Wal-Mart's Proving the Organic Lobby Irrelevant

Each and every individual has the inherent right to food that is free of toxic chemicals, antibiotics and other harmful substances. This human concern should be the first and foremost value of the organic food industry, and as such they should be championing opportunities to...

Microbes Can Clean Up Toxic Waste Dumps

Microbes with a taste for toxic waste may hold the solution to cleaning up contaminated industrial sites and poisoned waterways across the globe, saving billions of dollars in cleanup bills, an Australian scientist said.

Cooking oil cars on the rise as gas price heats up

" A growing number of Americans are setting up mini-refineries in their homes to produce biodiesel, a fuel made from waste cooking oil which is cleaner and cheaper than the petrol sold in gas stations. The...

California beaches sicken 1.5 million a year

"As many as 1.5 million people are sickened by bacterial pollution on Southern California beaches each year, resulting in millions of dollars in public health care costs, a new study has found. The study prepared...

Nuclear waste looms as challenge in Asia (AP)

" GYEONGJU, South Korea - With royal tombs and a history dating back 1,000 years to the Shilla Kingdom, Gyeongju is a cradle of Korean civilization. But it's about to get a tomb of a different type. A hillside bunker overlooking the Sea of Japan is to become one of Asia's...

Implanted Identification -- The Next Evolution of RFID

RFID chips are already implanted in people. At some time in the future, you might be offered RFID implantation. It's much easier than carrying plastic ID or paper ID.

Consumer reports finds personal privacy concerns in planned uses of RFIDs

May, 2006. The tiny radio chip traveling with you in your shorts.

the first human cyborg

March, 2002.  Cyborg technology enables the human nervous system to be linked to computer. The rifidborg is an RFID extension of the cyborg.

Woman Has Rare Case of Bubonic Plague

The Bubonic Plague, more commonly referred to as the "Black Death," ravaged Europe between the years 1347 and 1350. During this short period, 25 million people (one third of Europe's population at the time) were killed.  Thousands of people died each week and...

I smell careers burning

"We've watched them laugh, bicker, cohabitate, shop, date, play poker, dance, skate and now they're going to ... cook? Yes, the apocalyptic merger of "celebrity" and "reality" — otherwise known as television's 10th Circle of Hell — moves into...

Guelph Civic League: City ponders trashing wet-waste plant

Guelph's much admired and respected organic recycling plant may be in danger of shutdown.

Toshiba to pick up tech trash

"Toshiba of Canada Information Systems Group has launched an environmental program aimed at reducing the amount of tech waste ending up in landfills. The Toshiba Environmental Recycling and Recovery Effort...

Pill-popping society fouling our water, official says

"Birth control pills, cancer drugs and a host of other pharmaceuticals that people flush down the drain every day are showing up in our drinking water, says Gord Miller, Ontario's environmental commissioner. ...

The Weight-Watchers Test for Government Spending

If you spent more this year than you did last year, expenditures went up.  It doesn't matter if they went up slower than everybody else's.  If you gain ten pounds, you are still fatter, even if the neighbors gained 20!

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