See you there… FYI, Live Nation (.com) has 4 tickets for $100 (but buy before it sells out or offer ends, Friday at 7pm)
The city’s first Farm Aid concert in the 22 years will feature nearly two dozen roots-rock, country and jam bands, and also promote organic food production and consumption.
Music: Next Stop … Farm Aid
Reuters – More beetles and fewer spruce trees in Alaska, whiter coral and fewer scuba-divers in Florida and more wildfires in Arizona already show the impact of climate change on U.S. lands and waters, a congressional watchdog agency reported on Thursday.
Climate change hits federal land and water: report (Reuters)
The “Doggie Dooley” is a “miniature septic tank” for your dog’s special presents. A galvanized steel bucket with a plastic top, the Doogie Dooley is placed in a hole in your yard, filled with waste, water, and a packet of enzymes and bacteria known as the “Digester Powder.” The treated liquid will seep out of the Doggie Dooley and into your yard, which it will presumably help, not hinder, the growth of grass. You have to add another packet of the Digester Powder every six months, but besides that it pretty much takes care of itself. Way more environmentally friendly than wrapping it up in plastic bags and tossing it in the trash. Not bad for thirty-three bucks. Doggie Dooley Pet Waste Disposal System [Petco]
Doggie Dooley Turns Pet Waste into Lawn Food (via Boing Boing: Gadgets)
LiveScience.com – Drastic changes to land and water wrought by climate change are forcing cartographers to redraw their maps of the world.
Climate Change Redraws World Maps (LiveScience.com)
This is Further Proof that things are not always done the correct way. Tsk Tsk!
AP – A 20-year government effort to restore the population of an endangered native trout in Colorado has made little progress because biologists have been stocking some of the waterways with the wrong fish, a new study says.
Study: Wrong fish used to save species (AP)
Not that the UN is the best organization to start this, but it’s a start…
AFP – The United Nations on Wednesday launched a web portal to spur a market-driven trading service designed to help cut greenhouse gas emissions under the Kyoto Protocol.
UN launches web portal to help tackle global warming (AFP)
AP – Global warming may be melting glaciers and forcing polar bears onto land, but doctors warn it could also affect your heart. “If it really is a few degrees warmer in the next 50 years, we could definitely have more cardiovascular disease,” said Dr. Karin Schenck-Gustafsson, of the department of cardiology at Sweden’s Karolinska Institute.
Global warming could pose heart threat (AP)
AFP – A Japanese government website crashed Wednesday as people raced to take up an offer of a half-price McDonald’s hamburger in exchange for pledging to fight global warming.
Half-price Big Mac to fight global warming proves big hit in Japan (AFP)
