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• USS Liscome Bay: Makin’s Biggest Victim

  
  Today's History Lesson — Authority: 124
  Usually, when I cover a topic, the search for related artwork or photos is relatively easy.  But when the subject is the USS Liscome Bay , such is not the case.  There are very few photos available.  And that’s because the life of Liscome Bay was short, and it was a life that ended quickly…and violently. ...
  5 days ago

• Could denying bedroom privileges save the planet?

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 136
  There will be a record number of side events at the United Nations-sponsored climate talks in Copenhagen next month, but one woman’s one-woman show could give the delegates, most of whom will be men, the incentive they really need to agree a new global warming treaty. In “ The Boycott “, Kathryn Blume plays ...
  6 days ago

• Interview with Writer and Budding Anthropologist Peter Rudiak-Gould

  
  The Mindful Tourist — Authority: 112
  The Mindful Tourist is thrilled to have been able to sit down (virtually) with Peter Rudiak-Gould, author of Surviving Paradise, a memoir we  recently reviewed right here on this site.  We talked with Peter about his new book, his experiences on Ujae, and his travels.  Mindful Tourist: As I mentioned in ...
  3 weeks ago

• Rose Atoll, A World Treasure in Peril

  
  Phillip Colla Photography — Authority: 115
  by Phillip Colla and Harrison “Skip” Stubbs, Ph.D . This post was originally published in Ocean Realm Magazine in the Spring 1997 issue, one of a series of articles I contributed to Ocean Realm in the ’90s. In August 1995 a thirteen-member inter-agency scientific team of which Skip and I were a part ...
  3 weeks ago

• American Environmental Engineers Say Planning Saved Lives in Samoan Tsunami

  
  pacificEyeWitness.org — Authority: 146
  “The last significant tsunami in Samoa occurred in 1917 and was very similar in seismology to the Sept. 29 tsunami. Surprisingly, no one I interviewed said they knew of family members being in a similar situation,” Okal said. “Since the
  3 weeks ago

• Your Child is Being Corrupted by Spongebob Squarepants!

  
  Watch Movie Online — Authority: 134
  It’s been a long time since we first met Spongebob Squarepants in 1999, though there doesn’t seem to be much talk about the awful things he continues to do to our poor little childrens’ minds on a daily basis. Where are the throngs of protesters chanting catchy slogans? Where is the Senatorial debate? Why do we ...
  3 weeks ago

• In Tuamotu, Maxima Clams are the Reef Builders

  
  Reef Builders -The Reef Aquarium Blog — Authority: 143
  Tuamotu Maxima clams are the hottest thing to hit the Tridacna reef scene since the Maxea hybrids from earlier in the year. This past week a shipment of large magnificent Tridacna maxima was imported into the U.S. by Pacific Aqua Farms from atoll lagoons of East Tuamotu, a very special ecoregion for Maxima ...
  3 weeks ago

• Lessons on resource mobilization

  
  Going against the current — Authority: 123
  http://powerofgiving.comI am a witness to my parent’s power to mobilize resources at quickest possible time, with efficiency that could even rival that of the Armed Forces of the Philippines.We were in the middle of a very late breakfast when my parents proved to me again something that I am all too aware even ...
  4 weeks ago

• Victims of the Pacific Trash Gyre

  
  Cooler Choice — Authority: 158
  Midway by Chris Jordan Have you ever seen 500 people stunned into a complete and devastated silence? Photographer Chris Jordan shared a sobering tale of his journey to Midway Atoll with the Poptech conference on Thursday, where he captured horrifying images of baby birds killed by plastic from the Pacific Trash Gyre . ...
  5 weeks ago

• The Sea is Not Full… Yet

  
  Born Again Bird Watcher — Authority: 115
  So saith the Preacher: All the rivers run into the sea; yet the sea is not full; unto the place from whence the rivers come, thither they return again . ( Ecclesiastes , chapter 1, verse 7) Ten miles from where I was born and raised, and seventy-five miles from where my family and I now live, one can stand on the ...
  5 weeks ago

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