Thursday, April 17, 2008

Love grows brains

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United Nations
Plant for the Planet
Billion Tree Campaign: Climate Neutral Strategy and catchments protection
unep.org/billiontreecampaign/CampaignNews/huruma.asp
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biodieselmagazine.com/article.jsp?article_id=1002
July 2006
...A team of students from Appalachian State University in Boone, N.C., recently won the U.S. EPA’s 2006 P3 award for its work on biodiesel and sustainability....stands for People, Prosperity and the Planet...
“Closing the Biodiesel Loop: Self-Sustaining Community-Based Biodiesel Production,”
a closed-loop demonstration system of manufacturing biodiesel using solar thermal heating; wastewater bio-remediation; a passive, solar greenhouse; methanol recovery; soap making; and composting...
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rootsofempathy.org/WhatStu.html
...it is through experiences, delivered through senses that the...brain grows. If these experiences are delivered through the lens of a loving relationship, the...brain will grow...
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seedsofempathy.org
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bio-based materials:
From
National Non-Food Crops Centre
http://www.nnfcc.co.uk/metadot/index.pl?id=2377;isa=Category;op=show
...Plastics can be made out of oils from crops we grow, as well as from fossil fuels out of the ground...
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peoplesgeography.com
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From:

GM cornucopia for biofuels

by Jon Evans 3/28/8
http://www.biofpr.com/view/MTAzOTk3L0FSLzUxL251bGw%3D/featureDetail.html
"...GM crops have helped US farmers to increase ..."
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market-ticker.denninger.net/2008/04/ppi-up-yours-ben.html
"...All who either participated in or willfully looked the other way at the fraud of the last eight years must be prosecuted...
...A shutdown of "burn our food" - that is, repudiation of ethanol in fuel tanks. That should be banned, not mandated..."
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fossil fuel free food
i-sis.org.uk/foodFutures.php
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How Republicans Quietly Hijacked the Justice Department to Swing Elections
by Steven Rosenfeld 4/15/8.
http://www.alternet.org/election08/82348/
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bugs (microbes) to the rescue
earththesequel.edf.org
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[bamboozler turf - supermarkets]
Cracking the produce codes
http://green.yahoo.com/blog/forecastearth/25/cracking-the-produce-codes.html
by Jay Weinstein 4/11/8
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Institute for Community Understanding Between Art and the Everyday
http://www.incubate-chicago.org/sundaysoup
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studentsforademocraticsociety.org
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Biofuels nothing short of disaster

Environmentalists to blame as emissions worsen, world's poor starve

by Lorne Gunter 4/13/8


http://www.canada.com/edmontonjournal/news/opinion/story.html?id=7ac33c22-ff7f-4108-a61f-a24757c61776

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Why Costs Are Climbing
As food prices surge, starvation looms for millions. Experts call for emergency action but admit there's no quick fix
by Eric Reguly 4/12/8
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19725.htm
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impactpress.com/links/impactlk.htm
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direct democracy for people-powered politics
mydd.com
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Chemical Industry Archives
chemicalindustryarchives.org
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From:
Some Good News on Food Prices
by Kim Severson 4/2/8
organicconsumers.org/articles/article_11364.cfm
...As the price of fossil fuels and commodities like grain climb, nutritionally questionable, high-profit ingredients like high-fructose corn syrup will, too...
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gunnyg.wordpress.com/2008/04/07/global-gridlock-how-the-us-military-industrial-complex-seeks-to-contain-and-control-the-earth-and-its-eco-system
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http://twr.mobrien.com/articles/research/weapons_of_mass_destruction-BZ.htm
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The World According to Monsanto
video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-842180934463681887&q=the+world+according+to+monsanto&total=5&start=0&num=10&so=0&type=search&plindex=0
"...Roundup's toxicity was hidden to protect the development of gmo's "genetically modified organisms"
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heyokamagazine.com
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Weaponizing the Pentagon's Cyborg Insects
A Futuristic Nightmare That Just Might Come True
by Nick Turse 3/1/8
TomDispatch.com
billtotten.blogspot.com/2008/04/weaponizing-pentagons-cyborg-insects.html
informationliberation.com/?id=25075
gunnyg.wordpress.com/2008/03/31/weaponizing-the-pentagons-cyborg-insects
Biological weapons delivered by cyborg insects. It sounds like a nightmare scenario straight out of the wilder realms of science fiction, but it could be a reality, if a current Pentagon project comes to fruition.

Right now, researchers are already growing insects with electronics inside them. They're creating cyborg moths and flying beetles that can be remotely controlled. One day, the US military may field squadrons of winged insect/machine hybrids...
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Carter Center's agriculture program increasing food production
cartercenter.org/countries/burkina_faso.html
...phosphate-rock-enriched compost pits...
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Unitarians Universalists for Justice in the Middle East
oxfam

http://www.againstthewal.com/Mar%2007.htm
http://www.climatemanual.org/Cities/downloads/ClimateProtectionManual_Cities.pdf

Maida Springer-Kemp
http://www.freesocietycollective.org/archives/001051.html
http://web.mac.com/babais/Site/pamealroughedit1.html
http://www.freesocietycollective.org/archives/001051.html
Pollutants destroying flowers' aromas

ironweedfilms.com/our_partners

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Center for the Study of Extraterrestrial Intelligence
cseti.org/relatedlinks.htm
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Center for Africanamerican Urban Studies & the Economy

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"The Real Dirt on Farmer John"

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"Secret World of Gardens: Honey Bees"

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"My Father's Garden"

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"Net Loss: The Storm Over Salmon Farming"

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National Labor Committee
www.nlcnet.org
"putting a human face on the global economy"
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David Eson from Isidore Foods
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Global Forum on Agricultural Research
egfar.org/egfar/website/webring/partnerwebsites
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International Centre for Underutilised Crops
icuc-iwmi.org/our_partners.htm
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From:
Lets Not Forget: Bush Planned Iraq 'Regime Change' Before Becoming President
by Neil Mackay 9/15/2
informationclearinghouse.info/article1221.htm
...The PNAC [Project for a New American Century] report...:
...hints that, despite threatening war against Iraq for developing weapons of mass destruction, the US may consider developing biological weapons - which the nation has banned - in decades to come. It says: 'New methods of attack - electronic, 'non-lethal', biological - will be more widely available...combat likely will take place in new dimensions, in space, cyberspace, and perhaps the world of microbes...advanced forms of biological warfare that can 'target' specific genotypes may transform biological warfare from the realm of terror to a politically useful tool'...
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environmental charter school at Frick
groups.yahoo.com/group/pghenvironmentalcharter/links
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Engineers Without Borders
ewb-international.org/resources.htm
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retool.wordpress.com

Engineers Without Borders, on "The Role of Engineers in Poverty Reduction." More on his work on sustainability and engineering at http://www.edc-cu.org/profileamadei.htm
(7) April 17: Safe at Home: Living Without Pesticides is the first in a series of educational workshops exploring your health and the environment (inspired by the Women's Health and the Environment conference held last year) (6-7:30 p.m. at the Carnegie Science Center, free). For more info and to register, go to More Info >

(8) April 19: Earth Day at Frick Environmental Center. A fun community festival featuring bird walks, an owl encounter, live local entertainment, tabling by local environmental organizations, nature crafts, and stewardship activities including tree planting and a Garlic Mustard Pull (10-4, free). For more information or to volunteer, contact Patty Himes at 412-422-6538 or patricia.himes@city.pittsburgh.pa.us .

(9) Sierra Club's Environmental Film Festival, Part II. Films include Deconstructing Supper: Is your food safe?, Polar Bear Tour with Chad Kister, Great Bear Rain Forest, The Crabs, the Birds and the Bay: Spring miracle on Delaware Bay, and the (multi-Emmy) award-winning Natural Connection. (6-10 p.m. in Botany Hall, that small but grand building adjacent to Phipps Conservatory.)

(10) April 24: An introduction to cohousing by Chuck Durrett, coauthor of the seminal book Cohousing: A Contemporary Approach to Housing Ourselves -- and largely responsible for bringing cohousing to this country. (6:30 in 203 Margaret Morrison Hall at CMU; free.) For information on the local effort to create a cohousing community (and more on coho as well), check out http://www.pittsburghcohousing.org/ .

(11) April 29: "Local Living Economies: Green, Fair, and Fun" The Local Living Economies and Urban Farming lecture series concludes with Judy Wicks, founder of Philadelphia's Sustainable Business Network, the Business Alliance for Local Living Economies (BALLE, www.livingeconomies.org/ ), and the White Dog Café. Wicks is probably best known for establishing The White Dog Cafe on the first floor of her Philadelphia home in 1983. As the restaurant grew, so did her notion that the strength of her business relied upon the quality and sustainability of its locally grown ingredients. Envisioning how strengthening relationships among independent, community-rooted enterprises could inspire broad and profound cultural change, Wicks joined the Social Venture Network and co-founded the Business Alliance for Local Living Economies (BALLE) in 2001, She is currently writing a book about the White Dog Café and local living economies called Good Morning, Beautiful Business. 5-6:30 in the Connan Room in CMU's University Center.

(12) April 30: "Food and Farming Based Entrepreneurship: The Next Generation of Business in Pittsburgh" Following the last lecture in the Local Living Economies and Urban Farming series, there will be a public workshop featuring keynote talks by Judy Wicks (see above) and Benjamin Gisin, publisher of Touch the Soil magazine ( http://www.touchthesoil.com/ ) and an expert on how monetary policy affects agriculture. Afterwards there will be a panel discussion with local and regional sustainability leaders. (1-5 p.m. in the Singleton Room in CMU's Roberts Hall; $50/$30 academics and nonprofits/free to the CMU community. RSVP by April 11 to 412-268-1125 or online at https://wwwserver.housing.cmu.edu/conferences/registration.taf?ID=LEUFPB2008 )

(13) May 3: Remember the three R's -- Reduce, reuse, and recycle.
Folks with children know that they usually grow out of things long before they wear them out -- so the Pittsburgh Mothers' Center ( http://www.pittsburghmotherscenter.org/ ) will hold their annual Kids' Stuff Sale at the Pittsburgh New Church in Point Breeze. To donate your gently used children's/maternity items or for more
info on the sale, please email fundraising@pittsburghmotherscenter.org .

(14) ...and one event that is now in the past: the Pittsburgh Environmental Charter School has been approved, and will soon begin accepting student registrations for next year. A school website is in development, and in the meantime there's a Yahoo group to keep interested folks informed, at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/pghenvironmentalcharter/ . Information sessions will be taking place at various locations, starting this week; visit the Yahoo web site or call 412-247-7970 for more info.


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Little Village Environmental Justice Organization
lvejo.org/Links.htm
lvejo.org/campaigns/events4puddj.htm
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Good germs, bad germs: health and survival in a bacterial world
Jessica Snyder Sachs 2007
jessicasachs.com
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People for Workers Rights
andrew.cmu.edu/org/usas
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Pittsburgh Living Wage Campaign
www.contrib.andrew.cmu.edu/org/usas/living-wage/index.html
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Funders Network on Trade and Globalization
fntg.org
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Food riots fear after rice price hits a high
by Peter Beaumont 4/6/8
A global rice shortage that has seen prices of one of the world's most important staple foods increase by 50 per cent in the past two weeks alone is triggering an international crisis, with countries banning export and threatening serious punishment for hoarders.
guardian.co.uk/environment/2008/apr/06/food.foodanddrink
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"We will bankrupt ourselves in the vain search for absolute security"
~Dwight David Eisenhower
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"I have named the destroyers of nations: comfort, plenty, and security - out of which grow a bored and slothful cynicism, in which rebellion against the world as it is, and myself as I am, are submerged in listless self-satisfaction"
~John Steinbeck
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"The only security...is to be found through the control of force rather than the use of force" ~Norman Cousins
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"Power always has to be kept in check; power exercised in secret, especially under the cloak of national security, is doubly dangerous"
~ William Proxmire
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healthcare4allpa.org
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Corporate Social Responsibility Newswire
csrwire.com
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westmorelandconservancy.org
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United Electrical, Radio & Machine Workers
ueinternational.org
ueunion.org
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Bamboo turning up in all types of products
pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/living/fashion/s_559351.html
...is being touted by some as the new "green" giant...requires little of the pesticides that are used in the cultivation of other crops such as cotton. Harvested bamboo groves...can regenerate themselves quickly, often within a year...
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http://thebreakthrough.org/blog/2008/03/the_end_of_carbon_price_orthod.shtml
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http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/08089/868923-28.stm
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/08064/862263-85.stm
http://www.wbcsd.org/plugins/DocSearch/details.asp?type=DocDet&ObjectId=MjkyOTY%0d%0a
http://www.popsci.com/environment/article/2008-02/americas-50-greenest-cities

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