Heartbreaking photos of birds caught in oil.
BP CEO Tony Hayward: “I’d Like My Life Back”. Yeah, well, fuck you.
Tag Archives: environment
Dirty Bird
Photos of dead albatross chicks stuffed with our garbage.
What have they done to the earth?
What have they done to our fair sister?
Ravaged and plundered and ripped her and bit her
Stuck her with knives in the side of the dawn
And tied her with fences and dragged her down
From “When the Music’s Over” by The Doors
Awareness
“You can change and save the world by changing yourself. The most important part of personal transformation leading to planetary transformation is to become fully alive, alert, and aware of our surroundings and the divinity everywhere.”
Wonderful World
Just two of many beautiful photos @ National Geographic.
Hanuman Temple, India
Photo: Lorne Warburton
Tecopa Hot Springs
Photo: Christine Tuohy
Killing Kermit
Weed killer castrates frogs.
One of the most common weed killers in the world, atrazine, causes chemical castration in frogs and could be contributing to a worldwide decline in amphibian populations, a study published Monday showed.
Bad Juice
Fruit juice cancer link?
Fruit juices drunk by millions of children each day could contain a harmful chemical linked to cancer, scientists have warned.
Researchers have found high levels of antimony – which can be lethal in large doses – in many popular brands.
Scientists from the University of Copenhagen found that bottles of fruit juice and squash contained up to 2.5 times more of the substance as is deemed ‘safe’ in tap water, under EU guidelines.
In some cases the levels of antimony were ten times higher.
The scientists believe that the chemical is leaching its way into the fruit juice from the plastic bottles which hold it.
Cabin Fever
I’m so ready for spring I can taste it. Scenes like this are what I’m longing for. Dude takes some awesome photos.
Adios Hummer
GM to discontinue the Hummer?
An SUV that once represented one of America’s largest trucks is now collapsing.
A Chinese company, Sichuan Tengzhong Heavy Industrial Machines, announced they would no long buy the Hummer Brand. Hummer officials say plans are already in the works to dissolve the line.
In Mishawaka the AM General Plant has not produced a Hummer in the past year.
To paraphrase comedian John Fugelsang, now how will we know who has a small penis?
Bite Your Tongue
Fucked up tongue-eating parasite found off Jersey coast(?)
The sea-dwelling parasite attacks fish, burrows into it, and then devours its tongue. After eating the tongue, the parasite proceeds to live inside the fish’s mouth. There’s a horror film waiting to be made about this thing. Surprisingly, the fish doesn’t seem to suffer any severe impediment–just the loss of its tongue–and seems to have no trouble surviving with its new, far uglier tongue.
End of Men
Will men become an endangered species?
What makes a man a man? Socially, that is a complicated question. Genetically, however, it is as simple as a single Y chromosome.
But guys, that chromosome is in trouble.
In a new study, researchers say there is a dramatic loss of genes from the human Y chromosome that eventually could lead to its complete disappearance — in the next few millennia.
So I may have tits in my next life? I really don’t see the problem here…
Redo
Thoughts on redesigning society with Jacque Fresco and Roxanne Meadows of The Venus Project.
Click here for part two.
Rock & Repel
Town uses rock music to repel insects.
The huge flightless insects are a fearsome sight as they advance across the desert in armies of millions that march over, under or into anything in their way.
But the crickets don’t much fancy Led Zeppelin or the Rolling Stones, the townspeople figured out three years ago. So next month, Tuscarorans are preparing once again to get out their extension cords, array their stereos in a quarter-circle and tune them to rock station KHIX, full blast, from dawn to dusk. “It is part of our arsenal,” says Laura Moore, an unemployed college professor and one of the town’s 13 residents.
Let’s Grow!
Start an organic garden without spending money.
Grow organic food producing plants without spending any extra money, while choosing the methods that close the loop between consumption and refuse by recycling household and yard waste, paper, cardboard, food containers, water, and urine.
