As your members of Congress debate health care, we need to make sure they’re considering the impact of corporate agribusiness on the public’s health. To give you an example, just one hog company…. [...]
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Video of David de Rothschild discussing the building of the Plastiki, a catamaran made entirely of recyclable plastics, that he plans to sail across the Pacific Ocean. [...] A 16-year-old high school student from Taiwan, Tseng I-Ching, swept the Intel International Science Fair in the Peoples Choice Category at the Intel International Science & Engineering Fair (ISEF) for her discovery of a polystyrene-decomposing bacterium derived from mealworm beetles. [...] 16-year old Kid, Daniel Byrd, Discovers Plastic-eating Microbes: It’s not your average science fair when the 16-year-old winner manages to solve a global waste crisis. But such was the case at last May’s Canadian Science Fair in Waterloo, Ontario, where a high school student presented his research on microorganisms that can rapidly biodegrade plastic. [...] Visionaries who are changing your world: Paul Stamets has deployed mushrooms to clean up toxins, restore soil, and combat pests; he hopes one day to use them to cure tuberculosis, revive entire ecosystems, and even seed other planets for life. [...] Photo: James Tworow/Flickr Depending on how old and how large your TV is, your analog beast could be toting around eight pounds of lead and other heavy metals such as barium, cadmium and chromium (let’s assume four pounds per set is average). If you multiply all that lead by 100 million (the estimated number of analog TVs in current [...] [...] Photo: Samuel Mann/Flickr . It’s not your average science fair when the 16-year-old winner manages to solve a global waste crisis. But such was the case at last May’s Canadian Science Fair in Waterloo, Ontario, where Daniel Burd, a high school student at Waterloo Collegiate Institute, presented his research on microorganisms that can rapidly biodegrade plastic. Now another high school student [...] [...] |
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