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Guide to Mindful Eating 19 y
A must-see video about Jane Goodall! Jane Goodall, world renowned primatologist, dubbed affectionately "The Chimpanzee Lady", has a new book out, "Harvest of Hope: Guide to Mindful Eating".
Jane Goodall discusses her book on Democracy Now. Go to Lapis’s blog "Jane Goodall" for links to the video webstream or transcript of her interview:
http://curezone.com/blogs/m.asp?f=29&i=222 Interview with Jane Goodall (approx. 45 minutes)
Goodall, named a Messenger of Peace by the U.N. for her work with children around the world in her program "Roots and Shoots," discusses her early work with chimpanzees, how these animals now face extinction, factory farmed animals, GMO’d foods vs organic, agribusiness vs. traditional ways of farming, the Slow Food ... read more EcoFriendly Holiday Gifts 19 y
EcoFriendly Holiday Gifts--check out the EcoChoices website for great product information for Natural living!
Give the Gift of EcoFriendly
It’s like Holidays for the Environment, too!
Special thanks to our sponsors for making this year’s Holiday Campaign a success. Here’s the product breakdown:
... read more Urine Therapy Video! 19 y
The National Geographic website has a video about urine therapy! I guess urine therapy has gone mainstream (ha ha!! main STREAM--get it? oh, never mind!) And while you're at it, check out the article on using urine for a biobattery!
Video in the News: Human Urine—Elixir for Good Health?
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2005/11/1121_051121_urine_video.html
And check out this article! http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2005/08/0818_050818_urinebattery.html
Urine Battery Turns Pee Into Power
John Roach
for National Geographic News
August 18, 2005
Before you next flush the toilet, consider this: Scientists in Singapore have developed a battery powered by urine.
Researchers at the Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology create ... read more Buy NOTHING Day! Nov. 25TH! 19 y
Traditionally, in the U.S. anyway, the day after Thanksgiving, November 25, starts the frenzy of buying activity that leads up to the Holidays. You don't have to buy stuff to be loved!
Ethical Consumption for the Holidays--You don’t have to buy stuff to be loved. It’s better for the environment if you don’t.
We in Western countries are 20% of the world population, but we are consuming over 80% of the earth’s natural resources, causing a disproportionate level of environmental damage and unfair distribution of wealth.
The average North American consumes five times more than a Mexican, 10 times more than a Chinese person, and 30 times more than a person from I ... read more Bison in Great Plains 19 y
Genetically pure bison reintroduced to the Great Plains
Bison taking their first steps out onto the prairie. photo: Gib Myers Like many of you, I’m looking forward to celebrating the Thanksgiving holiday with my family. It’s a wonderful opportunity to recreate the traditional American feast and celebrate life’s blessings and nature’s bounty. Perhaps no animal is more emblematic of the vast biological richness that was contained on this continent than the bison. The species once thundered across the land in herds numbering in the millions, through the Northern Great Plains, from Mexico north into Canada, and east as far as ... read more Have ORGANIC Thanksgiving! 19 y
Help protect yourself, your children, and farmworkers from the harmful effects of pesticide exposure by making organic foods a part of your life, not just for the Holidays, but year round.
Pesticide Action Network North America
See PANUPS updates service, for complete information.
Families of Consumers and Farmworkers Benefit from Organic
November 22, 2004
As people across the United States prepare to celebrate a holiday centered on the contemplation of food, pesticides are uninvited guests. Data from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control indicates that we all carry an average of 13 pesticides in our bodies, some of which can cause cancer, disrupt hormones, decrease fertility, cause birth defects, and weaken our immune systems. The concentration ... read more Wild Turkeys Make Comeback 19 y
Wild Turkeys make comeback from near extinction, and sometimes clash with human residents.
Christian Science Monitor November 21, 2005
http://www.christiansciencemonitor.com/2005/1121/p20s01-lihc.html
FINE FEATHERED FRIENDS? Or fiends? Janet McKenzie loves the wild turkeys in her neighborhood. "I don’t understand why people come here and don’t want the wildlife," she says of the turkey increase in Dover, Mass. PHOTOS BY JOHN NORDELL - STAFF
http://www.christiansciencemonitor.com/2005/1121/p20s01-lihc.html
Backstory: Not wild about the turkeys
By Clara Germani | Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor
DOVER, MASS. ... read more Squeezing Oil From Stone
19 y
Oil shale is rock that requires millions of years of natural heating to produce oil. Shell Oil and other companies want to mine the shale and artifically heat it in order to speed up the process. This would require enormous amounts of water, may require more energy to heat than what is produced, and may lead to environmental degradation of federal lands in Colorado, Utah, and Wyoming where the shale is found in large deposits.
November 20, 2005 latimes.com
THE NATION
U.S. Backs Squeezing Oil From a Stone
Seeing potential in shale, Interior is opening federal lands to industry. But extraction methods are unproven, and in Colorado some see risks.
By Julie Cart, Times Staff Writer
MAHOGANY TEST SITE, Colo. — Tucked into a ravine and hidden behind ridges standing like stony sentinels is the site of Shell Oil Co.’s ultra-experimental, highly anticipated 30-year project to unlock oil from vast underground beds of rock.
Here, on this sweeping plateau in western Colorado, the Bush administration has fi ... read more Lies Led to War in Iraq 19 y
The Iraqi informant known as "Curveball" was the chief source of inaccurate prewar U.S. accusations that Iraq had biological weapons of mass destruction. German intelligence officers handling the Iraqi informant say they had told U.S. officials that his information was 'not proven,' and were shocked when President Bush and Colin L. Powell used it in key prewar speeches.
This is a very long yet extremely important article--if you are not a subscriber to the Los Angeles Times, please read this here and go to the online site for the rest of the article! Liora Leah
Date: Sun, 20 Nov 2005
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How U.S. Fell Under the Spell of ’Curveball’
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By Bob Drogin and John Goetz
Special to The Times
November 20 2005
BERLIN — The German intelligence officials responsible for one of the most important informants on Saddam Hussein’s suspected weapons of mass destruction say that the Bush administration and the CIA r ... read more Pesticide Tests: Kids 19 y
Congress mandated that all chemical testing on pregnant women and children be banned. The EPA has created rules that may exempt orphans, handicapped children, neglected or abused children, and children overseas from this ban! TAKE ACTION!
DuPont & Teflon: Lies 19 y
DuPont lied about covering up studies indicating that a Teflon-related chemical in food packaging, called Zonyl, leaches into food at levels 3X higher than the FDA limit.
Nov 16, 10:38 PM EST
Papers: DuPont Hid Chemical Risk Studies
By JOHN HEILPRIN
Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON (AP) -- DuPont Co. hid studies showing the risks of a Teflon-related chemical used to line candy wrappers, pizza boxes, microwave popcorn bags and hundreds of other food containers, according to internal company documents and a former employee.
The chemical Zonyl can rub off the liner and get into food. Once in a person’s body, it can break down into perfluorooctanoic acid and its salts, known as PFOA, a related chemical used in the making of Tefl ... read more Brown Pelicans Make Comeback 19 y
The Environmental Species Act (ESA) is at risk of Extinction! Environmental Defense, a nonprofit organization working on behalf of preserving the ESA, is asking for submissions of stories from supporters telling about their encounters with endangered species. Below is the story I submitted. Submit your own story, and TAKE ACTION to save the ESA!
http://www.pacificbio.org/ESIN/Birds/BrownPelican/pelican_overview.htm
I am 49 years old, and I have lived in Southern California my entire life. When I was a child, I would see brown pelicans flying overhead whenever I went on a school field trip to Los Angeles Harbor or a family trip to the beach. By the time I was a teenager, brown pelicans were not to be seen, having fallen victim to DDT and other pollutants.
Although the brown pelican is now making a comeback in California, I don’t often see them at the beach and when I do, there are usually only one or two indi ... read more Elephants Face Slaughter 19 y
Thousands of elephants in South Africa face slaughter. TAKE ACTION to prevent the deaths of these magnificent animals!
International Fund for Animal Welfare November 16, 2005
Urgent: Thousands of Kruger
Elephants Face Slaughter
... read more Ozone/Global Warming 19 y
Defining Ozone Depletion and Global Warming. Don't worry about the world running out of oil--we've got COAL to replace it!
Ozoning Out On Climate Confusion
By Umbra Fisk
14 Nov 2005
Got questions about the environment? Ask Umbra: http://www.grist.org/cgi-bin/email-umbra.pl
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Dear Umbra,
Any chance that the most extreme of the peak-oil folks are correct, and that in spite of our thoughtlessness, we just won’t have enough oil to totally destroy the ozone layer?
Dan Wasson
Pittsburgh, Penn.
Dearest Dan,
Oil has very little to do with the ozone layer, but it ... read more Sick Corporations 19 y
Corporations are major cause of public and environmental health problems through their "corporate structure of harm"
Scientists Identify Corporate Structure as Bad for Public Health
November 15, 2004
Corporate power is a major cause of health problems, according to the October/December 2005 special issue of the International Journal of Occupational and Environmental Health. Contributions to the issue reveal how corporate structure results in pressure to influence science and place the public at risk from pesticides, lead, asbestos, toxic municipal sewage sludge, and other harmful substances.
"Occupational a ... read more Pandas Recovering 19 y
Pandas slowly increasing their numbers in the wild and in zoos
Washington Post http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/11/13/AR20051113007...
Odds More in Pandas’ Favor Than Ever Before
By D’Vera Cohn
Even as they celebrate the thriving giant panda cub at the National
Zoo, many scientists and environmentalists are increasingly hopeful
about the prospects for the species in the wild bamboo forests of China, a
startling turnaround from their gloomy outlook a decade ago.
They base their optimism on a recent census that found more giant
pandas than previously believed, on expanded Chinese government protections
for ... read more Fishy Sexual Abnormalities 19 y
Estrogenic compounds from chemical contaminants pollute waters off S.California Coast, causing sexual abnormalities in male fish
Los Angeles Times
Sewage Altering Fish, Study Reports
Male bottom-dwellers with female sex characteristics are found near outfall pipes in waters off Los Angeles and Orange counties.
By Marla Cone
Los Angeles Times Staff Writer
November 14, 2005
Male fish with female characteristics have been discovered in ocean waters off Los Angeles and Orange counties, raising concerns that treated sewage released offshore contains hormone-disrupting compounds that are deforming the sex organs of marine life.
Scientists around the world have found sexua| abnormalities in frogs, fish, alli ... read more |