Environmental Ramblings

This is a place for the free and honest exchange of ideas about many of the ecological and environmental issues that we face on regular basis. You are encouraged to contribute and share your thoughts with your colleagues in a frank but respectful style. The commentary is NOT moderated so please act responsibly. Let us prove Hardin wrong, at least in this space, cooperation is the way out of the tragedy of the commons!!!!

Tuesday, October 30, 2007

Another Gloomy Environmental Assessment

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You are encouraged to take a look at a relatively exaustive analysis of the Global Environmental Outlook by visiting the site of UNEP and ...
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Saturday, October 20, 2007

Sink, What Sink?

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The original estimates about the expected level of Carbon dioxide concentration have been too high. Upon further investigations the anomaly ...
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Saturday, October 13, 2007

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Nobel Peace Prize ups pressure for climate action It is not clear whether Al Gore would have been as influential in spreading the case for ...
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Sunday, October 07, 2007

Affluence

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The common mainstream environmental wisdom seems to connect poverty with environmental scarcity and degradation. As you might have noticed o...
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Friday, October 05, 2007

Why Climate Change Can't be Stoped?

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A short article that appeared as a web exclusive by Foreign Policy argues that we have done too little and that we are too late to stop clim...
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Sunday, September 30, 2007

Global Warming Revisited

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The UN held a mini summit on Global warming early last week in an effort to galvanize interest in the new Kyoto agreement. The next major me...
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Saturday, September 22, 2007

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The Pot Calling the Kettle Black !! Many of the most connected political operati...
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Thursday, September 20, 2007

The Green Monster

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Whoever was it that said you cannot teach old dogs new tricks must have never known about the big bad WalMart that is trying to change its i...
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Thursday, September 13, 2007

TANSTAAFL

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"There Ain't No Such Thing As A Free Lunch" is one of the most fundamental and most enduring ideas in Economics. Interestingly...
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Tuesday, September 11, 2007

When Will We Act?

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Signs of severe environmental degradation abound on both a local, regional and global scale. Air too dirty to breath, contaminated water sou...
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Thursday, May 18, 2006

Human- Chimps speciation

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New evidence released by the journal NATURE suggests a new theory to explain the gaps in the fossil records regarding the split between the ...
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Monday, May 08, 2006

Can$$$$ buy you good Health?

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A study conducted by a group of British and US researchers concluded that the typical white American is not as healthy as the white British ...
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Sunday, April 23, 2006

The Pot Calling the Kettle Black !!

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Many of the most connected political operatives in the United States have reported on many of the potential topics that were discussed by Pr...
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Sunday, March 26, 2006

Is It Too Late to Stop Global Warming?

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A post regarding the issue of Global Warming has been added to Environmental Ramblings. You can get there by using the Environmental Ramblin...
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Thursday, March 23, 2006

Oh The Webs We Weave...

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“Oh what a tangled web we weave when first we practice to deceive” The US government establishes a safety limit to the amount of mercury tha...
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Monday, March 20, 2006

Homo Sapiens Sapiens vs Chimps

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It’s official. Many have speculated that the DNA of humans and that of Chimpanzees are very similar. Now that both DNA sequences have been c...
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Saturday, March 18, 2006

Inflation

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Big Bang has not been definitively confirmed yet but we have moved one step closer towards that confirmation. A NASA satellite, Wilkinson Mi...
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Wednesday, March 15, 2006

URGENT: Take Action, Call your SENATOR

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This is your chance to stop the Congress from approving the bill, already passed by the House, to weaken the power of the States in labellin...
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Tuesday, March 14, 2006

Technology , Accidents and risk Taking

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The large spill, 267000 gallons, that occured on March 2, 2006 on the north slope of Alaska is another example still of the risks that we ta...
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Saturday, March 11, 2006

Nutrition and Longevity

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There is strong evidence from studies performed on mice and worms that life expectancy experiences a substantial increase , in the case of m...
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