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Sun, Sep 14, 2008
from Democrat and Chronicle, via Post Carbon Cities:
Small 'urban poultry' movement has residents raising chickens from scratch
Eating from the home garden is typically limited to fruits and vegetables.
But a small and determined flock of city and suburban residents is adding another food group to their homegrown bounty: eggs laid by chickens they are raising in their own backyards.
"I really want to be living on a farm, but I have to live in the city for my husband. This is a way to bring myself a little closer to food security and sustainability," says Kate Mendenhall, a projects coordinator for Northeast Organic Farming Association of New York and founder of the Rochester City Chicken Club. ...
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With a cluck-cluck here and a cluck-cluck there...
every little cluck helps.
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Sat, Sep 13, 2008
from Washington Post (US):
Sustainability Starts in Your Own Back Yard
But we now know that native plants can endure without synthetic chemicals or fertilizer, or much watering or labor, once established. And that insects that depend on native plants are important food for birds.
Knowing this, gardeners can take steps to promote sustainability in their landscapes. It involves how you use your property -- everything you own. Here are some key steps that will help you to create a sustainable gardening culture and promote renewable energy: ...
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It also may involve recognizing that we don't "own" anything -- we rent it from the Great Landlord, earth.
And recognizing we're way behind on rent.
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Fri, Sep 12, 2008
from BBC:
Earthworms to aid soil clean-up
Researchers at Reading University found that subtle changes occurred in metals as worms ingested and excreted soil.
These changes make it easier for plants to take up potentially toxic metals from contaminated land.
Earthworms could be the future "21st Century eco-warriors", scientists suggested at the British Association Science Festival in Liverpool. ...
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Those scientists must have been sipping from their beakers when they came up with that one!
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Thu, Sep 11, 2008
from AP, via Topix:
Australian researchers discover elusive frog
The 1.5 inch-long Armoured Mistfrog had not been seen since 1991, and many experts assumed it had been wiped out by a devastating fungus that struck northern Queensland state.
But two months ago, a doctoral student at James Cook University in Townsville conducting research on another frog species in Queensland stumbled across what appeared to be several Armoured Mistfrogs in a creek, said professor Ross Alford, head of a research team on threatened frogs at the university. ...
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Not quite leaping back, but still swell.
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Thu, Sep 11, 2008
from London Independent:
Cleared: Jury decides that threat of global warming justifies breaking the law
The threat of global warming is so great that campaigners were justified in causing more than £35,000 worth of damage to a coal-fired power station, a jury decided yesterday. In a verdict that will have shocked ministers and energy companies the jury at Maidstone Crown Court cleared six Greenpeace activists of criminal damage.
Jurors accepted defence arguments that the six had a "lawful excuse" to damage property at Kingsnorth power station in Kent to prevent even greater damage caused by climate change. ...
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You mean the Earth does come first?
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Wed, Sep 10, 2008
from European Science Foundation, via EurekAlert:
Cryopreservation techniques bring hopes for women cancer victims and endangered species
Emerging cryopreservation techniques are increasing hope of restoring fertility for women after diseases such as ovarian cancer that lead to destruction of reproductive tissue. The same techniques can also be used to maintain stocks of farm animals, and protect against extinction of endangered animal species by maintaining banks of ovarian tissue or even nascent embryos that can used to produce offspring at some point in the future. ...
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Well, yeah, except most species need an ecosystem to live within.
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Wed, Sep 10, 2008
from Oregon State University, via EurekAlert:
Old growth forests are valuable carbon sinks
Contrary to 40 years of conventional wisdom, a new analysis to be published Friday in the journal Nature suggests that old growth forests are usually "carbon sinks" -- they continue to absorb carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and mitigate climate change for centuries.... "Carbon accounting rules for forests should give credit for leaving old growth forest intact," researchers from Oregon State University and several other institutions concluded... "Much of this carbon, even soil carbon, will move back to the atmosphere if these forests are disturbed." ...
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So these carbon sinks, if disturbed, can become carbon drains.
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Wed, Sep 10, 2008
from Guardian (UK):
Climate scientist aims to get 1million students to vote on presidential candidates' green energy records
Renowned climate scientist James Hansen today lent his voice to a US voter organising drive with an ambitious goal: enlisting 1m students who will cast their vote for the presidential candidate with the greenest energy record.
The organising push, dubbed Power Vote, aims to harness young people's unprecedented engagement in the US elections and keep enthusiasm high for stronger action against climate change.
Power Vote plans to dispatch organisers to college campuses across America, educating students about climate policy and capturing their information for mobilisation to the polls in November. ...
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A million here, a million there...
Pretty soon you're talking real change!
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Tue, Sep 9, 2008
from Ohio State University:
Scientists point to forests for carbon storage solutions
The researchers' calculations suggest that carbon storage in Midwestern forests could offset the greenhouse gas emissions of almost two-thirds of nearby populations, and that proper management of forests could sustain or increase their storage capacity for future generations.
Based on measurements taken between 1999 and 2005 at a forest study site in northern Michigan, the scientists have determined that similar upper Midwest forests covering an estimated 40,000 square miles store an average of 1,300 pounds of carbon per acre per year. ...
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Does it offset the CO2 from my chainsaw?
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Tue, Sep 9, 2008
from Daily Herald:
Prof steers away from corn for biodiesel
When it comes to alternative fuels, a University of Northern Colorado professor says weeds and algae should be in our gas tanks, not corn... asu is attempting to clone genes from a tropical tree that possesses a compound known as oleoresin, with properties similar to diesel fuel. He hopes to recultivate them into nonfood plants or algae for biofuel production.
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I want my car to run on kudzu!
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Mon, Sep 8, 2008
from Times Herald-Record:
Out of the ashes, a local forest is reborn
Touring the scorched mountaintops recently, Chapin and a group of local biologists were excited by the opportunities the spring forest fire left behind.
See this sassafras, with its mitten-shaped leaves?
Park staff have never seen so much.
And the witch hazel and the wintergreen and the Indian cucumber root?
"We have more of it than we ever did," said John Thompson, a natural resources specialist with the Mohonk Preserve. "Some species are already responding to the openings on the forest floor."
The burned acreage has also attracted rare birds, such as scarlet tanagers and Canada warblers, plus porcupines, bears, bobcats and rattlesnakes. It's an influx of biodiversity that's drawn scientists to the site all summer. ...
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Any way we can do that in the ocean?
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Mon, Sep 8, 2008
from Times Online (UK):
Wind of change on farms as cows help to save the Earth
Hundreds of cattle in Britain are being fed a new diet to reduce their burping and cut emissions of greenhouse gas.
Chopped straw and hay are the vital ingredients to settle a cow's stomach and reduce emissions of methane by 20 per cent.... It is the wind from the mouth of the cow, not the gases from from the rear, that does the most damage to the environment. If every dairy farm in the UK adopted this method it would remove the equivalent of 1.6 million tonnes of CO2 from the atmosphere each year. ...
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Or, if we ate less beef....
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