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• A Strange System: Food: Hard Travelin’ Blues

  
  Science & Soul — Authority: 106
  You walk through the aisles of your local supermarket.  Apples in June.  Watermelons in February.  Oranges in December.  Weird star fruit in….well I don’t actually know if star fruit have a picking season.  So how do we have these fruits and vegetables when it is not time for them to be picked. Most of our ...
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• Hear the good news from Rome (Willem Van Cotthem)

  
  Desertification — Authority: 148
  For many years scientists-members of the CST (Committee on Science and Technology) of the UNCCD (UN Convention to Combat Desertification) have been asking for strong UN-decisions to apply well-known success stories and best practices to mitigate drought, to combat desertification and to alleviate poverty.Repeatedly ...
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• MALNUTRITION AND THE HEARTBEAT FOR SCHOOL GARDENS (Willem VAN COTTHEM)

  
  Desertification — Authority: 148
  Every now and then we read about the huge problem of malnourished children being at great risk of contracting infectious diseases.  Repeatedly the same causes are mentioned : lack of food, lack of knowledge of good nutritional practices, high prices for many basic food products, poor  drinking water quality and ...
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• UN China : Dr. Liu Yuyin, Chinese Delegate, on Sustainable Development (Google / ISRIA)

  
  Desertification — Authority: 148
  Read at : Google Alert – desertificationhttp://www.isria.com/pages/3_November_2009_219.php UN China – Statement by Dr. Liu Yuyin, Chinese Delegate, on Sustainable Development at the Second Committee of the 64th UN General AssemblyMr. Chairman,First of all, I wish to thank the Secretary General for his reports on ...
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• Air pollution and your cashmere sweater

  
  O ECOTEXTILES — Authority: 108
  We’ll be at Greenbuild next week, booth 910, with our good friends from LIVE Textiles.  Please stop by to see us if you’re there. We are introducing a new organic wool upholstery fabric at Greenbuild  (we’re hoping it will be GOTS certified, though it is touch and go as to whether the certificate will be in ...
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• The Desert in Retreat (National Geographic)

  
  Desertification — Authority: 148
  Read at :  National Geographichttp://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/geopedia/Sahel#The%20Desert%20in%20RetreatThe Desert in RetreatBy Karen E. Lange By the mid-1980s the village of Ranawa in the small African nation of Burkina Faso was dwindling away. Gripped by a drought that had cut rainfall by a third throughout the ...
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• Human-created environmental catastrophy is a myth!

  
  Needlenose — Authority: 121
  Limbaugh the Nazca denounces the liberal tree hugging alarmism Well okay, maybe rampant deforestation created conditions for terrible erosion and floods that brought down the Nazca civilization , but otherwise…poppy-cock!  Er…and of course the deforestation of Easter Island had similar consequences …oh ...
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• A Strange System: Food: Blue Baby Blues

  
  Science & Soul — Authority: 106
  Time to get back on the horse after a week of midterms. Nitrogen was the primary limiting nutrient in terrestrial ecosystems.  Nitrogen levels could be increased by using composted organic material, but that took a long period of time and was hard work.  Keep that in mind.  World War II is raging and ammonia is ...
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• The main cause of globalization is advancement in technology, which has resulted in?

  
  Traffic Builders Web Site Marketing News Blog and Web Tips Guide — Authority: 138
  Phalliad asked: 1. The main cause of globalization is advancement in technology, which has resulted in A. new methods of transportation and communication having a direct effect on trade and cultures. B. developing countries to have access to good health care and quality education. C. an economic interdependence ...
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• The greatest book on desertification (Google / Icemon)

  
  Desertification — Authority: 148
  Read at : Google Alert – desertificationhttp://www.icemon.org/the-greatest-book-on-desertification.htmlThe greatest book on desertificationAn Inconvenient Truth – ReviewIn my limited readings on desertification (about 10 books), this is the only book that covers desertification comprehensively. While other books ...
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• Once An Area Becomes Desert (via Desertification) Can It Ever Be Restored (to Grow Crops, Trees)? How So? (Google / Arid Plants)

  
  Desertification — Authority: 148
  Read at : Google Alert – desertificationhttp://aridplants.com/628/once-an-area-becomes-desert-via-desertification-can-it-ever-be-restored-to-grow-crops-trees-how-so/Once An Area Becomes Desert (via Desertification) Can It Ever Be Restored (to Grow Crops, Trees)? How So?I had a student in my class this question, and ...
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• Some Alternatives for Avoiding the Desertification (Google / UANL)

  
  Desertification — Authority: 148
  Read at : Google Alert – desertificationhttp://buscador.uanl.mx/noticias/interes/descripcion.php?id_not=331&lang=enSome Alternatives for Avoiding the DesertificationDate: (30/10/2009)Facultad de Ciencias ForestalesThe use of red woodlouse as coloring and ‘lechuguilla’ scrubbing ‘little lettuce,’ in ...
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• Nigeria : Jigawa plants 8m seedlings to tackle desertification

  
  Desertification — Authority: 148
  Read at : Google Alert – desertificationhttp://www.vanguardngr.com/2009/10/26/jigawa-plants-8m-seedlings-to-tackle-desertification/Jigawa plants 8m seedlings to tackle desertificationBy Aliyu DangidaDUTSE — JIGAWA government has planted over 8 million seedlings of different trees in all nooks and corners of the ...
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• The Green Quote: Prince Albert II Of Monaco Explains How Everyone Can Help (Google / Ecorazzi)

  
  Desertification — Authority: 148
  Read at : Google Alert – desertificationhttp://www.ecorazzi.com/2009/10/28/the-green-quote-prince-albert-ii-of-monaco-explains-how-you-can-help/The Green Quote: Prince Albert II Of Monaco Explains How Everyone Can HelpMichael Parrish DuDell @ 8:32 am“We have to move away from a society that is obsessed with ...
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• Desertification one of the challenges faced by China (Google / Channelnewsasia)

  
  Desertification — Authority: 148
  Read at : Google Alert – desertificationhttp://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/eastasia/view/1014326/1/.htmlDesertification one of the challenges faced by ChinaBy Channel NewsAsia’s East Asia Bureau Chief Maria Siow | Posted: 29 October 2009 0031 hrsNINGXIA Province, China: The desert has been taking over large ...
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• Australia: World’s Smallest Continental Dust Bowl

  
  Fire Earth — Authority: 433
  Another Dust Storm Sweeps North Central AustraliaAnother dust storm blew across Australia’s Northern Territory and Queensland on October 26, 2009, as the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA’s Aqua satellite passed overhead. This true-color image shows the dust plume traveling eastward. ...
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• Fleeing drought in the Horn of Africa (Google / Earth Stream)

  
  Desertification — Authority: 148
  Read at : Google Alert – droughthttp://www.earth-stream.com/outpage.php?s=18&id=211759Changing climate, changing livesFleeing drought in the Horn of AfricaA new kind of refugee has arrived: Those forced from their home regions not by war or persecution, but by the climate. A Kenyan camp is bursting with the ...
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• From pollution to desertification

  
  Desertification — Authority: 148
  Please have a look at pictures of incredible pollution, leading to almost irreversible desertification, worsening public health, even death.This is not a GREEN revolution, but a BLACK one.Discussing this is not effective anymore, as it is occurring everywhere on this planet.It is unbelievable that all this still ...
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• A Strange System: Food: Too Corny

  
  Science & Soul — Authority: 106
  Too Corny Corn is a wonderful vegetable.  Admittedly, the stuff we consider corn is actually maize, but I’m not here to argue semantics.  The kernel of maize is a mature ovary of fruit fused with a seed coat.  Corn can be eaten raw, cooked, or ground into flour for bread.  Good stuff this corn.  Perhaps ...
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