Archive for January, 2008
Food Prices to Rise
Wednesday, January 30th, 2008Economist say we’ve seen the end of cheap food (Cheap? Hmmm - when did that happen?) Rising food prices are a threat to many. Have your hydroponic gardens set up yet? read more | digg story
Bill Against Collection of Environmental Info?
Wednesday, January 30th, 2008A bill drafted by the New York City Council members could stifle the collection of environmental information vital to the public good. Will our knowledge of how we are being poisoned end with it? read more | digg story
Babies Used in Test on Toxicology (and other questions)
Tuesday, January 29th, 2008Dr - I appreciate your comment, and have decided rather than to leave it as a comment, I would answer it here where it can be addressed head on.
Your comment is as follows:
Why do you keep perpetuating this garbage. Aspartame’s history, even if true, has nothing to do with its […]
Surviving An Influenza Pandemic
Saturday, January 26th, 2008Here we are at the beginning of a new year and seeing new outbreaks of bird flu in Vietnam and India. The outbreaks are being met with some serious action since the flu has mutated and can infect humans. While the thedailygreen.com has quoted the Los Angeles Times as reporting that the virus […]
Are We Living in a New Geological Age?
Friday, January 25th, 2008If you think the planet isn’t changing - it is changing enough for scientists to debate that we might be living in a new Geological Age and are making moves to name our new age………
read more | digg story
Natural Disasters Increased in 2007
Thursday, January 24th, 2008Natural disasters increased last year. If you are looking for hard statistics, you will find they vary wildly. Mostly the variation in the available stats can be attributed to what exactly was included as a disaster and what was not. The largest statistic I saw posited that we experienced 950 disasters - up […]