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It’s no secret that the world population of bluefin tuna is declining rapidly. The scientific and conservation communities have been calling for an international trade ban for years and Mathew told us last year about a report stating that Atlantic...
The cusk eel, pictured here, was one of the fish seen eating floating plant matter. Image credit: Wikimedia Commons Most research has shown that deep sea fish sit at the top of their food chains—hunting as predators and scavenging the carcasses...
Photo: Public domain Get Ready for Lots of Acronyms At the ARPA-E Energy Innovation Summit (ARPA-E means Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy), the U.S. secretary of energy Steven Chu announced $100 million in Recovery Act funds for clean tech...
The Oil Drum post some interesting data on the energy input required to produce different kinds of foods; I threw them into bar chart form and it sure looks like Graham Hill should be pitching the idea of a Weekday Vegan rather than a Weekday Vegetarian...
Image credit: PETA Much like Blythe’s excellent slideshow on PETA porn , I’m never quite sure what to make of PETA . On the one hand, the constant focus on Read the rest here: PETA’s at it Again: Sexiest Vegetarian Next Door 2010 Read More →
Image credit: LlewTube From test driving the Mitsubishi MiEV through taking a ride with Ecotricity’s Dale Vince to interviewing Diarmuid O’Connell of Tesla , I am a huge fan of Robert Llewellyn’s Llewtube show. The format of taking...
Next up in our lunch – themed week… Like clear plastic muffin/cake boxes , plastic clamshell-ish tubs from salad bars or pre-packed pastas/salads are frustrating – they’re *almost* strong enough and *almost* resealable enough...
Chicago Sun-Times Green roofs are wonderful things, keeping buildings cool and reduce heat island effects. But you usually can’t eat them. Now, rooftops around the world are being put to productive use as sources of food. Often they are tied...
Number of storms predicted per year during the period 1854 — 2006 versus numbers actually observed for the Atlantic (filled diamonds). The model predictions (grey curve) have been normalized to the data. A quadratic fit to the model is shown...
