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• The Curse of “Not Evil, Just Wrong” — still evil and wrong

  
  Millard Fillmore's Bathtub — Authority: 575
  At the first post on this material, the thread got a little long — not loading well in some browsers, I hear. So the comments are closed there, and open here. In fashion we wish were different but seems all too typical, so-called skeptics of global warming defend their position with invective and ...
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• New Books Just in Time for the Holidays

  
  North Atlantic Books Blog — Authority: 116
  The holidays are fast approaching and it is time to start thinking about gift giving (and receiving). With every topic covered from the Mayan calendar to metaphysics, Buddhism to health and healing, North Atlantic Books has the perfect book to match your loved ones’ interests, and some you’ll want to add to your ...
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• Mau-mauing the gullibles: Sirkin on DDT (again)

  
  Millard Fillmore's Bathtub — Authority: 575
  The hard core uneducables who make of the hard knot at the center of the anti-science and anti-environmental movement just refuses to jettison their adored myths about science, regardless how many times those myths are shown to be false. It’s a religious exercise with them, and their faith in error and bad ...
  2 weeks ago

• Benign by Design

  
  Innovation Toronto — Authority: 141
  Image via Wikipedia With toxic compounds turning up in animals, food, and people all over the world, scientists are calling for green chemistry: a sustainable ethos of product design. More than 40 years ago, Rachel Carson warned of a “ silent spring .” Twenty years later, Bill McKibben wrote of the ...
  2 weeks ago

• Students solve traffic woes

  
  The Sammamish Review - News, Sports, Classifieds in Sammamish, WA — Authority: 431
  New: Nov. 20, 1:14 p.m. Some visionary engineers took the podium at Sammamish City Hall Nov. 17. But before they could address the City Council, they needed a stool to reach the microphone. Seven students from Samantha Smith and Rachel Carson elementary schools spoke to the council about a transportation problem in ...
  3 weeks ago

• Rachel Carson

  
  Historia, history — Authority: 128
  Rachel Carson nació en mayo 27 de 1907 en Springdale Pensilvania, Estados Unidos y falleció el 14 de abril de 1964, en Silver Spring, Maryland. Su nombre completo era Rachel Louise Carson, bióloga estadounidense conocida por sus escritos sobre la contaminación del medio ambiente y su historia natural del mar. ...
  3 weeks ago

• Stealth malaria promotion in favoring DDT over brown pelicans

  
  Millard Fillmore's Bathtub — Authority: 575
  Another blogger decided to take some potshots at the environmental protection success that banning DDT was is. edwinleap.com laments that the brown pelican flew off the Endangered Species List this week .  “Brown pelicans 1, brown human beings 0,” the headline reads.  The piece claims that banning DDT use in ...
  3 weeks ago

• Malaria and Death or DDT and Life: Pick Just One

  
  Gene's Blog — Authority: 472
  Suppose we could save a million (human) lives a year, 85% of which were children’s lives, or lose the brown pelican forevermore.  The vast majority of us would opt for the million humans over a bird, I would hope. Sub-Saharan Africans don’t have much of a choice between people over birds.  There ...
  4 weeks ago

• Not So Pelican Brief

  
  Sea Notes — Authority: 109
  Great news to report today. The brown pelican has been officially declared recovered and removed from the Endangered Species list! If you live along the California Coast, you will know this to be true. Large squadrons of the amazing, yet...
  4 weeks ago

• Preserving Maine’s coastal lands

  
  Travels with Hilary — Authority: 123
  Here’s some good news for birdwatchers in southern Maine. Congress has approved $3 million from the Land and Water Conservation Fund for the US Fish and Wildlife Service to acquire the 110-acre Timber Point property as part of the Rachel Carson National Wildlife Refuge. The  Biddeford property is one of the last ...
  4 weeks ago

• 2009 winners of the Rachel Carson “Sense of Wonder” arts contest

  
  Millard Fillmore's Bathtub — Authority: 575
  You can view, and read, the winners of the 2009 Rachel Carson Sense of Wonder contest at the website of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) . 2nd place photo, Rachel Carson Sense of Wonder contest, 2009 - by Patricia, age 70, Peggy, age 47, Maggi, age 16 Rachel Carson Sense of Wonder 2009 contest ...
  6 weeks ago

• New ‘chairs’ help Carson students focus on work

  
  The Sammamish Review - News, Sports, Classifieds in Sammamish, WA — Authority: 431
  By Christopher Huber Carson Elementary teacher Linda Hart’s classroom was silent as her first-graders focused on their writing assignment Oct. 21. Many wiggled on their seats as they held pencil to paper, but they seemed content at their desks for the task at hand. Besides the extra sense of calm in the room, the ...
  6 weeks ago

• The need for interdisciplinary thinking

  
  howtopowertheworld.com Blog — Authority:
  " There is still very limited awareness of the nature of the threat.  This is an area of specialists, each of whom sees his own problem and is unaware of or intolerant of the larger frame into which it fits.  It is also an era dominated by industry, in which the right to make a dollar at whatever cost is seldom ...
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