Hemp house takes builder on a major learning curve Posted 02 August 2011, by Staff, The Advocate (Fairfax Media), theadvocate.com.au TABLE Cape’s house that hemp built is almost two years behind schedule and turned out to be more of a lesson in how not to build an organic house than how to. [...]
Archive for August 2nd, 2011
2 Aug
THE ECOCIDE TRIAL
THE ECOCIDE TRIAL Posted July 2011, by Simon Hamilton and Fiona Hayes, The Hamilton Group, Crowdfunder, crowdfunder.co.uk (Ed Note: Please visit the original site for more photographs associated with this article, and for more info and timely updates.) “Once upon a time people did grievous harm to the environment without fully understanding the [...]
2 Aug
Stratfor: Norway – lessons from a successful lone wolf attacker
STRATFOR: Norway – lessons from a successful lone wolf attacker Posted 01 August 2011, by Scott Stewart (STRATFOR), defenceWeb (ITWeb), defenceweb.co.za On the afternoon of July 22, a powerful explosion ripped through the streets of Oslo, Norway, as a large improvised explosive device (IED) in a rented van detonated between the government building housing the [...]
2 Aug
How wildfires happen
How wildfires happen Posted 30 July 2011, by Sandy Dechert, Examiner (Houston)(Clarity Digital Group LLC), examiner.com CONCLUSION: Las Conchas New Mexico fire, June-July 2011 Las Conchas firein New Mexico’s Santa Fe National Forest. It scorched over 150,000 acres. It sparked fears of deadly radiation release from the nation’s top nuclear weapons laboratory at Los Alamos. [...]
2 Aug
Climatic Benefits from Carbon Sequestration Are Largely Offset by Increased Nitrous Oxide Emissions, Study Finds
Climatic Benefits from Carbon Sequestration Are Largely Offset by Increased Nitrous Oxide Emissions, Study Finds Posted 01 August 2011, by Staff, ScienceDaily (iVillage Network), sciencedaily.com ScienceDaily (Aug. 1, 2011) — Recent studies have shown that human nitrogen additions to terrestrial ecosystems increase the terrestrial carbon dioxide uptake from the atmosphere. A new study [...]
2 Aug
Debt-for-Nature Swaps -plus- The Green Cafe Network
Debt-for-Nature Swaps -plus- The Green Cafe Network Posted 01 August 2011, by Roddy Scheer and Doug Moss, Southwest City News-Herald, swnewsherald.com EarthTalk® E -The Environmental Magazine Dear EarthTalk®: As I understand it, “Debt-for-Nature Swaps” are arrangements by which countries can erase debt by preserving land. Are any being done today? — Bill Hunt, Topeka, KS [...]
2 Aug
Biodiversity On Earth Plummets, Despite Growth in Protected Habitats
Biodiversity On Earth Plummets, Despite Growth in Protected Habitats Posted 20 July 2011, by Tom Zeller Jr., The Huffungton Post (AOL Lifestyle), huffingtonpost.com Despite rapid and substantial growth in the amount of land and sea designated as protected habitat over the last four decades, the diversity of species the world over is plummeting, [...]
2 Aug
Beetles: nature’s herbicide
Beetles: nature’s herbicide Posted 01 August 2011, by Jeremy Hance, Mongabay, mongabay.com New research in the Journal of Applied Ecology shows that ground beetles help farmers in the UK by devouring weed seeds before they can sprout. The researchers say the study finds another proof of how biodiversity—the multitude of species on Earth—provides ‘free’ ecosystem [...]
2 Aug
War of the willows
War of the willows Posted 02 August 2011, by Staff, The Bellingen Shire Courier-Sun (Fairfax Media), .bellingencourier.com.au Willows are major environmental weeds of riverbank habitats across much of south-eastern Australia. They obstruct water flow, increase water temperature, change water chemistry and can displace native riverine plant species.A CSIRO project looking at the reproductive ecology and [...]
