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The Return of the Falcon

Written by Rena Sherwood
06/16/2008
“Well, we’re living here in Allentown And it’s hard to keep a good man down…” – Billy Joel Allentown, Pennsylvania, made infamous by the Billy Joel song of the same name, now has another reason to be proud. While other species have recently been declared extinct, such as the Caribbean Monk Seal, a pair of Peregrine [...] Read more...

Do You Want GM Pharmaceuticals in Your Food Supply?

Written by Jeanne Roberts
06/15/2008
Probably not, but there is now little you can do to prevent it. Genetically modified food plants are already being grown outdoors to provide pharmaceuticals, and their dispersal is governed by wind, water, insects and birds – forces all pretty much beyond the control of man. Pharming, or the insertion of genes into living organisms to [...] Read more...

(Nothing But) Flowers

Written by Rena Sherwood
06/15/2008
Be careful what you wish for. You could wind up going to the other extreme than the one you are fighting against. This is one of the wry themes to Talking Head’s “(Nothing But) Flowers”, which originally came out in 1988. Sadly, the statistics mentioned throughout the video are still relevant twenty years later. Coincidentally, I [...] Read more...

Written by Eliav Bitan
06/15/2008
A recent Celsias posting about M. Night Shyamalan’s newest movie, The Happening, reminds us that ‘plant attacks’ are not solely the property of Shyamalan’s science fiction. Plants in the real world, just as in the movie, can release deadly toxins in response to threats. We haven’t seen plants strike back at us- yet. Before we re-enact [...] Read more...

Eco-Tourism, Finding the Real Thing

Written by Lauren Carter
06/15/2008
Ripping up the earth in a rainforest while driving a Hummer and riding an ATV through the sensitive Sonoran desert. What do these two trips have in common? They are both dubbed ‘eco-tourism’ by the outfitters that offer them. A term heavily affiliated with green-washing, “eco-tour” is freely bandied around by lots of tourism professionals looking [...] Read more...

Gasification – Generating Electricity from Household Waste

Written by Jeremy Williams
06/14/2008
A new trash-burning power plant is due to open this month on the Isle of Wight, a small island off England’s south coast. The power plant will operate using ‘gasification’ technology, the first of its kind in the UK. As an alternative to mass incineration where the rubbish is simply burned, the household waste is heated [...] Read more...

Through the Bins with Cantankerous Frank

Written by Marc Roberts
06/14/2008
Click for full view Courtesy: Throbgoblins A group of scientists have created a portable refinery that efficiently converts food, paper and plastic trash into electricity. The machine, designed for the U.S. military, would allow soldiers in the field to convert waste into power and could have widespread civilian applications in the future. — Purdue University Read more...

New Writing Worlds 08 Human:Nature

Written by Andy Chrysostomou
06/14/2008
New Writing Worlds 08 Human:Nature takes place in and around Norwich, a pleasant town in the county of Norfolk, in the East of England. Chief Executive of New Writing Partnership, Chris Gribble explained: “The East of England is at the heart of the renaissance in nature writing in the UK, with new books in the past [...] Read more...

Are Biofuels to Blame?

Written by Elissa Vallano
06/14/2008
Concern over the growing food crisis is intensifying, and fingers are starting to point in the general direction of biofuels when looking for a culprit. Critics insist that using food for fuel instead of to curb worldwide hunger will have lasting negative effects on society, and sadly, the nations in the most need of help [...] Read more...

Searching for the Pacific’s ‘Mythical’ Garbage Island

Written by Leslie Berliant
06/13/2008
Watch a team from VBS.TV search for the alleged toxic “Garbage Island”, reported to be bigger than Texas, in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. What they find is more disturbing than they even imagined. Rated R for language and for the sheer sadness of what we have done to our oceans. Toxic - Garbage Island [...] Read more...

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