Pot Luck

He who lives in glass house (4.00 / 2)

I finally figured out how to capture a too bright sunset.

I just need a filter.

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by: Eddie C @ Mon Nov 09, 2009 at 03:50:21 AM UTC

Or a University (4.00 / 2)

Fordham U.

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by: Eddie C @ Mon Nov 09, 2009 at 03:53:32 AM UTC

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"Extinction threat grows"... (4.00 / 2)

From the BBC -

Out of the 47,677 species in the IUCN [International Union for the Conservation of Nature] Red List of Threatened Species, 17,291 were deemed to be at serious risk.

These included 21% of all known mammals, 30% of amphibians, 70% of plants and 35% of invertebrates.

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"In our lifetime, we have gone from having to worry about a relatively small number of highly threatened species to the collapse of entire ecosystems," observed Professor Jonathan Baillie, director of conservation programmes at the Zoological Society of London (ZSL).

"The essence of the independent mind lies not in what it thinks, but in how it thinks." - Christopher Hitchens

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by: JayinPortland @ Mon Nov 09, 2009 at 03:56:26 AM UTC

From High Country News... (4.00 / 2)

Ray Ring on the campaign to protect unroaded forests, and the Wyoming judge standing in the way -

Brimmer gained notoriety through court decisions that spurned many green ambitions over the years, including the spread of wolves, grazing restrictions and Yellowstone snowmobile regulations. Even when other judges overrule his decisions, he undercuts the environmentalists' campaigns.

Frail though he appears, now Brimmer is closing in on a major kill. He's determined to wipe out what environmentalists call "the most significant land conservation initiative in nearly a century": the Roadless Area Conservation Rule.

Imposed by the Clinton administration in 2001, the rule protected 58.5 million acres of national forest, mostly in the West -- the wildest portions that were not already designated wilderness. Clinton's rule has since been shoved around by the Bush and Obama administrations, various courts and state governments. People argue whether it still protects all the acres it originally did, or only some or none. Regardless, it's earned superlatives -- especially for how the enviros pulled it off.

"The essence of the independent mind lies not in what it thinks, but in how it thinks." - Christopher Hitchens

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by: JayinPortland @ Mon Nov 09, 2009 at 04:08:45 AM UTC

The pineapple industry in Hawai`i is dead . . . (4.00 / 2)

Monsanto to save island agriculture?

http://www.starbulletin.com/ed...

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by: raatz @ Tue Nov 10, 2009 at 01:10:29 AM UTC

Back to life! (4.00 / 1)

New venture rises from ashes of Maui Pineapple

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by: raatz @ Fri Jan 08, 2010 at 08:16:53 AM UTC

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