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October 2009 - Articles & Seeds
The Potato Underground
Seeded on Fri Oct 30, 2009 11:03 AM EDT (The Tyee)
When Jerry LeBourdais learned that big agribusiness couldn't handle the Cariboo potato, he knew he'd found a variety that he wanted to support. The name didn't hurt either.
The Other Inconvenient Truth: The Crisis in Global Land Use
Seeded on Mon Oct 26, 2009 2:32 PM EDT (environment 360)
As the international community focuses on climate change as the great challenge of our era, it is ignoring another looming problem — the global crisis in land use.
Trees recycled all around Bay Area
Seeded on Sat Oct 24, 2009 11:23 PM EDT (The San Francisco Chronicle)
Urban lumber operations is a tough gig," he said. "It all depends on what materials you have available and what you can do with them.
Agave might be 'missing energy crop'
Seeded on Sat Oct 24, 2009 11:19 PM EDT (Ethanol Producer Magazine)
The plant is used to produce liquors such as tequila...
Does Economics Violate the Laws of Physics?
Seeded on Sat Oct 24, 2009 10:37 PM EDT (Scientific American)
[this is almost at the end of the article but the rest is worth the read as well]
New York Times report on 350 ppm CO2 target & 350 Day events around the world
Seeded on Sat Oct 24, 2009 5:24 PM EDT (The New York Times)
NYT summary of 24 October 2009 350 Day: "[for] an international climate accord:a synchronized burst of more than 4,300 demonstrations, from the Himalayas to the Great Barrier Reef, all centered on the number 350."
Scientists Unite! 18 Scientific Groups Reaffirm Climate Science in Letter to Senators
Seeded on Fri Oct 23, 2009 10:51 AM EDT (Pew)
Scientists to Congress: You can argue about the politics all you want, but if you decide not to act on climate change, it won't be because the science wasn't strong enough.
Cutting Non-CO2 Pollutants Can Delay Abrupt Climate Change, Solve 'Fast Half' of Climate Problem
Seeded on Wed Oct 14, 2009 2:21 AM EDT (Reuters)
Reducing non-CO2 climate change agents such as black carbon soot, tropospheric ozone, and hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs), as well as expanding bio-sequestration through biochar production, can forestall fast approaching abrupt climate changes, according to Nobel Laureate Dr.
Greenpeace accuses New Zealand world's #1 dairy export company of "climate crime"
Seeded on Sun Oct 11, 2009 8:02 AM EDT (M&C)
Greenpeace activists arrested at NZ port; Greenpeace said that clearing rain forests in Indonesia and Malaysia to plant palm plantations is causing 'massive carbon emissions,' which are blamed for global warning.
Vacationing with Nuclear Reactors
Seeded on Wed Oct 7, 2009 9:57 PM EDT (Michigan Tech )
While most of us were playing at the beach or on the sports field during summer, Michigan Technological University undergraduate Amanda Taylor was hard at work, far from home, on research that could revolutionize fuel used to power nuclear reactors.
Apple Leaves Chamber of Commerce over Climate Change
Seeded on Wed Oct 7, 2009 1:23 PM EDT (The Washington Post)
Apple is pulling out of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce because of the organization's strident criticism of plans to reduce U.S. greenhouse-gas emissions, the computer giant said Monday.
UK researchers aim to prove farm climate cure
Seeded on Tue Oct 6, 2009 11:15 PM EDT (Reuters)
One scientist estimated that turning 27 percent of global crop waste into biochar and plowing this into the soil could store 0.2 billion tonnes of carbon annually, compared with more than 8 billion tonnes annual global emissions from burning fossil fuels.
Win-Win: Edible Schoolyards
Tue Oct 6, 2009 9:44 AM EDT
Here's the first in what will hopefully be a series of articles about win-win solutions to America's challenges. The focus will be on the ingenuity, capability and optimism of the American people (read: not the American government).
Continue reading this entry ...
Exceptional results from biochar experiment in Cameroon
Seeded on Sat Oct 3, 2009 1:26 PM EDT (scitizen.com)
Biochar Fund has reported extremely encouraging first results from its field trials in South West Cameroon.
Lumber giant Sierra Pacific, Schwarzenegger announce carbon-offsets project
Seeded on Thu Oct 1, 2009 4:49 PM EDT (McClatchy)
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and timber giant Sierra Pacific Industries on Wednesday evening announced the nation's largest forest carbon-offset project, meant to keep millions of tons of climate-warming gases out of the atmosphere over the next century.
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