another fist-full of Benjamins for another round of environmental and human shootouts!
by Paul Haeder / May 6th, 2021
“When we look at what is truly sustainable, the only real model that has worked over long periods of time is the natural world.”
[Photo: A selection of the thousands of native potato varieties that grow in Peru. Photograph: The International Potato Centre]
It’s paramount to talk about all the untested, all the never-experimented-on synergistic affects of all those “compounds/ingredients/chemicals” the chemical industry has forced upon the public and nature through “better living/eating/drinking through chemistry.”
I was just talking with a 78-year-old woman whose father’s side of the family (56) all were murdered in Germany’s death camps. She grew up in Chile, and alas, ended up Oregon. She is working on stopping the aerial spraying of 2-4-D and other weedicides onto the clear-cuts.
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By clock on July 6, 2009.
The series of interviews with some of the participants of the 2008 Science Blogging Conference was quite popular, so I decided to do the same thing again this year, posting interviews with some of the people who attended ScienceOnline 09 back in January.
Today, I asked Miriam Goldstein of the Oyster s Garter blog to answer a few questions.
Welcome to A Blog Around The Clock. Would you, please, tell my readers a little bit more about yourself? Who are you? What is your (scientific) background?
I am a graduate student at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in La Jolla, California. I write the ocean science blog the Oyster s Garter which has recently undergone a strange metamorphosis into a twice-weekly science column at the Slate spinoff Double X.
Ocean Scientist Calls Extent of DDT Dumping in Pacific ‘Staggering’
May 05, 2021
In this 2011 image provided by the University of California Santa Barbara, a barrel sits on the seafloor near the coast of Catalina Island, California. (David Valentine/UC Santa Barbara / RV Jason, via AP)
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Southern California’s Catalina Island is a popular
destination for nature lovers. It is reachable by boat from Los Angeles and San Diego. With just one city, most of the small island is a government-protected wild area.
But, a report last October in the
Los Angeles Times newspaper raised public concern about the water surrounding Catalina.