Chronological environment Weblog/Links

Sea Lions killed for being sea lions March 09, 2010 :: Here's a ridiculous one: ``A task force is expected to recommend that pesky sea lions that gobble up threatened salmon at Bonneville Dam be killed in order to help conserve fish runs'' ...

Genetically-engineered pigs February 19, 2010 :: This is such fucking horseshit. Problem: hosing out factory pig farms put too much pig shit in rivers, ground water, etc. Solution: genetically engineer the pigs to have less phosphorous...

Sad state of affairs November 15, 2009 :: ``Alberta elementary students can now visit provincial parks - without leaving their classroom.'' ...and without fear of lawsuits. Oh joy! What a fucking crock of shit. ...

$250 million dollar atomic waste dome March 09, 2009 :: ...located safely in the middle of the ocean. No risk of leaks there... See it also on google-maps with what looks like a neighbouring atomic test-crater..

Philippines support urban agriculture... February 06, 2009 :: ...as response to global economic panic. Seems much more prudent than borrowing money from our children to shovel into the firey pits of the broken banking system...

Daylight Savings Kills November 01, 2008 :: Professors Paul Fischbeck and David Gerard have made a study of traffic fatalities that shows pedestrians walking during the evening rush hour are nearly three times more likely...

25% of Mammals Face Extinction October 07, 2008 :: Holy fucking cock-balls. One in four of the world's 5,487 known mammal species face extinction, according to a new conservation "report card" unveiled today. Marine mammals...

"Turf Wars" in New Yorker: why we love lawns July 16, 2008 :: Good essay on the history of our ridiculous infatuation with green squares of foreign grass. One of the most popular herbicides was — and continues to be — 2,4-dichlorophenoxyacetic...

Wilderness Lake to Tailings Pond: Rubber-stamp June 17, 2008 :: Federal Bureaucrats are allowed to redefine lakes and rivers as "tailing containment facilities" (aka toxic waste dumps for mining debris) and are doing just that to a bunch of lakes and...

US to shoot down own spy satellite February 15, 2008 :: All satellites' orbits decay. They will all eventually crash into Earth (even the moon, although that's a ways away). Knowing this, the US secretly launched a spy satellite whose "rocket...