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Rowing 500 days on the open ocean by yourself, the Roz Savage podcast

by Myrna Posted on April 10, 2013

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Tar Sands Blockade wins sponsorship deal from Kryptonite bike locks

by AshleaMelina844 Posted on April 1, 2013

Tar Sands Blockade wins sponsorship deal from Kryptonite bike locks

By Susie Cagle

Disturbed by the recent tar-sands spills in Minnesota and Arkansas, Kryptonite lock company has decided to step up its efforts to protect the planet.

Today, the company offered corporate sponsorship to any of the Keystone XL pipeline protesters who raised the bar by chaining themselves to tar-sands equipment over the last year. (Needless to say, they’ve been burning through a lot of locks.)

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“The people at Kryptonite have a pure passion for creating the best security in the world. And that includes creating security for the planet,” the company said in a statement. “We recognized the blockaders for their creative use of our product, and we wanted to encourage more of their important work. Plus, Kryptonite’s reinforced, anodyzed steel design resists removal 50 percent longer than competitors and is guaranteed to frustrate law enforcement.”

They may seem like odd bedfellows, but Kryptonite’s products have already helped activists disrupt energy conferences and slow down pipeline construction.

The blockade reported that they were happy to have the power of so many locks behind them. Unconcerned about backlash over a corporate sponsor, the blockade emphasized the greater good. “Kryptonite U-locks protect our bikes from being re-liberated on city streets every day — why shouldn’t they protect our planet too?” activists said in a statement.

“We will use the master’s tools to lock down the master’s house.”

No word yet on whether the makers behind Gorilla Glue might consider making a similar donation.

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Climate change is killing the corn cob pipe

by Cynthia Perez Posted on March 26, 2013

Climate change is killing the corn cob pipe

By Susie Cagle

Add another item to the list of things climate change will kill! But this one makes me a little gleeful.

NPR reports that “corn cob pipes have made a comeback in recent years” (which, what?), but now higher temperatures and drought are severely cutting into the supply of this “natural product.”

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The country’s one last mass producer of the pipes, Missouri Meerschaum Company, is suffering from a serious lack of decent corn cobs to fashion into $10 cancer-depositing machines for your lungs.

It’s probably fitting that drought could kill the corn cob pipe, though — after all, it’s also taking out tobacco crops (with a little help from hurricanes). Uh, thanks, climate change?

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Farmers markets are growing, but farmers’ incomes are not

by Seraphinakbj Posted on March 19, 2013

Farmers markets are growing, but farmers’ incomes are not

By Susie Cagle

She’s not getting rich.

It’s National Agriculture Day! What an appropriate day to celebrate the awesome work of our nation’s farmers! The awesome work they are so crappily compensated for, that is.

They may seem to be raking in the cash at all those new local farmers markets, but America’s food-growers — those producing fruits and veg, not soy and corn — aren’t having an easy go of it. NPR’s All Things Considered reports:

The market for locally grown food has seen dramatic growth over the last decade. Despite this boost in sales and popularity, evidence suggests that the economics behind the movement still don’t favor the farmer. The U.S. Department of Agriculture has new programs to try to prop up small-scale operations, but many local farms only survive because they scrape by on below-market wages, or by doing without things like insurance.

Iowa State economist David Swenson says farmers trying to earn a living by selling their produce locally often face a losing battle. He calculated that if someone were producing 25 acres of fruits and vegetables — which would meet the produce needs of about 5,000 people — they wouldn’t be anywhere near well-off. “That basically sustained 1.34 jobs and only $35,000 in total labor income and that’s labor income to the producer as well as to any help,” Swenson told NPR.

Small may not always be better. But the answer isn’t to stop shopping at the farmers market — nor, maybe, is it to quit your job and run off to the countryside to grow apples.

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Fastest-growing metro areas in U.S. are sprawling and water-challenged

by nension Posted on March 18, 2013

Fastest-growing metro areas in U.S. are sprawling and water-challenged

By Susie Cagle

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New York grew too, but not as much as big metro areas in Texas.

It’s time again for another fun-filled Census report on how much bigger U.S. cities are getting! Happy Monday, Southern and Western states: Y’all dominated the top 30 winning metropolitan areas, crushing the Midwest and Eastern seaboard.

“While most metro areas didn’t experience significant swings in population over the past year, several in the Sun Belt and Mountain West saw noticeable gains,” the Governing blog reports.

Here’s the thing about these Census city growth reports, though: While we at Grist like to celebrate cities, the Census doesn’t calculate urban growth. The agency looks at total metropolitan-area growth, which includes suburbs and sometimes even exurbs. And it turns out that many of the fastest-growing metros are among the sprawlingest and least sustainable.

The top three metro winners for population growth from July 2011 to July 2012, according to the Census, were car-dependent areas with water problems: Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, Texas; Houston-the Woodlands-Sugar Land, Texas; and Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, Calif. Shouldn’t-even-exist Phoenix, Ariz., is No. 7 for big growth; Las Vegas, Nev., is No. 20. City growth is great, but not when it’s really sprawl, which is what happens most of the time when metro areas expand.

Governing has a rad interactive map of all this data. Go play. Then maybe compare cities that are growing with cities that have a lot of cyclists, are plagued by food deserts, and have high costs of living.

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Fuels America’s fight to protect consumer choice and the environment

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Today we are proud to announce the new FuelsAmerica.org.

Every day it’s more obvious that renewable fuel and the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) are a critical part of energy investment in the United States, creating new jobs and helping us break our addiction to oil.

But despite its record of success, renewable fuel is still under attack.

Oil companies are spending millions to roll back established industry standards that expand the use of renewable fuel – the one energy policy proven to reduce our dependence on foreign oil and provide real benefits to Americans.

With the re-launch of FuelsAmerica.org, we will be at the forefront of calling out the lies the oil industry has been spreading. We will rally together to create a movement in support of renewable fuel.

To find out more about this movement, you can check out some new site features to get you started:

Fuels America Map: Find and read stories by people and organizations from around the country, showing how much renewable fuel has made a difference in their lives.

The Facts: Want to learn the truth about oil companies? Visit The Facts section to find out exactly how the oil industry is hurting our economy, environment, and livelihoods.

Facebook and Twitter: Like Fuels America on Facebook and follow Fuels America on Twitter to stay up-to-date on our fight against the oil industry.

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Fermented cow dung air freshener wins two students top science prize

by pwdt8w4 Posted on March 14, 2013

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New Pope Francis sure likes buses, but will he be a leader for climate action?

by gerdi Posted on March 14, 2013

New Pope Francis sure likes buses, but will he be a leader for climate action?

By Susie Cagle

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Jorge Mario Bergoglio has been named the new head of the Catholic Church. Pope Francis, as he’s now called, awaits his future wearing cute outfits and riding around Vatican City in the popemobile. But where does Bergoglio stand on climate change?

Ex-Pope Benedict XVI, aka Joseph Aloisius Ratzinger, used his papal platform to promote social and political action in response to global warming, and even added an electric car to the popemobile fleet. His predecessor, Pope John Paul II, was also a proponent of climate action. And other Catholic leaders have spoken out about the need for a response to the impending “serious and potentially irreversible” effects of a warmer planet. (But, shhh, don’t say anything about birth control and population growth.)

Bergoglio is still a bit of a mystery, but his humble background is well-documented. A Jesuit, he claims to have quietly rebelled during a period of grisly military dictatorship in Argentina, hiding people in his church and giving out fake identity papers. He chose to live in a small apartment instead of the fancy cardinal’s house in Buenos Aires, and he is best known “as a champion of the poor,” says The Washington Post.

This is often reflected in his very humble lifestyle, despite his position. One much-cited example of his personal (and very Franciscan) commitment is that he takes the bus.

He will presumably give up this practice for security reasons, but it says much about the personality and beliefs of the man who will now lead the Catholic church.

Boy do we love it when fancy-seeming people who have all kinds of transportation resources at their fancy disposal decide to take public transport instead. But how much does that really matter?

Bergoglio’s small efforts — from eating meals at home to speaking out for the poor in times of globalization to those bus rides — seem to reflect his personal, humble beliefs. The biggest clue to future pope’s politics, though, might be all in the name. Bergoglio took the name of Saint Francis, patron saint of animals and the environment.

Bergoglio probably won’t be organizing a Catholic tree-sit to block the Keystone XL pipeline, but, at least at first glance, it seems like Pope No. 266 might not be half-bad for the climate. Maybe Rick Santorum will even call him a radical.

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Chinese forests now just chopstick factories in waiting

by Unacoomt Posted on March 12, 2013

Chinese forests now just chopstick factories in waiting

By Susie Cagle

China’s been dealing with a lot of pressure lately: dirty air, a river full of dead pigs, new pledges to go green … To cope, there’s apparently been an uptick in stress-eating. The country is now producing 80 billion pairs of disposable wooden chopsticks a year, nearly 60 pairs for each person in the country, according to Bai Guangxin, chair of Jilin Forestry Industry Group. That’s way up from the estimated 57 billion pairs produced annually between 2004 and 2009. At this rate, China is destroying nearly 1.5 percent of its forests each year just in the name of chopsticks.

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From The Huffington Post:

The consequences of China’s chopstick production — deforestation, for one — have prompted action from some environmental groups. …

Bai pointed out during [a] meeting Friday that the Chinese government has also begun taking action by introducing policies limiting manufacturing of disposable chopsticks.

Government actions range from a 5-percent tax levied in 2006 on disposable chopsticks, to a 2010 warning of potential government regulations for companies that fail to strictly supervise disposable chopstick production. …

“We should change our consumption habits and encourage people to carry their own tableware,” Bai recommended on Friday.

If the country’s still planning on increasing its forest cover by nearly 21 percent by 2020, it should heed Bai’s advice. (You’d think as the head of a timber company he might be able to do something about this himself, but there’s the whole state-run thing to contend with.)

Maybe a little DIY could help. My brother, a sushi fanatic, carries his own steel travel chopsticks in a pouch around his neck. Similar sticks with a travel case cost a few bucks at your local Asian market. Bonus: no figurative or literal splinters in your mouth from unethical eating instruments.

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Whole Foods to label frankenfoods by 2018

by gt67dx1 Posted on March 8, 2013

Whole Foods to label frankenfoods by 2018

By Susie Cagle

Out of the pure goodness of its big corporate heart, Whole Foods wants you to know if there are any GMOs in your $8 kombucha and $30 take-out salad.

Several states are kicking around proposals to require labels on genetically modified foods, but the (w)holier-than-thou natural foods giant waits for no government! It will wait for its suppliers, though. Whole Foods announced today that, by 2018, it will require genetically modified foods be labeled as such.

“We are as excited about this announcement as we are dedicated to supporting transparency and our customers’ right to know what’s in their food,” read the statement from Whole Foods co-CEO Walter Robb and COO A.C. Gallo. “By 2018, we will require our supplier partners to label products containing GMO ingredients, and we will work in collaboration with them as they transition to sourcing non-GMO ingredients or to clearly labeling products with ingredients containing GMOs.”

Here’s Robb reading more Whole Foods PR off a teleprompter. (Also, when I think Whole Foods offices I think earth tones, not hot pink, but that’s not a judgment.)

“We are the first national grocery chain to set a deadline for full GMO transparency,” the statement reads. But the announcement comes on the heels of rumblings that its food culture foil and market dominator Walmart has been kind of on the same trip. Lately even Monsanto is kind of open to the idea of GMO labels. Are these really proactive policies, or are companies just seeing the writing on the wall and the legislation to come?

Either way, cool moves, Whole Foods. But I still kind of hate you, John “Crazy Eyes” “What’s the Big Deal About Climate Change?” “Unchecked Capitalism Rocks” Mackey.

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