Sunday, January 28, 2007

Action Alert: Opportunity for Global Warming Activism

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A message from the Carolinas Coalition for Clear Air on Jan 27, 2007: please write to the NC Utilities Commission and the Charlotte Observe...
Friday, January 26, 2007

Weiners & Burgers Heating the Planet More than Cars

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A scientist collecting waste samples from a swine manure holding pond in Iowa Animal farming is a bigger contributor of green...
Thursday, January 25, 2007

Harvesting justice

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1 25 07 Farm workers are vital to the production of food in the United States. Without their labor, our lives and our national economy would...
Monday, January 22, 2007

Technology transfer for the poor

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My father, Douglas A. Weikle, a career journalist and, until his retirement in the 1990s, Asian desk director of the Lao service, USIA/Voice...
Friday, January 19, 2007

Sneaky shrimp wreak havoc on Great Lakes

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They’ve been on experts’ Most Wanted lists since 1998. Since the 1970s, investigators have been tracking their movements, waiting for them ...

Child-brides, Poverty, Population Growth

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Photo of an 11-yr-old Afghan bride by Stephanie Sinclair, NY Times magazine 2006 and National Public Radio Eight-year-old Enatnesh stands ...
Thursday, January 11, 2007

The House Was Rockin...The Night We Socked It to the Utilities Commision

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As you may have read in the previous post, the NC Utilities Commision held a public hearing last night, Jan 10, for the purpose of hearing p...

Chimps and Gibbons Have Human Elements to their Language

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Gibbon photo courtesy of www.uq.edu.au Researchers studying a population of wild gibbons in Thailand have found that these great apes recomb...
Wednesday, January 10, 2007

Opportunity to Speak Out Against Coal, In Favor of Clean Energy

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Dear Readers Carolinas Clean Air Coalition and the Sierra Club are trying to get 200 folks to the Main Library in Charlotte tonight (Weds Ja...
Friday, January 05, 2007

Lockdown on life: stories from women behind bars

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On this edition, we take you to two U.S. prisons (California Medical Facility - CMF and The Washington Correctional Center for Women ) ­ an...
Thursday, January 04, 2007

Top 6 Ways to Protect Wildlife from Commercial Trade

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Over 650 million animals - from lemurs to zebras to tropical birds - were imported legally into the United States in the last 3 years. More ...
Wednesday, December 27, 2006

New book about how overfishing is changing the world

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Red grouper photo courtesy of U.S. Geological Survey Mercury is not the only reason to select fish in your diet very carefully. Charles Clov...
Friday, December 22, 2006

It's getting hot in here

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How about an avocado tree for Christmas? Your gardening loved ones are in luck this holiday season. New data from the National C...

Research shows older females preferred as mates

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photo of Flo the chimp courtesy of www.janegoodall.org Male Chimps Prefer Older Females "Wrinkled skin, ragged ears, irregular bald pat...
Wednesday, December 20, 2006

Commodity promotion programs: What’s the beef?

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Government-sanctioned promotion programs, known as checkoff programs, aim to increase consumption of commodities such as dairy, beef, and po...
Thursday, December 14, 2006

High IQ children more likely to become vegetarian

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Intelligent children may be more likely to be vegetarian as adults, suggests a study published online by the BMJ Friday 12/15. Recent evide...
Tuesday, December 05, 2006

Rice harvests threatened by pollution, global warming

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A new report appearing in today’s Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNS) suggests that air pollution may be responsible for ...
Friday, December 01, 2006

Boycott of Smithfield meats

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God, things are looking up! This past Thursday, workers from the world's largest hog slaughterhouse picketed a major supermarket i...
Sunday, November 26, 2006

International changemakers - honoring elder women activists

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Women are gaining influence as leaders throughout the world fighting for peace, justice, the environment and civil society. In this program ...
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Friday, November 24, 2006

Eco-Friendly Feminine Hygiene Products

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Reusing and recycling just don’t work when it comes to feminine hygiene products. Have you ever thought about how much waste pads and tampon...
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