Endangered Sunday: North American Bumble Bee
I’ve never seen a Bumble Bee in nature. I’ve seen plenty of imported European honey bees (some of them in the wild), and plenty of Australian native bees (which are mostly solitary, so no hives for them – our few social species are stingless, which is nice).
But we don’t have Bumble Bees here, so I’ve missed out…
Tipping points, non-renewables and a postcapitalist future
Kim Stanley Robinson (KSR) published this article last year, but it’s worth looking at again in light of ever more data showing that we are running out of planet, or at least running out of the non-renewable resources needed to continue growing the classic capitalist economy:
Ozblogistan spats: this time it’s climate change
However, the reason that critics at LP and on her own blog were so harsh about LE’s stance on climate change science, while virtually ignoring her points on inequitable outcomes of climate change mitigation policies? Because of how she wrote her article…
The numbers game in a hung parliament
Be clear on this: any independent MPs who agree to form a government with either of the major parties do not have to agree to vote with the major party on every single issue – they only have to agree to vote with them on matters of supply.
Elections and volunteering
what I’m particularly interested in is GetUp!’s call for volunteer activists to be part of GetTogethers aiming to coordinate local action within their electorates, focussing on 3 main issues for the 2010 Federal election
QFT: Waleed Aly on what really drives the population debate
…so much of this “population” debate is really about the crap nature of services and infrastructure in the outer suburbs of our cities
Energy Saving
There is a lot of talk about carbon prices and electricity prices going on at the moment and a study has just been released that says because an ETS wasn’t introduced the price of electricity is going to rise. So it would seem that whatever Government results after the election they will be damned if [...]
Endangered Sunday: BP = Brown Pelicans
Yet another threatened species put under even more threat from BP’s Mexican Gulf Oil Spill is the Brown Pelican, and BP is trying to sanitise the news you find online about the Gulf oil spill by sponsoring search term results
Gillard supports carbon tax and a sustainable Australia
“I believe in climate change. I believe it’s caused by human activity and I believe we have an obligation to act,” she said.
Endangered Sunday: Sea turtles in the Gulf oil spill
A BOAT captain working to rescue sea turtles in the Gulf of Mexico said he saw BP ships burning sea turtles and other wildlife alive.
Endangered Sunday: Lions and tigers and bears in Montana
Jonathan Griffiths’ photos taken in a wildlife breeding preserve in remote Montana are stunning.
Shame Shell – we all sip from this glass
While Shell toasts $9.8billion profits, people of the Niger delta are having to drink polluted water.
Endangered Sunday: Golden Lion Tamarin
The Golden Lion Tamarin (Leontopithecus rosalia, Portuguese: Mico-leão Dourado) also known as Golden Marmoset, is a small New World monkey of the family Cebidae. Native to the Atlantic coastal forests of Brazil, the Golden Lion Tamarin is an endangered species and among the rarest animals in the world, with an estimated wild population of “no more than 1,000 individuals” and a captive population maintained at approximately 490 individuals.
Endangered Monday: Sable Antelope
Their magnificent horns, reaching 100cm in females and up to 165cm in males, have made them a trophy animal for centuries, thus contributing to their endangerment as a species
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