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Wheat, the Latest Crop Victim

Written by Leslie Berliant
05/14/2008
As if we needed one more pressure on world food supplies…. NPR Reports that an outbreak of stem rust fungus, which attacks 80% of wheat varieties, is happening throughout Africa and is spreading around the world. The disease had not been seen since the 1960s, when stem rust resistant wheat was bred, until 1999 [...] Read more...

Philadelphia’s Green Plans

Written by Rena Sherwood
05/14/2008
Plans are under way to convert part of the old abandoned Philadelphia Navy Yard into a solar panel farm. It is hoped that the solar panel farm will be able to power at least 200 Philadelphian homes. The companies building the solar panel farm is Germany’s Euperon LLC and Exelon Corp. The project is expected [...] Read more...

Can Pricier Gas Fuel New Thinking in U.S. Transportation?

Written by Amy Anaruk
05/13/2008
Paying more for gasoline has prompted Americans to do what climate change warnings and our number-one ranking in CO2 emissions couldn’t do. This country is ending its long and dirty love affair with massive trucks and SUVs in favor of smaller, more fuel-efficient cars. The reversal represents an enormous shift in trends, but it’s nice [...] Read more...

Spiders Are Our Friends, Julie

Written by Julie Reitz
05/13/2008
This is what my dad used to say to me about basically anything I didn’t like that wouldn’t necessarily kill me. Thunderstorms are our friends. Lions? Friends. Julie, don’t you forget — guns are our friends. (I’m from Texas.) So I allowed a little further investigation into what is a fairly common fear-inducing little invertebrate: the [...] Read more...

Mantra Venture Group an Innovation Magnet

Written by Randyn Seibold
05/13/2008
When a new venture capital firm appears, and begins claiming golden opportunities in sustainable technology, most investors and media watchers tend to look for reasons to be skeptical. The ‘clean-tech’ industry, some observe, already has the makings of a bubble, and without a doubt, many new efforts will be tested in the coming years as [...] Read more...

U.S. Fuel Crisis Intensifies ANWR Debate

Written by Elissa Vallano
05/12/2008
The battle over the ANWR (Arctic National Wildlife Refuge) in Alaska has been raging for years, but rising gas prices have stirred the pot even further among drilling supporters and opponents. The Republican Party, lead by President Bush, is touting drilling the ANWR as the answer to the country’s energy problems, which is cause for [...] Read more...

Seeds of Democracy Alive in Montville, Maine

Written by Diana George Chapin
05/12/2008
Editor’s Note: The following post is co-written by one of the contributors to our recent excellent ‘They Stood Up to Monsanto and Won‘ interview about genetically modified organisms that we ran on our Celsias Show. It’s a must-listen, if you haven’t already caught it. By Sandy George and Diana George Chapin On Saturday, March 29, a [...] Read more...

The Bats and the Bees

Written by Leslie Berliant
05/12/2008
The “white-nose syndrome” killing bats in New York, Vermont and Massachusetts has now spread to Connecticut and northeast Vermont according to a recent NPR report, and possibly into Pennsylvania, as well. Scientists still have not identified or determined a cause for the disease which kills up to 90% of the bats in infected caves, leading [...] Read more...

Chemtrails: a Potential Disaster Used to Mitigate an Existing Disaster?

Written by Jeanne Roberts
05/12/2008
The most recent news on global warming is that it isn’t, at least temporarily. In fact, computer simulations indicate a slight cooling over the next decade, likely due to shifting currents and patterns in the oceans, themselves affected by Arctic melting and – quite surprisingly – a cooling trend in the Antarctic after decades of [...] Read more...

Novel Ways to Clean

Written by Craig Mackintosh
05/12/2008
First up an Ecover advert that’ll make you smile, then head to the second clip for tips on environmentally- and wallet-friendly ways to clean your home. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O3AG_B5NNtI Read more...

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