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Inferno on Earth: Wildfires Spreading as Temperatures Rise
Janet Larsen http://www.earthpolicy.org/index.php?/plan_b_updates/2009/update85 Future firefighters have their work cut out for them. Perhaps nowhere does this hit home harder than in Australia, where in early 2009 a persistent drought, high winds, ...
Green Community Models: the Ecovillage
If you ever found yourself forced to define the term “community,” you might find yourself reverting to something akin to Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart’s attempt to define pornography: “I know it when I see it.” W...
News Flash! Scientists Find that Cigarettes May Be Dangerous!
A team of American and French scientists have just documented the fact that there are a lot of bacteria in cigarettes and that the bacterial population includes some human pathogens. They don’t actually know if this leads to human diseas...
Will Hydrogen Power Suck the Lakes Dry?
Questions are accumulating about how water demand needed to supply a hydrogen vehicle industry might affect large water bodies like the Great Lakes. Even as political leaders in the auto-making Great Lakes region tout hydrogen-powered vehicles as a...
President’s Environmental Youth Awards Recognize Green Student Leaders
How many of the environmental education initiatives that you know of were started by teachers, parents, or non-profit organizations? That’s typical: from artistic approaches to rainwater harvesting to solar boat building, most efforts at teachi...
When it Comes to Food, Concern is Good - But Action is Better
The Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) has developed a career-long role that entails finding issues to worry about and writing about them. That can be a good thing because science is definitely about asking the hard questions. Sometimes howeve...
