Environmental Graffiti

It’s said that when you truly enjoy your job, you can’t wait to get out in the morning, and that going to work feels like going to play a game, or visit a friend.

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Obviously, the owner of a Florida wildlife preserve is drinking that kool-aid: she says she can’t wait to get discharged from the hospital and see the cheetahs that attacked her.

The news broke last week– a man in the United States was pregnant, and had passed his story on to the press, before leaving on holiday to go to Hawaii. He seemed sincere–using the moment to discuss gay rights– but the Daily Mirror is asking if this is all a hoax.

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In light of this item from the Daily Mail, telling us that the female flirt is doomed by the male mind, I ask you, isn’t this a bit like consulting a zookeeper about why your car has broken down?

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Occasionally, a criminal act so audacious will take take place that I think the criminal should simply be let off without punishment; train robberies, hits on Las Vegas casinos– and now the theft of a crocodile from the Bergen Aquarium in Oslo.

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Last Wednesday in St. Petersburg, at least 75 swimmers were poisoned by chlorine in the city’s largest aqua park: Waterville.

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162 people sought medical attention after they felt burning in their eyes and throats.

On the heels of yesterday’s news that Muslims now outnumber Catholics worldwide, my thoughts turned to my lackluster efforts towards an undergraduate degree (I’ll point out I succeeded) and a course I took on world religions. While only recently have Baptists or Catholics really gotten into green living, some belief systems have been at it for a long, long time.

Adherents of Cao Daism in Vietnam. Image from KC Hulsey on Flickr

CO2 emissions are a real concern. The environmental problems that emissions cause are many, the solutions are few and not very satisfying.

What carbon capture and storage might look like. Image via co2storage.org.uk

If we were to speak long term (really, really long term), we’d need better energy efficiency and more renewable energy sources. Notwithstanding this, there’s no need to talk about that here, as so many have already tackled that problem.

..what if there was a type of nuclear power that:

Three Mile Island Nuclear power Station. Image By US Government

The decision was made Friday to lift the Federal Endangered Species Act protections offered to Gray Wolves in Idaho, Wyoming, and Montana, deferring control of the 1,500 animals to the states.

Image from Daryl L. Hunter on Flickr

The wolves are, I imagine, pretty thrilled to have enough of their population to not need the protection–I can imagine how cranky I would be if there were only 750 women in the

I’m a historian by education, and wrote my thesis on the cultural icons of the Olympic Games, so you can imagine I’m watching the developing situation with Beijing closely….

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Obviously for the human rights purposes, but also because the Chinese Government is so strange they occasionally will come up with some pure gold