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Entries tagged as ‘ocean’
Sharkwater
July 14, 2008 · Leave a Comment
Categories: environment
Tagged: environment, fish, food, ocean
Naturally Interesting Reading for July 9, 2008
July 9, 2008 · 1 Comment
Gary Becker and Richard Posner on Oil Prices, Offshore and Alaska Drilling, and Excess Profits Taxes (scroll down).
Are Artificial Reefs Good for the Environment? (Newsweek)
The Integrity of Organics (law.com)
Categories: environment
Tagged: environment, food, ocean, organic
Saving the Tuna
July 8, 2008 · Leave a Comment
Scientific American has a pair of articles on tuna.
The Bluefin Tuna in Peril: The only way to save the bluefin tuna, one of the most marvelous and endangered fish in the ocean, may be to domesticate the species
Tuna from a Farm? A Q&A with Richard Ellis: As a tuna conservation commission gathers this week to decide the fate of the yellowfin tuna, we check in with the author of Tuna: A Love Story about the future of the million-dollar fish: the bluefin tuna.
They are well done and worth reading.
Categories: environment
Tagged: environment, farming, fish, food, ocean
Naturally Interesting Reading for June 25, 2008
June 25, 2008 · Leave a Comment
Apocalypse in the Oceans; Taras Grescoe’s Bottomfeeder reviewed/discussed.
Solar Power’s New Style, in Time magazine.Thin film/Nano solar…
BCC Research, which charts technology markets, expects the global solar market to grow from $13 billion to $32 billion by 2012, with thin film expanding 45% a year.
“start-up Nanosolar, which shocked its competitors in December when it announced it would begin profitably selling thin-film panels at $1 a watt. That figure is solar’s holy grail, the point at which power from the sun becomes generally cheaper than coal, without the help of subsidies.” Video below.
Categories: environment
Tagged: Energy, fish, food, ocean, solar
Naturally Interesting Reading for June 11, 2008
June 11, 2008 · Leave a Comment
Monsanto & Co.: Climate Change Profiteers
Giant biotech companies are privatising the world’s protection against climate change by filing hundreds of monopoly patents on genes that help crops resist it, a new investigation has concluded.
Next Climate Issue: Ocean Acidification
Categories: environment
Tagged: cars, Climate, Energy, environment, farming, ocean
Things to Read
May 31, 2008 · Leave a Comment
The cost of shipping a 40 foot container from Shanghai to the east coast of North America has gone from $3,000 in 2000 to $8,000 because of the cost of fuel, and for many products, the Asian cost advantage has virtually disappeared.
“In a world of triple-digit oil prices, distance costs money,” write Jeff Rubin of CIBC World Markets. “And while trade liberalization and technology may have flattened the world, rising transport prices will once again make it rounder.”
Is There a Solution to the “Continent of Plastic” that Pollutes the Pacific?
Algae Startups Confront Promise of Miracle Fuel With Big Summer
But after all the hype—and there’s been plenty of it—the fact remains that nobody has yet proven they can cheaply and reliably transform the stuff from a thick, green slurry to a finished fuel capable of making a dent in America’s 870 million–gallon-per-day petroleum habit.
Categories: environment
Tagged: algae, biofuel, Energy, environment, ocean, oil
A Plastic Ocean
March 27, 2008 · Leave a Comment
For a long time we heard about the evils of six-pack rings, trapping and killing sea creatures. Then it moved on to plastic in general. And now news sources are reporting about microscopic plastic particles breaking down and entering the food chain where they wreak havoc. Still, one of the most disturbing and under-reported stories of plastic is the North Pacific Gyre Garbage Patch. The Garbage Patch is a swath of plastic and debris the size of Texas in the North Pacific. It is bad – kills sea life, enters the food chain, bio-accumulates, we eat it. Mmm plastic toxins.
Links:
Article in Best Life magazine about The Garbage Patch. Read This Article! It is very well written and informative.
Algalita Marine Research Foundation
Categories: environment
Tagged: environment, garbage, health, ocean, plastic
