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Lake Baikal is the largest freshwater lake in the world in terms of volume, and it contains approximately 20% of all the world's fresh surface water.

Thu, 17 Dec 2009 17:09:10 -0500

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Proverbs 31:8

Sun, 13 Dec 2009 18:31:14 -0500

fishforpeople:

Speak up for those who cannot speak for themselves; ensure justice for those being crushed.

roomthily: Google Earth Uses the Cloud to Fight Deforestation -...

Fri, 11 Dec 2009 13:24:28 -0500

roomthily:

Google Earth Uses the Cloud to Fight Deforestation - Fast Company

Google announced today at the UN Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen that it has combined Google Earth’s satellite imagery and high-speed cloud-based computation to create an online turbocharged satellite imagery-processing engine that detects deforestation in specific areas within seconds.

my boss, on the new worm bin

Thu, 03 Dec 2009 13:40:35 -0500

my boss: I'm just saying, I overheard some people in the lunch room who are squeamish about moldy stuff in the office
me: No mold! It's a completely different decomposing process! It won't smell at all
my boss: Hey, you're talking to someone who spends half his day standing in horse sh*t, so I'm clearly not squeamish about gross things

(via walkingincircles)

Tue, 01 Dec 2009 13:56:41 -0500

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"For the first year of our project, we would illicitly buy raw milk from an older farmer, who fed 50..."

Thu, 12 Nov 2009 11:47:52 -0500

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For the first year of our project, we would illicitly buy raw milk from an older farmer, who fed 50 cows on grass. He told us that 20 years earlier, the lush pastures of his valley had housed more than a dozen dairy farms, all selling to a bottler a few miles away. By the time we met him, long after his neighbors had given in, he was paying to have his milk hauled to the nearest processor, 40 miles away. Then the dairy giant Dean Foods bought the midsize processor the farmer had been selling to, and promptly shut down the (relatively) nearby processing plant. Now the nearest buyer was 70 miles away, and the extra 30 miles of freight, combined with heightened energy costs, wiped out what was left of his profits. The man shut down his dairy operation, telling us he had sold his herd to a large dairy farm in South Carolina. Similarly, today there’s no USDA-inspected slaughterhouse nearby, so livestock growers have to haul their animals a hundred miles and back if they want to sell meat locally.

What had happened to all the community-scale processing facilities that flourished a generation ago? The federal government watched idly, ignoring antitrust principles, while the food industry consolidated dramatically. Today, four companies process 90 percent of the beef consumed in the United States. In dairy, just two companies process nearly 70 percent of the milk produced nationally. As these giant companies scale up and buy competitors, they shutter smaller facilities and concentrate processing in vast factories geared to large-scale farms. In standard antitrust theory, when four players control more than 40 percent of a market, they have untoward power over their suppliers—in this case, farmers. The result has been a nearly wholesale obliteration of small livestock farms, and an explosion in the size of the remaining operations.

”

- This is why you can’t get good food… (via newsweek)

"In America, A pedestrian is someone who has parked their car."

Sat, 31 Oct 2009 15:42:37 -0400

“In America, A pedestrian is someone who has parked their car.”

- Tom Vandebilt (via ambivalence) (via roomthily)

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Tue, 27 Oct 2009 19:04:14 -0400

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A quick video glimpse at what VineyardBoise’s...

Thu, 22 Oct 2009 19:39:55 -0400

A quick video glimpse at what VineyardBoise’s “Vinearts” ministry is doing…

"Well, I happen to be European, and I can project with the best of them. So here’s why I think the..."

Mon, 19 Oct 2009 14:56:12 -0400

“Well, I happen to be European, and I can project with the best of them. So here’s why I think the virtual Obama is the real Obama, and why I think the man might deserve the hype. It starts with a quotation from a speech he gave at the United Nations last month: “We will support the Millennium Development Goals, and approach next year’s summit with a global plan to make them a reality. And we will set our sights on the eradication of extreme poverty in our time.” They’re not my words, they’re your president’s. If they’re not familiar, it’s because they didn’t make many headlines. But for me, these 36 words are why I believe Mr. Obama could well be a force for peace and prosperity — if the words signal action.”

- Bono (via azspot) (via transparentcommunity)

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Sun, 11 Oct 2009 00:35:05 -0400

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"Each and every day 500,000 people ride their bicycle to work or school in and around Copenhagen...."

Sat, 10 Oct 2009 03:50:24 -0400

“Each and every day 500,000 people ride their bicycle to work or school in and around Copenhagen. This blog highlights who they are, why they do and how it was made possible. Forty years ago Copenhagen was just as car-clogged as anywhere else but now 55% of the population choose the bicycle for all trips. 37% trips by commuters to work and school are by bikes. Copenhagenizing is possible anywhere.”

- The Copenhagen Bike Culture Blog Copenhagenize.com (via somethingchanged)

(via autumnfringes) one of my favourite worship songs of all...

Thu, 08 Oct 2009 04:13:57 -0400

(via autumnfringes)

one of my favourite worship songs of all time.

you are my everything and i will adore you.

hippieflavor: “ We know what you’re thinking: Not another...

Wed, 07 Oct 2009 15:29:23 -0400

hippieflavor:

“

We know what you’re thinking: Not another organic (or, in this case, recycled) T-shirt. But although togs made from recycled cotton or soda bottles are fast becoming old hat—and that’s a good thing—Playback Clothing manages to up the ante with tees, hoodies, and sweatshirts that take on the preexisting color of the original recycled material. To wit: No potentially hinky chemical dyes are required, which produces shirts in hues like Beer Bottle Brown, Soda Bottle Green, and Water Cooler Blue, in addition to colors gleaned from salvaged cotton scraps.”

(via Playback Clothing Helps Recycled Soda Bottles Dye Another Day | Ecouterre)

reality: tool of the reformer

hippieflavor: Safe Water and Easy Transport: ROSS Emergency...

Mon, 28 Sep 2009 14:27:32 -0400

hippieflavor:

Safe Water and Easy Transport: ROSS Emergency Filter and Carrier : TreeHugger

“Now a group of young inventors from Glasgow, Scotland, [ROSS (Reverse Osmosis Sanitation System) from Red Button Designs] are taking the idea of a rolling water carrier a step further, using the motion of the wheels to drive a reverse osmosis filter through the water. The combination of easy carrying and safe purification mean that users in the developing world could not only transport water easily - they could do so from the nearest, not necessarily the safest, water source.”

"One hundred forty-three years after passage of the 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution and 60..."

Thu, 24 Sep 2009 20:19:45 -0400

“One hundred forty-three years after passage of the 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution and 60 years after Article 4 of the U.N.’s Universal Declaration of Human Rights banned slavery and the slave trade worldwide, there are more slaves than at any time in human history — 27 million.”

- There Are More Slaves Today Than at Any Time in Human History | World | AlterNet

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(via hannahbanena) Pure Bride - Leeland

Thu, 24 Sep 2009 05:34:05 -0400

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Pure Bride - Leeland

via www.c28.com

Mon, 21 Sep 2009 04:33:00 -0400

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A new documentary about child sex slavery in the U.S. by Love146

Wed, 16 Sep 2009 15:24:31 -0400

A new documentary about child sex slavery in the U.S.

by Love146

UPDATE

Wed, 16 Sep 2009 15:23:34 -0400

If you signed up for the Re:form interactive interviews they have been canceled today.