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Weekly Linkfest – Edition 006
Welcome to round six of our Weekly Linkfest, where we share the good, the bad, the ugly and the just plain interesting from what we’ve seen this week.
I would greatly appreciate readers getting involved in this weekly linkfest. Please email editor (at) permaculturenews.org with links (and ideally a summary sentence outlining the key point of each link) to noteworthy articles and news reports on the internet.
Off we go:
Good News (coz we all need it):
- A Japanese company has invented a battery charger that will charge an electric car’s batteries to 50% in 3 mins and 70% in 5, making fuelling times comparable to a regular car. This could be a great technology for the buses we’re going to need to transport the majority of the world’s populations in coming years.
- Growing awareness that our current usage of water could lead to global conflict as the last drops dry up, has a group called the Young Water Professionals to meet this week. One of the key proposed solutions included farming practices that use less water…
- An anti-whaling activist from New Zealand who was handed a suspended sentence for obstructing the annual Japanese whale hunt has vowed to continue his crusade.
- The climategate debacle has been cleared up by an independent panel going in favour of the researchers arguing human-induced climate change.
- The Community Redevelopment Agency of Los Angeles is using goats to control weeds in Los Angeles. Aside from being quite entertaining for city dwellers, they make pretty sustainable lawn mowers.
- Hundreds of oiled Louisiana Brown Pelicans recovered from the Gulf oil spill have been brought to the Tampa Bay area where scientists are hoping they will stay.
- Good to see a bit of coverage on urban homesteading.
- Stephen Colbert makes a tongue in cheek call for unemployed americans to take farmers’ jobs, as there has been complaints for years from politicans and anti-immigrant activists that immigrant farmers are taking down the economy.
Bad News (coz we need to understand the challenges if we’re to design our way out of them):
- A beach walk with the ghosts of Exxon Valdez. 20 years on and black oily soup seeps out of your footprint.
- The Obama administration has lost its bid to maintain a six-month moratorium on offshore deepwater drilling. I guess we can’t afford not to keep drilling if we’re to maintain business as usual.
- An article about coping with the prospect of collapse.
- The environmental effects of embalming. Green burials anyone?
- Breathing the filth – Hydrocarbons in the air are more toxic than oil in the gulf, yet it’s accepted as normal.
- Stephen Moore calls for raising taxes on the poor in order to pay for tax cuts for the rich.
- A 2.7-square-mile chunk of Greenland’s Jakobshavn Isbrae glacier, one-eighth the size of New York’s Manhattan Island, broke off into the ocean between July 6 and 7.
Just plain interesting or odd (coz we’re curious creatures):
- Sell a guinea pig, go to jail. San Francisco is considering banning the sale of all pets.
- Six ways to reassemble America’s democracy.
- Giant asteroid photos could one day save the planet.
- More opinions in news not less.
- Monkey-eating eagle divebombs BBC filmmaker as he fits nest-cam.
Don’t forget to send me your links for next week’s linkfest!! – editor (at) permaculturenews.org
Climategate debacle not cleared up: https://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704075604575356611173414140.html?mod=WSJ_Opinion_LEADTop