Being An Environmentali...
Telegraph Angelo Vassallo was Mayor of the pretty little Italian town of Pollica, which Eric Reguly of the Globe and Mail calls “a cultural and environmental treasure.” He said no to illegal construction that Reguly says ” spreads like a cancer over so many seaside Italian towns”. He said no to sm… Read the full story on TreeHugger Excerpt from: Being An Environmentalist and Preservationist Can Get You...
The Greater Challenge T...
Image credit: Brendtwood For many the idea of Retirement Planning has been derailed by a global economic slump and increasing health care expenses. Those who take seriously the December 21, 2012, Maya Prophecy about astronomical alignment obviously won’t bother at all. (This latter force is hooey though: thrown in get your attention to the worsening weather extremes that retirees must adapt to. ) Meanwhile, most of The English feel it will ” not be feasible for people to...
Irrigation May Reduce C...
Image credit: GenBug (Creative Commons) With all the evidence of human-induced global warming , you’d think it would be good news that some of our activities, like releasing aerosols for example, are also helping to cool the atmosphere. Unfortunately, often the opposite is true. This is starkly illustrated by a new study showing the regional cooling effects of mass irri… Read the full story on TreeHugger Continued here: Irrigation May Reduce Climate Change. Not Good...
Monster Vegetables Harv...
Image from Daily Mail There must be something in the air, or the soil, but monster vegetables keep popping up in Great (!) Britain. First we have potatoes, the world’s biggest potato to be precise. It weighs a whopping 8lbs 4oz, that’s 9oz more than the previous record holder. The amateur gardener who grew it thinks that it bear s a strong resemb… Read the full story on TreeHugger See the original post: Monster Vegetables Harvested in the...Today on Planet 100: Pl...
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Dispatch from the Front...
Photo via Wired You may have heard of Simon Singh long before his name rose to the top of the list of those championing sound science: He’d written two bestselling books, Fermat’s Enigma and the Big Bang . Despite the wide range of subject matter contained in those books, the topic that ended up casting him into controversy was much different — a seemingly benign newspaper article about some of the pitfalls of alternative medicine. He ended up defending his career...
21% of Africa’s F...
Photo via ICUN According to a new report from The International Union for Conservation of Nature (ICUN), a 5-year study involving 200 scientists has found that the flora and fauna of Africa’s freshwater ways are threatened with extinction thanks to four main factors: agriculture, water abstraction, dams and invasive species. In all, 21% of the freshwater species are at risk, a huge number that turns right around to threaten the culprits — the livelihoods of millions of...
Bürstner Trailer Has L...
Those designing for small spaces can learn a lot from boats and travel trailers, particularly from European designs. Caravanning is a high-end luxury activity in Europe and some of the models put luxury yachts to shame. This Bürstner Averso Plus is pretty luxe, and has is advertised as the first ever with a drop-down bed. The image above is set up for dining, with the bed pulled up to the ceiling a… Read the full story on TreeHugger View post: Bürstner Trailer Has Lessons...
Extinct Fox Turns Up Ag...
Photo via Keith Slausen / US Forest Service The Sierra Nevada red fox was thought to be extinct, until three weeks ago anyway. U.S. Forest Service biologists captured photos of the fox with a camera set up on a trail, and took DNA samples of saliva pulled from a bait bag the fox bit into to experts at the University of California, Davis. And yep, we can put one extinct species back on the books, at least for now. … Read the full story on TreeHugger The rest is here: Extinct...