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
======
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
======
“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
======
http://naomiklein.org
======
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...
======
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
======
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
======
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...
======
Alternative Farming Systems Information Center
http://afsic.nal.usda.gov
======
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
======
Georgia Center for Urban Agriculture
http://apps.caes.uga.edu/urbanag
======
Kansas City Center for Urban Agriculture
http://kccua.org
======
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...
======
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
======
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...
======
http://paxworld.com
======
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
======
edible weeds
http://www.boggycreekfarm.com/pages/horticultural-practices.php
======
======
"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
======
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
======
Status of Pollinators in North America
http://nap.edu/catalog.php?record_id=11761
http://fws.gov/pollinators/PollinatorPages/AboutPollinators.html
======
http://pghdesigncoalition.org
http://chelseagreen.com
http://nrdc.org/bushrecord
======
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