Garbage-patch tale as flimsy as a single-use plastic bag – SFGate: So the GREAT Pacific Garbage Patch is not real… Or maybe not nearly as big as originally expected. Saunders does a great job of attaching the myth behind the original reports of “the size of Texas” and such. Great sources of info included. But now I’m really worried. The amount of plastic floating in the oceans amount to only (right, only) 7,000 to 35,000…
Efforts Grow to Take the Sting Out of the Bee Die-Off – WSJ: Generally, the topics discussed here aim to look at the sustainability of trends or activities. CCD is worrisome on many levels of sustainability. This is an interesting update on the Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD) of bee hives world wide. Look at the ugly research related to the mix of pesticides and fungicides that seem to cause the demise of bee hives. (See…
Nordic Poles Boost Artery-Disease Patients’ Walking – WSJ: Lots of studies show that simply getting up and about several times a week can be really, really good for you. This is pretty cool. The use of Nordic poles significantly helped patents go longer… Okay, that’s pretty obvious… BUT it also worked the body 23% harder than normal walking. The prob with walking (and running) is that you don’t really work the upper body, so it…
Repost from IPzine… BioLite BaseCamp Stove | Turn Fire into Electricity by BioLite — Kickstarter: I love it. But only 62 hours to get in on the KickStarter offer. They are at twice goal with $800k+ and 3,000 backers. Yes, it was DARK in Miami, when Hurricane Andrew came through South Miami/Homestead on August 24, 1992. Well, afterwards really. It would be weeks before most of us would get power. So bar-b-q grilling was the…
BioLite BaseCamp Stove | Turn Fire into Electricity by BioLite — Kickstarter: I love it. But only 62 hours to get in on the KickStarter offer. They are at twice goal with $800k+ and 3,000 backers. Yes, it was DARK in Miami, when Hurricane Andrew came through South Miami/Homestead on August 24, 1992. Well, afterwards really. It would be weeks before most of us would get power. So bar-b-q grilling was the norm. That was…
Free Investment Newsletter | Invest Yourself: I really like what they (Robert B. Rinear) say on the currency. That all seems very very true. The currencies in the world are all crap. The best may be Japan and they can’t keep the Yen low enough to be a competitive exporter so it is wreaking havoc on their economy… The Yankee Dollar is a piece of crap. But we are less crappy then the Yuan or the Euro. We are…
