Kerry agrees he is President

Think how many billions of times people have mistakenly used the phrase "President Bush" in reference to Mr. George W. Bush. It seems knowledge can hurt not only the receiver but the giver.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Florida_Taser_incident
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"...Many of us in America today are living longer and better, in large part because we have benefited from the tremendous advances of modern society. But, we are also seeing the growth in chronic diseases...
...information on the potential risks of many modern devices is often protected as confidential business information. In fact, what are protected as today’s trade secrets may turn out to have cost my father his life.
To break the logjam of single-minded regulation, we need to create an open democratic and truly independent scientific forum--a Truth and Reconciliation Commission where producers of modern products, whether jet engines or computer chips, open their files to unflinching examination of health patterns from past exposures that can provide clues about how to prevent future harm. If we want the world of the future to be healthier than that of the past, we can start with ending the protection of toxic trade secrets and taking more realistic looks at the combined impacts of modern agents on our lives...."
http://devradavis.com/note2.php
http://devradavis.com/about.php

For much of its history, the cancer war has been fighting the wrong battles, with the wrong weapons, against the wrong enemies. The campaign has targeted the disease and left off the table the things that cause it—tobacco, alcohol, workplace hazards. Conceived in explicitly military terms, the effort has focused on defeating an enemy by detecting, treating, and curing disease. How the world in which we live and work affects whether we get cancer has been either overlooked or suppressed. The result is appalling: over 10 million preventable cancer deaths over the past thirty years.

This has been no accident.

The official cancer effort was directed by leaders of industries that generated a host of cancer-causing materials and products. Their economic interest lay in making the disease less deadly but never in preventing it altogether. The Secret History of the War on Cancer shows, decade by decade, how this leadership acted to downplay research on prevention, and kept research on environmental causes from gaining widespread circulation or benefiting the general public—and how this suppression of knowledge continues today...a major public health effort diverted and distorted for private gain.

http://whensmokeranlikewater.com
http://environmentaloncology.org/staff_davis.htm
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http://crooksandliars.com
http://carlylefixmanorcarenow.org
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Abrupt Climate Change
Inevitable Surprises
http://www.nap.edu/openbook.php?isbn=0309074347
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The weather turned upside-down?
Abrupt Climate Change: evidence, mechanisms and implications
A report for the Royal Society
and the Association of British Science Writers
by Mike Holderness, March 2003
http://www.poptel.org.uk/nuj/mike/acc/index.html
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http://truefoodnow.org/resources
http://seedsofdeception.com/Public/Links/index.cfm
http://celsias.com/category/genetically-modified-organisms
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http://campaignmoney.com
Name/Location Employer/Occupation $ Amount Contributed Contributed To Primary/
General Date
ALOE, ANDREW
PITTSBURGH, PA 15241 SHENANGO GROUP, INC./CHAIRMAN & CHI $1,000 FRIENDS OF JAY ROCKEFELLER - DEMOCRAT P 06/01/2007
Aloe, Andrew MR.
PITTSBURGH, PA 15241 Shenango Inc./President $2,300 TIM MURPHY FOR CONGRESS - REPUBLICAN P 02/09/2007
Aloe, Andrew MR.
PITTSBURGH, PA 15241 Shenango Inc./President $1,900 TIM MURPHY FOR CONGRESS - REPUBLICAN G 02/09/2007
Aloe, Joseph MR.
PITTSBURGH, PA 15241 Quality Aggregater/President $500 TIM MURPHY FOR CONGRESS - REPUBLICAN P 02/10/2007
Aloe, Joseph Mr.
PITTSBURGH, PA 15225 Quality Aggregates Inc./President $15,000 REPUBLICAN NATIONAL COMMITTEE - REPUBLICAN P 04/24/2007
Amoroso, Linda Ms.
PITTSBURGH, PA 15241 DBT America Inc./Attorney $250 COALPAC A POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE OF THE NATIONAL MINING ASSOCIATION P
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This Compost
by Walt Whitman
http://riles.org/compost.htm
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First honeybees - now scientists are worried about the bumblebees
by Jeff Barnard, Associated Press
http://nctimes.com/articles/2007/10/09/science/3_18_0410_8_07.txt
http://bumblebee.org
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waynemadsenreport.com blackwater
http://fourwinds10.com/siterun_data/government/fraud/us_government/news.php?q=e561a9942ccc4946ab56efdda594ec68
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da dirty truth
http://www.poopthebook.com/events/display-item.php?eventid=6
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http://ejnet.org/sludge
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abandoned mine lands
http://epa.gov/aml/relevant/index.htm
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http://gettingtozerowaste.com
http://zerowasteinstitute.org
...Zero Waste cannot be achieved with more recycling. Only the intelligent redesign of industrial and commercial practices holds out the promise of a Zero Waste society...
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International Organization for Migration
http://iom.int
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http://endhumantraffickingnow.com/public/structure/6.html
http://familiesforfreedom.org/?q=taxonomy/term/1
http://pbs.org/wnet/expose
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Society of Environmental Journalists
http://sej.org
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...6-28-06. Turning Israeli Sewage Sludge into Gasoline. TEL AVIV, Israel. BioPetrol gets the award for finding the most novel way to get gas for cars.The company is experimenting with a method of extracting oil out of sewage sludge, Amit Mor, CEO of Israeli investing and consulting firm Eco Energy, said in an interview. Mor, who advises BioPetrol, said the extracted oil could be converted into gasoline and natural gas...
...In the United States, Microgy is building a facility in Texas that will convert manure from 10,000 dairy cows into natural gas that will be sold through conventional pipelines. Microgy's system breaks down manure with microbes. Other companies are trying to improve the process of making ethanol from vegetable matter.

BioPetrol does not use microbes, Mor said. It also does not produce ethanol; its process would yield standard hydrocarbon fuels...
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http://logicalscience.com/technology
...#18 Hydrogen via Algae Farms in the Desert
Discoverer: Tasios Melis of Berkeley (University)
Growing hydrogen for tomorrow (newscientist.com)
Analysis: Could completely replace US oil consumption for transportation and solve many 3rd world countries energy needs. "To displace gasoline use in the US would take hydrogen farms covering about 25,000 square kilometres." To put that in perspective, that's less than a tenth of what the US devotes to growing soya. …. The best areas [to farm] will be sun-drenched deserts….
Outlook: Realising the vision will require some formidable feats of bioengineering. The US Department of Energy (DOE) is performing research to see if it can be made commercially viable...
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http://i-r-squared.blogspot.com
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Crude Impact film
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gene therapy
"gene corn" documentary film
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Association for Applied Psychophysiology and Biofeedback

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"methane trapped in permafrost"
http://www.logicalscience.com/skeptic_arguments/lags-not-leads.html
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bumblebee
http://www.happytonics.org/articles/artbedie.htm
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Science & Environmental Health Network
http://sehn.org/links.html
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http://usclimatenetwork.org
http://ombwatch.org
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"Julia Whitty" "Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research" "John Schellnhuber"
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The Government Sanctioned Bombing of Appalachia
By Antrim Caskey, AlterNet. Posted October 9, 2007.
Thanks to Bush, Big Coal uses 3 million pounds of explosives each day in West Virginia to fuel our addiction to dirty energy.
http://alternet.org/story/64547
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Changing to a Sustainable World

If we are to have a future, what would it be like? The only thing clear to me is that we will NOT have a future unless we all make radical changes in how we are doing things. I can talk forever about what we have to stop - such as allowing increasing amounts of carbon dioxide to get into the atmosphere - but lack the imagination to paint an attractive picture of a better future (though I know that's possible). A lifelong obsessive reader, my brain is full of good and bad possibilities for us. Our future will be the result of the interaction of all of our expectations, desires, and fears. For instance, those of us who think that war or other types of violence (such as eating meat) is necessary play our part - by our actions based on that belief - in creating a world based on violence. It's the jungle mentality: kill or be killed, the survival of the most violent, you have to forget about morality if you want to make money, etc. It's the kind of strategy that wins battles but not wars. Wars are never won really, first of all because all sides suffer heavy losses. Then the victor's gains turn into losses. Look at the United States; what have we got for all these years since World War 2? And how long will it last? People are understandably (though not correctly) hateful of us, both for our government's secret mistreatment of people all over the world and also for our capacity and willingness to be ignorant of the dark side of our own history (an unprecedented level of destructiveness in defense of the privileged status quo of a relative few). Ever since we "won" the Second World War (immediately after which my dad said he saw the beginning of World War 3), we've been on a downhill ego trip - till now some of us actually think we're closer to God than are people from other parts of the world. Well, duh, I'm afraid God will beg to differ. It's been the consequence of these collective mindsets that have resulted in superior military capability so that 2-3,000 U.S. citizens killed on September 11th, 2001 has been reacted to by the killing of millions of humans beings who are not U.S. citizens. But we don't much see that, preferring to honor and mourn our own losses as if they were more important than those of citizens of other parts of the Earth. So we won? I don't think so. We now have - through both massive military expenditures and corporations unwilling to either spend to switch to safer technologies or to make their facilities safer from attack - a world which is a high-tech tinderbox. People used to fight hand-to-hand. Now we have mega-death at the click of a mouse, war powers held by people who have never experienced war, our borders as full of holes as a sieve, our ports and markets owned by international players we barely know, and our elections subverted by elites who care little about us. Would you call this a sustainable success story?

incipient joy

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“God entrusted the earth to human beings ‘to till and keep it’. When this principle is forgotten and they become the tyrants rather than the custodians of nature, sooner or later the latter will rebel.”
~Pope John Paul II in 2000.
http://www.gaiehouston.co.uk/climate.htm
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http://naomiklein.org
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http://truthdig.com/eartotheground/item/global_warming_has_past_the_tipping_point_20060211/#3521

...when we will past the tipping point and be helpless to stop the runaway global warming.

There are enormous quantities of methane trapped in permafrost and under the oceans in ice-like structures called clathrates. The methane in Arctic permafrost clathrates is estimated at 400 billion tons.

Methane is more than 20 times as strong a greenhouse gas as CO2, and the atmosphere currently contains about 3.5 billion tons of the gas.

The highest temperature increase from global warming is occurring in the arctic regions-an area rich in these unstable clathrates. Simulations from the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) show that over half the permafrost will thaw by 2050, and as much as 90 percent by 2100.

Peat deposits may be a comparable methane source to melting permafrost. When peat that has been frozen for thousands of years thaws, it still contains viable populations of bacteria that begin to convert the peat into methane and CO2.

Western Siberia is heating up faster than anywhere else in the world, having experienced a rise of some 3C in the past 40 years. The west Siberian peat bog could hold some 70 billion tonnes of methane. Local atmospheric levels of methane on the Siberian shelf are now 25 times higher than global concentrations.

...warmer temperatures and longer growing seasons have caused microbial activity to increase dramatically in the soil around the world. This, in turn, means that much of the carbon long stored in the soil is now being released into the atmosphere...

...According to the U.S. Geological Survey, burning fossil fuels releases more than 150 times the amount of CO2 emitted by volcanoes.

To summarize, human activity is causing the Earth to warm. Bacteria converts carbon in the soil into greenhouse gasses, and enormous quantities are trapped in unstable clathrates. As the earth continues to warm, permafrost clathrates will thaw; peat and soil microbial activity will dramatically increase; and, finally, vast oceanic clathrates will melt. This global warming chain reaction has happened in the past.

Atmospheric concentrations of CO2 rose by a record amount over the past year. It is the third successive year in which they have increased sharply. Scientists are at a loss to explain why the rapid rise has taken place, but fear the trend could be the first sign of runaway global warming...
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From:
Award Winning Design | Seattle’s Off-the-Grid Vertical Farm
by Winston Gieseke 9/26/7
http://gliving.tv/videos/john-picard-room101-v1-player.php
"...We have everything we need to create a restorative economy..."
~John Picard
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news - The coolest building not built yet?
http://mithun.com
An Off-Grid Vertical Farm for Downtown Seattle...award-winning design for a high-rise urban farm. The Center for Urban Agriculture is fully self-sufficient in energy and water, and includes vegetable and grain fields, rooftop gardens, greenhouses, 318 apartments, and a even a chicken farm...all on less than an acre of space...
Living Future '07 Competition...
http://justbrowsing.tumblr.com
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http://www.ecogeek.org/content/view/976/
...The Living Building Challenge is a competition that encourages building owners, architects, engineers, and design professionals to build in a way that advances knowledge and innovation in the sustainable building industry. The term "living building" comes from the idea that it is possible to create a structure that functions like a living organism - able to survive using only the natural environment around it...
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Alternative Farming Systems Information Center
http://afsic.nal.usda.gov
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Seattle Off-Grid Concept Combines Chickens, Crops & Sustainable Living
http://jetsongreen.typepad.com
Vertically constructed on a .72 acre site...And...there will be greenhouses, rooftop gardens, a chicken farm, and fields for growing vegetables and grains.
http://hugg.com/taxonomy/term/4615
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Georgia Center for Urban Agriculture
http://apps.caes.uga.edu/urbanag
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Kansas City Center for Urban Agriculture
http://kccua.org
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http://counterpunch.org/hribal09222007.html
...standing behind the current expropriation and genocide occurring in Darfur...is the cattle industry - as it wants the land for beef production...
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http://innocenceproject.org
http://justharvest.org
http://peacedayspittsburgh.googlepages.com
http://peacedayspittsburgh.blogspot.com
http://cjd.org/links.html
http://free-burma.org
http://riskman.typepad.com
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http://uwnews.org/newscitations.asp?sdate=1/1/2006
...Councilmember wants to let Seattleites license goats as pets
In what he is calling one small step for sustainability, City Councilmember Richard Conlin wants to legalize miniature goats in Seattle. Until now, the Seattle City Council and Conlin have mostly talked about sustainability in terms of recycling, composting and protecting city trees. But goats are in -- especially as Earth-friendly lawn mowers. The University of Washington recently hired a herd of full-size goats to eat blackberry bushes and English ivy...

Seattle Times
Sep. 1, 2007
Atlantis Effect? Rising sea level worries shoreline areas
Washington's low-lying capital city is a bit nervous in planning a new $38 million City Hall near the shoreline of Puget Sound, fearing that global warming and rising waters could submerge much of the downtown in this century. The UW's Lara Whitely Binder, an outreach specialist with the Climate Impacts Group, is quoted...
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http://paxworld.com
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If our "food aid" makes poor countries dependent on international agribusiness companies, is that really helping them?

No! Tell the Senate to support cash for local and regional purchases of food aid!

When cheap food mostly purchased from US agribusinesses is dumped at below market costs in hunger-stricken countries, it drives local farmers off the land and out of work.

Fortunately, the Senate is drafting language in the 2007 Farm Bill for a pilot program to purchase food from local and regional farmers in times of food crisis, which would help local farmers feed their families and communities and promote sustainable agricultural practices.

Act now! Tell the Senate this is the RIGHT plan for food aid!

Together, we can make change a reality
Emily
http://go.care2.com/e/Tk3R/ov2v/s4LX
Redwood City, CA 94065
http://www.care2.com
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edible weeds
http://www.boggycreekfarm.com/pages/horticultural-practices.php
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"One is left with the horrible feeling now that war settles nothing; that to win a war is as disastrous as to lose one."
~Agatha Christie
http://bringthemhome2.blogspot.com
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http://smallplanetinstitute.org
http://deptplanetearth.com
http://blessedunrest.com
http://wiserearth.org/resource
http://uscampaignforburma.org
http://freeburma.org
http://unscburma.org
http://www.altsean.org/Links.htm#Health
http://gettingagrip.org
http://sciencenews.org
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Status of Pollinators in North America
http://nap.edu/catalog.php?record_id=11761
http://fws.gov/pollinators/PollinatorPages/AboutPollinators.html
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http://pghdesigncoalition.org
http://chelseagreen.com
http://nrdc.org/bushrecord
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