How much paper does a person use on average in a year?
(Source: climateadaptation)
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This blog serves the purpose of educating the public on important issues, specifically peak oil, sustainability, and all matters associated with those correlated subjects.
Whether you’re skeptical about the excessive use of Monsanto’s controversial pesticide, Roundup; outraged over the company’s history of suing farmers that have either saved seeds or been victim to crop drift from nearby farms growing genetically modified seeds that Monsanto holds patents on; or perhaps you’re just not convinced that enough evidence exists to support the ubiquity with which genetically modified foods proliferate in this country—whatever your reason—you can avoid funding Monsanto by steering clear of the following Seminis seeds. Opt instead for heirlooms and seeds from suppliers that have signed the Safe Seed Pledge. Then, save your own.
(via Gardeners Beware: Don’t Plant these Monsanto Seeds! | Kitchen Garden)
Click the link and there are a list of seeds. Happy and safe gardening!
I am still in shock sometimes when we are in Home Depot and I see people buying RoundUp. Knowing they are spraying something that is going into OUR creeks and the Sound just breaks my heart. Let alone knowing how it effects our bees and other pollinators. Best way to go is with local, organic seeds. We are so lucky with the abundance available to us, planted a bunch of Swiss Chard the other night, been on quite the chard kick lately.
Strange. So many dead dolphins.
What has killed 3,000 of Peru’s dolphins so far this year?
Radiation from Japan found in kelp off U.S. West Coast
It was already known that small amounts of radioactive iodine 131 made it across the Pacific within days of the March 11, 2011 tsunami disaster.
(via sustainable-sam)
Radiation from Japan found in kelp off U.S. West Coast
It was already known that small amounts of radioactive iodine 131 made it across the Pacific within days of the March 11, 2011 tsunami disaster.
(via sustainable-sam)
Clean water.
nrdc:
How Clean Are Your Clothes? Pollution from China’s Textile Industry
More than 6000 water pollution violations from apparel factories in China – that is just one revelation in a stunning new account of water pollution from the Chinese textile industry, courtesy of noted Chinese environmentalist Ma Jun and his Green Alliance of activist partners. The violations included serious threats such as illegally dumping untreated toxic wastewater into rivers and streams. And these are the just violations we know about! Given the general lack of enforcement of environmental laws in China, there are likely many more violators out there that simply did not make the official record books. Read more.
U.S. oil company Chevron discovered an oil seep in an offshore Brazilian oil field run by Petrobras near the site of a November leak that led to civil and criminal charges and sparked concerns about some of the world’s most promising deep sea reserves. No traces have been found on the surface, but droplets of oil were found leaking from the seabed of Petrobras’ Roncador field, 500 meters away from Chevron’s adjacent Frade field, Brazilian regulator ANP said. Chevron said it first detected the seep on Saturday.
World Environment News - Chevron Finds Leak In Offshore Petrobras Oil Field - Planet Ark
So we have Chevron whistleblowing on this leak, and we have the story E submitted a few days ago where Shell spotted a slick in the Gulf. Maybe they’ll turn on each other like starving dogs and they will become their own best watchdog. bahahahaha
Anyway, about this leak, the Brazilians are much more likely to kick some butt and get something done about it than corporation lovin USA.
(via stopkillingourworld)
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Massive storm systems in the Midwest - Life Threatening
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1 How Climate Change Makes Trees Sick
Warmer and wetter weather is good for tree diseases, which is bad news for trees
“A patch of tanoak, killed by Sudden Oak Death, in the Los Padres National Forest in Monterey County.
Climate change is likely to wreak havoc on California’s forests. Extreme weather, wildfires and insect outbreaks will all take a toll. Add to those another looming threat: disease. Forest diseases like Sudden Oak Death, which has infected trees in 14 counties in the state, stand to benefit from the effects of climate change, to the detriment, obviously, of the trees.
Trees are big and long-lived. Tree pathogens, mostly fungi and bacteria, are the opposite. They’re mobile, able to blow around on the wind. And they reproduce and evolve rapidly. That’s the crux of the problem, according to Susan Frankel, a plant pathologist with the Forest Service.”
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31 Life Threatening Storms Head to the Midwest
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