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  • From The Slovak Republic with 73 and surprise chat with North Carolina
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  • News from a Changing Planet — #28 — Understanding Food Costs
    BY TATIANA SCHLOSSBERG If beef is so inefficient to produce, why isn’t it more expensive? This is the kind of question that is so straightforward that we would expect a correspondingly straightforward answer. We’ve also probably heard, hundreds of times, how bad meat and dairy production are for the environment, largely because of inefficiency. It […]
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  • Allele frequencies and selection coefficients in locally adapted populations
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  • CMBC: Report Launch March 16 – “Illuminating Hidden Harvests” analysis of small scale fisheries
    Dear CMBC members, alumni, and friends,  Join online to listen-in and celebrate the global launch of FAO’s “Illuminating Hidden Harvests Report” this Thursday, March 16 at 8am PT.  Our very own Dr. Mar Mancha-Cisneros, CMBC’s Sustainable Seafood Project Manager was instrumental in this effort and it is linked to our Sustainable Seafood Initiative. Registration for the virtual […]
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    By IMOGEN E. NAPPER , ALASDAIR J. DAVIES, MORIBA JAH, KIMBERLEY R. MINER, RICHARD C. THOMPSON, MELISSA QUINN, AND HEATHER J. KOLDEWEY SCIENCE MAGAZINE, Volume 379-Issue 6636-March 2023 LETTERS, pp990. excerpt only… “The global space industry is growing rapidly—the number of satellites in orbit is expected to increase from 9000 today to over 60,000 by 2030. In addition, it is estimated that more than 100 trillion untracked pieces of […]
  • “Nous vivons dans une société productiviste qui détruit notre planète”
    Rose, 16 ans, lycéenne parisienne rejoint les manifestations contre la réforme des retraites françaises. (Cité par France 24)« C’est important de sortir et de manifester parce que cette réforme nous fait faire un énorme pas en arrière. Cela signifiera faire reculer le progrès social et les droits acquis dans le passé.« Nous vivons dans une […]

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I am now writing up what I have learned living in an Evanston 9-unit apartment, just north of Chicago, with no car; little or no commercial electricity nor natural gas. Bringing my ‘responsible carbon emissions’ to near zero. As citizens of a large urban area in the USA, we inherit a certain carbon tonnage independent of our personal acts, just by existing. “Living with less”, as Greta has said, is something we must learn to do. It’s not easy, but anything of value for the future will not be easy.

The sky is not completely dark at night. Were the sky absolutely dark, one would not be able to see the silhouette of an object against the sky.”

– Muhammad ibn Ahmad alBiruni, (Iranian astronomer who calculated the circumference of Earth to within 3% accuracy in 1000 CE).

®Core of Andromeda’s Galaxy (M31) and M32 with a starlink sattelite bisecting and rotating. 9.25″ Celestron HD-Edge Telescope (Richland, WA USA)

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