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Public comment on Environmental Impact Statements; Availability, etc.: 2019-2024 Draft Proposed Outer Continental Shelf Oil and Gas Leasing Program

map of the lower 48 United States with adjoining proposed ocean drilling regions

map of the lower 48 United States with adjoining proposed ocean drilling regions

map of Alaska with adjoining proposed ocean drilling regions

Not, I suppose, that anyone would take such comments very seriously, just like with the FCC. But.

Crossposts: https://arethinn.livejournal.com/1177295.html

Ontario Pagans Rally to Help Elders as Well Dries Up

This really pisses me off. I know that here agricultural use is a big (probably bigger) offender, but Nestle is pulling this kind of shit in California, too, aren't they?

Crossposts: http://arethinn.livejournal.com/1107042.html

Found in an unrelated work context^*:

Ents, Elves, and Eriador: The Environmental Vision of J.R.R. Tolkien

Chapter titles:
Varda, Yavanna, and the Value of Creation
Gandalf, Stewardship, and Tomorrow's Weather
Hobbits and the Agrarian Society of the Shire
Horticulture and the Aesthetic of the Elves
Woods, Wildness, and the Feraculture of the Ents
The Necessity of Margins in Middle-earth's Mingled Ecologies
The Ecology of Ham, Niggle's Parish, and Wootton Major
Three Faces of Mordor
Rousing the Shire
Environmentalism, Transcendence, and Action
Some Practical Matters

Sounds interesting.

* Testing circulation behaviors and reuse of barcodes in our new library system requires concrete examples to play with, so I tend to search for random keywords to get test items.

I'm working on deleting duplicated posts that occurred from importing my journal from LJ, and came across one from about 4+ years ago which talked about... well, now I might call it the opposite of "first world problem"... "first world gratitude", maybe?

The thrust of the post was about what taking a shower here ultimately involves: take 20-40 gallons or so of perfectly good drinking water, contaminate it with things that make it undrinkable (soap, etc.), and then cast it off as waste.

I mean, wow.

Mindful that the so-called "third world" is certainly not homogenous, but in any case I get the idea that supplies of clean water are still a major problem in many areas of the world. So, um. In tumblr analogy to "my creys", perhaps "my gratitudes"?

Actual original post seems to have been moved/removed, but: http://planets-bend-between-us.tumblr.com/post/18591993325/nasa-recently-released-imagery-showing-the

"NASA recently released imagery showing the deforestation of America …in just 34 years."

hmm.

edit: By "hmm" I meant "hmm, I dunno about that" (this icon on DW is one of my "o rly?"/skeptical icons; that didn't come over on LJ). It looked to me more like dry and wet seasons or some such thing and according to this link from

jarandhel it looks like I may have had the right idea there.

healing the Earth one-strip mined crystal at a time
Greening your Earth-honoring rituals

Last week Canada’s scientists declared the Atlantic bluefin tuna endangered, meaning it faces imminent extirpation or extinction. [...] It’s highly unlikely that Canada will give any protections to bluefin tuna. Canada has never protected a commercially fished species under SARA (including cod) and seems unlikely to start with bluefin [...] The United States is poised to make its own endangered status determination, due next week. Unlike Canada’s SARA, the U.S. listing determination under the Endangered Species Act must be based on science, not taking into account economic factors. But politics play a large part in U.S. listings too.

Mother Gaia by *humon on deviantART

http://www.ethicurean.com/2011/01/11/bluefin-tunas-siren-song/

I dunno. I like tuna but I think this is kind of getting to a point where I can't in good conscience keep ignoring it.

http://www.theatlantic.com/food/archive/2009/11/why-i-dont-miss-bluefin-sushi/30379/ was a little odd to me in some spots. Maybe the tuna I've been eating is not bluefin but I would never have characterized it as a "metallic" taste.

(I'm also a little perplexed at someone's assertion in the comments that if one wants food which melts in the mouth, have ice cream, and extreme tenderness of flesh is "uninteresting". Me, there are some things I like to chew and some things I don't, and my brain normally rebels against having to chew seafood too much.)

http://www.ethicurean.com/2010/09/01/big-green-boxe/

Too cool.

What is Big Green Boxes, exactly?

It's a new business that will transform unused warehouse space into year-round indoor growing centers. We'll use hydroponics and aquaponics, along with advanced low-energy lighting techniques and vertical growing methods, to produce the very freshest leafy greens for local consumption regardless of climate. ( Read more... )

Ultracapacitor can power a car for 500 miles on a single charge

According to the post, the companies involved plan to have the cars in production by 2008.

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