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Eating Raw Food – Two Basic Approaches
There are two basic approaches to eating raw food. Learn which works and which doesn’t!
High Fat Raw: Also known as gourmet raw or Hollywood raw, this is what’s promoted in some form by a huge number of raw food authors, including David Wolfe, Gabriel Cousens, Matt Monarch, Daniel Vitalis, Carol Alt, and more. It can supply as much as 80%...
The overpopulation problem
There are now 7 billion people on Earth. 7 billion mouths to feed, 7 billion consumers, polluters and greenhouse gas emitters.
More or less.
We know some consume, pollute and emit a lot more than others. They are usually from the same areas that produce more goods and services per capita, and generate more monetary wealth. The same things that are...
Global Warming Skepticism Crumbling
During much of the last decade, LLNL researcher and University of California Physics professor Richard Muller has been something of a darling too the right-wing GW deniers. In December 2003 Muller published a column in the MIT’s Technology Review, announcing support for the contentions of notorious climate change skeptics Steve McIntyre and Ross...
Skeptic finds he now agrees global warming is real
WASHINGTON (AP) — A prominent physicist and skeptic of global warming spent two years trying to find out if mainstream climate scientists were wrong. In the end, he determined they were right: Temperatures really are rising rapidly.
The study of the world’s surface temperatures by Richard Muller was partially bankrolled by a foundation connected...
Salt Cedars are Carbon Sinks in the Desert
Fears of global warming and its impact on our environment have left scientists scrambling to decrease levels of atmospheric carbon we humans produce. But Tel Aviv University researchers are doing their part to reduce humanity’s carbon footprint by successfully growing forests in the most unlikely place — deep in Israel’s Arava Desert.
With environmental...
Batteries on a Wind Farm Help Control Power Output
ELKINS, W.Va. — Another wind farm opened on another windy ridge in West Virginia this week, 61 turbines stretched across 12 miles, generating up to 98 megawatts of electricity. But the novel element is a cluster of big steel boxes in the middle, the largest battery installation attached to the power grid in the continental United States.
The...
Saving Birds from Extinction with the Ghosts of Gone Birds Project
More birds are becoming extinct each year. It used to be one per century and but in the last 30 years, 21 have disappeared. Another 190 are classified as endangered.
The Ghosts of Gone Birds is a project to raise awareness of the plight of endangered birds. They are going all out with great artistic verve; commissioning artwork from some of the UK’s...
Calera founder turns to deep water desalination
Brent Constantz, the founder and former CEO of Calera — a startup that turns carbon dioxide into cement — is having a second act in clean water. Constantz stepped down from the Board of Directors of Calera in February, and left the CEO position last year (he’s also a Stanford professor and serial entrepreneur) and Constantz tells me in an interview...
Indonesia Earthquake: Powerful Temblor Strikes Off Popular Resort Island Of Bali
BALI, Indonesia — A powerful earthquake struck off Indonesia’s popular resort island of Bali on Thursday, sending people fleeing from their homes and hotels in panic. No tsunami alert was issued, and there were no immediate reports of injuries.
Some roofs collapsed, and witnesses told local radio and television stations they saw cracks in the...
Pick Up America Takes Zero Waste Message Coast-To-Coast
Pick Up America is our country’s first coast-to-coast litter pick-up campaign. Youth group hosts community waste clean-ups and events to help individuals and schools make the move toward zero waste.
I don’t think I’ve ever heard of anything like this…a group of young people who have banded together to go from Maryland to San...
