 | Yobaba is a 57 year old married woman from Portland, Oregon, USA. |
 - Uses of Hemp
 Nov 17, 3:10pm  (11 reviews) environment http://students.ou.edu/W/Elicia.A.Wallac...
- Have a break, have a Kit Kat & and wreck rainforests - Times Online
- Nov 16, 5:42pm (2 reviews) environment http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/en...
- Whale massacre in Europe
- Nov 16, 12:24pm (9 reviews) environment http://www.odditycentral.com/pics/whale-...
- Just another ho-hum day in Denmark.
Studies have shown that the meat and blubber of pilot whales contain high amounts of
mercury, PCBs, DDT and dieldrin. For what they do every year
these 'animals' deserve to get much more than mercury poisoning.
This "bay of blood" set somewhere in the Faroe Islands is where hundreds, sometimes thousands of pilot whales are literally butchered alive by hungry locals. The hunt known as Grindadrap is centuries old and it hasn't changed much since then, except for the power-boats, radios and echo-sounders which make life a lot easier for the butchers. They round the poor whales into the shore with the power-boats and when they get really close, the locals plunge into the waves and start hooking them to death in a horrific manner.
- 10 amazing buildings made of dirt and straw | Yahoo! Green UK &Ireland
- Nov 15, 9:43pm (29 reviews) environment http://uk.green.yahoo.com/blog/environme...
- Buildings made of dirt and straw - cool!
Of course, up here in Oregon we would have to call them "mud balls".
- 7 Environmental Problems That Are Worse Than We Thought | EarthFirst.com...
- Nov 15, 4:37pm (5 reviews) environment http://earthfirst.com/7-environmental-pr...
 Something people don't talk about enough when they talk about environmental problems: over-population. Whether we like to admit it or not, our very own rapidly multiplying presence on this planet is the biggest environmental problem there is, and it's getting bigger by the minute. We voraciously consume resources, pollute the air and water, tear down natural habitats, introduce species into areas where they don't belong and destroy ecosystems to the point of causing millions of species to become endangered and, all too often, go extinct.
It took nearly all of human history - from the first days of man on earth until the early 1800's - to reach a global population of 1 billion. In just 200 years, we've managed to reach 6.5 billion. That means the population has grown more since 1950 than in the previous four million years. We're adding roughly 74 million people to the planet every year, a scary figure that will probably continue to increase. All of those mouths will need to be fed. All of those bodies will need clean water and a place to sleep. All of the new communities created to house those people will continue to encroach upon the natural world.
- EcoGeek - Clean Technology
- Nov 13, 10:16pm (7 reviews) environment http://www.ecogeek.org/content/view/2275...
"So when Brian Williams is asking me about what's a personal thing that you've done [that's green], and I say, you know, 'Well, I planted a bunch of trees.' And he says, 'I'm talking about personal.' What I'm thinking in my head is, 'Well, the truth is, Brian, we can't solve global warming because I f---ing changed light bulbs in my house. It's because of something collective'."
And I find I like Pres-elect Obama even better after reading that quote! (I just wish I'd actually heard him say it!)
- Hot, Flat, and Crowded | Thomas L. Friedman
- Nov 12, 8:23pm (4 reviews) environment http://www.thomaslfriedman.com/bookshelf...
- "Friedman proposes that an ambitious national strategy - which he calls "Geo-Greenism" - is not only what we need to save the planet from overheating; it is what we need to make America healthier, richer, more innovative, more productive, and more secure."
Sounds like it will be a good read.
- Starting the Clean Green Energy Economy - Renewable Energy Revolution...
- Nov 12, 7:32am (3 reviews) environment http://www.thedailygreen.com/environment...
- "It's easy to be pessimistic about our future. We could freeze in the dark, or we could get smart and reorient the economy with a whole new set of green priorities."
Just please-please don't call yourself "Joe Sixpack Solar Installer" again ... you will never work at my house if you do.
- Obama To Change The Energy And Environmental Policy&|&Device...
- Nov 10, 3:39pm (5 reviews) environment http://devicedaily.com/environment/obama...
- http://www.biologicaldiversity.org/news/press_releases/2008/images/RubberDodoAwa...
- Nov 9, 8:35pm (17 reviews) environment http://www.biologicaldiversity.org/news/...
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