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ApocaDocuments (37) gathered this week:
Sun, May 18, 2008
from Lahore Daily Times:
45 percent people suffering from chronic diseases
"Around 45 percent people in Pakistan are suffering from various chronic diseases, and the recent wave of gastroenteritis was because of environmental hazards, according to studies conducted by the Pakistan Medical Association. The study also states that communicable and non-communicable diseases are rapidly increasing in the country because of the environmental hazards." ...


Whoa, dude. Forty-five percent! I'd be panicking in Pakistan if I lived there.

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Sun, May 18, 2008
from New York Times:
One Country's Table Scraps, Another Country's Meal
"Grocery bills are rising through the roof. Food banks are running short of donations. And food shortages are causing sporadic riots in poor countries through the world. You’d never know it if you saw what was ending up in your landfill. As it turns out, Americans waste an astounding amount of food — an estimated 27 percent of the food available for consumption, according to a government study — and it happens at the supermarket, in restaurants and cafeterias and in your very own kitchen. It works out to about a pound of food every day for every American." ...


That's one less pound of love handles on you, buster!

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Sun, May 18, 2008
from London Times:
Zones of death are spreading in oceans due to global warming
"Marine dead zones, where fish and other sea life can suffocate from lack of oxygen, are spreading across the world’s tropical oceans, a study has warned. Researchers found that the warming of sea water through climate change is reducing its ability to carry dissolved oxygen, potentially turning swathes of the world’s oceans into marine graveyards." ...


Good news is stocks in aqualung manufacturers is going through the roof!

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Sun, May 18, 2008
from Kalamazoo Gazette:
CAFOs in conflict: Huge farms increase efficiency but create environmental concerns
"...Concentrated-animal-feeding operations, or CAFOs. What's not to love about 'em? Supporters call them technological models of efficiency and energy conservation that protect animals from predators and disease, manage manure wastes that were once scattered across fields and streams, and create cheap food and full-time employment." ...


Sounds pretty sweet unless you're one of the animals!

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Sun, May 18, 2008
from London Independent:
Warning: Using a mobile phone while pregnant can seriously damage your baby
"Women who use mobile phones when pregnant are more likely to give birth to children with behavioural problems, according to authoritative research. A giant study, which surveyed more than 13,000 children, found that using the handsets just two or three times a day was enough to raise the risk of their babies developing hyperactivity and difficulties with conduct, emotions and relationships by the time they reached school age. And it adds that the likelihood is even greater if the children themselves used the phones before the age of seven." ...


We can imagine a new disorder named fetal cellphone syndrome otherwise known colloquially as you can't hear me now.

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Sat, May 17, 2008
from Apapa Vanguard:
NAFDAC bans 30 agrochemical products
"THE National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) has banned the sale and supply of 30 different agrochemical products in the country. NAFDAC Director-General, Professor Dora Akunyili, explained in Abuja that the ban became necessary when it was discovered that the pesticides were causing food poisoning that had resulted in the death of many after they consumed food crops preserved with the chemicals... "Samples were again taken to our laboratory and it was discovered that the foodstuffs contained outrageously high levels of lindane, an organochlorinated pesticide commonly called gammallin that affects the nervous system, producing a range of symptoms from nausea, vomiting, headaches, dizziness to seizure, convulsion and death," she said." ...


We're better off eating pests.

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Sat, May 17, 2008
from New York Times:
Famine Looms as Wars Rend Horn of Africa
"...Somalia -- and much of the volatile Horn of Africa, for that matter -- was about the last place on earth that needed a food crisis. Even before commodity prices started shooting up around the globe, civil war, displacement and imperiled aid operations had pushed many people here to the brink of famine. But now with food costs spiraling out of reach and the livestock that people live off of dropping dead in the sand, villagers across this sun-blasted landscape say hundreds of people are dying of hunger and thirst. This is what happens, economists say, when the global food crisis meets local chaos. "We're really in the perfect storm," said Jeffrey D. Sachs, a Columbia economist and top United Nations adviser, who recently visited neighboring Kenya." ...


At the end of the day, bottom line, this perfect storm reaps what it sows.

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Sat, May 17, 2008
from The Earth Institute at Columbia University via ScienceDaily:
Warming Climate Is Changing Life On Global Scale, Says New Study
"A vast array of physical and biological systems across the earth are being affected by warming temperatures caused by humans, says a new analysis of information not previously assembled all in one spot. The effects on living things include earlier leafing of trees and plants over many regions; movements of species to higher latitudes and altitudes in the northern hemisphere; changes in bird migrations in Europe, North America and Australia; and shifting of the oceans' plankton and fish from cold- to warm-adapted communities." ...


Putting the whole "duh" factor aside, this study is the Mother of All Proof that humans are causing global warming.

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Sat, May 17, 2008
from China Post (Taiwan):
Hazardous chemical discovered in detergents
Three local brands of common household detergents contain hazardous endocrine disrupters potentially harmful to health and environment, a consumers' protection group claimed yesterday.... Results of a survey of 20 brand name household laundry detergents found in the market, conducted by the Consumers' Foundation showed that 15 percent contain nonylphenol ethoxylates (NPEO).... NPEO compounds break down into a group of toxic and persistent byproducts, such as nonylphenol (NP). ...


Maybe if they had more euphonious acronyms, we'd be more afraid of them.

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Sat, May 17, 2008
from Argus Leader:
Bubonic plague found in prairie dog
Federal and state officials are advising residents to take precautions after sylvatic plague was found in a dead prairie dog west of Interior.... This plague first appeared in the state in fall 2004 in Custer County. An outbreak occurred on Oglala Sioux reservation in 2005, then reappeared last year in Shannon County. The latest occurrence was in winter in Dewey County. The plague is a bacterial infection of rodents that could kill a large number of prairie dogs or other rodents. Livestock aren't affected. ...


Not as scary as it sounds; quite treatable. Unless, of course, the bacteria have evolved.

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Sat, May 17, 2008
from The Scotsman:
'Frightening' future must be avoided to retain the integrity of planet we share
Nearly 200 national governments will say next week that they are unlikely to meet a target of slowing the rate of extinctions of living species by 2010, a failure which could threaten future food supplies.... UN experts say that the planet is facing the worst spate of extinction since the dinosaurs died out 65 million years ago and some say three species vanish every hour as a result, largely, of human activity causing pollution and loss of habitat. ...


Three an hour is about what a heavy smoker smokes. What's the sound of one planet coughing?

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Sat, May 17, 2008
from Redding News:
Recovery plan kills species' foe, thins fire-prone forests
Protecting the northern spotted owl from wildfire and killing a competing owl should restore the controversial species in 30 years, federal scientists said Friday. "Unless the barred owl threat is lessened, land management alone will not recover the owl," said Ren Lohoefener, director for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's Pacific region. The shotgunning of barred owls, a cousin of the spotted owl that encroached from back East on its old growth turf, to see if it improves spotted owl numbers is part of the final Northern Spotted Owl Recovery Plan released Friday by the Fish and Wildlife Service. So is a new strategy to thin fire-prone forests, leaving behind patches of spotted owl habitat. ...


Shotgunning a competitor seems a little Sopranos, doesn't it?

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Fri, May 16, 2008
from ASU, via EurekAlert:
New study links fate of personal care products to environmental pollution and human health concerns
Two closely related antimicrobials, triclosan and triclocarban, are at the center of the debacle. Whereas triclosan (TCS) has long captured the attention of toxicologists due to its structural resemblance to dioxin (the Times Beach and Love Canal poison), triclocarban (TCC) has ski-rocketed in 2004 from an unknown and presumably harmless consumer product additive to one of today’s top ten pharmaceuticals and personal care products most frequently found in the environment and in U.S. drinking water resources.... [the] antimicrobial ingredients used a half a century ago, by our parents and grandparents, are still present today at parts-per-million concentrations in estuarine sediments.... "This extreme environmental persistence by itself is a concern, and it is only amplified by recent studies that show both triclosan and triclocarban to function as endocrine disruptors in mammalian cell cultures and in animal models." ...


Some days I just want to wash my hands of the whole human race.

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Fri, May 16, 2008
from USDA Forest Survey, via ScienceDaily:
Window Of Opportunity For Restoring Oaks Small, New Study Finds
Communities of Oregon white oak were once widespread in the Pacific Northwest's western lowlands, but, today, they are in decline. Fire suppression, conifer and invasive plant encroachment, and land use change have resulted in the loss of as much as 99 percent of the oak communities historically present in some areas of the region.... "In areas where conifers have encroached into oak woodlands and savannas, about two-thirds of the remaining oaks were predicted to die over a 50-year period unless the conifers are removed," said Peter Gould, a research forester and lead author of the report. ...


In the slow-motion Conifer vs. Oak deathcage match, the pines are winning.

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Fri, May 16, 2008
from Science Daily (US):
Soils Contain Huge Amounts Of Ancient Carbon: When Does This Carbon Enter The Atmosphere?
"As the planet is warming up, this carbon is being released from the soil into the atmosphere as carbon dioxide, but there are in fact two types of carbon -- 'new' carbon, which has recently entered the soil through vegetation, and 'old' carbon, which has been locked up in the soil for years... The implications of knowing this are very important and it will enable us to determine for the first time what the consequences of changes in land use might be for climate change... As more CO2 is released from the soil, the temperature is going to increase further -- it could almost be a runaway reaction." ...


We've been waging war on soil for a century. Guess we didn't realize we were losing.

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Fri, May 16, 2008
from Science, via EurekAlert:
Atmosphere threatened by pollutants entering ocean, prof says
Human-caused atmospheric nitrogen compounds are carried by wind and deposited into the ocean, where they act as a fertilizer and lead to increased production of marine plant life. The increase in plant life causes more carbon dioxide to be drawn from the atmosphere into the ocean. This process results in the removal of about 10 percent of the human-caused carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, thus potentially reducing the climate warming potential, according to the team's paper.... However, some of the nitrogen deposited in the ocean is re-processed to form another nitrogen compound called nitrous oxide, which is then released back into the atmosphere from the ocean. Nitrous oxide is a powerful greenhouse gas itself – about 300 times more powerful per molecule than carbon dioxide – thus cancelling out about two-thirds of the apparent gain from the carbon dioxide removal, Duce explained. "But of course, the whole system is so complex that we're still rather unsure about what some of the other impacts might be within the ocean," he said. ...


You mean we don't know what we're doing?

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Fri, May 16, 2008
from Ottowa Citizen (Canada):
Silicone gel implants may lose approval
Health Canada is expected to announce Friday its plans for synthetic chemicals found in silicone fluids as part of a risk assessment of 200 chemical substances, identified as top priorities for action because they are potentially harmful to human health or the environment. It has already written to industry, explaining that "in the absence of additional relevant information," the government is "predisposed to conclude, based on a screening assessment, that this substance satisfies the definition of toxic (under the) Canadian Environmental Protection Act"... A toxic declaration about the Cyclohexasiloxane family, also known as D4, D5, D6, would start a process that could lead to a ban in certain products, as with bisphenol A in baby bottles. ...


Hunh. A chemical in silicone breast implants, Bisphenol A, is bad, and gets noticed because it might be found in already-toxic baby bottles.
Jokes about "stacked deck," and "nursing a toxin," and "Bisphenol A sucks" and "the Cyclohexasiloxane blues" all worth imagining.

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Fri, May 16, 2008
from The Post (Pakistan):
Prince Charles urges forest logging halt
The halting of logging in the world's rainforests is the single greatest solution to climate change, Prince Charles has said, reports BBC News. He called for a mechanism to be devised to pay poor countries to prevent them felling their rainforests. The prince told the BBC's Today programme that the forests provided the earth's "air conditioning system". He said it was "crazy" the rainforests were worth more "dead than alive" to some of the world's poorest people. ...


Jolly good. Tho, the "worth" isn't to the "poorest people." No, gov'n'r, it's the richest people who benefit most from the rapine of the world's rainforests.

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Thu, May 15, 2008
from Metro.co.uk (Great Britain):
Alarm over dramatic wildlife decline
There are almost a third fewer animal, bird and fish species today than three decades ago, an alarming new report has revealed. According to the WWF's Living Planet Index, land-based, marine and freshwater species fell overall by 27 per cent between 1970 and 2005. The report comes ahead of the UN Convention on Biological Diversity next week, which will discuss aims to achieve a "significant reduction" in the current rate of biodiversity loss by 2010. ...


That means the glass is
more than two-thirds full!

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Thu, May 15, 2008
from The Statesman (India):
Flora species on verge of extinction in Sikkim
Forty-six species of flora are facing extinction in Sikkim, says a recent survey by the Botanical Survey of India. "The bio-diversity is being threatened in some areas of the state owing to easy accessibility, large scale extraction, collection of medicinal herbs, poaching and encroachment in the natural habitat... The forest is being cleared for various developmental activities like road, building, dams and industrial development which is threatening the species in Sikkim." ...


Sikkim is an ecological hotspot, one of only three among the ecoregions of India, nestled in the lower Himalayas.
And yeah, we didn't know either.

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Thu, May 15, 2008
from Vancouver West Ender:
It's time to put a lid on bottled water
the manufacturing process is a factor in global warming and depletion of energy resources; it takes close to 17 million barrels of oil to produce the 30 billion water bottles that U.S. citizens go through every year. Or, as the National Geographic website illustrates it: "Imagine a water bottle filled a quarter of the way up with oil. That's about how much oil was needed to produce the bottle." It also takes more water to produce a bottle than the bottle itself will hold. Canadians consume more than two-billion litres of bottled water a year, and globally we consume about 190 billion litres a year. Unfortunately, most of those bottles -- more than 85 per cent, in fact -- get tossed into the trash rather than the recycling bin. ...


Yes, but which quarter-bottle of crude oil will taste better -- Deer Park, Fiji, AquaFina, or Evian?

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Thu, May 15, 2008
from LawyersAndSettlements.com:
Botox Migration a Recipe for Disaster
The concern, which initially only circulated through medical journals but has since been widely reported in mainstream media, surrounds the potential migration of the neurotoxin from the initial injection site. A study by the Italian National Research Council discovered that Botox injected into the whisker muscles of rats, had migrated in trace amounts to the brain stem in as little as three days. A Canadian study achieved similar results. Last month the Journal of Biomechanics published the findings of Walter Herzog, a noted kinesiologist from the University of Calgary. While researching osteoarthritis and joint degeneration, he found that botulinum toxin injected into the supporting muscles of cats not only paralyzed the muscles into which the toxin was injected, but had spread into, and weakened all muscles in the area. ...


Surprise, surprise! What next, will we discover that silicone doesn't stay where it's injected?

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Thu, May 15, 2008
from Science Daily (US):
Light Emitting Diodes Save Energy And Can Now Concentrate Light Precisely Where Needed
Light-emitting diodes are unbeatable in terms of energy efficiency. A one-watt LED delivers roughly the same optical output as a hundred-watt light bulb. If a high light output is required, however, the tiny light sources are not the preferred means of illumination. A novel optical component is set to change that situation. It directs the light to the exact spot where it is needed. In the case of a desk lamp, for instance, the light can be concentrated in such a way that only a DIN-A4-sized surface in the middle of the table is brightly lit. The LED evenly illuminates the required area, while everything else stays in the dark. ...


I am LED to believe in this kind of lighting. Watt's slowing us down?

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Thu, May 15, 2008
from NewsDaily:
Research links common chemicals to obesity
Exposure in the womb to common chemicals used to make everything from plastic bottles to pizza box liners may program a person to become obese later in life, U.S. researchers said on Wednesday.... Previous studies have linked these chemicals -- also found in water pipes -- to cancer and reproductive problems, prompting a number of countries and U.S. states to consider potential bans or limits of the compounds, the researchers said. One of the chemicals is called Bisphenol A, found in polycarbonate plastics. Past research has suggested it leaches from plastic food and drink containers. ...


Cancer and reproductive problems are one thing. But if it makes us fat? That changes everything!

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Thu, May 15, 2008
from Science Daily (US):
Fighting Pests And Diseases Organically With Help From Wild Cocoa Trees In French Guiana
In every production zone worldwide, cocoa trees are faced with pests and diseases that can wipe out entire harvests. To protect their crops, farmers often use costly, polluting chemicals or labour-intensive manual techniques. However, there are now clean, ecological methods, for instance using sources of natural resistance. In this respect, a highly specific group of cocoa trees, the wild trees found in French Guiana, looks very promising. ...


Wow, good thing we hadn't mown that forest down!

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Wed, May 14, 2008
from Ecological Society of America, via Eurekalert:
Restoring fish populations leads to tough choice for Great Lakes Gulls
You might think that stocking the Great Lakes with things like trout and salmon would be good for the herring gull. The birds often eat from the water, so it would be natural to assume that more fish would mean better dining. But a new report says that the addition of species such as exotic salmon and trout to the area has not been good for the birds, demonstrating that fishery management actions can sometimes have very unexpected outcomes. ...


Daddy, why is it hard
to fix my broken lake?
It worked before I broke it.

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Wed, May 14, 2008
from Wilson Center:
Fishing for Families in the Philippines
The Philippines' rapidly rising population has overwhelmed the fisheries that have traditionally supported the country, bringing grinding poverty and malnutrition to many coastal communities. But a new approach to conservation may save families along with the fish and their habitats... By integrating the delivery of family planning and conservation services, the Integrated Population and Coastal Resource Management (IPOPCORM) project found that it could improve reproductive health and coastal resource management more than programs that focused exclusively on reproductive health or the environment -- and at a lower total cost. ...


Recognizing that we're all related, and caring for each other by caring for Nature.
Radical!

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Wed, May 14, 2008
from Guardian (UK):
Fears for Amazon rainforest as Brazil's environment minister resigns
Silva said her decision was the result of the "difficulties" she was facing in "pursuing the federal environmental agenda". She said her efforts to protect the environment had faced "growing resistance … [from] important sectors of the government and society".... Sergio Leitao, the director of public policy for Greenpeace in Brazil, said Silva had taken her decision because of growing pressure from within the government to relax laws outlawing bank loans to those who destroyed the rainforest. ...


Using other people's money
to wipe out everyone's inheritance.

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Wed, May 14, 2008
from The Dickinson Press vis Associated Press:
Idaho raptor group: Study confirms lead fragments in venison
"An Idaho raptor group working to eliminate lead from ammunition has released findings it says shows 80 percent of ground venison from deer killed with high-velocity lead bullets contains metal fragments. The Peregrine Fund, based in Boise, and researchers from Washington State University in Pullman, Wash., say the study released Tuesday is further evidence people who eat meat from game animals shot with lead bullets risk exposure to the toxic metal." ...


The upside here is you no longer need a fork to eat the meat -- you can just use magnets!

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Wed, May 14, 2008
from Christian Science Monitor:
ON TRACK TOWARD RECORD SPRING FOR TORNADOES
Extremes in temperature throughout the vast table of the American heartland are making 2008 one of the deadliest years for US tornadoes in recent history. The supercell thunderstorms that breed twisters have occurred farther north and earlier in the year than is typical, according to some experts. But many are quick to add that this increase in severe weather is not necessarily an indication of permanent climate change. ...


All we know for sure is we've got a feeling we aren't in Kansas anymore.

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Wed, May 14, 2008
from BBC News:
Cull after bird flu hits S Korea
"South Korean officials say they have killed the entire poultry population of Seoul to curb the spread of bird flu. Quarantine officers destroyed 15,000 chickens, ducks and turkeys in farms and restaurants across the capital. The cull began just hours after the authorities recorded Seoul's second outbreak of the virus in a week." ...


What would this be called? Poultricide? Fowlicide?

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Wed, May 14, 2008
from New York Times:
A City Cooler and Dimmer, and, Oh, Proving a Point
"JUNEAU, Alaska — Conservationists swoon at the possibility of it all. Here in Alaska, where melting arctic ice and eroding coastlines have made global warming an urgent threat, this little city has cut its electricity use by more than 30 percent in a matter of weeks, instantly establishing itself as a role model for how to go green, and fast.... the 31,000 residents ... are not necessarily doing it for the greater good.... Electricity rates rocketed about 400 percent after an avalanche on April 16 destroyed several major transmission towers that delivered more than 80 percent of the city’s power from a hydroelectric dam about 40 miles south." ...


It takes a village avalanche to make the necessary changes.

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Tue, May 13, 2008
from Rice University via ScienceDaily.com:
Hot Climate Could Shut Down Plate Tectonics
"A new study of possible links between climate and geophysics on Earth and similar planets finds that prolonged heating of the atmosphere can shut down plate tectonics and cause a planet's crust to become locked in place." ...


We would need, like, giant tubes of K-Y, dude, if that, like, happened.

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Tue, May 13, 2008
from The Daily Mail:
Sir Paul McCartney 'furious' after his new eco-car is flown 7,000 miles from Japan
"Sir Paul McCartney was today said to be furious after his new eco-friendly car was flown 7,000 miles from Japan. The former Beatle ordered the £84,000 hybrid vehicle to be shipped to Britain but the delivery instead created a carbon footprint almost 100 times larger by arriving on a jet. The Lexus LS600H produces just 219g in carbon emissions per kilometre.... his efforts to help save the environment were frustrated by the fact that the air journey created 38,050kg of carbon dioxide instead of the 297kg for the three-week voyage by boat." ...


Yesterday ... all his troubles were a boat away... now it seems his carbon's here to stay...

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Tue, May 13, 2008
from New York Times:
Nissan Plans Electric Car in U.S. by 2010
"The Nissan Motor Company plans to sell an electric car in the United States and Japan by 2010, raising the stakes in the race to develop environmentally friendly vehicles. The commitment — expected to be announced Tuesday by Nissan’s chief executive, Carlos Ghosn — will be the first by a major automaker to bring a zero-emission vehicle to the American market." ...


Now, if we can just get wind or solar power to generate the required electricity, we'll really be getting somewhere!

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Tue, May 13, 2008
from San Francisco Chronicle:
Energy Dept. says wind power could be savior
"Windmills spinning over the Great Plains and along the coasts could supply 20 percent of U.S. electricity by the year 2030 and put a significant dent in greenhouse gas emissions, federal officials said Monday. Although wind farms now generate just 1 percent of the nation's electricity, a new report from the U.S. Department of Energy found that wind power could play a far larger role in the future. It could supply roughly the same percentage of the nation's power as nuclear plants provide today." ...


Boy. If the U.S. Department of Energy is pushing wind power, you know the shit has hit the fan!

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Tue, May 13, 2008
from Washington Post:
Firms Seek Patents on 'Climate Ready' Altered Crops
"A handful of the world's largest agricultural biotechnology companies are seeking hundreds of patents on gene-altered crops designed to withstand drought and other environmental stresses, part of a race for dominance in the potentially lucrative market for crops that can handle global warming, according to a report being released today. Three companies -- BASF of Germany, Syngenta of Switzerland and Monsanto of St. Louis -- have filed applications to control nearly two-thirds of the climate-related gene families submitted to patent offices worldwide..." ...


By all means, let's let giant corporations get even more powerful -- they take our concerns to heart!

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