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July 28, 2010

  • Terralingua researches, communicates, and seeks to ameliorate the loss of biological, linguistic, and cultural diversity — “biocultural diversity” for short — in part by communicating that nature and culture are inescapably linked. ...
    allthenewz - http://allthenewz.com/
  • In 1993, Maffi developed that idea into the now burgeoning field of biocultural diversity, which asserts that biological, cultural and linguistic diversity are intimately interrelated and interdependent. ...
    Ecomentality@LifeDrop - http://lifedrop.net/
  • 7:46pm


    Le CRILAN REITERE SA DEMANDE d'ANNULATION du DECRET d'AUTORISATION du réacteur EPR de Flamanville .

    Sur son site, les précisions données par l'Institut de radioprotection et de sûreté nucléaire (IRSN), suite au communiqué du CRILAN, repris par l'AFP (15-07-10), à propos du nouveau matériau de gainage (M5) du combustible des centrales, justifient les demandes de l'association d'annuler les autorisations administratives en ce qui concerne le ré...

  • 7:46pm


    Le monde politique – et les médias – sont centrés sur ce qu'il est convenu d'appeler « l'affaire Woerth-Liliane Bettencourt-L'Oréal ». Le Parti socialiste tire à boulets rouges sur la personne de l'ex-ministre du Budget, promu récemment au Travail. Cela conduit l'UMP à dénoncer un « acharnement » scandaleux visant l'honorabilité d'Eric Woerth…

    De quoi s'agit-il en fait :

    Un enregistrement pirate des propos tenus par le gestionnaire de...

  • 7:46pm

    Anne Tournel est journaliste à Equilibre TV, une télévision sur internet basée à Marseille.

    Info : www.equilibre-tv.org

    Première mise en ligne sur Reporterre le 15 juin 2009.

  • 7:02pm

    by Jonathan Hiskes.

    Arlington, Va., wants you to go on a car-free diet—and find love along the way.

    Because if there’s anything people enjoy on public transportation, it’s come-ons from strangers.

    More on Arlington’s Car-Free Diet:

    (Hat tip to the always alert Russ Walker)

    Related Links:

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  • 6:54pm

    by Dan Lashof.

    The blame game began even before Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (Nev.) made the official announcement that he would not bring a comprehensive climate and energy bill to the Senate floor. Reid himself placed the blame where it primarily belongs—obstructionism by the Republican Leadership, as a result of which not a single Republican senator had stood up to commit to work with Democrats to pass carbon pollution limits (Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) did commit to work...

  • 6:04pm

    by Jonathan Waterman.

    Jonathan Waterman is the author of the book Running Dry about the Colorado River. Waterman, who infected his feet in the polluted remains of the drying river, walked with the photographer Pete McBride down the last 60 miles of delta. The...

  • 5:17pm

    by Grist.

    2009 tied for the fifth-warmest year since the 1850s, and 2000-2009 was the warmest decade on record, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s 2009 State of the Climate report. Climate Central has a video illustrating this and other highlights from the report:

    Related Links:

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  • 5:15pm

    by Brad Johnson.

    This article was cross-posted from the Wonk Room.

    Democrats recently elected to the U.S. Senate have pressed their colleagues to ambitiously address climate and energy reform, and are frustrated by the lack of action. In a series of interviews with the Wonk Room at Netroots Nation, Sens. Ben Cardin (D-...

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