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It was only a matter of time…. Let’s hope this changes our relationship with animals…-tr*
Researchers at the Bonobo Hope Great Ape Trust Sanctuary in Des Moines, Iowa, are developing an app that acts as a human-ape translator, allowing both species to communicate with one another using a tablet.
All seven of the bonobos at the [...]

Two brothers in Nebraska boosted corn yields by 10 percent in non-irrigated conditions with moisture-conserving cover crops, and have launched a cover-crop seed business.
Within a year, knowledge gained from a three-day renewable energy training benefited more than 2,600 farmers across the South.
Former tobacco farmers in Kentucky are now cashing in on sweet potatoes—grossing up to [...]

The National Wildlife Federation has published a report on how we’re bearing in the face of climate change
Having the reality of the destructive forces presented by climate change fully register with people, so they will to act with the needed urgency, is indeed a challenge. And, while the physical and environmental effects of global warming [...]

Nonprofit Friends of the Elephant Seal and California State Parks now have a live web cam that lets you watch Northern Elephant Seals on the beach at Piedras Blancas from the comfort of your office.
Watch every day for changes. Follow my blog for information about what is happening and why the seals are there. In [...]

SoCal Connected reports on fracking in California.
“California is the fourth largest producer of oil and gas in the nation, and companies are turning to controversial techniques like fracking. The industry would like to keep facts about the process buried, but it’s got residents scared. In a “SoCal Connected” special report, correspondent Jennifer London unearths whether [...]

It’s not just fishing in Morro Bay. The San Luis Obispo Tribune reports:
In 2003, the pastor of the Estero Bay United Methodist Church in Morro Bay, Steve Islander, and board member Lee Greenwalt proposed temporarily using some of the church’s vacant property as a community garden.
A meeting to discuss the potential garden attracted sufficient interest [...]

USDA Reverses Itself and Exempts Rural Properties with Gas Drilling Leases from NEPA

[New York – March 20, 2012]  In a move that has angered hydrofracking opponents, the USDA did an about-face and reneged on earlier statements that its popular rural housing loans on properties with gas drilling leases would have to comply with the National [...]

Inadequate enforcement means current Colorado oil and gas development is irresponsible
Published: March 20, 2012
By: Lisa Sumi
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From the report:
The Colorado General Assembly created the Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Commission to “foster the responsible development of Colorado’s oil and gas natural resources.”To do so, the COGCC developed and implemented regulations to govern the oil [...]

JACK GILLUM and SETH BORENSTEIN checked the facts:
WASHINGTON (AP) — It’s the political cure-all for high gas prices: Drill here, drill now. But more U.S. drilling has not changed how deeply the gas pump drills into your wallet, math and history show.
A statistical analysis of 36 years of monthly, inflation-adjusted gasoline prices and U.S. domestic [...]

This is Part One of a Three-Part Series by Walter Brasch, Dissident Voice | News Analysis on Truthout:

A new Pennsylvania law endangers public health by forbidding health care professionals from sharing information they learn about certain chemicals and procedures used in high volume horizontal hydraulic fracturing. The procedure is commonly known as fracking.
Fracking is the [...]

Mother Jones checks into it:
There isn’t supposed to be much fracking in California. In the past, the state’s Division of Oil, Gas, and Geothermal Resources (DOGGR) has said that it “does not believe that fracking is widely used” in the state. More recently, the division allowed that the practice is “used for a brief period [...]

By Press Action
Among U.S. shale gas producers, Range Resources Corp. has been the most aggressive in going after residents and activists who complain about the industry’s actions, according to Calvin Tillman, the former mayor of DISH, Texas, and an outspoken critic of the natural gas industry.
Chesapeake Energy Corp. and other leading U.S. gas producers [...]

The world is entering an era where injuries as common as a child’s scratched knee could kill, where patients entering hospital gamble with their lives and where routine operations such as a hip replacement become too dangerous to carry out, the head of the World Health Organisation (WHO) has warned, in a story from the [...]

Rep. Cliff Steans R-FL, a birther, one of the leaders of the Solyndra witch hunt and defender of subsidies to Big Oil companies, told constituents at a town hall meeting Belleview, Florida, on February 25 that “we don’t need any more national parks in this country” and that we need to “actually sell off some [...]

Tuesday, March 20, 6 PM (Potluck), 7-9 PM (Dialogue), Civic Media Center – 433 S. Main St.

“Working for Food Justice: A Community Dialogue on Integrating Social Justice and Sustainability from Farm to Table”

Please join us for a community potluck and dialogue. We will be joined by a number of well-respected activists working to increase food [...]

Sunday, March 18, 7 pm, Civic Media Center, 433 South Main Street
$12 adv / $15 door / $10 low income
Advance tickets & info:
Civic Media Center & emmasrevolution.com
Emma’s Revolution “Smart, funny, informative — like Rachel Maddow and Jon Stewart with guitars.”
Award-winning, activist musicians Pat Humphries & Sandy O, Emma’s Revolution has performed at thousands of events [...]

Did you catch “End of Growth” at Cinema Verde? The man who inspired the clip will be at UF to tell us more on Wednesday:
Richard Heinberg, Senior Fellow of the Post-Carbon Institute, will speak at 6 p.m. in the Pugh Hall Ocora at the University of Florida.
Author of ten books, including The Party’s [...]

Join us for this special event at UF on Tuesday, March 13th:

In honor of “Climate Week,” Stephen Mulkey, Ph.D. will be presenting The Latest Scientific Findings on Climate Change:

“Losing Control of the Global Thermostat – Implications for Florida, the U.S. and the World”

Tuesday, March 13th — 7:30 p.m.

Smathers Library East at UF, Room 1 [...]

Trish Riley began covering environmental business stories more than a decade ago when “green” at most publications meant dollars not the environment. She wrote about contracting opportunities with the Everglades restoration project, energy-efficient architecture and slipped in environmental asides when editors wouldn’t let sustainability take center stage.
“That’s how I managed to do environmental coverage all [...]

Blue Springs near the Oklawaha circa 1960 and 2012This shows some old family footage of a beautiful clear spring where a friend’s family vacationed in the late 50′s early 60′s. It shows a her sister paddling in the springs and also the ferry they had to take to get there. The Rodman reservoir is drawn [...]