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All during spring and summer I love to watch the huge fish hawks called Ospreys building up their stick nests, then incubating their eggs, and then raising their chicks. How many chicks, how many Ospreys for that matter, depends on how much food.
The same's true for people. But Ospreys can't make more fish for themselves. People, we're different. By fishing, we take food from Ospreys (and many other creatures). And by farming we make more food, something that the birds can't do.
In the latter half of the 20th century, humanity's food production tripled, thanks to new high-yield grain varieties, artificial pesticides and fertilizer (40 to 60 percent of the nitrogen in the human body now originates in a factory), and -- pumped water. Continue reading
This article comes to us courtesy of SF Weekly's The Snitch.
The kids over at Sun Valley School in San Rafael are lamenting the fact that the Crayola markers they use to draw, write, and color, are pretty ... pretty polluting.
And because the students are sick of seeing so much wasted plastic, they started a petition on Change.org asking the company to give consumers a convenient way to recycle the millions of Crayola markers manufactured every year. As the kids astutely note, currently there's no method to recycle the nearly half a billion markers made every year, which is they they are explicitly asking Crayola to create a "take-back" program, giving consumers a safe way to recycle markers.
Continue readingA weekly look at sex and culture, by the numbers.
1 in 10: number of American inmates who claim to have experienced sexual assault from guards or other inmates while incarcerated
50%: Female farmworkers who reported sexual harassment and assault in a recent Human Rights Watch report
12: new age of admission to the Ottawa Science and Technology Museum’s Sex: A Tell-All Exhibition after numerous complaints, up from 6
3: number of weeks before her marriage a Florida teacher at a Christian elementary school conceived. She is currently suing the school after being fired for engaging in premarital sex.
5: days a British couple in Dubai was held in custody after being arrested for allegedly having sex in the back of a cab
Continue readingThis week some of the foremost international leaders in government, business, non-profit and academia are gathering in Washington, D.C., to inform the G8 Summit conversation on the issue of food security, and to propose solutions to feed a growing world population. Heads of State, President Obama, even Bono, are joining together at the Chicago Council Global Affairs Symposium on Friday to share their goals for eradicating world hunger today and issue calls to action for feeding nine billion people in the decades to come.
This is a powerful showing of support for improving how we produce food, get it to market and feed those who need it most. However, even with the lengthy VIP list, there will be a significant audience missing from Friday's symposium -- the people who are going to be responsible for feeding those additional two billion in 2050.
Today's youth.
Continue readingVANCOUVER - A giant 800-year-old red cedar tree has been poached from a provincial park on southern Vancouver Island, but the culprits who repeatedly returned to the site to hack it down may never be brought to justice.
Torrance Coste of the Wilderness Committee said consistent budget cuts over the last decade mean park rangers rarely monitor remote sites such as the Carmanah-Walbran Provincial Park, from where the cedar was chopped.
"Whoever's doing this knows that no one's going to have eyes on this park for months at a time so it's exceptionally easy to do what they've done," Coste said Thursday.
He said that last month, a member of the environmental group became aware of the poached tree and took a photo of about 20 per cent of its remains.
But when Coste went to the park about two weeks ago, more of the cedar had been cut and removed, he said.
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Today we said goodbye to the incomparable Donna Summer, the true queen of the disco era. Donna made a name for herself throughout the 1970s and 1980s with dance club anthems that always managed to get the party started - and still do today! In order to celebrate her career and the amazing woman she was, we're highlighting some of our favorite ladies of disco. Click through to check it all out.
Our I'm a Huge Fan: Jennifer Lopez contest winner Margaret already got backstage access at American Idol and even interviewed a few of the contestants, but there's more in store for her before she finally meets J Lo. Watch as Margaret gets the star treatment at Nordstrom, where she picks out the outfit that she'll wear when she interviews her idol. She also gets to step into J Lo's dancing shoes by learning a routine from one of J Lo's choreographers, J.R. Taylor. Special thanks to Nordstrom and Revolve Clothing and enjoy I'm a Huge Fan: Jennifer Lopez episode two. Make sure to check back tomorrow for the big moment when Margaret finally meets and interviews J Lo and make sure to see What to Expect When You're Expecting when it hits theaters tomorrow!
Thrift shopping for vintage treasures is easy when you know where to find them. Here are seven of our favorite thrift shops in San Francisco.
San Francisco is the vintage mecca of the U.S. Whether its because of the strong sense of individual style or the green-leanings of its residents, no trip to the Bay Area would be complete without a shopping expedition to the center of second-hand style, the famed Haight Ashbury neighborhood.
Vintage shopping is part skill, part luck and part perseverance, but you can stack the odds in your favor by hitting up stores known to always stock good stuff. Here are seven of our favorite thrift stores in San Francisco. Continue reading
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