Every now and then I see something that makes me speechless, and that just happened around midnight tonight as I was surfing the Web. Here is a link to an illustration of the rise of obesity in the U.S. over the past 20 years. There are several charts included: 1985, 1991, 1995, […]
Archive for July, 2007
Obesity in the u.s.
Published July 27th, 2007 in Statistics, Trends, Obesity, Body and Mind and Uncategorized. 15 CommentsWhat is your environmental footprint?
Published July 24th, 2007 in Quiz, Environment and Uncategorized. 0 CommentsOne of my favorite sites, Livescience, has a quiz that’s fun to take. It asks, “What is your environmental footprint?” But what it really does is help you see if you are in the know about environmental issues. Only ten questions were enough to teach me a thing or two or three. […]
Who is Norman Borlaug? He is a man who is responsible for preventing a famine in Mexico, for one thing, and his work went on to contributing to saving millions of lives.
Born in 1914, Norman Ernest Borlaug is an American agricultural scientist, humanitarian, Nobel laureat, and has been called the father of the Green […]
World clock
Published July 17th, 2007 in World Clock, Population Growth, Statistics, Trends and Uncategorized. 8 CommentsToday I received an email pointing to a site named Poodwaddle dot com, and in particular its fantastic feature called World Clock. A counter on this site constantly updates figures showing increases in world population, births, population growth, US illegal immigration and the number of divorces, abortions, HIV infections, incidence of cancer, the temperature […]
Barn owls working for peace
Published July 15th, 2007 in Predators, Pest Control, Date Palm Trees, Middle East, Agriculture, Owls and Uncategorized. 2 CommentsAccording to an article I originally saw on Yahoo News and have found again on digitaljournal, in the midst of seemingly endless Mideast violence Israelis and Jordanians are sharing ideas for protecting nature, using barn owls instead of harmful pesticides to keep rats from devouring date palm crops. Here’s the interesting part: The date […]
LIFE a journey through time
Published July 15th, 2007 in Life, Images, Photographs, Time and Space and Uncategorized. 3 CommentsToday a good friend sent me a most wonderful site that I simply have to share with you. It is called LIFE: A Journey Through Time, and it features the work of Frans Lanting, presenting one of the most beautiful and thought provoking slide shows I’ve ever seen, accompanied by wonderful music that aids […]
Serious effort afoot to reduce burping bovines
Published July 12th, 2007 in Cows, Beef Industry, Greenhouse Gases, Methane, Environment, Crops, Global Warning and Uncategorized. 4 CommentsTeddy Roosevelt said “do what you can with what you have where you are.” I guess that covers everything from humanitarian efforts to environmental ones and now, burping cows. Reuters reports today scientists in the UK are proposing development of cows feed that will have the net effect of cutting the belch factor, […]