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!!!!

Sunday, September 29, 2013

Can Corporations Act as Good Environmental Citizens?

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 (So it is not only the US car manufacturers that have dragged their feet in meeting new emission standards.  Could it be that profits are ...
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Sunday, September 22, 2013

EPA and Carbon Emissions.

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  U.S. environment chief uses humor, health argument to sell carbon plan Fri, Sep 20 2013 By Environment Correspondent De...
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Saturday, September 14, 2013

Japan: No Nukes ???

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Japan:Japan to switch off nuclear power, may be some time before it's on again 7:17pm EDT By Osamu Tsukimori TOKYO (Reute...
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Sunday, September 08, 2013

Betting on the Apocalypce

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  By PAUL SABIN NYT ONE day in October 1990, the iconoclastic economist Julian L. Simon walked out to get the...
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Friday, April 19, 2013

China : CO2 Trading.

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The following news item , as reported by Reuters, speaks to the trading efficiency that we had discussed recently. Unfortunately, it also m...
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Sunday, April 14, 2013

Are Human Genes Patentable?

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By Sharon Begley NEW YORK (Reuters) - Soon after learning that his son had autism, Hollywood producer Jon Shestack (...
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Friday, April 05, 2013

Global Warming and the Ice Caps

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In Sign of Warming, 1,600 Years of Ice in Andes Melted in 25 Years Both images: Lonnie G. Thompson/Ohio State University The ...
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Saturday, March 30, 2013

Feeding the Undernourished ...with Crickets.

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  The following is from Scientific American and it addresses one potential solution for providing enough food for the over 9 billion mo...
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Thursday, March 14, 2013

Nine Planatary Boundaries

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 The Nine Planetary Boundaries. Link to TED talk:  http://www.ted.com/talks/view/lang/en//id/945 Please watch TED and comment on the b...
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Sunday, March 10, 2013

Would e Cars Ever Make It?

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One more time one has to wonder where are all the people who claim that they want an e car? The first time around, they claimed that GM ...
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Sunday, March 03, 2013

Can the Rhino Be Saved?

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Can the Rhino be Saved? Gold is not the most expensive commodity in the world despite its phenomenal increase in price over the ...
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Saturday, February 23, 2013

Is there an Impending Food Scarcity in POur Future?

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   The potential implications of food scarcities are nothing short of a total collapse. The following article by one of the best author...
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Tuesday, February 19, 2013

To Label or Not to Label

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Genetically modified organisms and genetically engineered foods will always be controversial. Some claim that the safety of such food is...
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Friday, February 08, 2013

CO2 Emissions are underrepoted by EU Auto Manufacturers

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Many will not be surprised to learn that auto manufacturers in the EU have been deceiving the consumers by consistently reporting fictitious...
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Sunday, January 27, 2013

Quinoa: Good, Evil or Relatively Complicated?

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The following article from the Gaurdian presents a potential problem that is not uncommon when an agricultural commodity becomes Inter...
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