dotCommonweal » Blog Archive » Gay Marriage Harms the Environment ...
By Eduardo Peñalver
The book of nature is one and indivisible: it takes in not only the environment
but also life, sexuality, marriage, the family, social relations: in a
word, integral human development. Our duties towards the environment are linked to ...
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Scientists find amazing new pondlife on nature reserve | Science Blog
By BJS
Dr Genoveva Esteban of Queen Mary's School of Biological and Chemical
Sciences, said: "Cryptic biodiversity helps natural ecosystems to
bounce back in response to environmental change. The Wet Fens Project in partnership with Dorset ...
Science Blog - http://www.scienceblog.com/cms/frontpage1
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Pope Benedict XVI Blog: Eco-skeptics put spin on Benedict's message
By Dr. Denice Hanley, DPM, M.Div.
By that test, Pope Benedict XVI's teaching on the environment,
expressed most recently in a message for the church-sponsored "World
Day of Peace” on Jan. 1, would seem to be pretty important indeed.
Experts regard Benedict's strong ...
Pope Benedict XVI Blog - http://popebenedictxviblog.blogspot.com/
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Forget Sustainability, It' s Time to Talk Resilience
By by Elizabeth Ryan
"The term 'resilience' is appearing more frequently in discussions about environmental
concerns, and it has a strong claim to actually being a more successful
concept than that of sustainability. Sustainability and its oxymoronic ...
Utne Environment Blog - http://www.utne.com/blogs/blog.aspx?blogid=26
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The Vatican criticizes Avatar for false nature worship - HitFix.com
The pope explained in the message that while many experience tranquillity and peace when coming into contact with nature, a correct relationship between man and the environment should not lead to "absolutizing nature" or "considering it
more important ... Blog
posts, newspaper articles, tweets and YouTube videos have criticized
the film, with some calling it "a fantasy about race told from the
point of view of white people" and that it reinforces "the white
Messiah fable.
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Movies & Film | Breaking News,... - http://www.hitfix.com/channels/movies
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Neandertals & art : Gene Expression
By Razib Khan none@example.com
We have a thick network of facts which allow us to infer aspects of modern human nature from material objects. Granted, those inferences are not always correct and strongly conditioned upon theoretical frameworks. ... Post a Comment. (Email
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Dezeen » Blog Archive » With by Studio Loop
By Chris Barnes
Considered to its natural landscape, we thought the house should be a
mass and a unity object and chose black which makes its existence
disappear in the natural environment. To do this, we wanted to reflect the form against nature. ...
Dezeen - http://www.dezeen.com/
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Green Civil War: Projects vs. Preservation - Room for Debate Blog ...
By By THE EDITORS
Contrary to the "battle” over green and not-so-green clean energy efforts, my laboratory has partnered with the Nature Conservancy of California to examine the ways to maximize clean energy generation and minimize environmental impact ...
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Avatar simplistic, says Vatican | Blogs about Broadband ...
By rpm
The Vatican newspaper and radio station have called the film "Avatar”
simplistic, and criticized it for flirting with modern doctrines that
promote the worship of nature as a substitute for religion. ... reviews are just that – film
criticism, with no theological weight – they do reflect Pope Benedict XVI's views on the dangers of turning nature into a "new divinity.” Benedict has often spoken about the need to protect the environment, earning the nickname of "green
pope. ...
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Columbia University Press » Blog Archive » Darwin & Poetry? An ...
By Columbia University Press
Our understanding of our place within and our influence on the environment are grounded in a Darwinian understanding of nature. If we don't recognize this – if we don't recognise the very real prospect of extinction, for example, ...
Columbia University Press - http://www.cupblog.org/
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Facing Climate Change and the Sustainable Prision Project ...
By Zara Katz
Pete Brook is the creator and writer of the Prison Photography Blog
that focuses on "The Practice of Photography in Sites of
Incarceration”. Part of his personal mission statement explains, "If a
camera is within prison walls we should ...
The Sustainable Prison Project has proved that environmental
justice, social justice and fiscal conservatism can be delivered all in
the same package. I teach in a prison and the resolve to try new
programs and learn new skills is not ...
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Pontydysgu – Bridge to Learning » Blog Archive » Open Education ...
By Graham Attwell
Whilst learning objectives might be said to describe the teaching and learning environment from the viewpoint of a teacher, outcomes describe what a student or leaner can achieve following a programme. .... This debate over the nature
of
competence is a further key aspect of developing an expansive idea of
Open Education. « The Third and the Seventh. This entry was posted on
Tuesday, January 12th, 2010 at 18:36 and is filed under Competence ... Feedjit Live Blog Stats ...
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Feeling Spent? | Crazy Sexy Life
By Dr. Frank Lipman
I thought about what I had learned in Chinese medicine, that humans are
part of the natural world and governed by the universal forces of nature. Human bodies do not exist in isolation; we are creatures of our environment and are ...
Crazy Sexy Life » Blog - http://crazysexylife.com/
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Tax credits for clean energy announced | MNN - Mother Nature Network
By Melissa Hincha-Ownby
You can't fool Mother Nature. This question is for
testing whether you are a human visitor and to prevent automated spam
submissions. What is the fifth word in the phrase "environment natural recycled hybrid natural"?: *. ADVERTISEMENT.
About Melissa Hincha-Ownby. Business guru blogs about the latest in green biz. Melissa's RSS · Melissa's profile ...
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Green Thinking at SUNY New Paltz » Blog Archive » Green of the week
By Lauren Brois
... a doubt the most epic piece of environmental advocacy
ever captured on celluloid, and it only very thinly veils its message
which, on the heels of a failed Copenhagen summit, is more timely now
than ever … Nature will always win. ...
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Letters Blog | The Australian
By Sam Dusevic
A change that demands clear action to contain a rolling potential for a
situation where there are too few resources to sustain even the
existing population, let alone the balance of nature that actually underpins our capacity to ....
reality tells us it's never too late to populate” 9-10/1) has exposed
the intellectual hollowness of those child haters trying to stabilise
our population in the name of something as useless to human wellbeing
as environmental
sustainability. ...
Letters - http://blogs.theaustralian.news.com.au/letters/index.php/theaustralian/comments/contempt_and_indifference/
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Dinochick Blogs: The Poetry of Charles H. Sternberg
By ReBecca Hunt-Foster
With the rich store from Nature's book. On many
wondrous scenes I look. I've often wanted to explore. The graveyard of
the Dinosaur, And when the British Museum said. They'd like to own a
mighty head, ... To the huge beast's environment;
And tyrant of the Laramie Who preyed on reptiles such as he. His body
was in armour clad. I must confess it made me glad. To learn from this
my trophy grand, He Lived In Water, not on land. His feet were webbed,
and his thin skin ...
Dinochick Blogs - http://paleochick.blogspot.com/
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WWF Concern as Ski Area Threatens Europe's Last Untouched Forest
By alister
The conflicts between nature conservation and
development should be be looked at by mediated by the European Union to
help provide a system for evaluating potential impacts and identify
measures to stop negative impacts. ... In addition
relevant authorities must be pressured to fully apply EU legislation in their countries, including especially Strategic and Environmental Impacts Assessments as well as the EU's Habitats and Birds Directives, for projects at the planning
...
Donation4Charity - The Charity Blog - http://www.donation4charity.org/blog/
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CJO's Avenger212 » Blog Archive » Carolyn Baker – CAROLYN BAKER ...
By Rowan Wolf
Another part of preparation – and it is of course fundamental to the reconnection of which you speak – is my connection with nature. That connection, if deeply felt and viscerally experienced, will inform our priorities, our relationships,
our parenting, how we eat, ..... Keith Farnish is an environmental writer and activst and manages The Earth Blog on which this dialog was originally posted. He is also the author of Time's Up: An Uncivilized Solution To A Global Crisis. ...
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Aquafornia
By Aqua Blog Maven
As fantastical as these notions sound, they're products of a recent graduate course at UC Berkeley's College of Environmental Design. And the architects who conceived the semester-long studio say it starts with a valid question: Why ... "
There's no reason it can't be transformed into something wondrous, a fusion of nature
and the machine,” said Frederic Schwartz, a New York architect who
spent last fall as the college's Joseph Esherick Visiting Professor in
Architecture.
...
Aquafornia - http://aquafornia.com/
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Biomass Energy: Beware of the Costs | George Wuerthner | Community ...
By info@newwest.net
But like other "quick fixes” there has been very little serious scrutiny of biomass real costs and environmental impacts. Whether commercial biomass is a viable alternative to traditional fossil fuels can be questioned. ... The dispersed
nature of wood as a fuel source combined with its low energy
value means any sizeable energy plant must burn a lot of wood. For
instance, the McNeil 50 megawatt biomass plant in Burlington, Vermont
would require roughly 32500 acres of ...
NewWest.Net All Headlines - http://www.newwest.net/
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CrimProf Blog: Alexander on the Reputational Penalty for Corporate ...
By CrimProf BlogEditor
These reports are more frequent if damaged parties are customers, as in fraud, than if they are third parties, as in environmental crime, and if stock prices decline significantly at the first news of crime. All of these features are
consistent with characterizations of reputational penalties found in the literature. Findings on the non-atomistic nature of damaged parties suggest directions for future research. January 12, 2010 | Permalink ...
CrimProf Blog - http://lawprofessors.typepad.com/crimprof_blog/
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CODE77 Rubrics for Administrators 2010 Part 7 of 10 - Home - Doug ...
By Doug Johnson
Blue Skunk Blog ... The decade-long ACOT studies have long reported positive changes of a transformational nature in the classrooms of teachers who have entered the "appropriation” or "invention” stages of computer use. ... A common finding
is that schools looking for ways to improve the total educational environment
so that more students perform at higher levels see that the long term
benefit of teacher technology use will be in facilitating
constructivist classrooms ...
Blue Skunk Blog - http://doug-johnson.squarespace.com/
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4 Reasons Why Retirement Scares the Living S#it Out of Me (and I ...
By Victor Kipling
In deference to the surreal and Twilight Zone nature
of the whole subject, I'll take the liberty of paraphrasing Rod Serling
and "submit the following terrifying retirement facts, for your
consideration..." 1. A Life Changer: Retirement ...
Jobacle.com Blog - http://www.jobacle.com/
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NBC Action Weather Blog : It Happened Again....January 12, 2010
By glezak
Nature plays a far greater roll in temperature swings than man
ever will. Ie, volcanic eruptions, etc... I believe it is extremely
arrogant, and erroneous, to think that man can control the climate.
BUT, we must be cognizant of what affect
we can have and do all we can to take care of our environment.
But to say we are melting polar ice caps and drowning polar bears is a
bunch of bunk! The earth's climate is cyclical and there really isn't
anything we can do about that ...
NBC Action Weather Blog - http://community.nbcactionnews.com/blogs/weatherblog/default.aspx
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The Power of Your Words - Go Green - SustainLane
By Anna Clark
One negative person can create a miserable environment
for everyone else. Negative people have fewer friends. Costs the U.S.
economy between $250 and $300 billion per year in lost productivity,
according to the Gallup poll. In a former job
of mine, ... But as you do it, and surround yourself with others who do it too, it becomes second nature. Remember, it takes 21 days to create a new habit. Just try it and see. Satisfaction guaranteed, or your money back ☺. ...
Blogs and Tips - SustainLane - http://www.sustainlane.com/blogs
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Vatican Says 'Avatar' is No Masterpiece - News
VATICAN CITY - The Vatican newspaper and radio station have called the
film "Avatar" simplistic, and criticized it for flirting with modern
doctrines that promote the worship of nature as a substitute for religion. ... no theological weight
- they do reflect Pope Benedict XVI's views on the dangers of turning nature into a "new divinity." Benedict has often spoken about the need to protect the environment, earning the nickname of "green pope. ... News & Politics Blogs ...
News - http://blog.beliefnet.com/news/
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The Tafoni Floating Home concept - Core77
Living close to unspoiled nature means being
surrounded by beauty that enriches life in a way that apartments and
on-land houses do not. Floating homes respond to low and high tide and
more intimately connect with the environment than ...
Core77 - http://www.core77.com/blog/
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Civil Eats » Blog Archive » Ensuring Every American Child Has ...
By rloglisci
I think about the garden as being gentle: gentle with nature,
gentle to your body, and gentle with each other. There was not a dry
eye in the house after Kass finished reading that letter. David's
sentiments regarding the White House ....
If his simple experiences with the White House Garden helped him
recognize the "gentle” effects of freshly grown foods on his body and
on the environment then it is possible to encourage every American child to better appreciate and ...
Civil Eats - http://civileats.com/
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Seeing the Movie "Avatar” is Nothing but a Tithe to Far Left ...
By mailloux (Profile)
Their mission is to get the unobtainium on Pandora, peaceful nature
loving aliens be damned! So, let's see what we got here: Peace loving,
non-human people living in perfect unison with an awe inspiring perfect
environment. ...
mailloux's blog - http://www.redstate.com/mailloux/
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Communicating Climate Change: A Conversation With Andy Revkin ...
By Dave Levitan
Though no longer on staff, he will continue to write the blog as well as work on several book projects. He is also now a Senior Fellow in Environmental Understanding at Pace University. I spoke with Andy about a few of the issues ...
DL: I
hate to keep throwing your own words back at you, but, well, I will:
You also wrote recently that some critics of the press "have inflated
expectations of what media coverage, without a direct punch from nature, can accomplish. ...
ecopolitology - http://ecopolitology.org/
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Hot Air » Blog Archive » Green jobs stimulus will cost $135000 each
By Ed Morrissey
"If the president really wants to create an environment
that will foster economic growth and job creation, he need not look any
further than the domestic oil, gas and coal industries. .... So I would guess most of these jobs are
installation/maintenance in nature.
Nuclear power plants FTW. GnuBreed on January 12, 2010 at 2:01 PM.
Well, of course this administration and congress aren't going to pursue
anything resulting in "1 millions high-wage jobs. ...
Hot Air » Top Picks - http://www.hotair.com/
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Optimize Prime: The Self-Optimizing Application Delivery Network
By Lori MacVittie
... between a self-optimizing application delivery network and a
Transformer to run with the analogy – and as long as I have the
opportunity to legitimately include a picture of Optimus Prime in my blog, well, I'm going to take it. ...
Employ the collaborative nature of a dynamic control plane to automatically recognize the addition of a server that creates a heterogeneous environment and dynamically change the load balancing algorithm to one better suited to a ...
Lori MacVittie - http://devcentral.f5.com/weblogs/macvittie/
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