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Long coal train, South Dakota, 1946. Carol M Highsmith, American (Carol M. Highsmith's America, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division.) SSA Marine, which is 51% owned by Goldman Sachs, has applied for federal and state permits to build facilities at Cherry Point to ship coal from the Rocky Mountains to China, thereby making the Pacific [...] I killed my lawn. Ask me how. (bumper sticker from Tree of Life Nursery, San Juan Capistrano, California) My good friend Bonnie (who has since moved to France where she doesn’t have a lawn to kill) had this on her bumper for years. She transformed her front yard and as soon as you got [...] A beautiful sunset sky reflects golds and pinks on the cliffs along the Pacific Ocean near Santa Cruz, CA. (The Trust for Public Land, Photo Credit: Frank S. Balthis) The Coastal Commission has approved a landmark deal that will preserve 10 square miles of land in northern California. The 6,800 acres of undeveloped shoreline, [...] Despite offering a wealth of job opportunities and a better-than-living wage, there are very few places to live. Most workers strive to get into one of the many "Man Camps." (Photo: Robert Johnson, Business Insider) Yes, there are a lot of jobs there, the majority of them requiring no more than a high school [...] On May 4, 2001 Prince Charles gave a quite brilliant keynote speech at The Future of Food Conference at Georgetown. This 45 pg. book ($6.99) is the text of the speech, along with introduction and afterword. What you may not know (I didn’t), is that Prince Charles for decades has spoken strongly against industrial [...] White Mountains National Forest, New Hampshire, 1943. John Collier, American (Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C.) 16% (122,000 acres) of this national forest is designated roadless area. Denying a request for a rehearing made by the State of Wyoming and the Colorado Mining Association, the 10th U.S. Circuit of Appeals upheld [...] Global map of forest height produced from NASA's ICESAT/GLAS, MODIS and TRMM sensors. The map will advance our understanding of Earth's forest habitats and their role in Earth's carbon cycle. (Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech) A new high-resolution map created by scientists at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), the University of Maryland, College Park and Woods Hole [...] Magnetic soap (Credit: Image courtesy of Institut Laue-Langevin (ILL)) It may sound silly at first, but the discovery of magnetic soap could lead to a way to reclaim soaps used in industry and in disasters like oil spills. Scientists from the University of Bristol have developed a soap, composed of iron rich salts dissolved [...] Phosphate mining on public lands. BLM The General Mining Act allows hard rock mining companies (including foreign-owned ones) to do pretty much whatever they want on a lot of public land, most of it in the West, without paying royalties on what they take. It was signed by President Grant in 1872 and it’s time [...] Mother Jones: A study from Purdue researchers casts further suspicion on Bayer’s money-minting concoctions. To understand the new paper—published in the peer-reviewed journal Plos One—it’s important to know how seed treatments work: The pesticides are applied directly to seeds before planting, and then get absorbed by the plant’s vascular system. They are “expressed” in the pollen [...] |  | ||||
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