, the French reprocessing center sits, and leukemia clusters in people
living along the coast; massive demonstrations last month in French cities
protesting construction of new nuclear power plants by AREVA, the
government-supported nuclear giant; the immense subsidies the French public
have been paying for nuclear power; claims of a new reactor with "no
meltdowns" when, in fact, such a "pebble bed" reactor underwent a major
accident in Germany causing its permanent closure. Downplayed were safe,
clean energy technologies here now.
"There are faster, safer and cheaper ways to meet our energy
needs including renewable resources," said a statement challenging the 60
Minutes piece from Alden Meyer, strategy and policy director of the Union of
Concerned Scientists.
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www.africaproject.net
www.invisiblechildren.com/displaceme
www.invisiblechildren.com
www.myspace.com/icpittsburgh)
http://sudandivestment.org
http://miafarrow.org
http://edge-studio.com/
http://mediamatters.org
http://whiterosesociety.org
http://ltradio.blogspot.com
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http://www.mothersa lert.org http://www.mothersa lert.org/ moreinfo. html
: http://www.envirovideo.com
By Karl Grossman
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http://midwifecenter.org
http://smartgrowthamerica.org
http://erweb.org
http://envirovideo.com
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http://tellusthemission.org
http://robertgreenwald.org
http://thesamburuproject.org/contributors.htm
http://www.thionediop.com/recordings.html
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http://trafficos.com/id/2707/
sharkmonstersmom@hotmail.com
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Adapting to Climate Change:
Natural Resource Management and
Vulnerability Reduction
Background Paper to the Task Force on
Climate Change, Adaptation and Vulnerable Communities
http://www.iisd.org/pdf/2002/envsec_cc_bkgd_paper.pdf
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Integrating Biodiversity into Climate Change Adaptation Planning
http://adaptation.biodiv.org
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http://worldenergy.net
http://bushcommission.org
http://thebushagenda.net
http://alleghenyuu.org
http://warfire.org/articles/Articles.htm
http://cmuptm.blogspot.com/search/label/Announcements
http://foxattacks.com
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High Tunnel Research and Education Facility
http://plasticulture.cas.psu.edu/
http://www.sare.org/highlights/2004/tunnels.htm
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http://blackberrymeadows.com
http://agmap.psu.edu/businesses/3085
http://harvestvalleyfarms.com
http://kretschmannfarm.com
mildred's daughters
http://growpittsburgh.org/community.html
localharvest.org/farms/M10233
m3289
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honeybee disappearance theories
http://newsdesk.org/archives/004251.html
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http://myspace.com/newvoicespgh
http://oilonice.org
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Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora
http://cites.org/eng/resources/links.shtml
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http://greencustoms.org
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United Nations Environment Programme
http://unep.org
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http://www.nukebusters.org/19.0.html
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Nuclear Power is Not the Answer
http://helencaldicott.com
http://www.nukebusters.org/122.0.html
http://www.iran-daily.com/1385/2756/html/energy.htm
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http://earthnewswire.com ?
http://www.who.int/uv/publications/en/
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http://www.womenshealthpittsburgh.org
Green Millennium Children's Garden 1313 Sherman
Avenue on the North Side.
fossilfreefuel.com
Biofuels at http://www.steelcitybiofuels.org/ .
http://greendrinks.org
Allegheny Mountains.
http://www.amgf.org
http://www.pointoflight.com
http://www.rachelcarsonhomestead.org
http://alleghenyfront.org
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Future of Food
http://webcast.berkeley.edu/event_details.php?webcastid=19147
http://michaelpollan.com
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth_Day
http://earthday.envirolink.org/history.html
http://unexplainedstuff.com
http://gaianation.net
http://adbusters.org/the_magazine/66/How_Do_We_Win_the_Planetary_Endgame.html
http://planetsave.com
http://unexplainedstuff.com/Mediums-and-Mystics/Rolling-Thunder.html
http://davidrovics.com
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http://industrialsocietydestroys.blogspot.com/
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From:
Working Group II Contribution to the
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
Fourth Assessment Report
Climate Change 2007:
Climate Change Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability
Summary for Policymakers
http://www.ipcc.ch/SPM6avr07.pdf
...Over the course of this century net carbon uptake by terrestrial ecosystems is likely to peak before midcentury
and then weaken or even reverse11, thus amplifying climate change...
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http://solvingpoverty.com/The_Book.htm
http://tomdispatch.com
http://pittsburghthoughts.blogspirit.com
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June 2006
Experimental Weather Modification Bill Fast Tracking for Passage in U.S. Senate & House of Representatives
http://californiaskywatch.com/ca_agriculture_2002-2003/index.html
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trees
http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/medicalnews.php?newsid=36105
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Can We Stop Storms?
With brutal hurricanes on the rise, scientists turn to far-out technologies to fight them off
by Michael Behar | November 2005
http://www.popsci.com/popsci/science/c955700641f87010vgnvcm1000004eecbccdrcrd.html
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http://twnside.org.sg
http://www.livescience.com/globalwarming/
http://www.livescience.com/environment/060727_global_critic.html
http://weatherwars.info/links.htm
http://rawstory.com
http://climeshift.org
http://newfrontier.com/2/friends.htm
http://tvnewslies.org/html/important_sites.html
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http://theweathermakers.com/resources
http://realclimate.org/index.php/archives/category/climate-science/geoengineering
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Northwest Earth Institute
http://nwei.org
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We need a U.S. Truth and Reconciliation Commission
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Was Dag Hammarskjold killed by the West?
8/28/98 by Kathryn Green
http://www.h-net.org/~africa/threads/#Hammarskjold
...it is nothing new to suggest that Hammarskjold's plane was deliberately brought down...
http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0022-278X%28199303%2931%3A1%3C163%3ADHTUNA%3E2.0.CO%3B2-Y&size=LARGE&origin=JSTOR-enlargePage
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"U.S. Senate" "Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders"
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Killing Hope: US Military and CIA Interventions Since World War II.
by William Blum
http://members.aol.com/bblum6/American_holocaust.htm
...If you flip over the rock of American foreign policy of the past century, this is what crawls out:
invasions...bombings...overthrowing governments...suppressing movements for social change...assassinating political leaders... perverting elections...manipulating labor unions...manufacturing "news"...death squads...torture...biological warfare...depleted uranium... drug trafficking...mercenaries...
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http://urbangardenerpgh.com
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http://nrc-recycle.org/programs.aspx
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Those acting "on our behalf" who killed JFK:
http://saintjohnhunt.com
http://prisonplanet.com/articles/january2007/150107ciaman.htm
http://rollingstone.com/politics/story/13893143/the_last_confessions_of_e_howard_hunt
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Thoreau Center for Sustainability
http://thoreau.org
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National Agricultural Biotechnology Council
http://nabc.cals.cornell.edu
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Center for Science in the Public Interest
Urges FDA to Ban Grain Imports from China
4/24/7
http://www.cspinet.org/new/200704241.html
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21st anniversary Chernobyl 4/26/7
http://www.crestofthewave.com/blog/index.php?itemid=138&catid=3
...from Karl Grossman in his 4 26 2007 article page A13 Southampton Press Eastern Edition:
"A book on the consequences [of Chernobyl] has just been completed by Dr. Alexey Yablokov, president of the Center for Russian Environmental Policy and former environmental advisor to the late President Boris Yeltsin. Total deaths from the fallout from Chernobyl, which spread far from the "exclusion zone" [designated as a circle with a 30-kilometer radius surrounding the now-closed Atomic Station], has been 300,000, according to Mr. Yablokov.
And the life expectancy in Russia, which had been the same as that of the United States, is now 59 for men and 64 for women, a fact that Dr. Yablokov attributes principally to Chernobyl: "You see longevity dropping precipitously right after 1986 and the accident."
Does this jive with nuclear power being “safe and clean?” Or the misleading falsehood that some brazen proponents of nuclear power continue to regurgitate, that only 31 people died at/from Chernobyl? What do these people think? That the effects from all those curies of radiation released have produced no cancers or deaths, nor will they in the future? Or are they just foolish liars, pushing their nuclear power agenda ideologically, at the expense of all living things on this Earth?
“Radiation health experts working for the National Academy of Sciences [state that] most cancers that result from radiation exposure do not develop until 10-20 years after exposure. The highest incidence of cancer is expected to occur over the next 5-10 years [from 2006], and therefore no accurate assessment of Chernobyl’s overall impact can be made until this period has expired.”[*19]...
http://www.pensoft.net/treesubj/n139.stm
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http://envirovideo.com
http://lipmagazine.org
http://peacemakergame.com/links.php
http://www.dieoff.org/index.htm#climate
http://earth911.org
http://nabc.cals.cornell.edu/resources.html
http://postcarboncities.net
http://tessitorformayor.com
http://thegreatstory.org/links.html
http://healthcare-now.org
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This to me is treason - to sell the right to build roads or public transportation near roads to be sold as part of the contract:
From
Allegheny Sierran Spring 2007
http://alleghenysc.org
More Turnpike News
by
Marilyn Skolnick
Transportation Chair
Governor Rendell's December call for proposals resulted in 48 companies interested in buying the Pennsylvania Turnpike. Indiana, Virginia, and Chicago have done so, and according to the latest reports, New Jersey is considering it. The public's reaction to the privatization has been very negative, according to all reports. Many investing companies have been very interested because they can make lots of money, given the restrictions they placed in their contracts. The restrictions vary, but they prohibit the building of roads nearby or transit lines because they would be in competition with the toll road. Senator Orie is now working on legislation to make the Turnpike Commission a part of PennDOT. That is an interesting turn of events.
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http://gaianation.net
http://adbusters.org/the_magazine/66/How_Do_We_Win_the_Planetary_Endgame.html
http://planetsave.com
http://unexplainedstuff.com/Mediums-and-Mystics/Rolling-Thunder.html
http://davidrovics.com
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for http://hazelwoodhomepage.com
Despair is not an option
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Looking at all the problems in the world, it can seem logical to become afraid. Things look bleak. People can't even agree what the problems are, though we all agree there are plenty of them. We each have a different angle on what would solve our problems. One blames the government; another blames the corporations; others blame Christians, Jews, Muslims, or non-believers. Different definitions for the problems generate different solutions. And some think our problems are basically no different than the problems we've had all through history. Some, recognizing climate change, blame God, some blame humanity. The media exaggerate some problems and under-report others. And some just want to get out of the way of the coming changes. But this is a whole system problem, involving the whole Earth, and holistic solutions are the only ones possible.
I think we live in a crucial time in history - when the decisions we make will have effects far into the future.
We are daily besieged by conflicting desires - seek relatively comfortable stability in the present status quo or work toward a more sustainable future by making changes now while there's still time. Let's take an example: a young person's decisions upon graduating from high school. If one thinks that the climate is likely to continue to become more unstable, or if one believes the job market is down due to corporate consolidations, layoffs, and/or the resource wars we've become more and more bogged down in - wouldn't that make for post-graduate decisions different than ones made by other more optimistic generations? And to what extent are we causing the problems by our own conceptions of them? If you're a glass-half-full kind of person, you might be overly optimistic about our ability to use new scientific advances to solve some of these amazingly complicated problems. If you're a glass-half-empty type of person, you'd be well aware of the massive complexity of our problems and the unpredictability of outcomes with which to base decsions on. There are just so many variables.
The changes are all around us and impossible to get a good wide-angle look at. So we have to lay our money down and take our best shot at how to make a good future. A half-full glass is also half-empty. Look at the whole glass.
Take the atmosphere, for instance. Carbon dioxide is not the only problem ingredient of our air that's increasing in quantity. And stopping the combustion of coal is not even going to solve the carbon dioxide problem, since combustion generally makes both carbon dioxide and other problem substances. Building more coal plants to get us off of our addiction to oil is pea-brained. They both make carbon dioxide. But building more nuclear power plants because they don't make carbon dioxide is just as small-minded. We have tried very hard over the years to put out of our minds the continuing and increasingly severe side effects of the nuclear industry, in part because there is so much money to be made with it in Pittsburgh. But, just as the assumption that nuclear weapons are all right (when the United States holds them, because we will use them more wisely) is a wrong assumption, so is the assumption that business as usual in the nuclear industry is going to be o.k. in the long run.
With the present federal administration and it's simple-minded way of looking at conflict and environmental problems, we're building toward both: the building of many more coal and nuclear power plants; and space war. This willingness to roll with the status quo has got to stop.
The way to avoid despair is to keep on trying.
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From:
Working Group II Contribution to the
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
Fourth Assessment Report
Climate Change 2007:
Climate Change Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability
Summary for Policymakers
http://www.ipcc.ch/SPM6avr07.pdf
...Over the course of this century net carbon uptake by terrestrial ecosystems is likely to peak before midcentury
and then weaken or even reverse11, thus amplifying climate change...
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honeybee disappearance theories
http://newsdesk.org/archives/004251.html
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http://myspace.com/newvoicespgh
http://oilonice.org
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From
Environmental Investigation Agency
http://eia-international.org/links
Turning Up the Heat
Linkages between ozone layer depletion and climate change:
The urgent case of HCFCs and HFCs
http://www.eia-international.org/files/reports127-1.pdf
...While good progress has been made to address both ozone depletion and climate change, these two issues have generally
been treated as separate problems with separate solutions. This has resulted in outdated and uncoordinated policy
responses. Of particular importance...is the unchecked and excessive product ion of certain
HCFCs (hydrochlorofluorocarbons) and their by-product, HFCs (hydrofluorocarbons), which have global warming
potentials...ranging from 1,000 to over 10,000 times that of carbon dioxide...
HCFCs were introduced under the Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer as ozone-layer-safe
replacements for CFCs (chlorofluorocarbons), once it was determined that CFCs were largely responsible for depletion
of the ozone layer. The problem is that some of these chemicals, notably HCFC-22 and its HFC-23 by-product,
contribute significantly to global warming.
With countries such as China and India set to produce millions of metric tons...of HCFCs over the next 10-20 years,
and with phaseouts decades off, failure to address this policy short fall will radically undermine the international
community’s efforts to address climate change. If the Montreal Protocol continues on its present course, HCFC and
HFC emissions in 2015 are predicted to have over twice the impact on the climate than the required greenhouse
gas reductions under the Kyoto Protocol.
It is now abundantly clear that ozone depletion and climate change are not only inextricably linked in terms of their
causes and mechanics, but also in their solutions...the
Parties to the Mont real and Kyoto Protocols have an opportunity to make a significant contribution to the global effort to
stop climate change through international cooperation. This would be an ext raordinary achievement , and part icularly
appropriate as the Montreal Protocol enters its 20th anniversary as a model mult ilateral environmental agreement . If...both conventions fail to address the HCFC and HFC issues together, it will be a shameful example of sheer
avoidance or inter-convention squabbling over “jurisdiction.”...
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Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora
http://cites.org/eng/resources/links.shtml
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http://greencustoms.org
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United Nations Environment Programme
http://unep.org
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http://www.nukebusters.org/19.0.html
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Nuclear Power is Not the Answer
http://helencaldicott.com
http://www.nukebusters.org/122.0.html
http://www.iran-daily.com/1385/2756/html/energy.htm
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http://www.who.int/uv/publications/en/
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http://solvingpoverty.com/The_Book.htm
http://solvingpoverty.blogspot.com
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weather modification
http://californiaskywatch.com/ca_agriculture_2002-2003/index.html
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trees
http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/medicalnews.php?newsid=36105
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Can We Stop Storms?
With brutal hurricanes on the rise, scientists turn to far-out technologies to fight them off
by Michael Behar November 2005
http://www.popsci.com/popsci/science/c955700641f87010vgnvcm1000004eecbccdrcrd.html
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http://twnside.org.sg
http://www.livescience.com/globalwarming/
http://www.livescience.com/environment/060727_global_critic.html
http://weatherwars.info/links.htm
http://rawstory.com
http://climeshift.org
http://newfrontier.com/2/friends.htm
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From:
The Media and 9-11
by Dennis L. Cuddy 10/5/6
...a June 2001 Reuters report that it was a race between the U.S. and Osama bin Laden as to who would attack first...
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http://transcend.org
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http://www.celsias.com/blog/2007/03/15/bee-colony-collapse-disorder-where-is-it-heading
...the huge number of plants that don’t need honeybees at all.
Honeybees are invasive to North America, displacing the pollinators that native plants need.
NO PLANT native to the Americas needs, or wants, honeybees.
This includes tomatoes, potatoes, peppers, cucumbers, corn, most kinds of beans, peas, squash, pumpkins, yams, and many more...
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colony_Collapse_Disorder
http://maarec.cas.psu.edu/
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Developing Ecological Consciousness for a Planet in Peril
http://woodstock.georgetown.edu/publications/report/r-fea87e.htm
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natural beekeeping
http://www.itsnoteasybeinggreen.org/forum/viewtopic.php?start=60&t=5120
http://biobees.com
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http://www.celsias.com/blog/2007/03/15/bee-colony-collapse-disorder-where-is-it-heading/#comment-17254
... Ellen Anderson says:
March 16th, 2007
I am a beekeeper (whose bees are not yet dead.) I think there is plenty of indication that the neonicitines (imidacloprid) is responsible and I am worried since all of the garden aisles are full of it this year. It goes by the name of Merit (also Gaucho) and is made by Bayer Crop Science. It is advertised to control grubs and ticks in lawns, virtually all insects on fruit trees, etc. etc. It is also used to control termites. The symptoms, advertised by Bayer, of poisoned termites sound just like the symptoms seen in bees - ie overgrowth of disease and loss of memory. It was banned in France but we Americans get no news from abroad anymore. HELP!!! ...
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A Power Governments Cannot Suppress
by Howard Zinn 2007
http://citylights.com/CLpubRE.html#4758
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http://solarliving.org/resources
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The Price of Fire: Resource Wars and Social Movements in Bolivia
http://boliviabook.com
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http://myspace.com/seditionbooks
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This century's lesson: We're All/One
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From the Museum of Science in Boston
http://www.mos.org/topics/cst
Pollution-fueled storms [evidence that increased coal-burning air pollution in India and China is increasing the intensity of Northwest U.S. storms]
... a study showing that pollution from Asia is changing the weather as far away as Alaska,...[and] a new way to make hydrogen for fuel using only water and sunlight.
http://www.mos.org/topics/cst?events_activities/podcasts&d=1653
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space-based biotech
http://www.mos.org/topics/cst
http://205.149.4.69/bbpo/biobeyond.php?pg=links
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Heated space race under way in Asia
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070415/ap_on_sc/asia_in_orbit;_ylt=ApGXL.G6qNCD5DW2D1snrs5xieAA
and
Chinese satellite kill challenges U.S.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070414/ap_on_sc/china_space_challenge;_ylt=AtTTgTY4nKr4TcMpU5AulNNoWrEF
by Eric Talmadge 4/14/7
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Collapse of Honey Bees in U. S., Canada and 9 European Countries
by Linda Moulton Howe 4/6/7
http://earthfiles.com/news/news.cfm?ID=1230&category=Environment
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http://foodnews.org/
http://www.pasafarming.org/links.html
http://sierraclub.org/pa/
http://www.sierraclub.org/community/pittsburgh/
http://greenlabor.org/
http://www.thisishappening.com/
http://nowarnowarming.org/
posted by St. Jim the Composter at 5:24 AM
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Saturday, April 07, 2007
blue and green beauty
From Earth Institute:
http://www.earthinstitute.columbia.edu
4/5/7
New Study Shows Climate Change Likely to Lead to Periods of Extreme Drought in Southwest North America
http://www.earth.columbia.edu/news/2007/story04-06-07.php
...the levels of aridity of the recent multiyear drought, or the Dust Bowl and 1950s droughts, will, within the coming years to decades, become the new climatology of the American Southwest...
Projections of anthropogenic, or man-made, climate change conducted by 19 different climate modeling groups around the world, using different climate models, show widespread agreement that Southwestern North America—and the subtropics in general—are heading toward a climate even more arid than now. The models show that human-induced aridification becomes marked early in the current century. In the Southwest the levels of aridity seen in the 1950s multiyear drought, or the 1930s Dust Bowl, become the new climatology by mid-century: a perpetual drought...
...“...not only causes water shortage through early snow melt, which leads to significant water shortage in the summer over the Southwest, but it also aggregates the problem by reducing precipitation,"...
...other land regions to be hit hard by subtropical drying include southern Europe, North Africa and the Middle East as well as parts of South America...
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Sustainable South Bronx: Greening an Industry
http://www.earthinstitute.columbia.edu/education/docs/progs_of_study/SSBFinalBriefing.swf
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http://bluegreenalliance.org/links.asp
http://www.earthinstitute.columbia.edu
4/5/7
New Study Shows Climate Change Likely to Lead to Periods of Extreme Drought in Southwest North America
http://www.earth.columbia.edu/news/2007/story04-06-07.php
...the levels of aridity of the recent multiyear drought, or the Dust Bowl and 1950s droughts, will, within the coming years to decades, become the new climatology of the American Southwest...
Projections of anthropogenic, or man-made, climate change conducted by 19 different climate modeling groups around the world, using different climate models, show widespread agreement that Southwestern North America—and the subtropics in general—are heading toward a climate even more arid than now. The models show that human-induced aridification becomes marked early in the current century. In the Southwest the levels of aridity seen in the 1950s multiyear drought, or the 1930s Dust Bowl, become the new climatology by mid-century: a perpetual drought...
...“...not only causes water shortage through early snow melt, which leads to significant water shortage in the summer over the Southwest, but it also aggregates the problem by reducing precipitation,"...
...other land regions to be hit hard by subtropical drying include southern Europe, North Africa and the Middle East as well as parts of South America...
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Sustainable South Bronx: Greening an Industry
http://www.earthinstitute.columbia.edu/education/docs/progs_of_study/SSBFinalBriefing.swf
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http://bluegreenalliance.org/links.asp
posted by St. Jim the Composter at 6:03 AM
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Thursday, April 05, 2007
Earth: still fresh each day
"Every seventh year we will forgo working the land and will cancel all debts"
~Nehemiah 10:31
http://jubileeusa.org
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We think climate change is morphing into a substantial financial risk and investment opportunity. A company's ability to manage this issue turns out to be a very good proxy for how well managed they are overall.— Matthew Kiernan, Innovest Strategic Value Advisors
http://innovestgroup.com
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bioremediation in New Orleans
http://www.seedcollective.org/SeedSite/Updates/501DE8C0-7ABE-4AAF-9938-B10F38152781_files/replantNola_bioremediation.pdf
replant new orleans
Bioremediation...“...microorganisms naturally present in the soils were actively consuming fuel-derived toxic compounds and transforming them into harmless carbon dioxide...the rate of these biotransformations could be greatly increased by the addition of nutrients...to increase rates of biodegradation and thereby shield the residential area from further contamination.”...“...cleaning up pollution by enhancing the same biodegradation processes that occur in nature...treating the contamination in place so that large quantities of soil, sediment, or water do not have to be dugup or pumped out of the ground for treatment.”...
...Replant New Orleans will use the application of compost, compost tea made from worm castings...provide mechanisms for neutralizing toxins and stimulates the production of natural bacteria in the soil that will combat toxic materials...provide community garden space for the large scale production of compost and compost tea, as well as provide space for growing phytoremediation plants...“compost improves soil texture and structure, qualities that enable soil to retain nutrients, moisture, and air for the support of healthy crops...helps control erosion..the best recycler of biological wastes, turning millions of tons of our refuse into a food-growing asset...provides and releases plant nutrients, protects against drought, controls pH, supports essential bacteria, feeds helpful earthworms...acts as a buffer against toxins in the soil...conserves a nation’s nonrenewable energy resources.”......Compost tea is a liquid solution made by extracting beneficial microbes from compost and/or worm castings...combats disease-causing microbes, degrades toxic materials, produces plant growth hormones,mineralizes available nutrients in the soil, fixes nitrogen, and prevents pathogens from infecting plants. Phytoremediation...“...is the use of specialized plants to clean up polluted soil. While most plants exposed to high levels of soil toxins will be injured or die,...certain plants are resistant, and an even smaller group actually thrive. The thriving plants show a particular potential for remediation because...some of them actually transport and accumulate extremely high levels of soil pollutants within their bodies...hyper-accumulators....are being used throughout the country to help cleanup heavy metal polluted soil. Heavy metals are some of the most stubborn soil pollutants. They can bond very tightly to soil particles, and they cannot be broken down by microbial processes. Most heavy metals are also essential plant nutrients, so plants have the ability to take up the metals and transport them throughout their bodies. However, on polluted soil, the levels of heavy metals are often hundreds of times greater than normal, and this overexposure is toxic to the vast majority of plants. Hyper-accumulators, on the other hand, actually prefer these high concentrations...acting as natural vacuum cleaners, sucking pollutants out of the soil and depositing them in their above ground leaves and shoots. Removing the metals is as simple as pruning or cutting the hyper-accumulators above ground mass, not excavating tons of soil. ”Sunflowers are one such hyper-accumulator, and are therefore an important component in Replant New Orleans’ plan for bioremediation. They are easy to obtain and distribute, are native to the entire United States, and make a beautiful contribution to New Orleans. These plants take heavy metals, such as lead out of soil...
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http://seventhgen.com
http://grameenfoundation.org
http://unitus.com
http://kiva.org
http://www.chfhq.org
http://www.gcbl.org/quotes/4/feed
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Harnessing Microbial Appetites for Remediation by Kenneth H. Nealson, Wrigley Professor of Geobiology, University of Southern California http://ender.bu.edu/~tgardner/be209/lectures/04/articles/Nealson.KH_NatBiotech_3-03.pdf
~Nehemiah 10:31
http://jubileeusa.org
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We think climate change is morphing into a substantial financial risk and investment opportunity. A company's ability to manage this issue turns out to be a very good proxy for how well managed they are overall.— Matthew Kiernan, Innovest Strategic Value Advisors
http://innovestgroup.com
======
bioremediation in New Orleans
http://www.seedcollective.org/SeedSite/Updates/501DE8C0-7ABE-4AAF-9938-B10F38152781_files/replantNola_bioremediation.pdf
replant new orleans
Bioremediation...“...microorganisms naturally present in the soils were actively consuming fuel-derived toxic compounds and transforming them into harmless carbon dioxide...the rate of these biotransformations could be greatly increased by the addition of nutrients...to increase rates of biodegradation and thereby shield the residential area from further contamination.”...“...cleaning up pollution by enhancing the same biodegradation processes that occur in nature...treating the contamination in place so that large quantities of soil, sediment, or water do not have to be dugup or pumped out of the ground for treatment.”...
...Replant New Orleans will use the application of compost, compost tea made from worm castings...provide mechanisms for neutralizing toxins and stimulates the production of natural bacteria in the soil that will combat toxic materials...provide community garden space for the large scale production of compost and compost tea, as well as provide space for growing phytoremediation plants...“compost improves soil texture and structure, qualities that enable soil to retain nutrients, moisture, and air for the support of healthy crops...helps control erosion..the best recycler of biological wastes, turning millions of tons of our refuse into a food-growing asset...provides and releases plant nutrients, protects against drought, controls pH, supports essential bacteria, feeds helpful earthworms...acts as a buffer against toxins in the soil...conserves a nation’s nonrenewable energy resources.”......Compost tea is a liquid solution made by extracting beneficial microbes from compost and/or worm castings...combats disease-causing microbes, degrades toxic materials, produces plant growth hormones,mineralizes available nutrients in the soil, fixes nitrogen, and prevents pathogens from infecting plants. Phytoremediation...“...is the use of specialized plants to clean up polluted soil. While most plants exposed to high levels of soil toxins will be injured or die,...certain plants are resistant, and an even smaller group actually thrive. The thriving plants show a particular potential for remediation because...some of them actually transport and accumulate extremely high levels of soil pollutants within their bodies...hyper-accumulators....are being used throughout the country to help cleanup heavy metal polluted soil. Heavy metals are some of the most stubborn soil pollutants. They can bond very tightly to soil particles, and they cannot be broken down by microbial processes. Most heavy metals are also essential plant nutrients, so plants have the ability to take up the metals and transport them throughout their bodies. However, on polluted soil, the levels of heavy metals are often hundreds of times greater than normal, and this overexposure is toxic to the vast majority of plants. Hyper-accumulators, on the other hand, actually prefer these high concentrations...acting as natural vacuum cleaners, sucking pollutants out of the soil and depositing them in their above ground leaves and shoots. Removing the metals is as simple as pruning or cutting the hyper-accumulators above ground mass, not excavating tons of soil. ”Sunflowers are one such hyper-accumulator, and are therefore an important component in Replant New Orleans’ plan for bioremediation. They are easy to obtain and distribute, are native to the entire United States, and make a beautiful contribution to New Orleans. These plants take heavy metals, such as lead out of soil...
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http://seventhgen.com
http://grameenfoundation.org
http://unitus.com
http://kiva.org
http://www.chfhq.org
http://www.gcbl.org/quotes/4/feed
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Harnessing Microbial Appetites for Remediation by Kenneth H. Nealson, Wrigley Professor of Geobiology, University of Southern California http://ender.bu.edu/~tgardner/be209/lectures/04/articles/Nealson.KH_NatBiotech_3-03.pdf
posted by St. Jim the Composter at 8:14 AM
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