ScienceDaily: Top Environment News Do gut bacteria rule our minds? In an ecosystem within us, microbes evolved to sway food choices Posted: 15 Aug 2014 04:22 PM PDT It sounds like science fiction, but it seems that bacteria within us — which outnumber our own cells about 100-fold — …
Marine industries at risk on both coasts as oceans acidify
Subject: Wishful Thinking – Methane plumes & Ocean Acidification More precursors/signals: 1. Methane plumes from the arctic. This precursor event has a high probability of rapidly accelerating the timeframes for climate change impacts and increasing them to much more devastating levels. 2. Oysters shells dissolving on both coasts …
Cry for Argentina: Fiscal Mismanagement or Pillage?
Argentina has now taken the US to The Hague for blocking the country’s 2005 settlement with the bulk of its creditors. The issue underscores the need for an international mechanism for nations to go bankrupt. Better yet would be a sustainable global monetary scheme that avoids the need for sovereign …
Legislators, Corporations Gather For Secret Meeting Against Clean Energy And You’re Not Invited
AP/John Hanna Legislators, Corporations Gather For Secret Meeting Against Clean Energy And You’re Not Invited by Ari Phillips Posted on July 28, 2014 After maintaining a low profile for decades, the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) received widespread exposure in recent years for backing Florida’s controversial Stand Your Ground law, …
The Smart Manufacturing Revolution is Going to Transform U.S. Industry
ACEEE BLOG POST Media Contact: Patrick Kiker [email protected], (202) 507-4043 The Smart Manufacturing Revolution is Going to Transform U.S. Industry By Ethan A. Rogers, Senior Program Manager, Industry Smart manufacturing, the integration of all facets of manufacturing through the use of information and communication technologies (ICT), …
5 Industries Worried About Peak Oil
5 Industries Worried About Peak Oil The debate over the impact of peak oil has been raging for decades. Although few deny that the end of mass oil consumption is drawing nearer, educated estimates now range between 2020 and 2030. But more important than the timeframe of peak oil are its …
OTHER NEWS: Japan Remains Committed to ‘Advancing Vibrant Diplomacy’
Japan Remains Committed to ‘Advancing Vibrant Diplomacy’ By Isamu Ueda* TOKYO, Jul 2014 (IPS) – In recent years, Japan has found itself it in a rapidly changing security environment. The global balance of power has shifted and various new threats have emerged within the region, including the development …
Review Of ‘The Systems View Of Life: A Unifying Vision’ By Capra And Luisi
by Hazel Henderson for SeekingAlpha.com The Systems View Of Life: A Unifying Vision by Fritjof Capra and Pier Luigi Luisi, Cambridge University Press, UK 2014 This hefty volume, The Systems View of Life: A Unifying Vision, is a tour de force and will be a perennial textbook for decades …
The Turning Point: New Hope for the Climate
This forecast agrees with my Mapping the Global Transition to the Solar Age (2014) which is a freely-downloadable 56-page summary of forthcoming book,Hazel Henderson,Editor In the struggle to solve the climate crisis, a powerful, largely unnoticed shift is taking place. The forward journey for human civilization will be …
‘Science Is Science’: Obama Embraces Price On Carbon, Leaving Fossil Fuels In The Ground
From the Showtime series “ YEARS OF LIVING DANGEROUSLY “ watch the final episode ,Hazel Henderson, Editor ‘Science Is Science’: Obama Embraces Price On Carbon, Leaving Fossil Fuels In The Ground By Joe Romm on www.thinkprogress.org/climate June 8, 2014 “The baseline fact of climate change is not something we can …