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  Scientists have begun to contemplate the unthinkable: the end of the sea’s abundance.
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  • 012: New School
  • Date: Sep 02 2008
  • Contributors: Peter Alsop and Livia Corona

• Lobby-us

  An Inconvenient Truth didn’t provide many answers to the gnawing question, “What can I possibly do?” The We Campaign, launched by Al Gore this past spring, is meant as a corrective.
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  • 012: New School
  • Date: Aug 22 2008
  • Contributors: Cliff Kuang

• Rooftop Bees

  With bees disappearing, David Graves' delicate rooftop honey business is hanging in the balance.
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  • 011: Get Lost
  • Date: Aug 01 2008
  • Contributors: Jody Lee Lipes, Lindsay Utz, Morgan Currie, MacKenzie Fegan, Michael Schaubach, Danielle Flug, Erik Winkowski, Matthew Waxman, E*Rock, and Micah Bloomberg

• Hail, Africa

  A vast white sheet of ice covered 30 acres in central Kenya this week due to a freak hailstorm that was mistaken by some villagers for the second coming of Jesus—and as it turns out, an ice storm of this ferocity in the region is about as likely.
  
  While locals look to be enjoying their batty weather much more than, say, the Gulf Coast might be right now, there's just something about ice covering African plans on the equator that we find disconcerting. At the very least, it's an odd concurrence with the disappearance of all that ice in the arctic.
  
  Photo: "This is freaking awesome," observed villagers near Nyahururu, Kenya.
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  • Date: Sep 04 2008
  • Posted by alexandra_m

• That Sinking Feeling

  Sinkholes are the result of water eating away bedrock and soil underground, causing the earth to drop out from under itself in vast depressions or gaping chasms.
  
  They can form gradually (like that of Berezniki, Russia) or very suddenly (last year in Guatemala City). It's unclear why there aren't more apocalyptic horror films about this sort of event. As evidenced by this collection of images of 13 of the most intense sinkholes on earth, they're terrifying and strange enough in real life.
  
  Photo: Sinkhole in Florida
  
  Via Neatorama
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  • Date: Aug 27 2008
  • Posted by alexandra_m

• Take Back The Filter

  The purveyors of water filtration systems at Brita have, by accident or design, found themselves riding a profitable wave of anti-bottled-water sentiment. New TV ads (which, incidentally, we can't seem to track down online) are confidently claiming the moral high ground for Brita. And fair enough: using a Brita or a Sigg is simply way more resource-friendly than buying bottled water. That's not really debatable.
  
  But for a while now, Brita devotees who want to avoid littering the planet with used water bottles have had to litter the planet with used Brita filters instead. In Europe, Brita will recycle used filters for you. In America, Clorox, the company that owns the regional rights to the Brita brand, provides no such service. So a petition asking Brita to recycle filters stateside launched at TakeBackTheFilter.org. Recently, Clorox's CEO sent the campaign an encouraging letter [PDF]. Brita's flush with eco-pride, and feeling some pressure from this petition. This would be the optimal time to add your signature if you're into the cause.
  
  Thanks Josh!
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  • Date: Aug 26 2008
  • Posted by Andrew Price

• Limits to Growth

  We've hit limits to growth pretty much as predicted so long ago by the Club of Rome. Time for a new economics eh? But good news is the Pacific Islands States are waking up and trying to save the tuna fishery, which sustains their economies. ABC Australia did a great program just last week | http://www.abc.net.au/rn/australiatalks/stories/2008/2353455.htm
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  • Date: Sep 06 2008
  • Posted by GreenFunk

• yup

  I dislike smelly hippies just as much as all of the other America loving, God-fearing people of this nation, but I think the reason why you don't see a lot of garbage in the beaches/oceans is because it is all here... http://www.mindfully.org/Plastic/Ocean/Trashing-Oceans-Plastic4nov02.htm
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  • Date: Sep 04 2008
  • Posted by roswell

• Excuse Me ???

  You claim to have seen an ocean of pollution "You never want to go there it's too difficult!" but you give us ONE photo a ONE piece of floating garbage. How am I to believe this story ? It just lends credence to theory that all this global warming hype is just that, HYPE! Send us proof....if you can! I don't accept BS from gay, Greenpeace so called scientists, so have a back up plan. Don't get me wrong I want to clean up the mess as much or more than you do. But what you don't get is that taxing the world will not help one bit. You need to convince every individual, even the rich people who can afford to sail on the ocean that throwing their garbage overboard is a dumbass thing to do. And get a real job for krist sake!
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  • Date: Jul 11 2008
  • Posted by nofool