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DWP drops 400,000 balls onto Ivanhoe Reservoir - Los Angeles Times: Jun 11, 4:14pm 2 reviews environment
http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/california/la-me-balls10-2008jun10,0...; So wierd. Only happens in Los Angles.

From the page: "The water needs to be shaded because when sunlight mixes with the bromide and chlorine in Ivanhoe's water, the carcinogen bromate forms, said Pankaj Parekh, DWP's director for water quality compliance. Bromide is naturally present in groundwater and chlorine is used to kill bacteria, he said, but sunlight is the final ingredient in the potentially harmful mix."

Why the Cyclone in Myanmar Was So Deadly: Jun 11, 4:11pm 1 review environment, meteorology
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/05/080508-AP-the-perfect_2.html; Feeling partially responsible.

From the page: " "The Irrawaddy Delta is huge, and the interaction of water and land lying right at sea level allowed the tidal surge to deliver maximum penetration of sea water over land," Reeves said.

"Storms like this do most of their killing through floods, with salt water being even more dangerous than fresh water."

The delta had lost most of its mangrove forests along the coast to shrimp farms and rice paddies over the past decade. That removed what scientists say is one of nature's best defenses against violent storms."

India Cow Killer Bagged, but Deaths Continue : NPR: Jun 10, 9:24pm 1 review animals, environment
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=91310904; Holy cows vs. plastic bags, plastic bags won!

From the page: "A group of very ill cows was taken to a local veterinary hospital, anaesthetized and surgically examined. It turned out, says Indian journalist Subhash Mishra, that inside their stomachs was an extraordinary number of plastic bags. "More than 50, 60 bags," per cow, he recalls. "

BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Chinese parks sell tiger wine: Jun 10, 9:22am 2 reviews animals
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7444266.stm; Heart breaking. From the page: "They believe that there are just 2,500 breeding adults left in the wild and without more resources made available to protect the animals, the cats face an uncertain future.

Since the 1980s, a number of "tiger farms" have been set up in China. These establishments are believed to house about 5,000 captive tigers, possibly more than remain in the wild. "

Obamas campaign chief: low profile, high impact -- chicagotribune.com: Jun 9, 9:38pm 1 review baseball, politics
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/politics/chi-plouffe-obamajun09,0,2235451....; Clearly, nerds are taking over the world :)

From the page: "Baseball and politics are two of David Plouffe's passions. So it was natural that his love for one game reinforced something that proved crucial in the other: Singles can score runs.

As Sen. Barack Obama's campaign manager, Plouffe was the mastermind behind a winning strategy that looked well past Super Tuesday's contests on Feb. 5 and placed value on large and small states."

Op-Ed Contributor - Salmon is disappearing. So don�t eat it. - Op-Ed - NYTimes.c…: Jun 9, 4:11pm 1 review cooking, fish, salmon
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/09/opinion/09grescoe.html?ex=1213675200&en=7a1...; I am giving up salmon as well.

From the page: "Not any more. Wild Atlantic salmon are commercially extinct, and runs of Pacific salmon south of the Alaska panhandle are experiencing catastrophic collapses. This year, for the sake of the remaining wild salmon on the West Coast, as well as my own health, I'm changing my diet. Whether it's wild or farmed, I'm swearing off salmon."

Registration - San Jose Mercury News: Jun 5, 2:57pm 1 review home-improvement, real-estate, green-building
http://www.mercurynews.com/greenenergy/ci_8530078?nclick_check=1; From the page: " For a housing market wracked with uncertainty, green is good.

That was on display Monday when Pinn Brothers Fine Homes unveiled the first single-family subdivision in San Jose to meet a new standard for green homes. Most of what makes them green is hard to see - features such as water-saving shower heads and thicker insulation in the attic and walls.

But the integrated solar roofs - standard on all 51 homes at Orchard Heights in San Jose's Evergreen area and on 19 homes at Falcon Place in Willow Glen - are an obvious signal that something green is afoot."

Stay home, read, have sex / Will insane gas prices finally pummel us into evolvi…: Jun 5, 10:23am 1 review cars, environment, oil
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2008/06/04/notes060408.DTL&f...; From the page: "It's the massive, painful spike in gas and oil prices, that most wonderful/frightening harbinger of doom/change/turmoil known to modern society that is fast turning into a calamitous global hurricane, ready to wreak havoc on just about every aspect of modern life, and that includes food and transport and sex and drugs and rock 'n' roll and just about everything else that makes America, America."

Mark Morford always says everything better.

It Will Take a Lot More Than Gardening to Fix Our Food System: Jun 3, 2:51pm 1 review gardening, food
http://www.organicconsumers.org/articles/article_12639.cfm; From the page: "Even though most prominent home-lot food efforts, like the �oe100-Foot Diet Challenge�oe, also try to draw attention to bigger issues, the wider message can get lost in the excitement. Whatever its benefits, replacing your lawn with food plants will not give Big Agribusiness the big poke in the eye that it needs, nor will it save the agricultural landscapes of the nation or world.

To do that, the big-commodity market must be not just modified but overthrown. Until then, most of that two-thirds or more of the human calorie and protein intake that comes from grains and oilseeds (directly in most of the world or among Western vegetarians, largely via animal products for others in this country) will continue to be served up by a dirty, cruel, unfair, broken system."

GM Closing Four Truck And SUV Plants In Dramatic Shift - Business on The Huffi…: Jun 3, 2:08pm 1 review cars, trucks
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/06/03/gm-closing-four-truck-and_n_104854.html; From the page:"eneral Motors Corp. officially blew up its old business model Tuesday, closing four pickup truck and sport utility vehicle factories, announcing a new small car that could get 45 miles per gallon and shedding 10,000 jobs in the process.

But it remains to be seen whether the world's largest automaker by sales can sell enough cars to make money in a shrinking U.S. market and stay ahead of the bill collectors.

The automaker said it would idle pickup and SUV factories in Janesville, Wis.; Oshawa, Ontario; Moraine, Ohio; and Toluca, Mexico, as it tries to deal with a shift to smaller vehicles brought on by $4 per gallon gasoline."

It's about time.

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