Environment
Elegant little flower
I’m not quite sure what it is. It is something like a houseleek – click on the tiny pic of its base for a bigger view, or here for a fuller view. I bought it in a village sale a few years back and it has sat outside come sun, rain and drought. This is…
States and localities take on poor working conditions, safety hazards
In the final section of our new report “The Year in U.S. Occupational Health & Safety,” we end on a high note. We profile a number of new laws at the state and local levels to improve working conditions for Americans and protect them from serious health and safety hazards.
Didn’t Cameron just appoint a sceptic to DEFRA?
…inquires a commenter in the Obama and Romney on GW post. Well, its a reasonable question. This would be Owen Paterson who the FT calls a “known climate change sceptic”, although it isn’t clear to me quite why. The Graun doesn’t like OP. The first piece of evidence is Paterson is on the record as…
Obama and Romney on GW
From The Top American Science Questions: 2012. Which starts with: “Whenever the people are well-informed,” Thomas Jefferson wrote, “they can be trusted with their own government.” Well, that’s you yanks totally f*ck*d then, ha ha. Not that we’re any better off. still, at least we manage to believe in evolution and we’re not a pile…
Two related items
(click here for a higher resolution image) While thinking about the image above from EarthTrack.net a “sign this pettition” request from Avaaz.org landed in my mail box. (Fair warning, I have not checked this out very carefully. Please do say so in the comments if this issue is being misrepresented). Read below: Climate change is…
But the Economy is Getting Better and Better…
Shockingly (or not so much, if you read here regularly), despite the supposed improvements in the economy, more and more American families are struggling to put meals on the table. The USDA reports a record 46.7 million American households are on food stamps. 17.9 % of American households (up 700,000 from 2010) didn’t have enough food…
The Real Weather Report
Love this weather report – check it out! Of course it is time to fire up the barbecue! Sharon
Nutritional Value of Organic Food Really Isn’t the Point
There has been a fair amount of hoohah about a Stanford Study that suggests that organic foods are no more nutritious than conventional foods. This shouldn’t be a shock, but many health claims have been waved about over the years that say otherwise. The Atlantic’s Brian Fung rightly points out that only over the last…
Time to Take Inventory
End of summer is a really good time to sit down and look at your preparations and your food storage and take inventory. What have you put by? What do you still need more of? What did you use over the last year? What did you have too much of? Whither from here? September is…
It’s the Heat of the Night
Global Weirdness: Severe Storms, Deadly Heat Waves, Relentless Drought, Rising Seas and the Weather of the Future is a new book on global warming produced by Climate Central which contains … …Sixty easy-to-read entries tackle such questions as: Is climate ever “normal”? Why and how do fossil-fuel burning and other human practices produce greenhouse gases?…