Environment
Reduce Your Plastic Footprint
Plastic is among the most dangerous of pollutants, because it does not biodegrade and it can harm wildlife. It gets into the ocean, even out into deep water, where animals ingest it and then sicken and die; and it stays there. Even microscopic pieces cause trouble.
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25Feb2009 | Elizabeth Barrette | Comments Off | Continued
Three Questions: “Climate Fears Are Driving ‘Ecomigration’ Across Globe”
As climate change progresses, many places that are marginally inhabitable now will become uninhabitable, while some comfortable places will become marginal. As habitat foreclosure makes people flee to safer places, political and social tensions tend to rise. Watch for more news about “ecomigration” and related terms “ecogees” or “envirogees” for refugees displaced by climate change.
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24Feb2009 | Elizabeth Barrette | Comments Off | Continued
California’s Water Woes Impact Everyone
California has suffered increasing problems due to drought. Most recently, the federal water supply for irrigation has been cut off. This negatively impacts not only farmers, but everyone who relies on California for fresh fruits and vegetables. The water deficit promises more trouble to come.
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23Feb2009 | Elizabeth Barrette | Comments Off | Continued
The Forest and the Trees
Recently we’ve been following the development of the Australian drought and wildfires . These are not isolated incidents, but rather, individual data points in a complex process. As climate change advances, we need to identify and connect the dots of its effects in different places. The following article examines global drying trends with an eye to their effect on economics, from Australia to China and beyond.
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19Feb2009 | Elizabeth Barrette | Comments Off | Continued
Birds Moving North
According to reports from the Audubon Society , some bird species are shifting their ranges northward in response to climate change. The society has a backyard bird count scheduled for February 13-16, as well as a petition to combat global warming . This is related to the northward shift of planting zones . Climate change affects everyone, and its effects are becoming more and more noticable.
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13Feb2009 | Elizabeth Barrette | Comments Off | Continued
Words for the Water Economy
The current economic crisis and the growing water crisis have much in common. Both fundamentally stem from people living beyond their means and societies designing unsustainable systems. As mentioned in the previous post about Australia , "drought" really refers to a temporary reduction in rainfall. We need to expand our vocabulary to meet the challenges of climate change. Here are some dryly humorous suggestions.
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6Feb2009 | Elizabeth Barrette | Comments Off | Continued
Three Questions: No Water Down Under
The following article discusses an extreme (by current standards) heat wave in Australia. This island continent is running out of water and experiencing increasing temperatures — an ominous preview of what the rest of the world will face as global warming progresses.
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5Feb2009 | Elizabeth Barrette | Comments Off | Continued
The World Without Me
I’ve read the extrapolative science book The World Without Us 
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26Jan2009 | Elizabeth Barrette | Comments Off | Continued
Book Review: The World Without Us
The World Without Us
This book is the inverse of science fiction: imaginative science fact. It begins with the same question -– “what if?” –- but uses research to extrapolate what would happen to human artifacts and to the Earth in general if all humans abruptly vanished. This covers odd scenarios such as total plague, rapture, or alien removal rather than catastrophic ones such as nuclear war or asteroid strike. The results are fascinating, sometimes disturbing, sometimes oddly hopeful.
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25Jan2009 | Elizabeth Barrette | Comments Off | Continued
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Something bad is already happening. People going bankrupt over the cost of the high cost of health care, more and more people homeless every day and so on. Its a slow death.
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It "boils" down to sunspot activity. We have been fortunate to have 310 years of sunspot activity that has warmed the earth up right nicely. Not sure what people are complaining about.
There are 9 sunspot cycles in a century and two of them are 
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This summer we put up a clothes line, although I should use it more, it's hard in the winter. I also have a crochet pattern for making a "Snuggle Up Throw with Sleeves"... Here's the link:
Did anyone make it out this is meet and greet? Wondering about future events and would like some insight. Cheers
Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash.
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