Skeptic finds he now agrees global warming is real – Yahoo! News

Chef Massimo Bottura on Why the Future of Food is in Our Trash http://www.wsj.com/articles/chef-massimo-bottura-on-why-the-future-of-food-is-in-our-trash-1449506020 We throw away about $700 worth of food each year in the USA. That’s per person, last I saw, which was probably about 10 years ago. Think of the products taken from the shelf because they are past the due date. Capturing most of this food can go a long way toward feeding a hungry planet.

 It’s World Bee Day, May 20th.  There are lots of people worried about bees, and rightly so. To mix a metaphor, bees are the canaries in the coal mine. When bee colonies get wiped out (like colony collapse), it indicates that things are not right in the environment.&nbsp (When your canary dies in the coal mine, the methane levels are high enough to cut off oxygen, and to explode with any spark.) Pollinators like bees…

It’s EarhHOUR tonight.  (Sat March 27th at 8:30pm, local time). What are you doing with this time in the dark??? If it is publishable in public, let us know. What if you’re driving at 8:30???? You still have to turn your lights out, Right??? …!:-) Visit http://www.earthhour.org/ Check out the cool pix from years past. Expect cool pics from this year as we start down under and work the clock to you!…

Finding Where U.S. Forests Have Been Undisturbed for a Quarter Century « Landsat Science: This is a very cool study of the “old forests” that are undisturbed in the USA. The Northeast and the pacific maintained some undisturbed forests; the south was really bad. There are many plants, animals and entire ecosystems that rely on old forests. This study demonstrates how bad it is and how much worse it could get over the next few…