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Ecological Internet: In the Struggle for Global Ecological Sustainability for the Long-Haul
Posted by Water Conservation Blog on August 7th, 2012
** UPDATE: Small Is Beautiful - 2012 Mid-Year Fundraiser - $20,800 donated from 222 donors, $4,200 yet to go. We really must raise at least half - $2K - if we are to have necessary funding for the rest of year: http://bit.ly/EI2012mid
Dear EI friends and fellow Earth lovers,
Ecological Internet and Dr. Glen Barry will be taking the remainder of August as a vacation. On the urging of our supporters, we have been encouraged to think of the sustainability of our own selves as well, and this is the third year we will be taking time to rest at the end of August.
Ecological Internet and predecessors have been providing a consistent biocentric, deep ecology message on the Internet for over two decades. We have pioneered the use of the Internet to achieve environmental conservation, and have participated in hundreds of on-the-ground victories, while raising awareness of profoundly important matters of global ecological sustainability.
Our 2012 mid-year fund-raiser is drawing to a close. We fell some $4,000 short of our goal, yet are generally pleased with the outcome. It would help these efforts TREMENDOUSLY if we could raise at least $2,000 more to take us to the year-end fund-raiser. Please donate what you ...
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Near Fracking Wells, the Many Quakes That Go Unfelt
Posted by New York Times: Oanna M. Foster on August 7th, 2012
New York Times: A series of small earthquakes made Halloween of 2008 an unusually scary one for people in the Dallas-Fort Worth area. While it has long been theorized that underground injections of fluids from oil and gas development operations could decrease friction and cause faults to slip, the quakes occurred in an area where people weren`t accustomed to tremors, renewing calls for research into the geological consequences of the booming natural gas industry in Texas.
In a new study, one of the researchers...
Wonkbook: Climate change may be to blame for extreme weather events now
Posted by Washington Post: Karl Singer on August 7th, 2012
Washington Post: A new study finds some extreme weather events wouldn`t have happened without climate change. "The percentage of the earth’s land surface covered by extreme heat in the summer has soared in recent decades, from less than 1 percent in the years before 1980 to as much as 13 percent in recent years, according to a new scientific paper. The change is so drastic, the paper says, that scientists can claim with near certainty that events like the Texas heat wave last year, the Russian heat wave of 2010 and...
Deforestation fuels temperature hikes around Mt. Kilimanjaro
Posted by AlertNet: Kizito Makoye on August 7th, 2012
AlertNet: A logging boom has hit Tanzania's tourist-drawing Kilimanjaro region, reducing the region's native forests, hitting rainfall and leading to unusually high temperatures.
The increasingly extreme weather has come as a surprise to people who live a stone's throw from one of the world's heritage sites, and who had been used to a cold, misty climate.
Joshua Meena, 72, a resident of Machame, told AlertNet that the annual rainfall in the region has been dwindling from year to year over the past decade,...
Recent extreme heatwaves ‘a result of global warming’
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on August 7th, 2012
Independent: Global warming is responsible for the recent spate of summer heatwaves, according to James Hansen, the scientist who first alerted the world to the dangers of climate change. Dr Hansen, director of Nasa's Goddard Institute for Space Studies in New York, said that the "climate dice" are now loaded in favour of extreme heatwaves which now affect 10 per cent of the Earth's surface, compared with about 1 per cent in the period between 1951 to 1980.
Dr Hansen said that at least three extreme summers...