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Gardening astronauts and CO2 detectives: Space exploration fights climate change
Climate change is a global threat. So where to get the best perspective on the problem? Space! Scientists are monitoring Earth with satellites and running experiments in zero gravity to help save our fragile planet.

When Yuri Gagarin, the first human being to leave the confines of Earth, looked back and saw it from outside, his worldview changed forever. "I saw for the first time how beautiful our planet is," Gagarin said on his return. "Mankind, let us preserve and increase this beauty, and not destroy it."

Since then, numerous astronauts have reported similar feelings of protectiveness toward a planet that suddenly appeared tiny, fragile and alone in the universe. Most recently, US astronaut Scott Kelly said looking down at our planet from space makes you "more of an environmentalist."

Kelly saw something that wouldn't have been as visible in Gagarin's day. He reported that from the vantage point of the International Space Station (ISS), he was viewing some parts of the world through a thick veil of pollution.

But these days, that extraterrestrial perspective isn't just changing our relationship with the planet on a conceptual level. It's helping us develop solutions to protect it.

Seeing it from space, Yuri Gagarin grapsed in beauty and fragility of our planet in a whole new way

A fresh perspective on climate change

This week, more than 100 scientists gathered in Cologne at the Climate Change Conference organized by the German Aerospace Center (DLR) to discuss how space-based research helps us better understand and adapt to climate change.

The closest we've got to colonizing another planet is landing robots on Mars. Their holiday snaps don't look very inviting

Experimenting with how plants get on in zero gravity, astronauts tending their garden aboard the IS found they could grow vegetables with less water than they'd need back home. The research could help terrestrial farmers save water – which will play an increasingly important role in feeding the world in a hotter climate.

In early April, ISS crew members harvested red romaine lettuce from NASA's VEG experiment, the third round of the project. They had to save some of the harvest for research back on Earth. But the rest, they were allowed to eat.

"It was delicious," astronaut Anton Shkaplerov announced on Instagram, welcoming a change from the dehydrated fare he'd had to get used to.

Even a simple lettuce leaf becomes a thing of wonder once you leave planet Earth. So with landing the first humans on the barren uninhabitable wastes of Mars still some way off, we'd do well to listen to the space explorers, and preserve the planet we have.

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  THE AMAZING THINGS SENTINEL SATELLITES SEE
  From the French Riviera
  It may be among the strangest places on Earth, but this is where a lot of the European Union's Sentinel satellite equipment is being built for the Copernicus Earth Observation program. In Cannes, Thales Alenia Space is responsible for the Sentinel-1 satellites and a few of the others, too. The contractors include Airbus and many more. Sentinel-1B launches this week, making the first mission whole.
  

http://www.dw.com/en/gardening-astr...n-newsletter_en_bulletin-2097-html-newsletter

 

[rbkwp]

what can one say
tired of saying it
saturate the threads, THANKS Rob for your indulgence

THESE WILDLIFE WONDERS ARE SURVIVING IN A WAR ZONE
BY LAURA SECORUN PALET • APR 19 2018

Why You Should Care

Because life always finds a way.

Have you ever heard of the red river hog, the fanged deer or the giant pangolin? Don’t worry — neither have most zoologists. All three of these enigmatic creatures live in one of the more richly biodiverse, yet less accessible, corners of our planet: South Sudan.

The world’s youngest country is known for having endured more than two decades of armed conflict. But it should also be famous for its fauna. The landlocked nation between East and Central Africa is home to many incredible natural wonders, including the world’s second-largest land mammal migration and Africa’s largest wetland, the Sudd. This swampy 35,000-square-mile stretch along theNile is actually listed as a World Heritage Site.

In the midst of the armed conflict, animal poaching spiked, and many conservationists thought South Sudan was hurtling toward mass extinction. But they were in for a surprise. When the Wildlife Conservation Society and the U.S. Agency for International Development began conducting aerial assessments of the country, they realized that the vast, centuries-old migration between the Sudd and Bandingilo National Park was virtually untouched by the war.

INSIDE THIS UNEXPECTED NOAH’S ARK, RESEARCHERS ALSO FOUND OTHER ANIMALS ON THE BRINK OF EXTINCTION.

Their surprise was even greater when, in 2015, cameras placed by researchers in the remote area of Western Equatoria captured images of an endangered species of pachyderm never before seen in South Sudan: the forest elephant. Until then, this smaller, hairier cousin of the famed savanna elephant was known to live in only half a dozen other African countries. The discovery “significantly expands the known range of this critically endangered species and adds another charismatic large mammal to the impressive list of mammals in South Sudan,” says DeeAnn Reeder, a biology professor at Bucknell University, who worked on the project alongside a conservation charity and South Sudan’s wildlife service.

Inside this unexpected Noah’s Ark, researchers also found other animals on the brink of extinction. There were rare deer, giant pangolins (shy, scaly anteaters) and even African golden cats — a gorgeous, blonder version of a cheetah that is vanishing due to deforestation. They had all survived the war.

SOURCE MICHAEL D. KOCK/GETTY

Savanna elephant bulls on the move near Ayod, on the edge of Sudd swamp, South Sudan.

SOURCE MICHAEL D. KOCK/GETTY

Protecting South Sudan’s wildlife is now crucial, not just for the animals’ sake but also for the future of the country. When South Sudan finds peace, tourism promises to be a great source of income and employment in a country that has long relied almost exclusively on oil exports. The nation’s Ministry of Wildlife Conservation and Tourism actually estimates that the tourism industry could contribute up to 10 percent of South Sudan’s gross domestic product in just a decade.

The country already has several national parks that would make for a once-in-a-lifetime safari. Some are thrillingly remote, like Nimule National Park, a picturesque stretch of hills and rivers bordering Uganda where it is easy to spot herds of wild elephants. Bandingilo National Park, on the other hand, is home to the awe-inspiring mammal migration and just a short drive from Juba, the capital, making it a perfect getaway for tourists.

A female white-eared kob lets her head drift backward after being darted with anesthetic from a helicopter north of Nyat in Boma National Park.

SOURCE GEORGE STEINMETZ/GETTY

Local rangers and international nonprofits are already committing vast resources to the wildlife preservation effort. As for us couch ecologists, we can take solace in knowing that, despite humanity’s penchant for environmental destruction, at least in South Sudan, nature still has the upper hand.

https://www.ozy.com/good-sht/these-...018&variable=2a7c7073d11b33ec576dc49ca0852af6

 

[rbkwp]

how coolis tht
dont often hear of things emoved from an endangered list
smile add
rats and bats, not the most favoured of the anial species ha
cane toads similar ha

Once Rare Nectar-Feeding Bat Removed From U.S. Endangered Species List

Read more: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smar...endangered-list-180968829/#dsvjoS8gJIcxYwfW.9

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smar...pJobID=1262339680&spReportId=MTI2MjMzOTY4MAS2

admit it was for sure

This Stunning Memorial to Britain’s WWI Soldiers Makes Its Final Appearance
The wave of brilliant red flowers marks the end of a centennial of commemorations of the Great War

Read more: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/trav...uk-countryside-180968803/#KmW8OJR1xwpCBK6o.99

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/trav...pJobID=1262339680&spReportId=MTI2MjMzOTY4MAS2

on a much bighter note'

do woman sag sooner than men
well maybe not,our paunch is just as bad ha
not often im entranced with female beauty haha
actually the TAUREG woman have always immpressed huh

 

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Daily Shouts
A Sampling of the Many Fish in the Sea
By Sarah Ransohoff

April 18, 2018

https://www.newyorker.com/humor/dai...pJobID=1381705763&spReportId=MTM4MTcwNTc2MwS2

 

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Flow Gently Sweet Afton

 

[rbkwp]

was there a mention of NG and a 100 plus years of human racisim inadvertently mentioned
days of old
as important now,animals tahe precedent over humans i think
preservation of,why not !!!

we humans have hardly earnt our existence on this planet despite what some may think

Elephants marching through muddy water

Food waste, caribou crisis and an accidental plastics breakthrough – green news roundup

The last herd of caribou to roam the contiguous US is believed to be on the brink of disappearing. Photograph: Alamy Stock Photo

 

[rbkwp]

uuhmmm
interesting reading huh
reading/trying to undestand ithaha
seems theres a lot moie to knowing/not knowing o grasping what theyre on about as compared to my simplified version of a Nonel is for said person who has a decent perspective on humanity
i rest my case haha

still think Merkels is deserved of one, as say compared to any other person this centuy, so far?? duh

Flow Gently Sweet Afton

The trouble with the Nobel prize

Ron Cowen weighs up Brian Keating’s call to reform the most coveted award in physics.

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41...il&utm_campaign=briefing&utm_content=20180420

Food waste, caribou crisis and an accidental plastics breakthrough – green news roundup

The last herd of caribou to roam the contiguous US is believed to be on the brink of disappearing. Photograph: Alamy Stock Photo

 

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‘Exploding’ Ant Ruptures Its Own Body to Defend Its Nest
It’s the ultimate act of self-sacrifice

Read more: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smar...efend-its-nest-180968857/#R4BTJQooCuhJxtx2.99

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smar...pJobID=1262446177&spReportId=MTI2MjQ0NjE3NwS2

A weasel with a rat its jaws at Lake Kuyucuk in Kars, Turkey. Photograph: Anadolu Agency/Getty Images

 

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Conflict & Justice

They spewed hate. Then they punctuated it with the president’s name.

Reveal

April 20, 2018 · 11:15 AM EDT

By Will Carless
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Credit:
Mr. Fish for Reveal

Editor’s note: To provide a full picture of what hate speech victims experienced, we have not edited out offensive language.

It was the day after the 2016 presidential election. Melissa Johnson was walking out of a Trader Joe’s in the heart of San Diego when a shiny BMW pulled up alongside her. The driver was a man in his late 30s. Dark hair. Green eyes. Her first thought: He’s kind of hot.

The car slowed down. Then the man shouted at her through the open window.

“Fuck you, nigger, go back to Africa. The slave ship is loading up,” he said. Then he added an exclamation point: “Trump!”

As the man drove away, Johnson, looked around at the shoppers who had witnessed the attack. She was the only African American in the parking lot. Not one person met her eye. Nobody said anything. So the 37-year-old walked, stunned, to her car, where she sat and wept.

Melissa Johnson was a victim of hate speech in this Trader Joe’s parking lot in San Diego the day after the 2016 presidential election.

Credit:
Jamie Scott Lytle for Reveal

Nearly every metric of intolerance in the US has surged over the past 18 months, from reported anti-Semitism and Islamophobia to violent hate crimes based on skin color, nationality or sexual orientation.

This renaissance of hate features something new: xenophobic, racist and homophobic attacks punctuated with President Donald Trump’s name. To understand the scope of the phenomenon, Reveal from The Center for Investigative Reporting identified more than 150 reports of Trump-themed taunts and attacks stretching across 39 states over the past year and a half.

Interviews with the targets of and witnesses to these incidents showed a striking pattern. The abusers had a clear message: Trump’s going to take care of a problem — and that problem is you.

This pattern extended across races, religions and sexual orientation. Two days after the presidential election, a gay man in Michigan heard a taunt from a group of men: “Trump is going to get rid of people like you.” A week later, a Jewish woman in Austin, Texas, said she heard exactly the same threat from a middle-aged white man as she lined up to buy groceries. Two months later, a Latino man in California said he was told by a white ex-girlfriend that Trump was going “get rid of the Hispanics.” By March, a black woman in Houston reported that she was told by a white man that Trump was going to “get rid of all you niggers.”

Immediately after the election, there was a surge in Trump-related taunts. But all last year and into this year, the threats kept coming: An Asian American woman in Hollywood, California, had her hair pulled by an older white woman and was told that she had to “go back to China” now that Trump is president. In the Washington, D.C., area, the Trump-tainted threats got so frequent and so bad that Mohammad Qureshi, a Muslim American man who works at the Dulles Airport Marriott, changed his nametag to John.

These interviews reveal the trickle-down effect of a president who has called Mexicans rapists, proposed barring Muslims from entering the country and denigrated certain nations as “shithole countries.” Sometimes the perpetrators quoted the president’s words nearly verbatim. Other times, they signaled that as far as they’re concerned, the country has changed in their favor now that Trump is in charge.

For most of those targeted, it wasn’t the first time they have heard hateful speech. But dozens of people interviewed for this story said we’ve entered a new era of hate — one of open, blatant shouts, not whispers. And now that hate features a presidential seal of approval.

Racism in America used to be more subtle, Johnson said. As she shopped for dresses and handbags at Nordstrom, she said the security guards would follow her. The old lady in the elevator would clutch her Louis Vuitton bag a little tighter in the enclosed space — never mind that Johnson has five of those bags herself. Neighbors discouraged their son from dating her.

Now, things are different.

“Trump is giving these people so much power, so that they feel as though they’re also running the country,” Johnson said. “These horrible, ugly people now have a voice. And I’m so tired of hearing it because I’ve heard it my entire life. But it was whispers before. Now they’re yelling.”

Reveal culled the reports of Trump-themed attacks from Documenting Hate, a media collaborative led by ProPublica that tracks hate incidents across the country. Overall, Documenting Hate has received more than 300 reports of people using Trump’s name in hate speech since the effort launched in January 2017. That’s out of about 4,700 total tips.

Reveal spoke with more than 80 people who reported the Trump-themed cases, and located another 70 that had been reported by other media organizations or confirmed with documentation.

Most of the victims of abuse by Trump supporters said they’re scared. But their fear isn’t just that they will be attacked again by people emboldened by Trump. They worry that America has taken a step backward after generations of civil rights gains.

Najwa Sebbahi, for example, witnessed a middle-aged white woman’s Islamophobic rant against several customers in a store in the New York borough of Brooklyn three weeks before the 2016 election.

“Trump is going to get rid of all of you terrorists,” the woman said. The attack culminated in the woman pushing a Pakistani American girl and the police being called. Sebbahi, who immigrated to the US from Morocco in her teens, said police refused to charge the woman with a crime, citing her right to free speech.

It’s not the only attack Sebbahi has witnessed recently, and she said things have become palpably different for Muslim Americans since Trump took office. The president’s hostility toward Muslims, including his push for a ban on immigrants from six Muslim-majority countries, has opened the floodgates of hostility, the 32-year-old said.

 

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“Every time I’m in public with my mom and she’s wearing her hijab, I’m very cautious and I tell her: ‘Don’t even, like, try to interact with anyone,’” Sebbahi said. “I just don’t want any of these interactions anymore. I feel like some people are just waiting for the slightest mistake to start an attack against you.”

‘He will get rid of all of you’
While most of the incidents were verbal, some taunts turned violent.

The week after the 2016 election, 32-year-old Dusty Paul Lacombe was arrested and charged with attacking an African American man outside a convenience store in Texas. Lacombe, who is white, announced that he was a Trump supporter right before the attack, according to a police report. He wasn’t charged with a hate crime.

In January 2017, prosecutors say Robin Rhodes, a 57-year-old white man, attacked a Muslim American employee at New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport. They say he knelt, mocking Muslim prayer, and yelled: “Trump is here now. He will get rid of all of you.” He also is accused of shouting, “Fuck Islam.” Rhodes was indicted on hate crime charges two months later.

In February 2017, Brandon Ray Davis rented a scooter while on vacation in Key West, Florida. The 30-year-old North Carolina man spotted a gay couple riding bikes and ran into one of the men, shouting “Faggots” and “You live in Trump country now!” Davis was charged with aggravated battery with hate crime enhancements and pleaded guilty to lesser charges in a plea agreement. He was sentenced to probation and community service.

But even in the dozens of cases of Trump-related abuse that did not result in physical attacks, victims of the hate speech say they were left scarred.

Kelly Ha was walking to the bus stop one day in January 2017 near her home in Washington, D.C., when a middle-aged white woman suddenly screamed at her. Ha had stopped briefly in the middle of the sidewalk to search for something in her handbag, and this delay had sent her attacker into paroxysms of rage.

“Go the fuck back to China or wherever you came from,” the woman said.

“Trump should have started with people like you,” Ha remembered the woman saying. “You’re the real threat to this country.”

Ha, a 23-year-old Korean American who has lived in the US her entire life, was dismayed by the outburst. She has spent her life studying and working hard and has never considered herself anything other than just another American.

As she recalled the incident, Ha’s voice trembled and broke with emotion.

“You know, people have used (Trump’s) name to justify all sorts of things. And racism is really just the start of it,” Ha said. “Some people are just racist. They only see you for what you look like — the color of your skin or the color of your hair or what your face looks like.”

Dozens of people across the country said the same thing: What hurts most in these attacks is being told that you don’t belong in America. That you’re not welcome. That since Trump was elected, the country has been reserved for a certain group — a group that doesn’t look like you or dress like you or practice the same religion as you.

The more than 150 reports likely represent only a tiny fraction of the Trump-related hate speech going on every day. Most are never officially reported anywhere to anyone. Documenting Hate catches only incidents picked up by the media or in which people self-report. And Trump-tainted taunts are just a subset of a flood of hate speech and hate crimes that has been cataloged by Documenting Hate and advocacy organizations.

The number of hate crimes committed in 2016 reached a five-year high, fueled by a spike around the November election, according to official FBI hate crime statistics. The Anti-Defamation League reports that anti-Semitic activity such as harassment and vandalism of synagogues rose 57 percent from 2016 to 2017. The Council on American-Islamic Relations tallied a 24 percent rise in anti-Muslim bias incidents in the first half of 2017 compared with the first half of 2016.

“This dry kindling was already there,” said Brian Levin, director of the Center for the Study of Hate and Extremism at California State University, San Bernardino. “The president’s invocation of various negative stereotypes has both coalesced, solidified and, in some ways, normalized the stereotypes in a mainstream discourse.”

This mainstreaming of negative stereotypes has spilled over into an increase in hate incidents and hate crimes, Levin said. He pointed out that in the days after the 2015 San Bernardino terrorist attack, while candidate Trump was enthusiastically pushing his Muslim travel ban on Twitter and in public appearances, there was a surge in anti-Muslim hate crimes.

Reveal’s analysis showed that people reported being targets of Trump-inspired hate speech in at least 39 states. Most incidents involved angry shouts of abuse, sometimes in private and sometimes in public. There also were incidents of Trump-inspired property damage and graffiti on victims’ property. And Reveal confirmed two dozen incidents of people writing hateful notes, letters or social media posts specifically referring to actions Trump would take against racial or religious minority groups.

Attacks have occurred in tiny rural towns and liberal neighborhoods in major cities. People have shouted Trump-laced insults from car windows and threatened passengers on public trains and buses. Trump supporters have accosted shoppers in grocery stores and malls, on beaches and in diners. And even schools have become steeped in political poison as children interpret Trump’s words, tweets and actions in their own ways.

‘He’s trying to create a white world’
Growing up in Arvada, Colorado, was always going to have its challenges for Aaliyah, Chris and Khalil Stevens-Roesener.

The three biological siblings, who are African American, were adopted by their mothers, Jorie Stevens and Tara Roesener, in 2011. They live in a sprawling suburb northwest of Denver that is overwhelmingly white.

Chris (from left), 12; Aaliyah, 13; and Khalil Stevens-Roesener, 10, say they’ve always been among only a handful of black kids at school in Arvada, Colo.

 

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Credit:
Kirsten Leah Bitzer for Reveal

According to census data, Arvada was less than 1 percent African American in 2010, and little seems to have changed since then. Aaliyah, Chris and Khalil say they’ve always been among only a handful of black kids at school.

Still, 2011 was an optimistic time for Stevens and Roesener.

The US had its first black president. The country seemed more accepting every day. They didn’t believe racism was ever going to go away completely, but Stevens, who is white, and Roesener, who is Asian American, had hope for the future.

“You know, you’re still going to hear the occasional backwater person use the N-word, and that’s unacceptable,” Stevens said. “But we didn’t hear it as directly and as comfortably — the nasty things that people are saying right now.”

The kids dealt with isolated incidents of racism in their early years at school. But they largely brushed these off as anomalies. Aaliyah began dreaming of working for NASA, while Chris and Khalil got into football and set their sights on playing in the NFL. The color of their skin set them apart somewhat, but the kids never felt like they were targeted by their classmates.

Then came the 2016 presidential election.

Within a few months of Trump’s election, all three were targeted by explicit racist abuse at school. Thirteen-year-old Aaliyah was told by a white classmate that now that Trump was president, he could “shoot as many black people in the back as I want,” Tara Roesener said. Chris, 12, said his white classmates started ostentatiously using racial slurs in his presence, snickering at him when he told them to stop.

Khalil, now 10, said a white boy in his class started building a wall out of blocks during playtime. The boy purposefully placed the blocks between a group of white kids and a group of black and Latino kids.

“He said, ‘This is Trump’s wall,’” Khalil said.

Tara Roesener (left) and Jorie Stevens (center) adopted biological siblings Aaliyah (front row, from left), Khalil and Chris in 2011.

Credit:
Kirsten Leah Bitzer for Reveal


Stevens and Roesener reported everything to the school district. A spokeswoman for the district said it has been receiving an increasing number of complaints about racial and political taunting.

Khalil said he thinks about the taunts he and his siblings have heard as he’s trying to fall asleep.

“At nighttime, I think about, like, what would happen if Trump did succeed in what he was planning to do, which he hopefully won’t,” he said.

Asked what he thinks Trump wants to do, Khalil was unequivocal. “I’m gonna say it like this: He’s trying to create a white world.”

This story was produced by Reveal from The Center for Investigative Reporting, a nonprofit news organization. Learn more at revealnews.org and subscribe to the Reveal podcast, produced with PRX, at revealnews.org/podcast.

https://www.pri.org/stories/2018-04...n they punctuated it with the presidents name

 

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WONDERFUL
if only we were more kindly to elderly WW
think
of the watorrn counties, the people of colour
lLISTEN
become enlightened

Amsterdam is tackling loneliness one dance party at a time

https://www.pri.org/stories/2018-04...tackling loneliness one dance party at a time

#1 GOOD SH*T
Your 10 Treats for Earth Day Weekend: The OZY Highlight Reel
From the next super fruit to the city leading America against the opioid crisis, here’s the best of OZY this week.

READ

smile
food day Sunday yay
think, foods going to be what i miss most when i crap out h
te vaying tastes, such delight to the palate

#2 FAST FORWARD
Move Over, Avocado — Meet the Next Super Fruit
Innovators across the world are growing new strains of dragon fruit that taste great and are profitable.

 

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[MickeyLee]

 

[LaFemme]

Princess puppy needs a ride home from the groomers. It might rain and can’t let a freshly pampered poochie get wet! It will take three of us to escort her royal highness home.

Pretty sure princess puppy gets the umbrella.

 

[LondonCutguy]

Douching is tedious.

 

[rbkwp]

GOOD LUCK to you
sincerely wish you well
thinking also ea farmers esp those rural farmers adopting te organic route, usually at greater expense than the other
ae to be admired

#1 ACUMEN
Learn How Americans Believe Mother Nature Can Be Saved
An OZY poll shows few believe in political solutions, but they’re holding out hope for progress elsewhere.

READ

How You Can Participate in Earth Day

From grassroots to global, these initiatives aim to counter our most pressing environmental issues.

https://news.nationalgeographic.com/2018/04/earth-day-how-to-get-involved-culture-spd/

well
we all say that a 00 times in a lifetime i geuss

Let Us Learn From the Past to Carve a Better Future

If you ever wonder whether it’s worth fighting on principle even when the odds are long, read this and remember that the odds have always been long in big fights that changed the world. In his new book on the Marshall Plan, Benn Steil introduces us to the group of Americans who overcame calls for retrenchment at home and nationalism in Europe to enact a massive aid package to rescue postwar economies and rebuild our former enemies. Echoes of today. They won the fight — we should too.

 

[rbkwp]

food,as important as
was always personally concerned re concentrated amonia
not so muchr elated to GW/CC but life/fod
just happens to be a WW phenomana,so to speak

pollution/chemicals
if these dont interest folk, i wouldent hve a clue what interests anyone ha

Giant Chicken Houses Overrun Delmarva, and Neighbors Fear It's Making Them Sick

Even families who work in the industry worry about the air blowing out of the barns, some packed with 40,000 birds. But Big Poultry has the political clout here.
BY GEORGINA GUSTIN

After a local company built four hulking poultry barns across the street from April Ferrell's farmhouse on Maryland's Eastern Shore, thousands of chickens were trucked in and giant exhaust fans on the outside of the barns began to whir.

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and this,similar
SMILE' sort of, well smile
LIFE 2000 onwards
its GLOBAL LIFE

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Chef Marcus Guiliano is an award-winning chef, green restaurateur, author, real food activist, professional speaker, restaurant consultant & ultra-marathoner. In addition to successfully owning and operating the first Green Certified restaurant in the Hudson Valley, Aroma Thyme Bistro, Chef Marcus has begun to devote his time consulting and trouble shooting for other restaurants.

 

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laugh
doggy bags a pre-equisite with a meal/always
silly frogs
as f they have the est cusine in the world
waste of food, the buggers

The French may soon have to accept 'le doggy bag'

https://www.pri.org/stories/2018-04...e French may soon have to accept le doggy bag

walked thru 5 major full on London parks from Bayswaater to city centre for months
quite often not a soul in sight, just the buzz of vehicles on the ring oad
quite amazing with a city of millions
NZs largest city Auckland had about 400-000 then
late 70s
WONDERFUL!

listen

Take a tour of The City of London’s tiny, protected green spaces

https://www.pri.org/stories/2018-04...e City of Londons tiny protected green spaces

 

[creek47]

How come the cones who scream tolerance the most are so intolerant of someone who think differently? Just having the loudest voice doesn’t mean you’re right.