U.S. Environmental movement
Environmentalism
is a broad philosophy and social movement regarding concerns for environmental conservation and improvement of the state of the environment. Environmentalism and environmental concerns are often represented by the color green.[1]
The conservation of natural resources is the fundamental problem. Unless we solve that problem, it will avail us little to solve all others.
Theodore Roosevelt… Continue reading
Late on May 2, 2011, in an effort to spare Cairo, Illinois, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers used explosives to breach a protective levee near the confluence of the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers. As predicted, the two-mile hole in the levee flooded 130,000 acres of nearby farmland in what is known as the Birds Point-New Madrid Floodway.
The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA’s Aqua satellite captured these images of the area on May… Continue reading
UN health agency upholds research on nuclear radiation
(AFP) – May 4, 2011
GENEVA — The World Health Organisation said Wednesday that independent research on the health impact of radiation must be pursued without being influenced by the nuclear industry.
The WHO’s remarks came after a first meeting between the UN health agency’s chief, Margaret Chan, and Chernobyl protestors who have claimed the dangers of nuclear radiation were played down because of an allegedly dominant role… Continue reading
Swiss watchdog orders nuclear plants to tackle flaws
Switzerland’s nuclear safety watchdog has ordered the country’s atomic power stations to deal with weaknesses found in post-Fukushima quake and flood resistance inspections.
The Federal Nuclear Safety Inspectorate (ENSI) said the flaws found at four plants, including one with two reactors, did not present an immediate danger but ordered the operators to report back on the steps they would take by August 31.
In two of the… Continue reading
Massachusetts
Rally for nuclear safety
Spent-fuel storage fuel at the Pilgrim power plant in Plymouth is one area of concern. (David L. Ryan/Globe Staff/File)By Robert Knox
Globe Correspondent / May 5, 2011
A grass-roots group organized after the Japan nuclear disaster is holding what is expected to be a large rally for nuclear safety at Plymouth Rock on Saturday. Its leaders say it is neither antinuclear nor political in purpose.
Food allergies cost $500 million a year, says study
Doctor visits, hospital care and lost work days account for the price tag
Reuters May 5, 2011
Visits to the doctor’s office make up the bulk of the medical costs, researchers estimate, amounting to at least $118 million.
Food allergies among children have climbed 18 percent from 1997 to 2007, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control
and Prevention.
Achieving Health
Without the Use of Prescriptions
New book gives readers therapeutic options designed to keep them out of the doctor’s office
The truth about healthy living often conflicts with common medical beliefs
“People have sometimes asked if I’m a proponent for ‘alternative health care’”, said Frieders. “On the surface, the answer is ‘yes’”
Aurora, IL (PRWEB) April 27, 2011
According to author Larry J. Frieders, we live in an over-medicated society, and… Continue reading
Monday, May 2, 2011 07:01 ET
Why does your doctor hate alternative medicine?
That’s the question TV shows and outspoken celebs keep asking, but the truth is far more complicated than that
On his popular TV show last week, Dr. Mehmet Oz ran a segment titled “Why Your Doctor Is Afraid of Alternative Medicine.” The show pitted Oz (who has found himself under fire for dubious doctoring) against Dr.… Continue reading
File photo illustration of pills. Credit: Reuters/Jacky Naegelen
NEW YORK | Wed May 4, 2011 6:43pm EDT
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Data that could save money and help doctors make smarter treatment decisions are often unavailable at the time new medicines hit the market, according to U.S. researchers.
In a study out Tuesday, they found nearly a third of new drug approvals… Continue reading
By MICHAEL J. CRUMB
The Associated Press
WYATT, Mo. — Blasting open a levee and submerging more than 200 square miles of Missouri farmland has likely gouged away fertile topsoil, deposited mountains of debris to clear and may even hamper farming in some places for years, experts say.
In this photo made May 3,… Continue reading
Monsanto’s Roundup Herbicide Comes Under Fire
EPA Reviews for Safety and Boulder Discontinues Use
by Rachel Cernansky, Boulder, Colorado on 05. 3. 2011
Image: Jeff Turner via flickr
Monsanto’s Roundup herbicide has been coming under increasing scrutiny, and it’s about time. Glyphosate, the main ingredient in the herbicide, is being reviewed for safety by regulators in the U.S. and Canada, despite having been in use for more than 30 years. Some groups are calling for… Continue reading
Oregon farmers wait anxiously on Monsanto ‘Round Up’ Ruling
Transmission Bottlenecks Bad News for Renewable Energy
In 2007, nearly one-third of all the wind turbines in China were deliberately idled because a saturated power grid lacked spare capacity to carry any electricity the remote wind farms would have produced to consumer markets. While China has largely resolved this issue by expanding the transmission system’s capacity, it is not yet out of the woods entirely and… Continue reading
Key findings on renewable energy by U.N. panel
Wed May 4, 2011 12:15pm EDT
(Reuters) – Following are findings by the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) in a draft report about renewable energy (RE).
TOTALS – RE accounted for 12.9 percent of global primary energy supply in 2008. The top contributor was biomass (10.2 percent) — mainly firewood used in developing nations — ahead of hydropower (2.3), wind (0.2), direct solar… Continue reading
Simulations of radioactive substances diffusion from nuke plant released by gov’t
(Mainichi Japan) May 4, 2011
The government has released its simulations of the spread of radioactive substances leaking from the tsunami-hit Fukushima No. 1 Nuclear Power… Continue reading
Japan Kept Secret on Fukushima Radiation Measurements
World | May 3, 2011, Tuesday
64 This photograph released 30 April 2011 shows Katsuaki Kozuka showing a radiation measuring instrument in Kawauchimura located in the radius of 20-30 km from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Fukushima Prefecture, Japan on 28 April 2011. Phot
The Japanese government admitted it kept in secret at least 5000 radiation radiation measurements and assessments after the nuclear event which… Continue reading
New U.S. nuclear reactors close to construction
NEW YORK | Wed May 4, 2011 11:11am EDT
NEW YORK (Reuters) – For the first time in more than 30 years, the construction of new nuclear plants is underway in the United States despite the ongoing nuclear crisis at Fukushima in Japan.
The accident at Fukushima Daiichi will cause the U.S. nuclear regulators to call for new inspections and additional regulatory scrutiny on both existing and… Continue reading
Despite Bipartisan Support, Nuclear Reactor Projects Falter
The Energy Department issued the first nuclear loan guarantee for the expansion of the Alvin W. Vogtle plant in Georgia.
By MATTHEW L. WALD
Published: April 28, 2011
WASHINGTON — In an effort to encourage nuclear power, Congress voted in 2005 to authorize $17.5 billion in loan guarantees for new reactors. Now, six years later, with the industry stalled by poor market… Continue reading
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Scots windfarms paid cash to stop producing energy
Windfarms at six sites across Scotland were paid to stop producing electricity
Six Scottish windfarms were paid up to £300,000 to stop producing energy, it has emerged.
The turbines, at a range of sites across Scotland, were stopped because the grid network could not absorb all the energy they generated.
Details of the payments emerged following research by… Continue reading
Nuclear watchdog groups slam New Mexico plan
By Zelie Pollon
Santa Fe, New Mexico | Wed Apr 27, 2011 5:40pm EDT
Santa Fe, New Mexico (Reuters) – The U.S. government should rethink plans for a multi-billion dollar plutonium complex at Los Alamos after the recent nuclear catastrophe in Japan and the discovery of increased seismic risk in New Mexico, nuclear watchdog groups said.
A hearing began on Wednesday in U.S. District Court in Albuquerque on… Continue reading
But where did He put the thing?
Is there, or isn’t there, a God particle?
A spokesman for the European Organization for Nuclear Research, known by its French acronym CERN, was busy last week lowering expectations after a memo was leaked that suggested scientists may have discovered the long-sought Higgs boson.… Continue reading
Nuclear power giant Exelon Corporation and Constellation Energy to combine
- April 30th, 2011 1:07 pm ET
Thomas Peracchio for the Wilmington Technology Examiner
Nuclear power giant Exelon Corporation announced this week their intent to merge with Constellation Energy in what investors call a stock-for-stock transaction.
While Delaware residents may not immediately recogize the Exelon name, they are… Continue reading
Crisis man-made: Tepco
News » International SINGAPORE, May 1, 2011 P. S. Suryanarayana for The Hindu
It has been credibly acknowledged for the first time that the continuing nuclear radiation crisis at the Fukushima Daiichi power station in Japan is “partially a man-made disaster”.
A top executive of the Tokyo Electric Power Company (Tepco), which owns the power plant and is responsible for crisis-management, made the acknowledgment during the weekend. Tepco Vice-President Norio Tsuzumi was talking to some of… Continue reading
Riding the Bottom up;
Connection Revolution Wave to Build New Coalitions for Change
I’m working, with some fellow local activists, to build a local coalition aimed at magnifying our strengths by sharing resources.
There is power in numbers. There are literally hundreds of thousands of grass roots organizations trying to change the world, to make it a more just, safer,… Continue reading
Chernobyl lessons, 25 years on
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| Aftermath of Chernobyl disaster |
AP IMPACT:
Ties bind Japan nuke sector, regulators
(AP) – May 1, 2011
TOKYO (AP) — Nearly 10 years after Japan’s top utility first assured the government that its Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant was safe from any tsunami, regulators were just getting around to checking out the claim. The move was too little, too late.
But even if there had been scrutiny years before the fury of an earthquake-powered wave swamped the six atomic reactors… Continue reading
Sunday Morning Graffiti
May 1, 2011
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Give more time and you can change the world. Go deeper by… Continue reading
About RESULTS
RESULTS and RESULTS Educational Fund (REF) are sister organizations that, together, are a leading force in ending poverty in the United States and around the world.
We create long-term solutions to poverty by supporting programs that address its root causes — lack of access to medical care, education, or opportunity to move up the economic ladder. We do this by empowering ordinary people to become extraordinary voices for the end of… Continue reading
Fukushima’s Collateral Effects
POSTED BY: Bill Sweet / Fri, April 29, 2011
What a difference six months make. Last fall, at a smart grid technical meeting organized by IEEE’s Communications Society, a Japanese speaker said that his country had no particular interest in making its electric power system more reliable, as it already was very close to 100 percent reliable.
Now we are hearing that because of the Fukushima catastrophe and the temporary shut-down… Continue reading
Fukushima: Breach of Trust
From Forbes
As news of the enormity of the Japanese earthquake, tsunami and nuclear breach made its way around the world, our emotional responses were tugged in so many directions.
First, of course, came profound sadness, concern and compassion for the people of Japan. Mother Nature is not only fickle, but sometimes downright evil. And losing over 14,000 souls to… Continue reading
Hitachi, Mitsubishi Heavy to study tie-up on damaged nuclear plant
TOKYO, April 27 | Wed Apr 27, 2011 6:31am EDT
TOKYO, April 27 (Reuters) – Hitachi Ltd and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd will explore bolstering ties over Japan’s stricken Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, as Hitachi looks to win a multibillion dollar contract to scrap its damaged reactors.
Hitachi and rival Toshiba Corp each submitted separate proposals for the long-term decommissioning of the hobbled nuclear… Continue reading
Fukushima Still a Threat: Euronews
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World
Thousands protest in Taiwan against nuclear power plants
Topic: Global consequences of Japanese quake
TEPCO to complete radioactive debris cleanup work at Fukushima plant by July
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