The red giant's plastic problem (tags)
A tattered Coca-Cola flag flutters on the beach of Ixia on Rhodes: every year, the beverage company produces more than 100 billion single-use plastic bottles. Many of them end up in the sea...In a few years, there is likely to be more plastic swimming in the oceans than fish.
Link Tipp: Age of Quantum materials (tags)
In a surprising discovery, an international team of researchers, led by scientists in the University of Minnesota Center for Quantum Materials, found that deformations in quantum materials that cause imperfections in the crystal structure can actually improve the material's superconducting and electrical properties.
Non-violent protest ideas; hooch bomb recipe (tags)
Just a creative idea for making hooch bombs to throw at buildings for overwhelming stench effect. Only plastic juice bottle and yeast needed to make these safe and fun protest tools.
The world's largest food corporation is privatizing the world's waters, draining wetlands, clogging landfills, making plastic trash islands in the seas, causing cancer, animal agony and environmental desecration
DONT ban, SAVE plastic bagees please ! (tags)
LA City is being lobbied to Ban our useful plastic bags for secret reasons not stated. Public meetings are barely made available to comment, pro or con. We are being hoodwinked by paid consultants and those who have unrevealed gains by pushing us into paying MORE for our recycled-daily-use-plastic-bags. Stop the secrecy and the manipulation of the People of LA now !
Conservation Tips from Drew Searing (tags)
First in a regular series of tips on how to conserve resources and energy, and generally to live with a softer footprint on the earth.
OCCUPY LA come! What to BRING Oct 1 @ 12 N City Hall (tags)
Whether you can attend occupying space at CITY HALL downtown on Oct 1 at 12 N, [some are walking from Pershing Sq at 10 am to here], or cannot stay, you can help with some supplies, drop off, deliver, stay a while, leave, return, JOIN in any way you want!
Important New Film “Bag It!” Playing on PBS this Week (tags)
This new documentary is pretty entertaining and well-made, but also very disturbing--and important.
Gotti, Destroyer of Worlds (tags)
God is a bratty little prick.
JUNK boat set sail Sunday (tags)
Algalita Foundation JUNK boat made of 150000 recycled bottles set sail for Hawaii to raise awareness of pollution from plastics and water bottle waste in the worlds oceans.
San Francisco becomes the first city in nation to ban plastic bags (tags)
San Francisco becomes the first city in nation to ban plastic bags; Green Party supervisor leads fights to save planet, marine life. Supervisor Ross Mirkarimi –one of 50 elected Green Party members in the state – pushed through an ordinance that makes San Francisco the first city in the nation to ban the use of all but the most environmentally-sound shopping bags.
Petrocollapse and Food Security at the South Central Farm (tags)
Jan Lundberg, oil industry analyst, founder of Auto-Free Times and www.culturechange.org came to Los Angeles last weekend to speak on the issues surrounding peak oil. I attended the Sunday afternoon talk on “Petrocollapse and Food Security”, an appropriate title for the location, the South Central Farm.
Interview with Peter Ryan of Cosmetic Vacations (tags)
small WORLD interview with Peter Ryan of Cosmetic Vacations.
Petrochemical corporation free Holidays (tags)
Becoming independant from petroleum corporations will help save the environment, end the US occupation of Iraq and increase local community sustainability..
Learn to Crochet & Be Part of a Community Project (tags)
Crochet workshop and community based project at M&A on June 5 from 3-6 pm.
The House that AIDS Built - (tags)
"In 2003, two children, ages 6 and 12, had debilitating strokes due to drug toxicities. The 6-year-old went blind. They both died shortly after. Another 14-year old died recently. An 8-year-old boy had two plastic surgeries to remove large, fatty, drug-induced lumps from his neck."
Forage and Guerrilla Gardening (tags)
By growing our own foods and foraging native edibles, we can liberate ourselves from petrochemical industry dependency.
Independence from petroleum (tags)
US occupation of Iraq is a result of America's petroleum dependency. Plastics, pesticides, pharmaceuticals and fuel are all petroleum based. There are sustainable alternatives that don't involve occupation of Iraq..
Treated as a terorist for seaching for his daughter in Iraq. UK man captured by USA. Iraq. (tags)
Along with Turkish Special Forces, Michael Todd, a British performance artist and writer was captured in North Iraq on 4th July. After been taken to Kirkuk Air Base the group were flown to Baghdad. The Turks were released on the 8th July but the British man, in Iraq to find his missing half-Iraqi daughter, was held as a prisoner of war / terrorist suspect for 3 weeks at Baghdad Airport under 24 hour armed guard. His crime? Walking down the street, searching for his daughter !
How Did Our Oil Get Under Their Sand? (tags)
Are the hawks in the Bush-Cheney Oilygarchy the only ones to blame for the war?
An important discovery
5 Gal. Plastic Buckets - Bring to Demos (tags)
5 Gal plastic buckets (like the sort found out behind kitchens, diners, etc) are great tools (after you clean 'em). Use 'em for drums, seats, carry-totes for food and gear...... If you choose one with a handle (and NO spout) you can drop it over a tear gas canister - it traps the gas...which turns to some sort of wierd funky dust (don't touch the dust). After the dust cools, you have yr drum againn..... but wash it out when you can.......
Brief Protective Gear List (tags)
This list of gear describes the tools which can help protect you and enable you to make your voice heard in the coming days. The list describes some basic tools which will protect you against tear gas/pepper spray, as well as a bit of first aid gear.
Dozens of tanks and other military equipment seen on rail flatbeds this morning(8/15/02).
10,000 times cancer risks from natural chemicals in our foods. (tags)
From the book "Saving the Planet With Pesticides and Plastic: The Environmental Triumpth of High Yield Farming" by Dennis T. Avery 2000.
Occidental Chemical Corporation, a subsidiary of Occidental Petroleum, is no stranger to diplacing people. Formerly Hooker Chemical and Plastics, the company was responsible for Love Canal, one of the most severe environmental disasters in this country.