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Rescued Desert Tortoises to Be Euthanized for Lack of Funding</h1>
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<img border="0" src="http://readersupportednews.org/images/stories/alphabet/rsn-F.jpg" style="background-color: white; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white;">or decades, the vulnerable desert tortoise has led a sheltered existence.</span></div>
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Developers have taken pains to keep the animal safe. It's been protected from meddlesome hikers by the threat of prison time. And wildlife officials have set the species up on a sprawling conservation reserve outside Las Vegas.</div>
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But the pampered desert dweller now faces a threat from the very people who have nurtured it.</div>
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Federal funds are running out at the Desert Tortoise Conservation Center and officials plan to close the site and euthanize hundreds of the tortoises they've been caring for since the animals were added to the endangered species list in 1990.</div>
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"It's the lesser of two evils, but it's still evil," said U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service desert tortoise recovery coordinator Roy Averill-Murray during a visit to the soon-to-be-shuttered reserve at the southern edge of the Las Vegas Valley last week.</div>
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Biologists went about their work examining tortoises for signs of disease as Averill-Murray walked among the reptile pens. But the scrubby 220-acre refuge area will stop taking new animals in the coming months. Most that arrive in the fall will simply be put down, late-emerging victims of budget problems that came from the same housing bubble that put a neighborhood of McMansions at the edge of the once-remote site.</div>
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The Bureau of Land Management has paid for the holding and research facility with fees imposed on developers who disturb tortoise habitat on public land. As the housing boom swept through southern Nevada in the 2000s, the tortoise budget swelled. But when the recession hit, the housing market contracted, and the bureau and its local government partners began struggling to meet the center's $1 million annual budget.</div>
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Housing never fully recovered, and the federal mitigation fee that developers pay has brought in just $290,000 during the past 11 months. Local partners, which collect their own tortoise fees, have pulled out of the project.</div>
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"With the money going down and more and more tortoises coming in, it never would have added up," said BLM spokeswoman Hillerie Patton.</div>
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Back at the conservation center, a large refrigerator labeled "carcass freezer" hummed in the desert sun as scientists examined the facility's 1,400 inhabitants to find those hearty enough to release into the wild. Officials expect to euthanize more than half the animals in the coming months in preparation for closure at the end of 2014.</div>
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The desert tortoise is a survivor that has toddled around the Southwest for 200 million years. But ecologists say the loss of the conservation center represents a harmful blow in southern Nevada for an animal that has held onto some unfortunate evolutionary quirks that impede its coexistence with strip malls, new homes and solar plants.</div>
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Laws to protect the panicky plodders ban hikers from picking them up, since the animals are likely dehydrate themselves by voiding a year's worth of stored water when handled. When they're moved, they nearly always attempt to trudge back to their burrows, foiling attempts to keep them out of harm's way. They're also beset by respiratory infections and other illnesses.</div>
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No more than 100,000 tortoises are thought to survive in the habitat where millions once burrowed across parts of Utah, California, Arizona and Nevada.</div>
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The animals were once so abundant that tourists would scoop them up as souvenirs. Many quickly realized the shy grass-eaters don't make ideal pets. (For one thing, they can live for 100 years.) And once the species was classified as threatened on the endangered species list, people rushed to give them back.</div>
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Former pets make up the majority of the tortoises at the conservation center, where they spend their days staring down jackrabbits and ducking out of the sun into protective PVC piping tucked into the rocky desert floor. Most of these animals are not suitable for release, either infected with disease or otherwise too feeble to survive.</div>
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Averill-Murray looks as world-weary as the animals he studies. He wants to save at least the research function of the center and is looking for alternative funding sources.</div>
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"It's not the most desirable model to fund recovery - on the back of tortoise habitat," he said.</div>
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Anyone who kills just one of these tortoises should immediately lose his job. These tortoises can fend for themselves in the desert. Just take them to a decent environment for them and let them go! This has got to be more bureaucratic reaction to Republican hijacking of our national budget. What's next? Euthanizing orphans because there's no more government money for the orphanage? I'd rather see the entire Republican congressional contingent euthanized. Preferably by tossing them into a cement mixer with a few hundred bricks and churning the GOP into GLOP.</div>
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How much can it cost to care for TORTOISES, of all things? How about seeking volunteers or benefactors to step up to the plate?<br />
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The first shot fired at Syria will cost more than the expense required to maintain this facility--and the tortoises--inde<span style="font-size: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </span>finitely, if properly managed.</div>
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I'm sorry, DaveM, but the United States is more interested in destructive matters such as making war for world empire and supporting the weapons manufacturers in this country than constructive matters such as saving human lives and our iconic wildlife in this country.<br />
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You have to know that Obama, the Democrats and the Republicans fully know what they're doing and it has absolutely nothing to do with preserving life. You have to know that our leaders are acting as if they have their blinders on and their ears stuffed with wax so they don't have to see or hear from their constituents that we want no more war, no more killing, that we know the real reasons why our govt is doing what it's doing, and it has nothing to do with improving the human condition.<br />
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Our govt is not just threatening the desert tortoise, but they are also threatening to decimate the wild mustang population in this country as well as the wolf population and the bison population, primarily because of ranchers and hunters who have more influence with Congress and Obama than the American people.<br />
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There are private sanctuaries for wild life in this country who would gladly take care of these tortoises. I personally live in the Tucson, Arizona, area where these tortoises live and I am aware of several wildlife sanctuaries.</div>
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Once again, humans demonstrate that the top intelligent species on the planet is not Homo Sap. We've been busy destroying everything around us since we wiped out the mammoths 50,000 years ago, and now that our numbers have increased to that of a cancer on the planet, we're busy taking the whole thing down with us. The conceit that humans are something positive on the planet is not borne out by any study of the actual facts.</div>
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The Empire can't even afford a lousy million bucks a year. How pathetic. It's a matter of profit-driven priorities, of course. One Cruise cost that much twenty years ago.</div>
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Desert Tortoises are endangered, so kill them. US logic at its finest.</div>
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You said it all. That's how the US regime treats every living this. It regards everything as under its control. When it no longer care, it exterminates its things.</div>
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Desert Tortoises are endangered, so kill them. US logic at its finest.</div>
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From this morning's Las Vegas Review Journal:<br />
http://www.reviewjournal.com/news/water-environment/officials-rebut-report-hundreds-tortoises-will-be-euthanized</div>
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Desert tortoises do in my opinion and in my experience make good pets and they are not difficult to care for by a caring responsible "owner" ... Granted that if kept in good health they are very likely to out-live their owners ... but life can go on for these gentle creatures ... New caring qualified owners can be located with the assistance of any number of turtle / tortoise organizations ....just one example ... you can google for others ... http://www.tortoise.org/cttc/adoption.html ... we have no right to condemn any species to extinction for our convenience ...<br />
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Let me try to understand this. The title of the article is "Rescued Desert Tortoises to Be Euthanized for Lack of Funding."<br />
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What exactly doesn't our government understand about the words "Rescued Tortoises" and its opposite meaning "Euthanized Tortoises?"<br />
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When you rescue anything and then euthanize that anything, then you're not really rescuing them, are you? It's an oxymoron.</div>
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These tortoises have lived in the desert for millions of years without a dime of US regime spending or "protection." They can do just fine if the US regime will just go away. There may be some few people who will harm the tortoises, just as other predators such as eagles do. But they will survive and flourish on their own.<br />
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Yankee go home. Leave the desert alone.<br />
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I grew up in California and when I was a kid one of these tortoises wandered into our yard. We played with it for a while and fed it. We loved it. Then one day, it wandered on. I'm sure they will do that until all humans have exterminated themselves.</div>
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<span lang="en-US"><strong>Sunday August 11</strong></span></div>
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<span lang="en-US"><strong>Fire From </strong></span></div>
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<span lang="en-US"><strong>The Sky: Aeriel Warfare and its Moral Consequences</strong></span></div>
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<strong>6:30 pm potluck, 7:00 pm program</strong></div>
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This year there's a new format for Hiroshima Nagasaki Day to encourage new participation. We want to make a clear connection between old-thinking where atomic bombs could be dropped on civilians in 1945, and today when unmanned drones can be fired on shadowy enemies that turn out to be civilians, or used to threaten and spy on minority and dissenting voices.<div style="margin-bottom: 1.35em;">
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Potluck picnic starts at 6:30 at Walker Park Pavilion. Please bring a picnic dish to share, and your own dishes and flatware if you can. We'll have some available for those who don't bring theirs. OMNI will provide beverages<div style="margin-bottom: 1.35em;">
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Program begins at 7:00 with an annual Proclamation and comments from Mayor Lioneld Jordan, music by Kelly Mulhollan and Warren Dietzel, poetry by Leah Gould and Vela Giri, and local speakers with good thinking about violence in our culture, and how the Hiroshima / Nagasaki bombs are connected to present reality. </div>
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<strong>Nagasaki Journey: Aftermath of the Bombing </strong></div>
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July 18, 2013</div>
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6:30 pm @ OMNI Center</div>
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Three people who saw... one an American soldier. Their stories are chilling. Lively discussion will follow.<div style="margin-bottom: 1.35em;">
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<b><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 29px;">Illustrated Transformation</span></b></div>
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<em><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Arial;">There is a way forward, and we have options</span></em></div>
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<strong>Sunday August 25, 7:00 pm @ OMNI</strong></div>
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Gladys Tiffany presentation about the values shift now going on in America, to open a dialogue among progressives. We need to have this conversation together. Things are moving fast, so this is a good time to begin. </div>
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<span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Arial;">Based on work by linguist George Lakoff, and others, that demonstrates how close we are to shifting this troubled world in a more human- and earth-friendly direction.<b> </b></span></div>
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<b>More OMNI and Community Activity</b></div>
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August 8 - Radio Group General Meeting - 7:00pm @OMNI</div>
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August 11 - <span style="color: yellow;"><strong>Hiroshima Nagasaki</strong></span> Commemoration - 6:00 pm Walker Park Pavilion - Potluck Picnic </div>
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August 14 - 6:30 pm - Vegetarian Potluck - OMNI</div>
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August 18 - 7:00pm Special movie showing and discussion: "Nagasaki Journey: The Aftermath of the Bomb". 3 people whose lives were never the same.</div>
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August 23 - Dialogue Training Dinner - 6:00 pm Potluck @ OMNI. Open and caring facilitation methods explored. </div>
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August 25 - 3:00pm - WE Connection for Women</div>
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August 25 - 7:00pm - <span style="color: yellow;"><strong>Illustrated Transformation</strong></span>: we're in the thick of it. Hear about some tools to get through. Led by Gladys Tiffany @ OMNI </div>
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August 27 - Civil Rights Roundtable - 6:00 pm potluck @ OMNI</div>
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August 28 - "Girls Rising" 7:00 pm. Documentary spotlighting the strength of the human spirit and the power of education to change a girl - and the world. It's coming to the Malco Razorback <span class="ecxyshortcuts" id="ecxlw_1375930625_0">on Wednesday 28 August at 7</span>. Tickets are $10 (% goes to the charity) and it's rated PG13.<br /><br />To reserve tickets -<a href="http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?e=001u5WbBw4Zu6lHC8xcW--M0jZoIkto04wpDeWAamhUcN-swVDbqTnFph_wGkxoaEpRzgg7R86PGsC3QzNF_1I6dE9F2qSpDJdRl-wCpsCN1yT15nXN0Sf0AgLVu8Zjqex2bmMHkMiHA5wlZPYQJRjgWBnlRq1JxxTHnEPkCly0QzmwXSpOHcK_FtK_xUsb2hZ9HZA5hMfP7z84cOM8CDkg9ui7MYB9O6Kp9ACyIy_-QwYrt9RJVW-y-zAne7PoUkVRsVtx4Ft4LmBBIbSRciRRTRd7gZvDc7ht" id="ecxyui_3_7_2_1_1375911236156_30960" shape="rect" style="color: #fafafa; cursor: pointer;" target="_blank"><span class="ecxyshortcuts" id="ecxlw_1375930625_1">http://gathr.us/screening/5268</span></a> </div>
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August 31 - Labor Day Workers Breakfast - 8:30-10:00 am, fundraiser for Workers Justice Center. More info: </div>
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Toxic. Risky. Deadly. <em>Enough.</em><br /><br />The tar sands horror in Mayflower, Arkansas isn't over -- lakes of oil run through the backyards where children play, far more than Exxon first told us was there. It is a reminder of the 2010 Michigan tar sands spill, which sickened children and killed family pets yet still hasn't been fully cleaned up. <span style="font-size: 10px; line-height: 14px;"><sup style="line-height: 11px;">[1]</sup></span><br /><br /><strong>Keystone XL would be bigger than either of these failed pipelines. For our climate, our children, and our future -- you need to be at the official hearing on April 18. Every voice must be raised and heard.</strong><br /><br /><strong><a href="http://action.sierraclub.org/site/R?i=HqhjfmkkT3QHas6KwWhi8w" style="color: #333366; cursor: pointer; font-weight: inherit;" target="_blank" title="RSVP">Stand up for the climate -- come testify for our future at the Keystone XL hearing in Nebraska April 18, then join the rally outside.</a></strong><br /><br />The tar sands are a disaster, from start to finish. NASA's recently retired top climate scientist say mining the tar sands, which destroys the pristine Boreal Forest and threatens First Nations, would be <strong>"game over" for the climate.</strong> <span style="font-size: 10px; line-height: 14px;"><sup style="line-height: 11px;">[2]</sup></span><br /><br />Then, because the tar sands are so heavy and corrosive, the export pipelines are <strong>more likely to spill</strong> than other pipelines <span style="font-size: 10px; line-height: 14px;"><sup style="line-height: 11px;">[3]</sup></span> -- it's not just Arkansas and Michigan. Two other spills happened the same week as Arkansas in Canada and Texas, and the first Keystone pipeline spilled 12 times in its first year alone.<br /><br /><strong><a href="http://action.sierraclub.org/site/R?i=nTBPksTz_rrUN0cf_n8HgA" style="color: #333366; cursor: pointer; font-weight: inherit;" target="_blank" title="RSVP">What part of "no" don't they understand? Sign up today for the Keystone hearing and rally to tell the State Department that there's no room in our climate's future for Keystone XL.</a></strong><br /><br /><strong>The good news is that stopping Keystone XL will help stop the tar sands, no matter what Big Oil and its allies say.</strong> Other, alternative pipelines through Canada are running into equally stiff opposition and have been delayed. If Big Oil didn't need Keystone so badly, why would they be spending millions on lobbyists to ram it through? <span style="font-size: 10px; line-height: 14px;"><sup style="line-height: 11px;">[4]</sup></span><br /><br /><strong><a href="http://action.sierraclub.org/site/R?i=o0XjhI0DlXQWuV6A0z8Phg" style="color: #333366; cursor: pointer; font-weight: inherit;" target="_blank" title="RSVP">TransCanada executives get the profits, the rest of us get the risks. Sign up to come to Nebraska on April and raise your voice against Keystone in the biggest way possible!</a></strong><br /><br />Thanks for all you do,<br /><br />Michael Marx<br />Sierra Club Beyond Oil Campaign Director<br /><br />P.S. After you take action, be sure to <a href="http://action.sierraclub.org/site/R?i=fO9Mh8v5BGz141GR93jVJg" style="color: #333366; cursor: pointer;" target="_blank" title="Forward this Message">forward this alert</a> to your friends and colleagues -- five attendees will have even more impact than one!<br /><br /><a href="http://www.addthis.com/bookmark.php?pub=johnmuir&s=facebook&url=http://action.sierraclub.org/site/PageServer?pagename%3Devent_NAT_OIL_KXL_NebraskaHearing2013%26s_src%3D710ZSCSH01&title=There%27s%20only%20one%20official%20%23noKXL%20hearing.%20Let%27s%20make%20it%20huge%21" style="color: #333366; cursor: pointer;" target="_blank"><img alt="Share this page on Facebook" border="0" height="20" src="https://blu173.mail.live.com/Handlers/ImageProxy.mvc?bicild=&canary=HtFAXpQRT%2fgPqKCgXFfdI9WPBLP9LeJWOg72ye0eR5I%3d0&url=http%3a%2f%2faction.sierraclub.org%2fimages%2fcontent%2fpagebuilder%2ffacebook.jpg" style="border: none;" width="20" /></a><a href="http://www.addthis.com/bookmark.php?pub=johnmuir&s=twitter&url=http://action.sierraclub.org/site/PageServer?pagename%3Devent_NAT_OIL_KXL_NebraskaHearing2013%26s_src%3D710ZSCSH01&title=There%27s%20only%20one%20official%20%23noKXL%20hearing.%20Let%27s%20make%20it%20huge%21" style="color: #333366; cursor: pointer;" target="_blank"><img alt="Share this page on Twitter" border="0" height="20" src="https://blu173.mail.live.com/Handlers/ImageProxy.mvc?bicild=&canary=HtFAXpQRT%2fgPqKCgXFfdI9WPBLP9LeJWOg72ye0eR5I%3d0&url=http%3a%2f%2faction.sierraclub.org%2fimages%2fcontent%2fpagebuilder%2ftwitter.jpg" style="border: none;" width="20" /></a><a href="http://www.addthis.com/bookmark.php?pub=johnmuir&url=http://action.sierraclub.org/site/PageServer?pagename%3Devent_NAT_OIL_KXL_NebraskaHearing2013%26s_src%3D710ZSCSH01&title=There%27s%20only%20one%20official%20%23noKXL%20hearing.%20Let%27s%20make%20it%20huge%21" style="color: #333366; cursor: pointer;" target="_blank"><img alt="Share this page with other services" border="0" height="20" src="https://blu173.mail.live.com/Handlers/ImageProxy.mvc?bicild=&canary=HtFAXpQRT%2fgPqKCgXFfdI9WPBLP9LeJWOg72ye0eR5I%3d0&url=http%3a%2f%2faction.sierraclub.org%2fimages%2fcontent%2fpagebuilder%2faddthis_more.gif" style="border: none;" width="20" /></a><br /><br /><span style="font-size: 11px; line-height: 15px;">References<br /><br />[1] <a href="http://action.sierraclub.org/site/R?i=J0RiWydcMl9WGnkw5JPM0Q" style="color: #333366; cursor: pointer;" target="_blank" title="EPA">Rowan, Anne. "EPA Orders Enbridge to Perform Additional Dredging to Remove Oil from Kalamazoo River." <em>EPA.</em> 14 March 2013.</a><br /><br />[2] <a href="http://action.sierraclub.org/site/R?i=F5Pwx17bvVlwg2LA4Tm_oA" style="color: #333366; cursor: pointer;" target="_blank" title="NYT">Hansen, James. "Game Over for the Climate." <em>New York Times.</em> 9 May 2012.</a><br /><br />[3] <a href="http://action.sierraclub.org/site/R?i=ZPs70QC5y6jCe2TEvqrWfw" style="color: #333366; cursor: pointer;" target="_blank" title="Climate Progress">Israel, Josh. "Supporters Of Keystone XL Outspend Opponents 35 To 1." <em>Climate Progress.</em> 20 February 2013.</a><br /><br />[4] <a href="http://action.sierraclub.org/site/R?i=xq7-fewEZgAn42X6Top96Q" style="color: #333366; cursor: pointer;" target="_blank" title="NRDC">Swift, Anthony. 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A company in Great Britain recently installed special tiles which generate electricity when pedestrians walk on them. The generated electricity can be used to light up the pavers themselves using high-efficiency light emitting diodes (LEDs) or wired to remote lighting or even be fed into the electrical grid.</div>
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An engineer by the name of Laurence Kemball-Cook came up with the idea and has established a company to exploit this technology. His company <a href="http://www.pavegen.com/" style="border: 0px; color: #21759b; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank" title="pavegen">Pavegen</a> manufactures tiles which are made of a combination of recycled concrete and rubber from recycled tires.<br /><a href="http://ozarker.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/green-paving-slab.jpg" style="border: 0px; color: #21759b; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><img alt="green-paving-slab" class="alignright size-medium wp-image-125" height="279" src="http://ozarker.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/green-paving-slab-300x279.jpg" style="border-bottom-left-radius: 3px; border-bottom-right-radius: 3px; border-top-left-radius: 3px; border-top-right-radius: 3px; border: 0px; box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.199219) 0px 1px 4px; float: right; height: auto; margin: 0.857142857rem 0px 0.857142857rem 1.714285714rem; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" width="300" /></a></div>
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When one of the tiles is stepped on, the surface is slightly compressed about a 1⁄5 of an inch. This compression is converted to electricity via the piezoelectric effect (pronounced PIE-EE-ZO).</div>
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Actually, the work done to deform a crystal is converted to electrical energy. The effect is taken advantage in the igniters in stoves, barbeque grills, and cigarette lighters. The reverse effect functions to create the timing device in quartz watches. In this case an electric current is used to make the quartz crystal deform, that is vibrate. The frequency of the vibration is used to measure time.</div>
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This technology has applications wherever there is pedestrian traffic, indoor or out as the tiles are waterproof. Pavegen is currently installing its device in a pedestrian area adjacent to the stadium in London which will host the Olympic games this summer. Tens of thousands of foot falls will light up an adjacent mall. Numerous other applications of the technology include shopping malls, playgrounds, airports and train stations and urban sidewalks.<br /><a href="http://ozarker.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/how-they-generate-electricity.png" style="border: 0px; color: #21759b; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><img alt="how-they-generate-electricity" class="alignright size-medium wp-image-124" height="161" src="http://ozarker.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/how-they-generate-electricity-300x161.png" style="border-bottom-left-radius: 3px; border-bottom-right-radius: 3px; border-top-left-radius: 3px; border-top-right-radius: 3px; border: 0px; box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.199219) 0px 1px 4px; float: right; height: auto; margin: 0.857142857rem 0px 0.857142857rem 1.714285714rem; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" width="300" /></a></div>
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If the piezoelectric tiles were placed in highways they could generate energy to power street lights, traffic control signals, etc. The energy could power devices which could warn motorists of the presence of ice on bridges and overpasses. The power could conceivably be used to warm the surface enough to prevent icing in winter.</div>
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Another application of the piezoelectric effect is being developed for shoes and clothing. The military has experimented with piezoelectric boots which could power personal gps devices for battlefield management. Civilian technology could include piezoelectric clothing — say a jacket or pair of pants which when worn and thus in motion could generate energy to charge a cell phone, a music player or even a portable computer. Until the advent of nanotechnology this has not been possible because the piezoelectric electric materials were too brittle to be woven into fabrics.</div>
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The solution to our waning supplies of fossil fuels and the attendant problem of global warming from the use of those fuels will require many ideas big and small to create clean energy and a sustainable future. All this energy from piezoelectric devices is not free. It comes from energy expended by the people wearing or stepping on them. In our overweight society, however, that may not be a bad thing.</div>
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They call it "Ball's Pyramid." It's what's left of an old volcano that emerged from the sea about 7 million years ago. A British naval officer named Ball was the first European to see it in 1788. It sits off Australia, in the South Pacific. It is extremely narrow, 1,844 feet high, and it sits alone.</div>
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What's more, for years this place had a secret. At 225 feet above sea level, hanging on the rock surface, there is a small, spindly little bush, and under that bush, a few years ago, two climbers, working in the dark, found something totally improbable hiding in the soil below. How it got there, we still don't know.</div>
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Here's the story: About 13 miles from this spindle of rock, there's a bigger island, called Lord Howe Island.</div>
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On Lord Howe, there used to be an insect, famous for being big. It's a stick insect, a critter that masquerades as a piece of wood, and the Lord Howe Island version was so large — as big as a human hand — that the Europeans labeled it a "tree lobster" because of its size and hard, lobsterlike exoskeleton. It was 12 centimeters long and the heaviest flightless stick insect in the world. Local fishermen used to put them on fishing hooks and use them as bait.</div>
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Then one day in 1918, a supply ship, the S.S. Makambo from Britain, ran aground at Lord Howe Island and had to be evacuated. One passenger drowned. The rest were put ashore. It took nine days to repair the Makambo, and during that time, some black rats managed to get from the ship to the island, where they instantly discovered a delicious new rat food: giant stick insects. Two years later, the rats were everywhere and the tree lobsters were gone.</div>
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Totally gone. After 1920, there wasn't a single sighting. By 1960, the Lord Howe stick insect, <em>Dryococelus australis</em>, was presumed extinct.</div>
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There was a rumor, though.</div>
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Some climbers scaling Ball's Pyramid in the 1960s said they'd seen a few stick insect corpses lying on the rocks that looked "recently dead." But the species is nocturnal, and nobody wanted to scale the spire hunting for bugs in the dark.</div>
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<strong>Climbing The Pyramid</strong></div>
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Fast forward to 2001, when two Australian scientists, David Priddel and Nicholas Carlile, with two assistants, decided to take a closer look. From the water, they'd seen a few patches of vegetation that just might support walking sticks. So, they boated over. ("Swimming would have been much easier," Carlile said, "but there are too many sharks.") They crawled up the vertical rock face to about 500 feet, where they found a few crickets, nothing special. But on their way down, on a precarious, unstable rock surface, they saw a single melaleuca bush peeping out of a crack and, underneath, what looked like fresh droppings of some large insect.</div>
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Where, they wondered, did that poop come from?</div>
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The only thing to do was to go back up after dark, with flashlights and cameras, to see if the pooper would be out taking a nighttime walk. Nick Carlile and a local ranger, Dean Hiscox, agreed to make the climb. And with flashlights, they scaled the wall till they reached the plant, and there, spread out on the bushy surface, were two enormous, shiny, black-looking bodies. And below those two, slithering into the muck, were more, and more ... 24 in all. All gathered near this one plant.</div>
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They were alive and, to Nick Carlile's eye, enormous. Looking at them, he said, "It felt like stepping back into the Jurassic age, when insects ruled the world."</div>
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They were <em>Dryococelus australis. </em>A search the next morning, and two years later, concluded these are the only ones on Ball's Pyramid, the last ones. They live there, and, as best we know, nowhere else.</div>
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How they got there is a mystery. Maybe they hitchhiked on birds, or traveled with fishermen, and how they survived for so long on just a single patch of plants, nobody knows either. The important thing, the scientists thought, was to get a few of these insects protected and into a breeding program.</div>
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That wasn't so easy. The Australian government didn't know if the animals on Ball's Pyramid could or should be moved. There were meetings, studies, two years passed, and finally officials agreed to allow four animals to be retrieved. Just four.</div>
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When the team went back to collect them, it turned out there had been a rock slide on the mountain, and at first they feared that the whole population had been wiped out. But when they got back up to the site, on Valentine's Day 2003, the animals were still there, sitting on and around their bush.</div>
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The plan was to take one pair and give it a man who was very familiar with mainland walking stick insects, a private breeder living in Sydney. He got his pair, but within two weeks, they died.</div>
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<strong>Adam And Eve And Patrick</strong></div>
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That left the other two. They were named "Adam" and "Eve," taken to the Melbourne Zoo and placed with Patrick Honan, of the zoo's invertebrate conservation breeding group. At first, everything went well. Eve began laying little pea-shaped eggs, exactly as hoped. But then she got sick. According to biologist Jane Goodall, <a href="http://discovermagazine.com/2009/sep/16-jane-goodall-on-the-lazarus-effect" style="color: #3366cc; text-decoration: none;">writing for Discover Magazine</a>:</div>
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"Eve became very, very sick. Patrick ... worked every night for a month desperately trying to cure her. ... Eventually, based on gut instinct, Patrick concocted a mixture that included calcium and nectar and fed it to his patient, drop by drop, as she lay curled up in his hand."</div>
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Her recovery was almost instant. Patrick <a href="http://www.abc.net.au/pm/content/2008/s2441929.htm" style="color: #3366cc; text-decoration: none;">told the Australian Broadcasting Company</a>, "She went from being on her back curled up in my hand, almost as good as dead, to being up and walking around within a couple of hours."</div>
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Eve's eggs were harvested, incubated (though it turns out only the first 30 were fertile) and became the foundation of the zoo's new population of walking sticks.</div>
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When Jane Goodall visited in 2008, Patrick showed her rows and rows of incubating eggs: 11,376 at that time, with about 700 adults in the captive population. Lord Howe Island walking sticks seem to pair off — <a href="http://www.aszk.org.au/docs/lhisi.pdf" style="color: #3366cc; text-decoration: none;">an unusual insect behavior</a> — and Goodall says Patrick "showed me photos of how they sleep at night, in pairs, the male with three of his legs protectively over the female beside him."</div>
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Now comes the question that bedevils all such conservation rescue stories. Once a rare animal is safe at the zoo, when can we release it back to the wild?</div>
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On Lord Howe Island, their former habitat, the great-great-great-grandkids of those original black rats are still out and about, presumably hungry and still a problem. Step one, therefore, would be to mount an intensive (and expensive) rat annihilation program. Residents would, no doubt, be happy to go rat-free, but not every Lord Howe islander wants to make the neighborhood safe for gigantic, hard-shell crawling insects. So the Melbourne Museum is mulling over a public relations campaign to make these insects more ... well, adorable, or noble, or whatever it takes.</div>
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They recently made a video, with strumming guitars, featuring a brand new baby emerging from its egg. The newborn is emerald green, squirmy and so long, it just keeps coming and coming from an impossibly small container. Will this soften the hearts of Lord Howe islanders? I dunno. It's so ... so ... big.</div>
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But, hey, why don't you look for yourself?</div>
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What happens next? The story is simple: A bunch of black rats almost wiped out a bunch of gigantic bugs on a little island far, far away from most of us. A few dedicated scientists, passionate about biological diversity, risked their lives to keep the bugs going. For the bugs to get their homes and their future back doesn't depend on scientists anymore. They've done their job. Now it's up to the folks on Lord Howe Island.</div>
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Will ordinary Janes and Joes, going about their days, agree to spend a little extra effort and money to preserve an animal that isn't what most of us would call beautiful? Its main attraction is that it has lived on the planet for a long time, and we have the power to keep it around. I don't know if it will work, but in the end, that's the walking stick's best argument:</div>
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I'm still here. Don't let me go.</div>
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This was amazing to watch. Thank you for posting.</div>
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At the risk of starting another chain of unintended die - offs, I'd love to have these crawling around Iowa. Then again, I'd import kangaroos, too.</div>
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I don't think there is a home for these animals to go back too. Obviously the plant they found them near was a source of food. Also fairly obvious the animals are not like locust as they do not decimate a source of food. They have demonstrated this and the pairing to be just two of unusual traits otherwise not observed in insects. My guess is that these animals will be forever the guard of zoos around the world, that they will never again be free. To easily picked off, to easily eaten by more aggressive mammals or birds.<br /><br />As I read the original post my fear was that in disturbing these animals they had killed the last pair. Glad to see this did not happen. Though indeed, now that we have saved them, what do we do with them?</div>
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Oh I' lime green! Great colour! Hey dad can I borrow the car I'm going to the mall.</div>
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Hmmmmm lets see....ok<br />since hunters like to kill for sport(most of them),<br />I think there should be safari hunts,<br />hotel, eats, sleep accommodations for the hunters<br />at a price and they can go and surround<br />the island with their night goggles and have at it..<br />within a month rat free sliver of land..<br />and the bugs and return home..<br /><br />But then there will be the human rats at work<br />on who will profit from all the hunters and<br />corruptions will set in and there will be<br />rats added to the island to keep the money rolling in..hmmmm<br /><br />Poor big bugs.. welcome to the human element.....sighhhh</div>
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Well I hope the hatchlings can be sent to my pet shop so we can raise them in our house. Thanks.</div>
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</div>aubuniquehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14281865213176006571noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4063395844855180888.post-37526662598759149372012-06-26T13:31:00.001-05:002012-06-26T13:31:19.016-05:00Fayetteville AR mayor's town-hall meeting of June 4, 2012<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="360" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/LM7VdeH5nMQ" width="480"></iframe>aubuniquehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14281865213176006571noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4063395844855180888.post-39013977515601625952012-06-16T23:40:00.002-05:002012-06-16T23:41:38.503-05:00People who fight wildfires as seasonal employees deserve health-care coverage<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #2a2a2a; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;"></span><br />
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<b style="font-weight: bold; line-height: 23px;"><a href="http://www.change.org/petitions/give-health-care-to-firefighters-who-battle-wildfires?utm_source=action_alert&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=jqnLlliwJA&alert_id=jqnLlliwJA_IGyVOVwoYH" style="color: #508ba3; cursor: pointer; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 23px; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank">Give Health Care to Firefighters Who Battle Wildfires</a></b></div>
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<b style="font-weight: bold; line-height: 17px;">Started by: John Lauer, Denver, CO</b></div>
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Right now, wildfires are raging in New Mexico, Colorado and Arizona. And more are sure to come. </div>
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<strong style="font-weight: bold; line-height: 17px;">I'm a part of a hotshot crew of firefighters. We are on call to go anywhere, at any time to fight fires in our country.</strong> It's intense work, but my crew is like my family and we are all committed to serving our communities.</div>
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Because wildfire is more common from May to October, most of us are seasonally employed. More than 90% of us return year after year and we often work the equivalent of a full year in 6-7 months. <strong style="font-weight: bold; line-height: 17px;">Despite this -- and despite putting our lives on the line every day -- we still don’t have the opportunity to buy into a government health care plan even at the most basic level. </strong></div>
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This is because we are classified as temporary workers.</div>
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I have been a wildland firefighter for 6 years and I still don't have health insurance, but I'm one of the lucky ones. Just in my own hotshot crew, I've seen the damage and suffering this lack of coverage can produce. </div>
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My godson, Rudy, was born prematurely. Rudy’s dad, a fellow firefighter, was stuck with $70,000 worth of hospital bills that he and his wife couldn’t pay back. All because the federal government won’t allow him to access health insurance. Another crew member’s child, who was born even more recently, required special attention in the hospital and his parents’ are now facing a $40,000 in medical bills. </div>
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Wildland firefighters face enormous risks in order to serve and protect our communities. In the past 12 years, 179 wildland firefighters have been killed in the line of duty, and the conditions of the firefighting environment have been linked to cancer and permanent lung damage.</div>
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We want federal legislation that gives us that option, but we know that Congress can be slow moving. <strong style="font-weight: bold; line-height: 17px;">That's why we are asking President Obama to extend health coverage benefits to seasonal wildland firefighters.</strong></div>
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Baby Rudy doesn’t deserve to be born into debt -- his father is a hero.</div>
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Climate-heating carbon emissions set a record high in 2011, in a 3.2 percent increase over the previous year, the International Energy Agency reported this week. The main reason for this dangerous increase is that governments are failing to implement policies to prevent catastrophic increases of global temperatures.</div>
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A new report released on the last days of international climate talks in Bonn, Germany this week reveals that the planet is heading to a temperature rise of at least 3.5 degrees Celsius, and likely more, according to the <a href="http://www.climateactiontracker.org/" style="color: #d13f29; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;">Climate Action Tracker</a> (CAT), despite an international agreement to keep global temperature rise below two degrees Celsius. </div>
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Not only are pledges inadequate, but countries are unable to fulfill even those pledges, a new CAT analysis shows. CAT is a joint project of Dutch energy consulting organization <a href="http://www.ecofys.com/" style="color: #d13f29; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;">Ecofys</a>, Germany's Climate Analytics, and the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research. </div>
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"When we compared the emission reduction pledges of countries like Brazil, Mexico and the U.S., we found they did not have the policies in place to meet those pledges," said Niklas Höhne, director of energy and climate policy at Ecofys. </div>
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Höhne told IPS that they looked only at the policies of a few countries, but no country's policies were enough to meet their targets. </div>
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While Mexico introduced a solid new framework climate legislation, it has yet to implement actual policies and measures to reach its pledge, the report found. At the moment, Mexico is set to achieve only 12 percent of its pledged 30 percent reduction from business-as-usual by 2020. </div>
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Brazil has an ambitious target but a proposed new forest code, if adopted, could reverse this trend. "Scientific analysis shows that the code could increase its emissions gap substantially," the report said. </div>
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The United States pins many of its hopes on having lower emissions by 2020 due mainly to effects of the recessions and a shift from coal to gas driven by low gas prices. </div>
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Yet regulations on coal-fired power plants and on fuel efficiency in vehicles would still leave the United States "some 350 million tons of CO2 short of its already inadequate pledge, a gap that is the size of half of Canada’s annual emissions," the report found.<br />
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"We haven't looked at Canada yet but it's pretty clear they do not have the policies they need," Höhne added. </div>
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<strong>Climate talks deadlocked</strong> </div>
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The Bonn climate talks this week saw little appetite for increasing pledges. "No country wants to move. This is not a positive trend," Höhne said. </div>
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"The Bonn meeting underscores the deep divisions that remain between key countries on how to meet the climate challenge," said Alden Meyer, director of strategy and policy at the Union of Concerned Scientists. </div>
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"It’s clear we have the technology, know-how, and ability to meet this challenge, but we’re missing the political will, which was in short supply during these last two weeks in Bonn," said Meyer in a statement from Bonn. Meyer has attended nearly every climate negotiation since they began 18 years ago. </div>
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In fact, commitments to reduce emissions have been deadlocked since the 2009 Copenhagen Accord. Even if governments implemented the most stringent reductions they have proposed, world emissions would still need to decline another 9 billion tons by 2020 and every year after. </div>
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Meanwhile, 2011 emissions are one billion tons greater than 2010. </div>
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While a temperature increase of 3.5 degrees Celsius may seem small, it would create conditions not seen on the planet for 30 to 60 million years. </div>
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Most of the increase in emissions last year is from increased coal use in China and India, according to preliminary estimates from the International Energy Agency (IEA) released Thursday. Developed countries, led by Europe and the United States, reduced emissions by .6 percent collectively. </div>
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But don't blame China, said IEA's chief economist, Fatih Birol. China's enormous investment in energy efficiency and green energy enabled the country to reduce its carbon intensity - the amount of CO2 emitted per unit of GDP - by 15 percent between 2005 and 2011. </div>
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With the U.N. climate process deadlocked, action will have to come from the positive examples of cities, regions and companies that have made the low-carbon transformation and are reaping the economic and other benefits, said Höhne. </div>
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The Rio+20 Earth Summit in June is an opportunity to showcase the successful examples of energy- efficient California, for instance. Germany would be another good example, with an ambitious clean energy plan driven by the head of state Angela Merkel, he added. </div>
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The City of Fayetteville Urban Forestry
Advisory Board announces a competition for best examples of sustainable
landscapes by presenting an award to one residential property and one
commercial property. Winners will be selected from outstanding (1)
Design and Aesthetics, (2) Preservation of Natural Environment, (3)
Environmental Best Management Practices, and (4) Attraction to Wildlife.
A team of horticultural and landscape architect judges will determine
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(see link below). Winners will receive a recognition sign to be
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Anyone may nominate a property. Nomination forms due by May 15, 2012.
Email: urban_forestry@ci.fayetteville.ar.us
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</tbody></table>aubuniquehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14281865213176006571noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4063395844855180888.post-91808444377403616802012-04-03T16:52:00.002-05:002012-04-03T16:52:27.754-05:00Pennsylvania shale-fracking video worth watching, thanks to Joyce Hale<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="360" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/7DK3fODCZ3w" width="640"></iframe>aubuniquehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14281865213176006571noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4063395844855180888.post-3544671699679200332012-03-28T15:09:00.002-05:002012-03-28T15:09:38.282-05:00Fracking for natural gas in Arkansas: The view from a working farm in Sebastian County tonight at Fayetteville Public LIbrary: See preview clip below<div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="360" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/65YPWS8edM8" width="480"></iframe></div></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><br />
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<ul><li><b>Argentina</b> – a folk music festival will be held in the municipality of Alba Posse to publicize the community's stance against planned mega-dams Garabi and Pnambi.</li>
<li><b>Burma</b> – for their 7th year of participation in Day of Action for Rivers to stop the Tamanthi Dam, all affected villages will gather near the dam site to pray for an end to the dam's construction.</li>
<li><b>Pakistan</b> – along Lake View Park in Islamabad there will be a "Walk of Awareness," speeches about river conservation, and a poster-making competition.</li>
<li><b>US</b> – here in Berkeley, California, International Rivers will host an event called "Occupy the Marsh - Take Back Our Rivers!" with poetry, live music, and dance performances.</li>
</ul><b>Share your actions with us and the world!</b><br />
<ul><li>Create an event on Facebook and post it on the wall of <a href="http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=9L%2BS2k3Eu7ln89IZA6q6fe0lSI/3NwbW" target="_blank">Day of Action for Rivers on Facebook</a>.</li>
<li>Tweet your event, and be sure to include #one4rivers!</li>
<li><a href="mailto:dayofaction@internationalrivers.org?subject=My%20Day%20of%20Action%20for%20Rivers%20event">Email me photos and details of your event</a>, and I'll make sure to add it to <a href="http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=ykFGTEgOp8yeZ0JsJOdEVe0lSI/3NwbW" target="_blank">our website</a>.</li>
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<h1>This March 14 marks the 15th annual celebration of the International Day of Action for Rivers. </h1><table align="center" border="0" cellpadding="7"><tbody>
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</tbody></table><div class="orangeHeader">This year, we have already heard of <b>more than 50 planned actions in 30 countries around the world</b>. <a href="http://www.internationalrivers.org/en/node/7094">Visit the 2012 Actions by Region page</a> to view a map of these actions.</div><b>Actions range from festivals, press conferences, kayaking events, river clean-ups, protests, religious gatherings, the launching of campaigns against hydrodams, and more. </b><br />
March 14 is the International Day of Action For Rivers and Against Dams. Every year hundreds of people around the world lift their voices to celebrate the world's rivers and the thousands of people who struggle to protect them. The International Day of Action For Rivers is a day to celebrate victories such as dam removal and river restoration. It is a day to take to the streets, demonstrate and demand improvements in the policies and practices of decision makers. It is a day to educate one another about the threats facing our rivers, and learn about better water and energy solutions. Above all, it is a day to unite – by acting together, we demonstrate that these issues are not merely local, but global in scope. <br />
<b><i>What will you do for your river on March 14?</i></b><br />
If you are in the San Francisco Bay Area, join International Rivers and <a href="http://www.internationalrivers.org/node/7167">Occupy The Marsh to Take Back Our Rivers on March 14</a>!<br />
<b>Visit the <a href="http://www.internationalrivers.org/en/node/7094">2012 Actions by Region page</a> to see what others are planning.</b><br />
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</tbody></table><h3>History of the International Day of Action For Rivers</h3>The International Day of Action Against Dams and For Rivers, Water and Life was adopted by the participants of the first International Meeting of People Affected by Dams, March 1997 in Curitiba Brazil. Representatives from 20 countries decided that the International Day of Action would take place on March 14 - Brazil's Day of Action Against Large Dams. Our aim on this International Day of Action For Rivers, is to raise our voices in unison against destructive water development projects, reclaim the health of our watersheds, and demand the equitable and sustainable management of our rivers. <br />
Read the <a href="http://www.internationalrivers.org/blog-categories/841">Day of Actions for Rivers blog</a> to learn about actions in the past years! <br />
<h3>How you can get involved </h3>Plan your own event or join with others already planning events on March 14th. Talk to partners who are already planning events or have done so in the past through the <a href="http://www.facebook.com/pages/International-Day-of-Action-for-Rivers/147670252000077" target="_blank">Day of Action For Rivers Facebook page</a>. Email us at <a class="spamspan" href="mailto:dayofaction@internationalrivers.org">dayofaction@internationalrivers.org</a> with information about your event and be sure to take lots of photos and video. <br />
Here are just a few ideas for events: <br />
<ul><li>Plan a march or protest to honor your river and publicize your demands.</li>
<li>Paddle down a river, dance beside a river, jump into a river.</li>
<li>Hold a religious ceremony at the river.</li>
<li>Use theater, film and music to connect with your community and encourage them to share in the celebration.</li>
</ul>Download and print materials for your Day of Action for Rivers events <a href="http://www.internationalrivers.org/en/node/6281" target="_blank">here</a>. <br />
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<li><b>Follow the <a href="http://www.internationalrivers.org/blog-categories/841">International Day of Action For Rivers blog</a>.</b></li>
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The ASC is partnering with MAGE Solar to host a solar energy workshop on THURSDAY, February 23, 6:00-7:30 pm, in Walton College of Business room 203. <br />
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Today's 5:30 p.m. <a href="http://www.greenblue.org/author/lance-hosey/">speaker</a> at University of Arkansas. Program is free but seating is limited. So go early.<br />
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/> </div><div id="NewsPageCol1"><h2><span id="ctl00_ContentPlaceHolder1_HeadlineLabel">Lance Hosey to Discuss 'How Beauty Could Save the Planet' in Feb. 20 Lecture</span></h2><h2><span id="ctl00_ContentPlaceHolder1_HeadlineLabel"><a href="http://www.greenblue.org/author/lance-hosey/">Lance Hosey online</a>. <br />
</span></h2><span id="ctl00_ContentPlaceHolder1_articleDate">Monday, February 20, 2012</span> <br />
<div id="ctl00_ContentPlaceHolder1_storyImagePanel"><a href="http://newswire.uark.edu/images/web_Hosey_EcoLoo.jpg"> <img alt="“Eco Loo,” a self-sustaining ecosystem of public convenience stations for New York City. Image courtesy of Lance Hosey." class="storyImage" src="http://newswire.uark.edu/images/web_Hosey_EcoLoo.jpg" width="300" /></a> <span class="StoryImageCaption">“Eco Loo,” a self-sustaining ecosystem of public convenience stations for New York City. Image courtesy of Lance Hosey.</span> </div>Lance Hosey will present a lecture titled “How Beauty Could Save the Planet” at 5:30 p.m. Feb. 20 in Hembree Auditorium, in the Agricultural, Food and Life Sciences Building (Room 107E) at the University of Arkansas. Hosey is president and chief executive officer of GreenBlue, a nonprofit dedicated to sustainable innovation in design and production, in Charlottesville, Va. <br />
An architect and designer, Hosey is a former director with William McDonough + Partners and a former columnist with <i>Architect </i>magazine. With Kira Gould, he is co-author of <i>Women in Green: Voices of Sustainable Design</i> (2007), the first book in the design industry to study the connections between diversity, innovation and the environment. His forthcoming book, <i>The Shape of Green: Aesthetics, Ecology, and Design</i>,<i> </i>demonstrates how form and image can enhance conservation and community at every scale of design, from products to cities.<br />
Great design is a marriage of art and science, but so far green design has focused on science and neglected art. <i>The Shape of Green </i>examines how form and image can enhance conservation and comfort at every scale of design, including products, furniture, interiors, architecture, landscape and communities. Taking the principles of ecology to their inevitable conclusion could spark a revolution in aesthetics as well as ethics. Aesthetic attraction isn’t a superficial concern; it’s an environmental imperative. Beauty could save the planet.<br />
This is the Polk Stanley Wilcox Sustainability Lecture in the 2011-12 Fay Jones School of Architecture lecture series.<br />
Admission is free admission, with limited seating. For more information, contact 479-575-4704 or <a href="http://architecture.uark.edu/">architecture.uark.edu</a>.<br />
<div id="KeywordsDiv">Keywords: <a href="http://newswire.uark.edu/TopicsList.aspx?keyword=3">Architecture</a> <a href="http://newswire.uark.edu/TopicsList.aspx?keyword=35">Events</a> <a href="http://newswire.uark.edu/TopicsList.aspx?keyword=19">Lectures</a> <a href="http://newswire.uark.edu/TopicsList.aspx?keyword=27">Sustainability & Environment</a> </div><div id="contacts"><h4><b>Contacts:</b></h4></div>Michelle Parks, director of communications<br />
Fay Jones School of Architecture<br />
479-575-4704, <a href="mailto:mparks17@uark.edu">mparks17@uark.edu</a> </div>aubuniquehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14281865213176006571noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4063395844855180888.post-37718029272854968252012-02-18T08:21:00.002-06:002012-02-18T08:21:57.318-06:00How the ADEQ uses input from public in regulation revision<iframe width="640" height="360" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/TISWe78bl3s" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>aubuniquehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14281865213176006571noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4063395844855180888.post-21727668295325097612012-01-27T12:02:00.014-06:002012-01-30T00:07:30.756-06:00Climate scientists document global climate change with dramatic evidence<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="360" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/XU7VcqIAyVA" width="640"></iframe><br />
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