Saturday, February 14, 2009

Earth in labor

We have to become productive again.
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"The producer names the tune and the consumer has got to dance."
~Gil Scott-Heron
brasschecktv.com/page/562.html
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"...The game is over...When people lose everything, and they have nothing to lose, they lose it..."
~Gerald Celente, Trends Research Institute
trendsresearch.com
informationclearinghouse.info/article21983.htm
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kitchen gardening
olericulture.org
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BioDiversity Research Institute
briloon.org
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calculatedriskblog.com
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Climate change even worse than predicted: expert
Feb 14
news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20090214/sc_afp/usclimatewarming_20090214150716
...Without decisive action to slow global warming, higher temperatures could ignite tropical forests and thaw the Arctic tundra, potentially releasing billions of tons of carbon dioxide that has been stored for thousands of years.

That could raise temperatures even more and create "a vicious cycle that could spiral out of control by the end of the century."

"We don't want to cross a critical threshold where this massive release of carbon starts to run on autopilot," said Field, a professor of biology and of environmental Earth system science at Stanford University.

The amount of carbon that could be released is staggering...
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compostmodern.org/resources/index.php
ecoalign.com
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baselinescenario.com
rabble.ca
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Why Obama's new Tarp will fail to rescue the banks

By Martin Wolf 2/10/9 Financial Times

ft.com/cms/s/0/9ebea1b8-f794-11dd-81f7-000077b07658.html?nclick_check=1
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green freelancing:
A Locally Grown Diet With Fuss but No Muss
by Kim Severson 7/22/8
nytimes.com/2008/07/22/dining/22local.html?_r=1&ex=1217390400&en=82b184065dc466bd&ei=5070&emc=eta1
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L.A. Eco-Village
noimpactman.typepad.com/blog/2009/01/sustainable-living-on-a-community-level.html
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A Move Toward Veggie Power Aloft
by Matthew L. Wald 1/6/9
nytimes.com/2009/01/07/business/07jetfuel.html
Burned by the cost of jet fuel, the aviation industry is trying everything from algae to camelina and jatropha as alternatives, but specialists say that some of the new fuels, which include coal, might simply trade one set of problems for another...
...“Until you have a full-scale producer and consumer market for biofuel, I don’t think you know the price,”...
So far, the volumes are small. Continental’s algae comes from a Hawaiian company called Cyanotech, which raises it as a nutritional supplement...
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shoebush.org
publiceye.org
michaelmoore.com/links
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Mafia millions buoying banks: UN
by Mark Heinrich 2/9/9
calgaryherald.com/news/mafia+millions+buoying+banks/1270095/story.html
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Center for New Community
newcomm.org
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No Tough Love for Wall Street
by Robert Scheer 2/9/9
http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20090210_no_tough_love_for_wall_street/
...Rising to “a challenge more complex than our financial system has ever faced,” Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner promised on Tuesday to give trillions more to the very folks who profited from that malignant complexity...
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spiritofchange.org
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Commonwealth Institute
comw.org
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newparadigmpress.com/npplinks.htm
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Don't Burn Food: Biofuel Standards Now!
...Not all biofuels are bad--but without tough global standards, the biofuels boom will further undermine food security and worsen global warming through increased deforestation...
avaaz.org/en/biofuel_standards_now
bebo.com/Profile.jsp?MemberId=6305316853
myspace.com/avaazorg
facebook.com/pages/Avaaz/8340223883
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Pentagon trillions missing,...
youtube.com/watch?v=eootfzAhAoU
..."DoD is the number one reason why the government can't balance its checkbook"...
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a JFK assassination theory
brasschecktv.com/page/557.html
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The Fallacy of Seeking to Control Nature With Genetically Engineered Organisms

Haikai Tane

Professor, Watershed Systems
Centre for Catchment Ecology
Mount Cook Street, Twizel NZ

cyberport.net.nz/cfce/controlling_nature.htm
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watershed.net.nz
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amazingcarbon.com
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From the Soil Up
fromthesoilup.com.au
..The salmonella outbreak...Obama says Government regulation must be tightened to contend with centralisation of food production, a flood of imported foods and the growing popularity of prepared meals, all of which have been blamed for outbreaks of salmonella and other ailments. But is centralisation of our food the route of best choice in the first place?...
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Seize the Moment
by Jeff Howard and Kent Hurst
Winter 2008
greens.org/s-r/48/48-08.html
...Not every aspect of modernism has been wrong-headed, but the moment obligates society to begin systematically sorting out the good from the bad...models for reassembling society in a new, healthier, more democratic way as wave after wave of climate chaos creates wave after wave of opportunity for deep rethinking and deep reform...
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"...How can we dance when our earth is turning; how can we sleep while our beds are burning?..."
from Beds are Burning, by Midnight Oil
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beds_Are_Burning
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Alternative Energy and the Americas
Spring 2008
youtube.com/watch?v=2DYxoacwuxg
brasschecktv.com/page/554.html
socrates.berkeley.edu:7001/Publications/newsletters/Spring2008/pdf/BRLAS-Spring2008.pdf
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The 2008 Venture Lab Clean Technology Innovation Prize
youtube.com/watch?v=Y7c0ySN7gug&feature=channel
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reopen911.org
youtube.com/watch?v=kwSmFnlwrK0&NR=1
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apprenticeship on-the job training
National Joint Apprenticeship Training Committee
greenjobsconference.org
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International Union for Conservation of Nature
http://cmsdata.iucn.org/downloads/issue3_wc_earth.pdf
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American Friends Service Committee
www.afsc.org/pittsburgh
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plastics in the oceans
algalita.org
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How to Make a Recycled Bottle Herb Garden
sustainlane.com/reviews/how-to-make-a-recycled-bottle-herb-garden/BLYDMO99PNAI7FSDYN2KCW14PSJ4
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pbs.org/journeytoplanetearth
nationalteachin.org
focusthenation.org
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Edison fought progress
electroherbalism.com/Bioelectronics/Tesla/TeslaversusEdison.htm
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"free energy"
icehouse.net/john34
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