Poetry: Hand Me My Squibnocket Trumpet
I prove the muskrat, snoring
in its reedy castle.
I prove its woody castor!
The loon’s rumor, I prove.
I’ve a foot in the estrume.
Visual Story About Ecobalance
“We abuse land because we regard it as a commodity belonging to us. When we see land as a community to which we belong, we may begin to use it with love and respect… We shall never achieve harmony with land, any more than we shall achieve absolute justice or liberty for people. In these higher aspirations, the important thing is not to achieve but to strive.” — Aldo Leopold
Home Recycled: Dan Phillips Affordable Housing
Dan Phillips, a self taught architect, is redefining the architectural landscape of Texas. Throughout the years he’s collected someone else’s junk and turned it into doors, furniture, countertops, floors, etc. From broken glass to broken toilets, Dan is re-shaping the perspective of a home.
Turbine-Free Wind Energy Design: A New Look At Oscillation
Conservationists argue that wind turbines pose a risk to birds, bats and sensitive habitats like shorelines. People living close to wind farms, meanwhile, complain of constant noise and vibration. This year, engineers responded with a new way to draw electricity…
EPA Banning Pesticide Used on Food Products
U.S. EPA today proposed to start gradually banning a pesticide often used on cocoa beans and dried fruits that degrades to fluoride, a move closely linked to the Obama administration’s decision last week to curb the maximum levels of fluoride in drinking water out of concern for children’s health. EPA’s bid to wind down legal use of sulfuryl fluoride, citing…
Poetry: A Hunter’s Bird
Fierce-eyed raptor bird, where are your talons? You must have left them as you stumbled in some dark hollow while grazing grapes–drunk on that fall’s vintage. You terrify me with the black of your eyes and the thunder of your wings as they rip the thin mountain air. Whose heart beats faster at your flush? I have breathed deep the piquant banquet of your crop, inhaled the story of your day before we met…
Antipsychotics On Children: Normalizing Psychotropic Drugs
Excerpt from the PBS program Need to Know: “… Some of those other mental health therapies, including psychotherapy, are covered by Medicaid. But, Dr. Thompson notes that doctors can see more patients and receive more in medicaid payments by writing…
Schools Policies Fail to Keep Out Drug Companies
The school was one of the first to stop sales representatives from roaming its halls in 2006. It cut off the flow of free lunches and trinkets emblazoned with drug names. And last year, in a blow to its physicians’ wallets, Stanford banned them from giving paid promotional talks for pharmaceutical companies.
Documentary Examines Disappearance of Honeybees
Honeybees have been mysteriously disappearing across the planet, literally vanishing from their hives. Known as Colony Collapse Disorder, this phenomenon has brought beekeepers to crisis in an industry responsible for producing apples, broccoli, watermelon, onions, cherries and a hundred other fruits and vegetables.
Cooper Gilkes: The Striped Bass
A tumultuous trifecta is unfolding onto The Striped Bass; its food chain, breeding grounds and genetic pool is being threatened to the echo of a dark past where fisherman stood on shores night after night without any sight of the fish. At least, that’s what Cooper Gilkes is forewarning to the scientific community about the health and livelihood of this species after a lifetime of observation.
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