From the monthly archives: May 2008

Warren Buffett Ignores Klamath Dam Protesters Again

By On May 6, 2008

The four dams on the Klamath River in far Northern California are under relicensing, something that only occurs every 50 years. The dams are owned by billionaire Warren Buffett, who purchased Pacificorp, one of the lowest-cost electricity producers in the United States, three years ago. Many Californians [...]

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Fungi Locks Away Dangerous Depleted Uranium

By On May 6, 2008

That fungus among us may be the answer to uranium-polluted soils eventually being brought back into use.

Researchers at Dundee Unversity in the UK have determined that fungi can block uranium from finding its way into plants, animals or the water supply.

Scientists have found that what they call free-living and [...]

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Greenpeace Takes on Manmade Carbon Sequestration

By On May 5, 2008

Greenpeace, always good for stirring up trouble, have released a report entitled False Hope to coincide with the seventh annual Carbon Capture & Sequestration conference in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The report is said to be “…critically examining the status and promise of carbon capture and storage (CCS) technology.”

Needless to say, Greenpeace [...]

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Arctic and Antarctica Polar Opposites

By On May 4, 2008

There’s nothing quite as nice as a really catchy title that perfectly sums up your story. If you want to leave it at that, then you’ve probably got the whole of the story. However if you want to know just a bit more about how climate change is affecting our planet’s poles, then [...]

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Pasties, G-String and Skirt, All Made from Hemp: Meet The “Pastie Lady”

By On May 4, 2008

If you’ve read any of my submissions about hemp, you know I’m a staunch supporter of legalizing industrial hemp in this country.

It has many uses, but I’d never thought of decorative until seeing the story about the “Pastie Lady”. You want to publicize hemp and other natural resources, take a cue [...]

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New Ocean Current Discovered

By On May 4, 2008

Scientists at the Georgia Institute of Technology have finally explained a mystery that fishermen in the California current of the Pacific Ocean have monitored over the past 70 years. Their discovery has resulted in the naming of a new climate pattern, one called the North Pacific Gyre Oscillation (NPGO).

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The Environment is What You Eat: Misleading Ecolabels like Natural, Free Range and Cruelty Free

By On May 2, 2008

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Entering a grocery store for a socially and environmentally minded person can be quite a stressful and trying experience. Should you buy that organic, free-range, cage-free, grass-fed, non-GMO, natural, fair-trade beef? How do you know if those chickens really are free to roam in bucolic pastures? How often are the organic farms audited? How do you know if the apple from New Zealand produced less fossil fuels compared to the local one? When the seemingly more ethical products cost up to twice as much as conventional ones, we end up staring at the shelves in a daze with recycle symbols and cheery looking Peruvian coffee growers circling our heads.

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Death Claims Medical Marijuana User After Denial for Liver Transplant

By On May 2, 2008

It points up the urgency of Congressman Ron Paul’s latest legislation to decriminalize medical marijuana.

The latest case in point comes from Seattle, where a man was denied a liver transplant, after a University of Washington Medical Center committee denied him a place on the liver transplant list.

His crime? Using [...]

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Audio: Rep. Ron Paul on Medical Marijuana Legislation, in His Own Words

By On May 1, 2008

Earlier, I had written a story on Rep. Ron Paul’s new legislation that would make medical marijuana legal in states that wish to offer it to patients who are suffering extreme pain. As it stands, six states have legalized the use of marijuana for that reason, but the feds still [...]

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455 and Counting Who Doubt Man-Made Global Warming

By On May 1, 2008

Every now and then one side of an argument or another will get a landfall win that just puts them over the top for awhile. In science, it doesn’t necessarily always hold, but just occasionally, this win does manage to help in the long run.

Well, for those of us who see man-made [...]

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