Thursday, January 25, 2007 By BARBARA WILLIAMSSTAFF WRITER RINGWOOD — It’s the state’s first-ever such warning: Don’t eat too much squirrel from the woods near Ford’s toxic waste dumps in Upper Ringwood. Two months ago, a lead-contaminated squirrel was found there. The advisory was sent this week to neighborhood residents, who maintain a hunting culture. [...]
Archive For January, 2007
Green Party’s task: Fill up ballot
[From Pantagraph.com] By Adam Jadhavadam.jadhav@lee.net Wanted: One candidate for the U.S. Senate, 19 for the U.S. House, 118 potential state representatives, dozens more wannabe state senators, hundreds of potential county officials. And as many as 11,692 precinct committeemen, among other vacancies. Interested applicants should contact the Illinois Green Party. Such recruitment is the daunting task [...]
Hauppage protesters join national outcry
[From Newsday.com] BY JULIET CHUNG Newsday Staff Writer January 27, 2007, 6:58 PM EST About 30 anti-war protesters in Hauppauge demonstrated for peace Saturday as thousands gathered in Washington, D.C., and across the nation to demand the United States withdraw from Iraq. Surrounded by monuments to wars past outside a county building, the Hauppauge protesters [...]
Bring home our troops Poster Contest
[From Eco Street] Bring home our troops Posted by: Tracy Stokes The Green Party of Suffolk County (US) is holding a poster competition to encourage both adults and children alike to show off their artistic talents and demonstrate their commitment to ending the war in Iraq. The competition is entitled “Bring Home Our Troops” and [...]
Report has ‘smoking gun’ on climate
By SETH BORENSTEIN, AP Science Writer Mon Jan 22, 10:06 PM ET WASHINGTON – Human-caused global warming is here, visible in the air, water and melting ice, and is destined to get much worse in the future, an authoritative global scientific report will warn next week. “The smoking gun is definitely lying on the table [...]
Germany seeks common EU rules on violent video games
[From Macworld News ] By Paul Meller, IDG News Service Violent video games could be outlawed across the European Union, following calls for a clampdown among E.U. justice ministers this week. Germany, which took over the six month rotating presidency of the Union at the beginning of this month, is leading the initiative but the [...]
Born to Be Mild
[From WIRED] Jump on your bike, start the engine, throw a rev, and hear… silence? No, you haven’t gone deaf – you’ve traded your mighty Harley for the zero-cylinder ENV (yep, envy). Green vehicles are nothing new – the Prius and its kin have been quietly zipping along special commuter lanes for years – but [...]
Belly of the Bug: Better Biofuels Through Termite Guts
[From WIRED Blogs: Autopia] Not satisfied with biofuels based on corn, cane, and chicken fat, metagenomicists are diving into the digestive tracts of termites in the hope of co-opting the microbial genes that let the house-chewing pests digest wood. MIT Technology Review quotes Jim Bristow of the Department of Energy’s Joint Genome Institute: Converting cellulose [...]
NfG Notes
Just a few notes about this News for Greens blog. NfG recently passed its third birthday. This makes is one of the longest continually running Green blogs (along with Greens for Greens). It has sort of settled into its current display theme, which means it must be time to change, though features continue to be [...]
Waterboarding black inmates in NY state prison in 1858
[From Boing Boing] Xeni Jardin: Abraham Hyatt says, The furor over waterboarding is _so_ 2006, but I just found a digital clip from an Dec. 18, 1858 Harper’s Weekly(?) article on the use of water torture in New York state prisons more than 150 years ago. The story centers on a prisoner killed by torture, [...]